Quote Originally Posted by Taffy View Post
Focus on all your teams, put in a good culture that makes most players want to stay. A lot of Div 2 clubs are no longer losing all the best players every year under this new model and are strengthing, look at how Charlestown, Southy and Kahibah are now going. Other clubs showing strong improvement and getting stronger.



And where do the 13s start?
I don't think that is accurate at all

Kids have still moved in to tier 1, and those who haven't are often dreaming about it (obviously hard to squeeze someone out in a division above you (a number of those clubs don't even have trials for those kids to be looked at)

I think we'll find again, that the same 4 clubs going down, will again come back up. Just like last season.

I don't believe any of the clubs you mentioned are improving at a rate that will see them enter tier 1...just like last year, they will have a tough time overcoming the bottom 4 of tier 1s when they go down (the longer phase2 might improve their chances though, more time to acclimatise to a higher pace of play, nerves, etc)...Having said that, it would be exciting if they did. The best chance of that would be individual teams being judged on their own merit