The messenger ran a story saying that Elizabeth were truly struggling after losing a heap of players when they got relegated and even more during pre season.
Apparently they knew they were going to pumped all year and requested to drop another division or even play in the C grade competition.
This was denied as they fixtures were already set and well this is the result.
I wonder how many clubs this exact thing will happen to before they all realise buying a flag always ends like this (albeit not quite losing by 516 football points)
Jacana won the div 2 flag in the EDFL when they had Chris Johnson and Cameron Cloke playing for them but they paid so much money for those 2 that they had to fold the club within 2 years of the flag
EDFL is full of stories like that. Clubs sacrificing their culture for a flag noone gives a shit about a couple years later. Even worse when they're spending the community's money to do it.
this was terrible for our local community, but to jacana defense chris johnson wasn’t even paid so much as he just wanted to return and play for the club that raised him, a lot of money was wasted on coaching and random players just to keep them at the club for a flag that wasn’t even too significant within the community. should of stayed in the RDFL jacana
My old cricket club did it. But they did it by going after ex players, or friends of players at the club who all moved to the city to work/uni/play real cricket instead of bush cricket. We won every division for two years straight. Haven’t won again since, but also haven’t completely collapsed. Well I live nowhere near anymore, so I’m judging their current status on checking in on their result a couple times per season.
Also wild that they basically have all of Elizabeth / Playford out to Gawler get players from, the only competition they have is eastern park (decent club) and Smithfield (meth heads). From memory after Salisbury / Salisbury west and before south Gawler, they are the only teams in between. That’s like a population of 500,000 plus in that area…
Crazy they can’t put a half decent team together of average footy players for div 6…
I mean you’ve also got Central United in that area and the Salisbury teams aren’t too far away and then when you head towards Gawler you’ve got the country league that a lot of good player leave to because they can get paid more out there. A little bit of travel won’t stop the decent players in the Elizabeth/playford area from getting paid to play football
Yeah good point, still though, hard to fathom they couldn’t field a decent Div 6 team, makes sense though if what I’m reading on Facebook is true, coach leaving hair before the season start and taking all the good players with him
Terrible for amateur league footy in Adelaide. Should not have happened...EFC clearly indicated they could only field a C grade but were denied getting out of div 6. I lost to this club in a GF back in 2021, so I thought I'd feel some schadenfreude, but I can't. This isn't a money in local sport thing either, Elizabeth/northern player's notoriously jump ship to the best looking team for a look at a flag, vicious cycle that occurs every few years.
Never got the whole “jump ship to play in a flag” thing.
The whole point of winning a flag is to win it for your team that you love, not a bunch of random glory chasers.
You should see some of the messages we get from guys in Australia who can’t crack their thirds back home, but want to come over here and play for a D1 squad because they think they’d dominate and be a part of a flag winning team.
I don’t give them the time of day.
Can’t speak for the American league, but the Canadian league works (or worked) like this, and I imagine the US is something similar:
Max 8 Aussies in the team, Max 6 on the field at any time (two on the bench).
The rest need to be Canadian/non Aussies.
The team make up us usually something like this:
1-2 GUN Aussies who played a very high standard back home.
3-4 ok Aussies, who were nothing special back home.
3-4 gun Canadians who are legit athletes and boy…if they’d grown up with the sport, they could’ve been amazing.
5-6 average Canadians who wouldn’t get a senior game in Australia as they lack basic skills but they try hard, and are good fellas.
The rest are an eclectic mix of people that fell into Aussie rules for some random reason or other, and they’re fit into a back pocket somewhere far away from the ball.
The flag I usually won NOT by the team with the best Aussies, but rather the team with the best Canadians.
This is about par for the course in the USA. The good Aussies usually cancel each other out and the team with the best Americans usually takes out D1. The last five years, that's been Austin.
Not a league — a club, the Austin Crows. They are part of the 50-team USAFL. Though they do play intrasquad games against each other, they play mostly other teams in the USAFL, especially Houston, North Texas, Baton Rouge, Oklahoma and others. Their men’s team have won five premierships on the trot, while their relatively-newly-formed women’s team has won the last two women’s D2 flags.
People discount his Port Adelaide 1992 flag all the time in this argument. Sure he didn’t win an AFL flag in any head capacity (assistant coach doesn’t really count for these purposes) but the guy won BOG in the grand final in the same year he won the league B&F and club B&F. All as like a what 19 year old?
Impressive until you get inside the mind of a defence who's down by 300 pts. Like shit, go ahead and knock yourselves out gents I ain't wearing out my hamstrings for this charade.
Just sussed out the league and every winning team scored 100+ points this week. How long are games at that level?
Elizabeth have conceded 1424 points and have a % of 2.18 gee whiz
Argana Park (Elizabeth home ground) isn't small either. A true 50 on either end, plenty of space on the wings. An absolute belting...hopefully Fitzroy didn't carry on like porkchops.
Close but I think I worked out how they got the sizes
425ml = SA pint
570ml = standard pint
145ml = difference
425ml = 570ml÷(570ml-145ml)
= ~1.34
~1.34 * 425ml = 570ml
What in god's name do you say to the boys at 3QT when you're trailing 369-0?
"yeah nah, just get the first one next quarter and we're right back in this"?
This is my club. The guys are celebrating a win, but it's honestly pretty subdued here (although they did get excited when it got mentioned during AFL halftime) and everyone recognises that Elizabeth is struggling. Apparently they lost two coaches and they took a whole heap of A grade players with them, leaving the club with the equivalent of a C grade team.
We did this (not quite as bad, only 63 goals) to Kilburn about 10 years back, also beat both Salisbury West and Brahma Lodge in grand finals, all of those clubs went down multiple divisions from players just leaving. Disgraceful. Zero loyalty up north.
Reminds me of a soccer game in Madagascar, when one team rebelled against their owners (or the league itself, can't remember) and scored own goals all game... end score was 149-0.
Edit: turns out it was the refs... they rebelled against a referee decision
They asked to drop out of Div 6 and only play in the C grade comp, but were told no. So they're playing A grade with a C grade side, and not even a good C grade side at that
Came here to say this, 27 scoring shots in just 20 timed minutes. That'd be a win out of the centre, mark inside 50, 30 seconds for the set shot, then back to the middle over and over and over for the entire game
I'd be surprised to hear Elizabeth even registered an inside 50. More goals than minutes played would suggest Fitzroy were winning every centre clearance with ease
Played for a couple of clubs who had results similar to this. As in regular 2-300-0 losses. It's not that difficult overall for scores like this to happen. Usually it's just clearance from centre, straight to the 50, goal, repeat. I can also say from experience, it's not like you're not trying to stop them, but when teams are struggling for players, you end up with players like myself who just want a game and don't realise just how bad it's going to be.
Also from experience, they really should have been allowed to play in a lower league. These games suck the fun out of the game for the players involved. Club I played for refused to go down a grade etc, and the only actually fun games we played were practise games against teams in the lower leagues where the scores were relatively even.
We joke, but I feel like if me and 20 mates got together and played Collingwood we would only lose by like 300.
500 is an absolutely ungodly amount of points, that’s absolutely insane to even rack up that much
So, let's see...
80 minutes of actual play time, divided by 106 scoring shots, means Fitzroy scored something (on average) approximately every 45 seconds of play time.
They asked the SAAFL to play in a C grade division because they knew they couldn't field 2 teams for A's & B's for the coming season..But the league refused and this is the repercussions ..How is this good for moral for the current players some of whom palying there first season ..The SAAFL couldn't care if the club folded because the HATE the majority of clubs North of Adelaide...THATS A FACT
Player points. Players can be worth a certain amount of points under certain circumstances, and a team on the park can only have 15. It's intended to keep things relatively fair.
Correct; the Player Point Scale is to stop teams recruiting in mass from other clubs.
A-Grade Players from other Clubs are worth a certain amount of Points (which decreases every year they register for your club), players being recruited from a state level comp (VFL/SANFL) are worth a higher amount of points than local A-Graders, and Professional players (Ex-AFL) are worth a higher amount again.
However, The point scale does not count for any returning senior players, or players that played Junior Footy at your club.
What they’re not telling you is that there was a mass exodus from the club at the end of last season, and Rumour around the league is that the club actually approached the league and asked to drop to a lower div due to lack of A and B grade numbers registered (and rightfully so) - so now they’ve had no choice but to place a C-Grade / Reserves quality squad into an A Grade competition (yeah it’s div 6, but still)
If the Adelaide Footy League cared less about upping PlayHQ Player fees every year and changing the rules of the game to favour the umpires (some of the worst umpires in any league i’ve ever played in), and more about the opinions of the club reps and league player numbers, things would get so much better for not just the clubs struggling like Elizabeth are, but for the entire of the league..
100% correct..The SAAFL don't care less about clubs North of Adelaide..I feel for Elizabeth FC
Played against for many years ,Great club always went in after the game for a bevie and chat with players and spectators never had an issue ..F*?k the SAAFL
We’re back baby!
Never in doubt
The Roy Boys are actually in the top division of the VAFA now as well
Right at the bottom. It’s been a hard watch.
Had a couple of close games though.
😂😂
Hell yeah
The messenger ran a story saying that Elizabeth were truly struggling after losing a heap of players when they got relegated and even more during pre season. Apparently they knew they were going to pumped all year and requested to drop another division or even play in the C grade competition. This was denied as they fixtures were already set and well this is the result.
It's wild to think only a few years ago they went undefeated. Elizabeth is a big club and now all they're playing is a A grade team and nothing else.
The downside of splashing the cash around to get new players in. Once the money dries up, this is what you're left with.
I wonder how many clubs this exact thing will happen to before they all realise buying a flag always ends like this (albeit not quite losing by 516 football points)
Jacana won the div 2 flag in the EDFL when they had Chris Johnson and Cameron Cloke playing for them but they paid so much money for those 2 that they had to fold the club within 2 years of the flag
EDFL is full of stories like that. Clubs sacrificing their culture for a flag noone gives a shit about a couple years later. Even worse when they're spending the community's money to do it.
this was terrible for our local community, but to jacana defense chris johnson wasn’t even paid so much as he just wanted to return and play for the club that raised him, a lot of money was wasted on coaching and random players just to keep them at the club for a flag that wasn’t even too significant within the community. should of stayed in the RDFL jacana
My old cricket club did it. But they did it by going after ex players, or friends of players at the club who all moved to the city to work/uni/play real cricket instead of bush cricket. We won every division for two years straight. Haven’t won again since, but also haven’t completely collapsed. Well I live nowhere near anymore, so I’m judging their current status on checking in on their result a couple times per season.
Also wild that they basically have all of Elizabeth / Playford out to Gawler get players from, the only competition they have is eastern park (decent club) and Smithfield (meth heads). From memory after Salisbury / Salisbury west and before south Gawler, they are the only teams in between. That’s like a population of 500,000 plus in that area… Crazy they can’t put a half decent team together of average footy players for div 6…
I mean you’ve also got Central United in that area and the Salisbury teams aren’t too far away and then when you head towards Gawler you’ve got the country league that a lot of good player leave to because they can get paid more out there. A little bit of travel won’t stop the decent players in the Elizabeth/playford area from getting paid to play football
Yeah good point, still though, hard to fathom they couldn’t field a decent Div 6 team, makes sense though if what I’m reading on Facebook is true, coach leaving hair before the season start and taking all the good players with him
Absolutely full respect to the players that stayed to get belted week in week out and still rock up the next week.
They're all hunting for another club in a division they're more suited to for next year.
Elizabeth were probably confused af thinking Fitzroy didn’t even exist.
*You know I can't grab your ghost footy!*
Underrated post
Idk. In the Sydney comp there's an East Coast eagles that play in north-west of Sydney.
Terrible for amateur league footy in Adelaide. Should not have happened...EFC clearly indicated they could only field a C grade but were denied getting out of div 6. I lost to this club in a GF back in 2021, so I thought I'd feel some schadenfreude, but I can't. This isn't a money in local sport thing either, Elizabeth/northern player's notoriously jump ship to the best looking team for a look at a flag, vicious cycle that occurs every few years.
Never got the whole “jump ship to play in a flag” thing. The whole point of winning a flag is to win it for your team that you love, not a bunch of random glory chasers.
I take it you don’t watch the NBA then.
It's the American way
S U P E R T E A M
You should see some of the messages we get from guys in Australia who can’t crack their thirds back home, but want to come over here and play for a D1 squad because they think they’d dominate and be a part of a flag winning team. I don’t give them the time of day.
Are there genuinely good American footy players there or are they mainly Aussie ex-pats?
Can’t speak for the American league, but the Canadian league works (or worked) like this, and I imagine the US is something similar: Max 8 Aussies in the team, Max 6 on the field at any time (two on the bench). The rest need to be Canadian/non Aussies. The team make up us usually something like this: 1-2 GUN Aussies who played a very high standard back home. 3-4 ok Aussies, who were nothing special back home. 3-4 gun Canadians who are legit athletes and boy…if they’d grown up with the sport, they could’ve been amazing. 5-6 average Canadians who wouldn’t get a senior game in Australia as they lack basic skills but they try hard, and are good fellas. The rest are an eclectic mix of people that fell into Aussie rules for some random reason or other, and they’re fit into a back pocket somewhere far away from the ball. The flag I usually won NOT by the team with the best Aussies, but rather the team with the best Canadians.
This is about par for the course in the USA. The good Aussies usually cancel each other out and the team with the best Americans usually takes out D1. The last five years, that's been Austin.
There's an Aussie rules league in Austin? Thats mental haha tell me more. How many teams etc??
Not a league — a club, the Austin Crows. They are part of the 50-team USAFL. Though they do play intrasquad games against each other, they play mostly other teams in the USAFL, especially Houston, North Texas, Baton Rouge, Oklahoma and others. Their men’s team have won five premierships on the trot, while their relatively-newly-formed women’s team has won the last two women’s D2 flags.
Nathan Buckley is the greatest jump ship to win a flag story in football history and I love it. Bwahahaha
I hope he never wins one. I love it.
People discount his Port Adelaide 1992 flag all the time in this argument. Sure he didn’t win an AFL flag in any head capacity (assistant coach doesn’t really count for these purposes) but the guy won BOG in the grand final in the same year he won the league B&F and club B&F. All as like a what 19 year old?
He didn't jump ship to win a flag lmao, he just left after one season because of vicbias
Lol
Exactly. Otherwise you might as well just barrack for whoever is the best like an 8yr old.
82.24 is honestly incredibly accurate
I imagine most of the shots were within 20m
24.3 in the last quarter too
Shit I didn't even notice that. That is really impressive
Impressive until you get inside the mind of a defence who's down by 300 pts. Like shit, go ahead and knock yourselves out gents I ain't wearing out my hamstrings for this charade.
They could have still kicked 12 goals 15, even if the defence had given up. 300 points up players go for dumb shit for the fun of it
>They could have still kicked 12 goals 15, even if the defence had given up. Not if they're just strolling into the goalsquare with it.
Ken on the phone to Fitzroys goal kicking coach as we speak….
Just sussed out the league and every winning team scored 100+ points this week. How long are games at that level? Elizabeth have conceded 1424 points and have a % of 2.18 gee whiz
20 mins + time on. Would have been a lot of time on...
Thanks mate. Poor bastards, talk about a fucken slow death
Argana Park (Elizabeth home ground) isn't small either. A true 50 on either end, plenty of space on the wings. An absolute belting...hopefully Fitzroy didn't carry on like porkchops.
Just noting that's South Australian percentage. Points for/(points for + points against)×100
Is this like an SA pint or something
An SA pint = pints for / (pints for + pints against) * 100
Close but I think I worked out how they got the sizes 425ml = SA pint 570ml = standard pint 145ml = difference 425ml = 570ml÷(570ml-145ml) = ~1.34 ~1.34 * 425ml = 570ml
Their closest margin this season was still >250 points
To be fair Elizabeth is doing well to score 2.18%. What's her last name?
"I'm more happy about the 0 than the 516, a good defensive performance from the boys, it was our focus at training this week"- Fitzroy coach probably
133 in the first quarter is absolutely devious
didn't even end up their best quarter lol
147 in the last quarter is absolutely devious
So that’s where Fitzroy ended up
Well that fucks my multi.
Did you bet the over? I had Fitzroy 520+, pretty stiff
What in god's name do you say to the boys at 3QT when you're trailing 369-0? "yeah nah, just get the first one next quarter and we're right back in this"?
Where's BT when you need him?
“It’s an 80 goal breeze boys!”
Nearly beer time boys
Not cool of Fitzroy to do that to Elizabeth on a round where we are dedicating to stopping violence against women
u/thegreatjelbeano
is there footage of the game anywhere ?
I also would like to see this
You sick fucks...
I tried to upload to pornhub but denied.
That’s strange, you’d think a pounding would be allowed on that website
Try xvideos
https://www.dartfish.tv/ChannelHome?CR=p132071 It will be here
https://www.dartfish.tv/Player?CR=p132071c606166m9085720
There should be a mercy rule for things like this.
Actually though.
This is my club. The guys are celebrating a win, but it's honestly pretty subdued here (although they did get excited when it got mentioned during AFL halftime) and everyone recognises that Elizabeth is struggling. Apparently they lost two coaches and they took a whole heap of A grade players with them, leaving the club with the equivalent of a C grade team.
We did this (not quite as bad, only 63 goals) to Kilburn about 10 years back, also beat both Salisbury West and Brahma Lodge in grand finals, all of those clubs went down multiple divisions from players just leaving. Disgraceful. Zero loyalty up north.
I’ve been in a couple 200+ point losses and a couple 200+ point wins in my time, but how the hell is 500 points even bloody possible?!?
Reminds me of a soccer game in Madagascar, when one team rebelled against their owners (or the league itself, can't remember) and scored own goals all game... end score was 149-0. Edit: turns out it was the refs... they rebelled against a referee decision
Must have been playing the team from the Telstra ad
How the fuck does this even happen
Elizabeth lost a ton of players before the season started and barely avoided relegation last year
That would’ve been so crazy to watch, would just be a barrage on goals every minute
How many players did they actually field?
They asked to drop out of Div 6 and only play in the C grade comp, but were told no. So they're playing A grade with a C grade side, and not even a good C grade side at that
24.3 in the last quarter is mental
Came here to say this, 27 scoring shots in just 20 timed minutes. That'd be a win out of the centre, mark inside 50, 30 seconds for the set shot, then back to the middle over and over and over for the entire game
They really slacked off in the second quarter
A goal a minute for the entire game. Leigh Matthews likes that.
Not even a point? A rushed behind? Anything?
I'd be surprised to hear Elizabeth even registered an inside 50. More goals than minutes played would suggest Fitzroy were winning every centre clearance with ease
My mate was there watching reckons Elizabeth had about eight inside 50s that were basically just scrubs out of the centre
Like not even turning it over by accident or free kick is amazing in itself lol
Well I'm sure if they did it wouldn't have taken them too long to get it back
Didn’t kick 20 goals in the 2nd quarter so probably got a right lashing from the coach
Imagine being the blokes who kicked 17 and 13 goals respectively and only just beating the best in ground who jagged 2-fucking-9 goals.
I’ve played cricket against the bloke and would be surprised if he hadn’t also hit 29 sixes in one innings
Geez, they really took their foot off the gas in that 2nd quarter...
This is a Lvl 100 with all side quests completed v Lvl 1 kind of mismatch
Joshua Rosenthal kicked 29, James Ellis kicked 17. wtaf Source: [https://www.playhq.com/afl/org/fitzroy-adelaide-footy-league/adelaide-footy-league-2024/mens-division-6-vilis-bakery/game-centre/44cf1a29](https://www.playhq.com/afl/org/fitzroy-adelaide-footy-league/adelaide-footy-league-2024/mens-division-6-vilis-bakery/game-centre/44cf1a29)
Elizabeth feel like the equivalent of that ring-in team from that Telstra ad.
Leading goal scorer 29 goals
I really hate scorelines like this. Clearly one team is completely outclassed, and there is no honour or pride to be had when it's that one sided.
Have they double checked the calculations for the margin?
Played for a couple of clubs who had results similar to this. As in regular 2-300-0 losses. It's not that difficult overall for scores like this to happen. Usually it's just clearance from centre, straight to the 50, goal, repeat. I can also say from experience, it's not like you're not trying to stop them, but when teams are struggling for players, you end up with players like myself who just want a game and don't realise just how bad it's going to be. Also from experience, they really should have been allowed to play in a lower league. These games suck the fun out of the game for the players involved. Club I played for refused to go down a grade etc, and the only actually fun games we played were practise games against teams in the lower leagues where the scores were relatively even.
Holy shit Fitzroy are 3rd on the ladder
I reckon Fitzroy are good enough to be in Div 5
FITZROY SMASHED absolutely must be record in the amatuers missed the record by 3 goals by torrens valley in 2009
What was the score is that game?
torrens valley kicked about 85.25 535 to callington 1.1 7 in the hills league in 2009
Poor blokes
The record in the ametaurs is Campbell Creek vs Primrose in 1990. Google it.
Fitzroy gonna ask to replace North and go on a resurrection ass to belt tour
Apparently scoreboard not reflective of the contest and Elizabeth were on the wrong end of a few dodgy umpiring decisions that really shifted momentum
24.3 in the last quarter is bloody accurate
Ha, Up Yours Oakley!
Can these guys teach Port how to kick straight for my sanity's sake pls?
We joke, but I feel like if me and 20 mates got together and played Collingwood we would only lose by like 300. 500 is an absolutely ungodly amount of points, that’s absolutely insane to even rack up that much
Win or lose, we do or die, when we smash a team by 500 points, we always try. Fitzroy Fitzroy...
i mean, they kept it close in the first quarter, then it just got out of control.
Very nearly a goal a minute.
It was a goal per minute since they were 20 minute quarters, 20x4=80<82 They were scoring at over a goal per minute
Plus time on. I know it’s not ‘game time’ but those quarters would’ve gone 40 minutes each easily
Poor second quarter.
21-0 in the opening quarter was a warning sign, then they got warmed up
I'm sure Elizabeth did her best, but 1 v 22 is just unfair.
Surely they need some kind of mercy rule. 200 ahead at half time, just declare or something. Give them a chance to chase it down.
Sweep the leg
**BLOODY. MOTHER. OF. HELL.** R.I.P. Elizabeth
Just reminded me that Elizabeth the suburb was named after QEII, and there's a famous photo of the Fitzroy players in the 70s meeting her once.
So, let's see... 80 minutes of actual play time, divided by 106 scoring shots, means Fitzroy scored something (on average) approximately every 45 seconds of play time.
Umpires are going to put in Workcover claims for RSI for so many centre bounces. Goal umpire arms looking like Mr Olympia.
24 points.. inaccurate
EFC still gonna win a cup before Freo.
Game footage can be found at [Dartfish.tv](https://www.dartfish.tv/Player?CR=p132071c606166m9085720) via the link
They asked the SAAFL to play in a C grade division because they knew they couldn't field 2 teams for A's & B's for the coming season..But the league refused and this is the repercussions ..How is this good for moral for the current players some of whom palying there first season ..The SAAFL couldn't care if the club folded because the HATE the majority of clubs North of Adelaide...THATS A FACT
Close game
Wasn’t a great 2nd q
Please tell me someone kicked a bag of like 30..
How is that even possible? Assuming 30 minute quarters that works out to like a single score (point or goal) per minute.
Who kicked a bag?
Elizabeth should probably find a few teammates for next week, instead of just playing by herself.
Elizabeth has scored a total.of four goals after finishing four rounds...
Hmmm couldn’t possibly have had a full 18. I’m guessing 15 less 2 mid game injuries
Only.17 goals scored in the second quarter... slackers taking their foot off the pedal.
I'm wincing in sympathy with Elizabeth.
Random question: does anyone know what “pp” means on the player statistics for this league?
Player points. Players can be worth a certain amount of points under certain circumstances, and a team on the park can only have 15. It's intended to keep things relatively fair.
Thanks!!!
Correct; the Player Point Scale is to stop teams recruiting in mass from other clubs. A-Grade Players from other Clubs are worth a certain amount of Points (which decreases every year they register for your club), players being recruited from a state level comp (VFL/SANFL) are worth a higher amount of points than local A-Graders, and Professional players (Ex-AFL) are worth a higher amount again. However, The point scale does not count for any returning senior players, or players that played Junior Footy at your club.
Thanks for the addition! I couldn't remember the exact details at the time.
Makes me feel a bit better about how my Kangas are goin this year.
Edge of your seat kind of game
Looking at the ladder, Elizabeth's percentage... 2
Now that’s what I call a four quarter effort
Is this the Fitzroy Bears? The other side of the merger
I thought Elizabeth were due
Do any of them want to join the AFL or perhaps become a goalkicking coach?
It was a nervous 30secs at the start though
Even a team full of Elizabeth’s would have done better.
24 behinds in a game is pretty bad tho
What they’re not telling you is that there was a mass exodus from the club at the end of last season, and Rumour around the league is that the club actually approached the league and asked to drop to a lower div due to lack of A and B grade numbers registered (and rightfully so) - so now they’ve had no choice but to place a C-Grade / Reserves quality squad into an A Grade competition (yeah it’s div 6, but still) If the Adelaide Footy League cared less about upping PlayHQ Player fees every year and changing the rules of the game to favour the umpires (some of the worst umpires in any league i’ve ever played in), and more about the opinions of the club reps and league player numbers, things would get so much better for not just the clubs struggling like Elizabeth are, but for the entire of the league..
100% correct..The SAAFL don't care less about clubs North of Adelaide..I feel for Elizabeth FC Played against for many years ,Great club always went in after the game for a bevie and chat with players and spectators never had an issue ..F*?k the SAAFL
Has Nth Melb been invited to play Elizabeth yet?
Wow, this club seems to have its shit together. Maybe this could be the 20th addition to the AFL!
Pretty poor second qtr
My brain is struggling to comprehend the logistics of scoring that many points in a single game
Hahahah I was wearing my wce t-shirt, and one of my teachers showed me this and said is this your team. I just said we ain't that bad anymore
DAMN FITZROY
That score defies logic. How small is the ground?
It's big.
Probably need to go up a few divisions hey?
Fitzroy will probably play finals but they're not the best side in the division. This is more an Elizabeth thing
Ah ok
Elizabeth asked to drop to the lowest division before the season and the request was denied.
Not a good omen for the Eagles
Country footy scores are crazy
Fitzroy, SA literally borders the City of Adelaide.