End of Year Review

[Jay Walking]

Now that the dust has settled except for those playing in the cup, what was everyones thoughts on their club and others.

Who was

Best team played against:
Best ressies team played against
Your clubs best player:
Yours clubs most improved player:
Best player played against:
Did you club finish where you thought it would:
Best away bar:
Best away food:
Best away supporters:
What your club needs next year:
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year:
What should the SAASL do next year:

Add any other questions.

[Outlaw 2.0]

Your Club: Modbury Vista

Best First team played against: Salisbury Inter
Best Ressies team played against: Para Hills West
Your clubs best player: Bradley McKay
Yours clubs most improved player: Daniel Harrison
Best player played against: Both the guys from ISC that were told to "tag" me
Did you club finish where you thought it would: No, was expecting promotion but not Champions
Best ground played on: Adelaide Vikings
Best away bar: Para Hills West
Best away food: ISC Raptors
Best away supporters: Southern Knights
What your club needs next year: Experience
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Someone from Farm or Gardens
What should the SAASL do next year: Look after their referees
What was your favourite moment of the season: The trip to Southern Knights

[haywood djablowme]

Your club : Parafield Gardens

Best team played against: Ingle Farm
Best ressies team played against ?
Your clubs best player: Tough one between Steven Spiby & Kurt Burfoot
Yours clubs most improved player: BJ in the ressies
Best player played against: Lachie Campbell
Did you club finish where you thought it would: YEP
Best away bar: Downs
Best away food: Pontians by far
Best away supporters: Hate to say it but the Downs
What your club needs next year: Consolidate on current status
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Pauly Ebomo - 3peat
What should the SAASL do next year: Advertising/Promoting the SAASL - maybe a snippet in the Advertiser/Sat Paper or Sunday mail detailing games to be played on the weekend. Maybe even include a detailed match report(s) ie like the current one provided by Mr Laird in the week after games.

SAASL Future planning - Promote two teams up from each Div making a 12 team comp. This extending the league & gives clubs two more home games meaning more revenue.
Introduce a u/18 SAASL comp so clubs can keep hold of junior players & help them introduce to Senior mens comp - so junior players dont go running to FFSA & clubs can establish a pathway from Junior to Seniour within their framework

[ExtraTime]

Best team played against:Salisbury Inter
Best ressies team played against: ISC Raptors
Your clubs best player: Steve Maguire
Yours clubs most improved player: Glen Crute
Best player played against: All of them
Did you club finish where you thought it would:No- expected mid-table
Best away bar: Macedonia
Best away food: Modbury Vista
Best away supporters: Brahma Lodge/ Modbury Vista
What your club needs next year: Goalkeeper and for Matt Daughtry to stop working in the snow
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Div2 Robbie Williams / David Mooney

[OldRedback]

Just my opinion from the Downs

Who was

Best team played against: Gardens although very impressed early season with Pontians
Best ressies team played against: Gardens
Your clubs best player: Nathan Day
Yours clubs most improved player: Tony Parisi - outstanding all year and really showed why he is a valued team member
Best player played against: Ebomo - again an outstanding performer
Did you club finish where you thought it would: No
Best away bar: Farm - now they have replaced the sugar free melon cruisers with Pale ale
Best away food: Florina - they will be missed!
Best away supporters: Always good banter with the Vale
What your club needs next year: Silverware is overdue at Argana Park
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Nathan Day
What should the SAASL do next year: Grow some nuts and kick out the troublemakers by making a stand

[Karmann Ghia]

Your club : Parafield Gardens

Best team played against: Ingle Farm
Best ressies team played against ?
Your clubs best player: Tough one between Steven Spiby & Kurt Burfoot
Yours clubs most improved player: BJ in the ressies
Best player played against: Lachie Campbell
Did you club finish where you thought it would: YEP
Best away bar: Downs
Best away food: Pontians by farTHANKS
Best away supporters: Hate to say it but the Downs
What your club needs next year: Consolidate on current status
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Pauly Ebomo - 3peat
What should the SAASL do next year: Advertising/Promoting the SAASL - maybe a snippet in the Advertiser/Sat Paper or Sunday mail detailing games to be played on the weekend. Maybe even include a detailed match report(s) ie like the current one provided by Mr Laird in the week after games.

SAASL Future planning - Promote two teams up from each Div making a 12 team comp. This extending the league & gives clubs two more home games meaning more revenue.
Introduce a u/18 SAASL comp so clubs can keep hold of junior players & help them introduce to Senior mens comp - so junior players dont go running to FFSA & clubs can establish a pathway from Junior to Seniour within their framework

Very well said

[gee_kay]

My Team: Elizabeth Vale
Best team played against :Ingle Farm
Best ressies team played against: N/A
Your clubs best player: Chris Nicholls
Yours clubs most improved player: Matt Francis
Best player played against: Nathan Day
Did you club finish where you thought it would: I think so
Best away bar: West Beach
Best away food: Pontians
Best away supporters: Downs
What your club needs next year:
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year:
What should the SAASL do next year:

[Jay Walking]

Best team played against: Pontians when we played them away and Gardens away were equally impressive
Best ressies team played against: Gardens
Your clubs best player: Very even spread. I could name 6.
Yours clubs most improved player: In the first team, Luke Williams and Toby Dodd. In the B's, Nick Filipou and Daniel Drodge. C's Devon Forbes.
Best player played against: From what I saw, hard to go past Ebomo
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Yes
Best away bar: West Beach for Beer, Fulham had me at hello with $5 JW cans
Best away food: Pontian, Florina and West Beach
Best away supporters: Elizabeth Grove by an absoulte mile. Not the biggest but made lots of noise, cleaned up after themselves, drank the bar dry, ate all the food. They were great hosts as well and its great to see them stay up.
What your club needs next year: Less injuries, depth in defence and midfield.
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Lachlan should but he's played only 13-14 games. He would of won it last year if he wasn't such an old man I know your reading this
What should the SAASL do next year: Give me a job!

[swannsong]

Who was

Best team played against: St Peters
Best ressies team played against - Hard to say....our Reserve side was up and down with in and outs..Inter maybe
Your clubs best player: Probably Steve Maguire - David Mooney were game changers
Yours clubs most improved player: Matt Harrison...took all year but last game was a cracker !
Best player played against: Mustafa Ipekdal from Macedonia ( but easy to distract )
Did you club finish where you thought it would: No, I thought we would be relegated
Best away bar: Modbury Vista/Brahma Lodge...need improvements but have atmosphere...didn't mind Vikings either.
Best away food: Didn't sample enough to find out...Marion Hotel
Best away supporters: Modbury Vista/Brahma Lodge
What your club needs next year: A good hard look at itself/philosophy and attitude...find a permanent keeper & key striker.
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: probably Robbie Williams (strikers seem to get noticed more)
What should the SAASL do next year: Do its utmost to align with FFA and FIFA

Add any other questions

[Aldo Serena]

Your Club: MSSC Blue Eagles

Best team played against: Western Strikers
Best ressies team played against: Munno Para
Your clubs best player: Diego Pellegrini
Yours clubs most improved player: Dave Harris
Best player played against: Ross Calabria (Sals Villa Cup Game)
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Promotion was the aim.
Best away bar: South Coast
Best away food: Port Pirie
What your club needs next year: Keep our squad
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: No idea for Premier - hopefully our boys will poll well in Div 3.
What should the SAASL do next year: Have a good look at their rules around admitting clubs into the competition, and dealing with any 'rogue' clubs.
What was your favourite moment of the season: Beating Port Pirie 8-1 to wrap up the championship.

[BlackBrian_7]

Your Club: Adelaide University

Best team played against: MA Hawks
Best ressies team played against: Stirling in the cup
Your clubs best player: Adam Wilkinson
Yours clubs most improved player: Nick Kalatzis.
Best player played against: Josh Christison
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Yes, but we were disappointed to lose 2 games.
Best away bar: Southern Breakers
Best away food: Macedonia
Best away supporters: Cougars because they were fully sick.
What your club needs next year: depth.
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Sat Div 2, Rasoul Ahmady.
What should the SAASL do next year: Recruit more refs.

[Paleon Patros Germanos]

Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Sat Div 2, Rasoul Ahmady.

Maybe he can give us a comment about Maiwand if he does.

[giggseleven]

Best team played against: Raptors beat us both times they dust deserve relegation at all.
Your clubs best player: Luke Mettyear/Brad McKay
Yours clubs most improved player: Daniel Harrison/Denny Watson (up and comer).
Best player played against: raptors centre back, think he was captain.
Did you club finish where you thought it would: thought we'd be top two, ended up champions!
Best away supporters: Brahma had a few characters ;)
What your club needs next year: experience.
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: David Mooney. Who said strikers get noticed he played everywhere this year! ;)
Best moment of the year: Pinching the title in the last two weeks off Inter and of course the celebrations after!!

[Vale_boy05]

Best team played against: Parafield Gardens
Best ressies team played against Parafield Gardens
Your clubs best player: Mark Burbidge
Yours clubs most improved player: Micheal Francis
Best player played against: Nathan Day
Did you club finish where you thought it would:Thought we could of pushed higher
Best away bar: West Beach
Best away food: Pontian delivered this year with the spit, but Florina always have a great feed.
Best away supporters: Grove and Downs
What your club needs next year: Consistancy
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: I think Paul will get too many votes taken away from him this yr, so i'll say Day
What should the SAASL do next year: What ever they want.....

[KING NUGGETT]

From what I saw:

Best team played against: Ingle Farm, Bosa
Best ressies team played against: Ingle Farm, Downs
Your clubs best player: Steven Spiby
Yours clubs most improved player: ?
Best player played against: Day, Cambell
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Not Yet
Best away bar: Pontian
Best away food: Pontian
Best away supporters: Downs, Vale
What your club needs next year: 3 in a Row
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Chief Ebomo
What should the SAASL do next year: Enforce there Rules & Punishments, Get the Under 18's up & running

[East Boy]

Best team played against: Farm for speed, gardens for ball playing
Best ressies team played against: Farm looked good with Mr X, but didnt get to see gardens much. Played against pontian and they were decent. pretty close top 6 comp by watching most.
Your clubs best player: Swifty
Yours clubs most improved player: swifty,
Best player played against: cox was good for farm as well as luke air. burbridge, fozzie and ebomo.
Did you club finish where you thought it would: not high enough really, but a big learning curve for some
Best away bar: farm or downs, lets be honest they are all good after the game
Best away food:never really get to eat it expect the famous wings at florina. Always quality
Best away supporters: didnt cop that much shit this year which was disappointing.
What your club needs next year: maybe more experience, but just another year in div1 will be great for all the young lads.
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Day - refs love him and i guess he's pretty good. Fozzie always quality, but a lot of good players at gardens taking points off eachother.
What should the SAASL do next year: like the idea of a 12 team comp from haywoodya.

[Delije Sever]

Your Club: Fk Beograd

Best First team played against: Modbury Vista
Best Ressies team played against: ?
Your clubs best player: Jovan Joksimovic/Dejan Prso
Best player played against: One of the Vista forwards, don't know their names
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Yes, our goal was to stay up first year in div 2 and we finished 5th
Best ground played on: Vikings
Worst ground played on: Macedonia's cricket pitch in the middle takes the cake
Best away bar: Para Hills West: great bar and good hospitality
Best away food: ISC Raptors
Worst away food: Southern knights had no hot food, but we demolished their 'Smiths Chips'
Best away supporters: Southern Knights
What your club needs next year: Trainings
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: NFI
What should the SAASL do next year: Give referees taser guns for self defence
What was your favourite moment of the season: Reaching the cup semi final, and coming back from 4:1 down in the 70th minute to win 5:4 is up there aswell

[PONTIAN]

Best team played against: Ingle Farm (very good attacking team as goals for shows)
Best ressies team played against Parafield
Your clubs best player: Jamie ''THE TURK'' Murat
Yours clubs most improved player: Gary ''THE MACHINE'' Williams
Best player played against: Nathan Day
Did you club finish where you thought it would: No thought we would come 1st or 2nd
Best away bar: Downs
Best away food: Downs
Best away supporters: Grove
What your club needs next year: right winger and attacking midfielder
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Day
What should the SAASL do next year: Top 5 final series as well as first past the post. ( just think it will make the teams mid table have something to play for as well).

[myopinion2]

Not a player just watched lots of games


Best team seen play: Parafield Gardens
Best ressies team: Gardens
Your clubs best player: I watch alot of fulham games so Pettch
Did you club finish where you thought it would: no
Best away bar: Beach for the prices
Best away food: Beach by far best yiros

[Steve Bruce]

Who was :

Best A-Grade Ref ?

Best Club Ref ?

And why ?

How do we convert Club Refs in to Official Refs in 2010 ?

[I am Costanza]

How do we convert Club Refs in to Official Refs in 2010 ?[/quote]

By finding a Delorian with a working flux capacitor and go back to last year

[I am Costanza]

My opinion from Brahma....

Best team played against: Modbury Vista
Best ressies team played against: Inter, stopped our ressies going 10 wins in a row (including the cup)
Your clubs best player: Mark Beck
Yours clubs most improved player: The 16 year old... I 'Martin' Joseph
Best player played against: David Mooney - Southern Knights
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Yes, our goal was to consolidate after promotion and mission was accomplished
Best away bar: Southern Knights
Best away food: Beograd or Raptors
Best away supporters: Westies, got right behind out fund raiser for an injured player
What your club needs next year: The over 35s back
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Brahma Lodges Double D's player from last year, Steve Spibey - Parafield Gdns
What should the SAASL do next year: Look at bigger punishments for teams that forfeit matches. IMO if you cant field 2 teams in div 2 you shouldn't be allowed to remain there

[ExtraTime]

My opinion from Brahma....

Best team played against: Modbury Vista
Best ressies team played against: Inter, stopped our ressies going 10 wins in a row (including the cup)
Your clubs best player: Mark Beck
Yours clubs most improved player: The 16 year old... I 'Martin' Joseph( including goal of the year)
Best player played against: David Mooney - Southern Knights
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Yes, our goal was to consolidate after promotion and mission was accomplished
Best away bar: Southern Knights
Best away food: Beograd or Raptors
Best away supporters: Westies, got right behind out fund raiser for an injured player
What your club needs next year: The over 35s back
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Brahma Lodges Double D's player from last year, Steve Spibey - Parafield Gdns
What should the SAASL do next year: Look at bigger punishments for teams that forfeit matches. IMO if you cant field 2 teams in div 2 you shouldn't be allowed to remain there

[I am Costanza]

Yours clubs most improved player: The 16 year old... I 'Martin' Joseph( including goal of the year)

Agreed.... cracking overhead volley.

[Jonesy5]

My team: westies Best team played against:Vista Best ressies team played:Inter
Your clubs best player: Danny Howat/Paul simpson
Yours clubs most improved player: Millsy
Best player played against: The little guy from bosna
Did you club finish where you thought it would: Expectation was to stay up as alot of new players gelling so yes
Best away bar: Beograd(top lads)
Best away food: raptors
Best away supporters: brahma, always good banter from them
What your club needs next year: To score goals... Had 3rd best defensive record behind promoted teams but the worse goals for
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: Steve Spibey - Parafield Gdns
What should the SAASL do next year: finals and 2 more teams to each league

[OldRedback]

Best club ref would be a split between Justin at Grove, the young lad who did the ressies at Vale and the guy - Leon I think his name was - who did the Cs at Farm. Worst by far was the cheat at Pontian, Bs at Farm was ordinary too and the Bs ref at Downs had a few shockers in penalising the Downs!!!!!!

Hospitality was fantastic at Grove, Macos, Vale and Gardens and most clubs in fact.

One thing I won't miss are the peanuts on the sideline that think it is ok to cheer bad tackles, walk on the pitch and take on the argument after the game is done - seriously we don't need your sort, either grow up or sling your hook, you are an embarrassment to yourselves and the club you claim to support. FFS this is Amateur football.

[swannsong]

Best team played against: Raptors beat us both times they dust deserve relegation at all.
Your clubs best player: Luke Mettyear/Brad McKay
Yours clubs most improved player: Daniel Harrison/Denny Watson (up and comer).
Best player played against: raptors centre back, think he was captain.
Did you club finish where you thought it would: thought we'd be top two, ended up champions!
Best away supporters: Brahma had a few characters ;)
What your club needs next year: experience.
Who will win the SAASL Player of the Year: David Mooney. Who said strikers get noticed he played everywhere this year! ;)
Best moment of the year: Pinching the title in the last two weeks off Inter and of course the celebrations after!!

Are players eligible if they have received a red card during the season ????

[giggseleven]

Surely more reviews are out there...

[flyte7]

Your club : Parafield Gardens
...
Introduce a u/18 SAASL comp so clubs can keep hold of junior players & help them introduce to Senior mens comp - so junior players dont go running to FFSA & clubs can establish a pathway from Junior to Seniour within their framework

Think this is a cracking idea and possibly even an u21 depending on demand. Lots of young players with the necessary skills, but possibly not the physical attributes to participate in the amateur league. The kids that are physically matured can make the leap straight to the senior team, but this provides a stepping stone to those that need it.

[KING NUGGETT]

They already have a under 18 Comp. run by E&D & in conjunction SAASL but they certainly need to promote & nurture it more...