Quote Originally Posted by KITZ View Post
Do you have anything to do with running a club? The whole system is underpinned by mainly volunteers, Making it complex and changing things too quickly can mean it can overwhelm already over worked volunteers, if you think its hard to collapse the competition then you have already very little idea of how much football is run by A. volunteers and B. People with day jobs.

I don't know why people come here just to throw around swear words and literally contribute nothing to the conversation.

I never said it didn't need to change, I said it needs to be done carefully to ensure that its not creating more workload for people who already volunteer their time to keep it all running. We've all seen the mess that happens when the JDL schedule is released in dribs and drabs, Mid season release of a competition schedule sounds like something that becomes fairly complex for working out ground availability around seniors, women seniors and youth, and the already massive task of fitting in a million JDL teams. it means after 8 rounds no one knows what they are doing and clubs can't plan their seasons - especially when you are looking at an entire clubs youth moving tiers since it would be impossible to only move single age groups. Does any other competition in the country move divisions mid season?
Look the changes will be ok.
Volunteers? We will need less due to less clubs. And those clubs who bump down a division wont die. The sun will still come up in div2. They will try harder and if they do disband it was bound to happen aka Wallsend.

Changing a draw at half season? forgive me so I can generally lose my **** for a minute ... ffs we might miss aunt Betty's 80th or still go on that EU trip just make a decision and stick to it. Do you wanna play football or knob around. Ok, back to sensible.

Mid season regrade - Yep. NSW NPL did a couple years back. Fairly large comp and worked a treat. Watch a few years of football down there.

We cant be scared to make a change.

Youth, its getting sloppy and boring and we owe it to them to fix it asap.