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Wish guys were still there. At least we'd be competitive against each other!

Looking at sporting pulse in the fixtures it now has Wanneroo in place of Carlisle from week 5 (yesterday) on. Is this correct or is sporting pulse playing up?

Correct. Carlisle pulled out so Wanneroo will field a 4ths team will now play in E4

How are Beechboro going , they have been a club that seems to be going down hill. From potential improvers to now a 1 side club. Writing is on the wall for the future? Is the standard any good at this grade or more social type of games. Sorry but not really familiar with this level. May play at a lower level like this myself next year if it is easy going more relaxed type of footy.

I think if your winning by 20 goals a game its relaxing, not so much if your on the other end of a 20 goal flogging. they really need to even the E grades up IMO. I cant understand how they can put 1 team clubs and A 3rds in the same grade as C3 & C4 3rds teams? I think they've organized the E grades by logistics which I think is useless, I would personally prefer to travel a long distance to play and be competitive than save some petrol and get belted by 20 goals every week. To answer your question beechboro have been smashing everyone in E3

Packing the Goodes wrote: I think if your winning by 20 goals a game its relaxing, not so much if your on the other end of a 20 goal flogging. they really need to even the E grades up IMO. I cant understand how they can put 1 team clubs and A 3rds in the same grade as C3 & C4 3rds teams? I think they've organized the E grades by logistics which I think is useless, I would personally prefer to travel a long distance to play and be competitive than save some petrol and get belted by 20 goals every week. To answer your question beechboro have been smashing everyone in E3

Thanks for the reply. So the standard is not very high then? Sounds like social type of footy , which is fine if that's what you want.

I play in a E4 3rds team. It depends how you look at it. There are blokes in our side who havent played footy muc/ever before so the quallity of footy from them might not be very high. Then there is the rest of us, new to the club, havent played in couple of years but not that long out of the game, who need to play well and hard to prove our worth, and put hands up for selection into the 2nds/1sts.

While the quallity of footy might not always be as god as the higher grades, its definitely still very competitvie despite some of the scores. Losing still hurts and winning still feels great.

Maggies wrote:

Packing the Goodes wrote: I think if your winning by 20 goals a game its relaxing, not so much if your on the other end of a 20 goal flogging. they really need to even the E grades up IMO. I cant understand how they can put 1 team clubs and A 3rds in the same grade as C3 & C4 3rds teams? I think they've organized the E grades by logistics which I think is useless, I would personally prefer to travel a long distance to play and be competitive than save some petrol and get belted by 20 goals every week. To answer your question beechboro have been smashing everyone in E3

Thanks for the reply. So the standard is not very high then? Sounds like social type of footy , which is fine if that's what you want.

I think the standard is pretty good, especially with some of the better teams, its just some teams have a massive drop off in talent with their bottom 12 players or so and when your playing against League teams and A 3rds the gulf in talent and depth is quite evident. IMO all 1 team clubs and A 3rds should be in E1, there's no way Beechboro 1's, swan ath 3rds etc. should be in E3

Completely agree with this. We finished 4th on the ladder in E3 last year and found it, on the whole, a much more even and competitive competition with like minded people playing and nobody taking it too seriously. In our side there are only 3 of us that train regularly (if at all) and most turn up just to play and have a bit of fun in a social setting.

Now we are in E1 (still unsure how) and struggling a lot, which has taken a lot of the enjoyment out of the games and we have been struggling to get a full 22 each week.

We still play for fun and I enjoy it, but I am continually baffled as to how we are in E1, especially when I see other teams doing proper warm up drills and doing something called 'zoning' during the game.

Totally agree also.