shaneporker wrote:Can anyone assist with this query as the league are not!!!
Can a player play for a team in 2 different divisions??? Recently we played a Flinders Uni (Sat div 4) who fielded a player who also plays in Sat Div 3 for Flinders Uni. I understand they are 1 club but playing in two divisions is hardly fair!! Its no different to playing for two different teams...I thought you signed for 1 team not 2!!!
The league have not given me a straight answer on this...any help???
Perhaps as the coach of the Flinders team in question I can put this to bed.
Yes we have played players, who have played Div 3 this season in Div 4. We have also played players from Div 5 in Div 4 and Div 4 in Div 3.
Yes as a club with lots of players (currently... this season we have already had games with only 1 sub fit and available.) but this fluctuates greatly. Does this give us an advantage.. sure of course it does if we have a 100 players turn up for training each week, I have a bigger pool of players to pick from. Is this the reality... no it's not like every club of every size we struggle through injury susspension and unavailibility. As any of the clubs with mulipule teams will tell you this get's harder the more teams you enter not easier!
Is it harder on smaller clubs.. ?? I am not sure as at the end of the day we are all trying to do the same thing which is play as many players as we can in the teams we have.
Would it be good if Torrens valley had more players.. Sure it would it would be fantastic if they had 5 teams. Is it our fault they don't.. No!
Do we stack teams... No in fact the idea is silly as someone pointed out when was the last time we were in the top league, too long ago!! Thus we try and play our best players in our best side stacking Div 4 would achieve nothing for us as
we can not and will not play two teams in the same division so if our top side is not promoted it doesn't matter if we win Div 4. (Something barring a miracle would seem impossible this season with Ankor still being unbeaten anyway!) The best players play in the best side.. surely that is the same at all clubs!
As for the game it's self we won 3-0 the player who did all the damage (and who got all 3 votes from the ref) is and has been a Div 4 player all season. Plus due to injuries and other factors I didn't even use a full bench that day.. In fact the only player I did bring on had already played a full game in the B's.
So I am sorry you may have lost on this occasion but we have certainly been on the wrong side of the score line many times to you and I am sure will be again.
Is there a better system for regualting this?? Possibly there is and yes I can see how you would not want to play agaisnt a higher grade player, but this is something reserve sides face constantly.
Would I be happy to not have this inter club movement as a coach.. Yes I would every time we move players around you risk upseting combinations that are working and fruitfull.
Untill some one comes up with a better way to do things, I have no qualms about trying to make sure that as a club we can make sure we have a full squad for each and every one of our games and that players who play for us get some game time each week.
I hope that clears somethings up.
