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WILSON LEAVING THE BLUES AT SEASONS END... Shock of the weekend! Makes the Wheelhouse's double red look like another Magic premiership
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/16...nt-off/?cs=306
WILSON LEAVING THE BLUES AT SEASONS END... Shock of the weekend! Makes the Wheelhouse's double red look like another Magic premiership
Talking to someone about the game. They didnt mention a send off. So possibly no send offsOriginally Posted by The Magician
I wonder if azzurri had a full team or maybe they had 4 or 5 missing.
Full team, no send offs, gifted most of the goals to edgy bar 2 long range strikes
Thanks FBR.
Makes sense as most goals do come from mistakes in this league.
Agreed, bears should have got a draw
Was at the jaffas V lakes game and find it abit unfortunate that young abe has a mouth the size of Julia Roberts. He's a talented footballer, but seriously needs to learn to shut it. I really can't understand what he is trying to achieve by doing it. Had a pretty decent view of the lakes goal, was very close, but think the ref made correct call.
On a different note i heard a rumour ... AND I STRESS THE WORD RUMOUR, that lakes are in quite a bit of financial trouble
hey thats the point this is a forum - it's all about the rumors, truth is boring
Piggot to Charlestown next year...
Was also there and they are struggling for numbers, according to a couple of coaches, with their 17's and 19's starting at least 4 or 5 players in the grades above. May be the cash cow has run dry.
Gee Whiz. If this is true i wonder if the players have any idea that the club maybe struggling? I wonder if the players will be getting their proposed pay packet in the full amount at the end of the year.
Maybe Lakes should hold the grand final this year? the money earned may help them keep their head above water. On seconds thoughts i forgot you don't make any money when you hold the grand final.
Probably some truth to this as a bloke who has been playing in my All Age team just got called up to play in their U/23's side.
Good idea. Let lakes poor management of their club be rewarded by handing them the GF so they can pay players and meanwhile the facility stays stuck in a time warp... I say if they cannot maintain a professional standard or at least aim towards one then let them fall on their sword...
you are exactly right in that Lakes shouldn't be in the comp if these rumors are true.
But my opinion is that no one club in the league has the facilities to warrant continuously holding the grand final. It is now common knowledge that the club holding the grand final doesn't make any money *cough* *cough* (hard typing that sentence). There are a couple of clubs that offer the basic needs to holding a grand final in terms of facilities. So why shouldn't they be able to hold the grand final?
This is not a professional league. It is made up of hard working volunteers that do a great job, and players who have to work regular job and play football as a hobby. Why shouldn't the honor of holding the grand final be spread around to the clubs that have the basic requirement to hold the grand final? I mean Magic do not offer anything that other clubs do not offer. Sure their facilities are fantastic but on a personal note i wouldn't care if the grand final was held at Edgy, Lakes, Jaffers, even Weston ( little far to drive) from a spectators point of view. .
Last edited by immersion; 08-07-2013 at 03:51 PM.
Define poor management. Pretty hard to manage when you have no spectators, etc.... Seeing magic's ground and facilities are soooooo good and much much better than all others, lets play all games there. (to hell with other grounds) This shouldn't be a problem.
Won't be as long as we get ForeverRed to ensure the drainage of the ground is up to standard or maybe get a load of sand to assist.
You have propagated this idea numerous times that Magic makes no money on the GF. As far as I am aware they have never denied making money, I think the issue is that some think they are making millions... They unlike lakes and others have reinvested their GF money into the Wanderers Park facility. God knows how many years the GF s held at lakes and Edgy and they did nothing to improve their facility from the profits, true?
Besides why make a habit of blaming Magic for hosting the GF. Who makes the decision on hosting rights? Northern right. So your better directing your issues at Northern not Magic. As far as I am aware the GF was awarded to the best facility on criteria, and yes that was Wanderers Park. Northern made it very clear by suggesting that they were going to reward Edgy for ground improvements that they were to receive the GF in 2014. An obvious change in policy.
From a spectators point of view I would prefer the GF at the best facility, or as with next year the next best ground. I don't believe it does any good for the league to be dragging the GF around the grounds because they are some very poor facilities and we are about attracting people to the spectacle not giving them a substandard experience. As for Weston why talk them down when you are all about sharing it around.
Unfortunately whilst you think this is a hobby league there are clubs out there striving to be professional, and this is clear by the efforts of these clubs. Just because the league is not a full time league, there are some serious payments being made to players within our league according to this forum, and the stakes and tension in some of these games are top flight. Do not dumb down our league. hobby league is 5th division... If the attitude of clubs is that they think this is a substandard league and are not aiming for professionalism then they should make way for others in the top flight, or as is the case all over the world, relegation and promotion. And wow what possibly could a GF at lakes offer? Just plain wrong...
Stupid comments. Is it Magics fault or any other clubs fault if Lakes cannot attract crowds? Why do you insist on blaming others for a problem Lakes must take full ownership of... Sure Magic are proud of their facilities, and so they should be being built from the pockets of their club members and not gifted to them by government. Maybe if Lakes had a couple working bs and tarted the place up and cleaned their canteen and worked with their juniors and done all the things other clubs are doing they may just attract some people. Zero effort equals zero gain. And further to what Northern said they are not going to reward clubs who make no effort, and nor should they.
Immersion,
When has anybody said that magic dont make money on grandfinal day ?
what they make is benifet for the work they put in the facility throughout the years.
Now edgy have it how many whinges will there be next about them..
And please dont come back with a comment like, its because they host all these granfinals thats
why they have the best faciltys,
mate they had a good setup way before hosting the grandfinals.
and yes i played for edgy when EDGY held the grandfinals years ago and also when magic hosted the first couple of grandfinals.
as a player on big days like that i have to take my hat off to magic , they are blessed with the facilty,location,catering ground management etc. the best by FAR
Last edited by cobra23; 08-07-2013 at 04:50 PM.
Every club in NBN and Newfm would love to hold the GF and to this day, the ones that used to be at Lakes were by far the best, YES BETTER THEN MAGICS !!! We cant always be MAGIC, but every club has volunteers that work their guts out, not just Magic, to say there is no money made from GF day is ludicrous, but its a dead in the water argument, every club know it except Magic apparently.
Lakes have more inside parking then magic, Weston have a real football in the park sunday afternoon feel about it, Olympic are central and in walking distance to Beaumont street and restuarants, Edgy have a bowling club next door, Valo have ocean views from the grandstand and a club next door, southy have uuummm uuuummm ummmmm, help me FR ... Adamstown, Westy ....... who cares how good Magic are or how hard they work because they are not the only ones.... spread the GFs around, we play in Newcastle NSW FFS, not premier league England !!!!!
Wow, we agree on something. A draw was a fair result in the end. I think Lakes brought Jaffas down to their level and Jaffas couldn't rise anove it or really find a way through. They probably could have nicked a winner if the Wheelhouse boys didn't implode. And the Lakes goal was legit, I was basically on the goal line and watched it bounce down off the bar.
wtf😳
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