Saturday Amateur Select v Collegiate League Select

[nachoman]

better yet
give the CSL teams the option to join either the sat or sunday amateurs and work your way up from there.

[Rob Lozza]

give the CSL teams the option to join either the sat or sunday amateurs and work your way up from there.

The offer has been made and rejected...repeatedly. SAASL has previously invited CSL teams to compete in the Cup competitions...also rejected. Some flexibility from all parties would be required and I cannot see that coming from some of the current incumbents.

Any way...tghis thread is going way off original topic. Maybe someone can start a new thread? I cbf'd.

[nachoman]

CSL = joke
anyway get back to work Loz

[Kitchimo]

If they were progressive they would merge and add 17 more clubs to the Saturday divisions, including some that would push the top teams in Division 1.

Anybody think of ways how this could work?

Yep - here's a quick thought to provoke discussion. Form two "Premier" divisions of equal status - equal mix of current SAASL and CSL clubs (drawn by ballot). At end of season, the top five teams from each division form the Premier Division for the following season and the rest form the new Division 2, and also no promotions and relegations to/from the Premier Division either that season. This would mean of course that the current Division 2 would have to drop to Division 3 so more than a few tears and whinges here. And the chance of this happening? Almost zero.

Of course, if everyone is genuinely interested in working in a progressive and co-operative manner then the inevitable screams will be quickly forgotten. I believe it is ridiculous that there are tow non-professional football competitions in the Adelaide metroplitan and surrounding areas. SAASL was ready to join the FFSA and then manage the new Amateur Division however all this fell to crud over a matter of ~$40K.

*all data taken from CSL website.

My thoughts are similar. There are 17 Collegiate clubs total. The aren't going to want to join or merge with the SAASL and all get lumped in the bottom divisions. It will take some convincing of current SAASL clubs to allow any sort of proposal to happen. There needs to be a medium that allows the current SAASL clubs to maintain their current division status and have the same opportunity to get promoted and relegated. Something like this?

(You would have to assume that the SAASL has 4 Saturday divisions of Firsts/Reserves)

Year One
SAASL Division 1

SAASL Division 2 and a concurrent CSL 'Division 2' (containing the top 10 teams that are currently in Division 1 and 2)

SAASL Division 3

SAASL Division 4 insert the remaining first/reserve clubs (4) and also the C/D squads if available (Rostrevor, Unley, Pembroke etc) - maybe 12 league team if required.

The one club teams and the C teams go into the relevant C divisions.



End of Year One
SAASL Division 1 - bottom two relegated

SAASL Division 2 - top two promoted, bottom two relegated

CSL Division 2 - top two into Division 1, 3/4 into Division 2, 5/6/7/8 into Division 3, 9/10 into Division 4

SAASL Division 3 - top two promoted, bottom four relegated

SAASL Division 4 - top two promoted, bottom four relegated

Year Two
SAASL Division 1 - 12 teams (+1/2 from CSL Div 2)
SAASL Division 2 - 12 teams (+3/4 from CSL Div 2)
SAASL Division 3 - 12 teams (+5/6/7/8 from CSL Div 2)
SAASL Division 4 - 10 teams (+9/10 from CSL Div 2)
SAASL Division 5 - new clubs + bottom 4 teams from old Div 4 (which happened this year - Pumas, Falcons, Simba etc) - if they get 8, then sweet.

Year Three
At the end of the second year, 2 go up and 4 down from top three divisions to make 10 team leagues, and two go up and two go down from division 4 to make it a 10 team league - meaning two up and four down the year after into Division 5.

There's sure to be a better way to please everyone.

[Fresh Football]

better yet
give the CSL teams the option to join either the sat or sunday amateurs and work your way up from there.

this is what Wanderers did in 2006

[Right Back]

Man, you got way too much time on your hands Kitchimo!

[hatzipp]

[quote="
Paco form BOSA - he's moved up to second on the bench for the C's team and definitely gets a guernsey for most imporved this year!

How about working the BBQ along with Costa and Ang ? [/quote]

if they do a BBQ at this game then Paco's bound to get the gig.....

[totti]

a3 collegiate select would beat both sides easy.
players from norwood,windser,grads red and westminister

[EDISON CAVANI]

a3 collegiate select would beat both sides easy.
players from norwood,windser,grads red and westminister

you are probably right!!

[Ibrox]

a3 collegiate select would beat both sides easy.
players from norwood,windser,grads red and westminister

Yeah that's why they all beat the 'A' grade sides and made it to the last rounds of the cup. Oh hang on........

[totti]

pick best players from each a3 side- quality team

[Rob Lozza]

pick best players from each a3 side- quality team

That does not make sense. If the players are any good, surely they would be picked for the Collegiate League Select team regardless if they play for A1, A2 or A3?

[Mr X]

So Im assuming that the squad is a secret as no-one seems to be able to list it?

[De Voyeur]

Don't know if they have had any trainings sessions yet mate. A lot of the people invited to train were listed at the start of this topic though.

[BADA BING]

pick best players from each a3 side- quality team

That does not make sense. If the players are any good, surely they would be picked for the Collegiate League Select team regardless if they play for A1, A2 or A3?

i'm with you lozza, sounds stoopid to me

[totti]

the best players didn't bother,windser didn't even trail their players

[Ibrox]

the best players didn't bother,windser didn't even trail their players

'cause they were all too cool to play!
What a joke, there are some fantastic players in all divisions of the collegiate league, i mean no-one would argue that Corey Artone was probably the best player in any collegiate team while at Norwood, but the simple fact is that the 'A1' division is the 'A1' division for a reason. Grads Red finished 2nd in A3 and lost 4-0 to the SEVENTH placed side in the A1 div in the cup, Uni Black C beat Windsor and then got thrashed by rostrevor 6-1 I think that says it all.

[INTERISTA]

totti clearly Div 3 teams r not up to general standard of Div1 ..................otherwise theyd be in Div 1
but it is a moot point since a SAASL team would beat a collegiate team any day of the week regardless of what div made up the players.
On another note well in to Mercedes who won 3 out of 4 titles this yr, Div 1 Div 2 & Div 4.

[EDISON CAVANI]

has SAASL team been selected yet?

seeing as the game is only 2 weeks away surely there's some sort of news...

[De Voyeur]

I heard that eighteen people trained last Thursday and that there is another training session tomorrow. BOSA and Villa players were pardoned for the first two sessions apparently due to their cup and champions commitments. So with these players available to train too soon- I guess there will be a squad of about 25- 28. The final selection will include 14 on field players, two keepers and 2 emergencies.

[El Pibe D'Oro]

Artone has signed for Villa Over 35's next season.

[totti]

old news buddy,a bit behind-are you still pissed celebrating from the weekend
scudetto

[El Pibe D'Oro]

I thought you said all year he was coming back???

Well done winning the championship anyway.

[totti]

assistant coach at metros, you should know that,
mennillo,morgillo and spisso are still keen

[El Pibe D'Oro]

Well you will have no problems then.

[the gloves are off !!]

It's starting to sound like an ex-Federation select team competition

[Gabon]

3 of the Jets in the team, can't get the smile off 2 of the 3's faces, you just ask them

[De Voyeur]

Brazzale, The Roo and Monkey Boy are in. Decent midfield.

[East Boy]

no roo. too good, i mean, cbf apparently........