NEAFL - Northern Conference - Season 2011

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mongrel_punt said:
It will be interesting to see how the 3 teams (Morningside, NT and Labrador) handle having to play an extra game through the season.

For Morningside and NT, they can at least just use their game as as a high scale praccy match, but Labrador have to play an extra match right smack bang in the middle of the season and as such forgo their bye.

Will this hurt there chances in 2011?
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They could just make the Morningside versus Northern Territory game for competition points as well to save having to use a bye especially for the Thunder with the travelling.
 
mongrel_punt said:
It will be interesting to see how the 3 teams (Morningside, NT and Labrador) handle having to play an extra game through the season.

For Morningside and NT, they can at least just use their game as as a high scale praccy match, but Labrador have to play an extra match right smack bang in the middle of the season and as such forgo their bye.

Will this hurt there chances in 2011?
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Morningside or NT will have to play at least twice depending on who wins as this continues on in a knock out format and the games get deeper in to the season.So all three teams will have to manage this very carefully.
 
I would think it unlikely it will count as a State League game as Morningside will be keen to sell their home game as they did last year and played NT in Alice and Darwin
I am still not convinced that they will be allowed to play on the Gabba !
Won't Kevin Mitchell have the final say
 

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It is funny how the cards fall isn't it. Morningside playing NT in the pre-season, Labrador playing Norwood in the middle of the season. Any strong influence anywhere?
 

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chikka ferguson said:
Have I missed something from the last 2 posts?
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I can read between the lines fairly easily Chikka, this appears to be in reference to Morningside having things go their way, randomly.....

Is Bell hanging around or going to try his hand in a stronger comp?

Not much recruiting news on the AFLQ website or on here for that matter, is it a quiet year on the recruiting front?
 
Blackdog32 said:
I can read between the lines fairly easily Chikka, this appears to be in reference to Morningside having things go their way, randomly.....

Is Bell hanging around or going to try his hand in a stronger comp?

Not much recruiting news on the AFLQ website or on here for that matter, is it a quiet year on the recruiting front?
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Very strong rumours coming from the southside of brisbane that the panthers cant pay there players for 2010 and have said 2011 will be not much chance of payments as well, and chicka dont say its not true as panthers pay AGM day and there was no payments this year. but most blokes will hang around but for how long.
 
Blackdog32 said:
I can read between the lines fairly easily Chikka, this appears to be in reference to Morningside having things go their way, randomly.....

Is Bell hanging around or going to try his hand in a stronger comp?

Not much recruiting news on the AFLQ website or on here for that matter, is it a quiet year on the recruiting front?
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How is Labrador going in their pre season?
Will the 3 coast clubs get draft picks from SUNS for next season?
 
chikka ferguson said:
How is Labrador going in their pre season?
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chikka ferguson said:
Will the 3 coast clubs get draft picks from SUNS for next season?
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Just quietly going about their business. Picked up some handy players and some of their young brigade have really come on over the pre-season.

I haven't heard anything about the SUNS draft for the upcoming season. I would've thought it will now be similar to the Lions with the left over players going back to their club of origin, but that is just a guess.

By your lack of response to it, i take it that Goalkicker11's comments have some truth to them?
 
Not sure about rumours re Morningside and Mt Gravatt- I have heard that virtually all Panthers players have re-signed and that they have got Spackman back and Brown from Mayne. Gough, Kimball Hickey big losses but they like always will be there abouts.

Labrador have picked up a couple and lost a couple and will be good again. Broadbeach with Rhan Hooper and Jason Eagle and no major player losses will improve. Redland with Howard and Corrie and retained most of their blokes will also press for finals. Southport as always and Aspley with strong finances will be ok, although lost Carpenter and tighe I believe.

Lions identified a few areas in their footy dept that were underfunded and I believe the ressies were one of the areas. Expect their 2's to be better in 2011 than what they were in 2010. GC reserves with their extended list will always play with the maximum listed players, however I expect they will be full of 18 year olds and may struggle against bigger bodies.

Will be a really good comp in 2011.

Interesting to see how QAFL clubs go against the likes of Ainslie and Belconnen , what do people reckon?
 
the fixture is out

QAFL teams will play in 20 different venues across six different cities in the Northern Conference of the new North Eastern Australian Football League in 2011 following the release of the draw today.


Friday, 17 December, 2010

QAFL teams will play in 20 different venues across six different cities in the Northern Conference of the new North Eastern Australian Football League in 2011.

In the draw announced today, each side in the 10-team conference will play 18 games over a 21-week home-and-away season starting on 2-3 April, with each team having two byes in addition to an all-teams-bye on 18 June (Round 12) for Queensland’s interstate clash with Western Australia in Perth.

A four-week conference finals series will begin on 28 August and culminate in a Northern Conference grand final in south-east Queensland on Sunday 18 September.

The Northern Conference premiers will meet the Eastern Conference premiers at a location still to be determined on Sunday 25 September – six days out from the AFL grand final on 1 October.

The 10-team Northern Conference will comprise Brisbane-based Morningside, Mt.Gravatt, Redland and Aspley, Gold Coast-based Southport, Labrador and Broadbeach, the Darwin-based NT Thunder, plus Reserves teams from AFL clubs Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast Suns.

The seven-team Southern Conference will be made up of Canberra-based Ainslie, Eastlake, Queanbeyan, Tuggeranong and Belconnen, plus Reserves teams from AFL clubs Sydney Swans and Greater Western Sydney Giants.
Matches will be played in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Darwin, Cairns, Sydney and Canberra.

Each Brisbane-based former QAFL side will play interstate at least once, with Redland and Mt.Gravatt topping the travel schedule with three interstate trips apiece.

In addition to the traditional club homegrounds, matches in south-east Queensland will be played subject to final confirmation at the new QAFL headquarters at Yeronga, plus the former QAFL home at Coorparoo, the Gabba and the redeveloped Gold Coast Stadium at Carrara.

A game will also be played at Cazaly’s Stadium in Cairns between the NT Thunder and the Suns Reserves.

The Thunder will play 12 ‘home’ games – eight in Darwin and four in Alice Springs – while Eastlake, Ainslie, Belconnen and Queanbeyan will travel to south-east Queensland to play.

Mt.Gravatt, Broadbeach, Southport and Redland will travel to Canberra to play.

The Swans Reserves and the Giants Reserves will travel to south-east Queensland twice each to play the Lions and the Suns Reserves, with rugby league convert Israel Folau (pictured) scheduled to play against the Lions at either Coorparoo or the Gabba in Round 7, and against the Suns at Gold Coast Stadium in Round 21.

The Lions Reserves will travel three times to Sydney (twice) and Darwin, and the Suns Reserves will travel four times to Darwin, Sydney (twice) and Cairns.

A summary of the 2011 NEAFL draw on a club-by-club basis is:-

ASPLEY – Will play nine home games at Graham Road, will travel to Darwin (Round 1) and Alice Springs (Round 13) and will host Belconnen (Round 18). Will play Redland and Mt.Gravatt three times each, NT, Broadbeach, Labrador and Morningside twice each, and Southport, Belconnen, the Suns and the Lions once. Will have a bye in Round 4 and Round 18.

BRISBANE LIONS RESERVES – Will play five ‘home’ games at Sherwood under an arrangement that will see them draw their top-up players from the Western Magpies, who have returned to the QAFL’s Pineapple Hotel cup after two years in the QAFL State League. Will travel to Darwin (Round 11) to play the NT and to Sydney’s Blacktown Stadium to play the Giants (Round 14) and Swans Reserves (Round 21). Still to confirm whether they will play curtain-raisers at the Gabba, they have three games still ‘floating’ in the draw – against the Suns Reserves (Round 6) that will be at Yeronga or the Gabba, and against the Giants (Round 8) and the Swans Reserves (Round 10) that will be Coorparoo or the Gabba. Will play the Suns three times, the Giants, Morningside, Labrador, NT and Swans Reserves twice, and Southport, Redland, Mt.Gravatt, Aspley and Broadbeach only once each. Will have a bye in Round 3 and Round 18.

BROADBEACH – Will play nine games at Merrimac and will travel twice to play Eastlake in Canberra (Round 3) and NT in Alice Springs (Round 17). Will play Southport and Labrador three times each, NT, Aspley, Morningside and Redland twice each, and the Lions, Suns, Mt.Gravatt and Eastlaake once each. Will have a bye in Round 5 and Round 18.

GOLD COAST SUNS RESERVES – Will play their first two home games at Yeronga while Gold Coast Stadium is being completed – against Mt.Gravatt (Round 1), Aspley (Round 3) – and possibly again at Yeronga against the Lions (Round 6) if that game is not played as a Gabba curtain-raiser. Then, after development works are completed at Carrara, they will play their last five home games as curtain-raisers against Southport (Round 9), Morningside (Round 11), the Swans Reserves (Round 15), Lions Reserves (Round 17) and the Giants (Round 21). Will travel interstate four times to Darwin (Round 2) to meet NT, to Sydney to meet the Swans Reserves at the SCG (Round 7) and the Giants at Blacktown in Round 19, and to Cairns to meet the NT (Round 16). Will play the Lions three times, the Giants, Swans Reserves, Southport, Mt.Gravatt and NT twice each, and Morningside, Redland, Labrador, Aspley and Broadbeach once each. Will have a bye in Round 8 and Round 18.

LABRADOR – The beaten QAFL grand finalists of 2010 will play nine times at Cooke-Murphy Reserve, including a game against ACT powerhouse Ainslie in Round 14, and will travel interstate only once. And that won’t be until Round 21, when they will head to Darwin to meet the NT. Will play Broadbeach three times, the Lions, Redland, Southport, Aspley, Mt.Gravatt and Morningside twice each, and the Suns, NT and Ainslie once each. Will have a bye in Round 8 and Round 17.

MORNINGSIDE – The 2010 QAFL premiers will play nine games at home at Esplen Oval, including Round 3 against Eastlake, and will travel to Darwin in Round 5 to take on the NT. Have the most balance draw in the Northern Conference, with two games each against the Lions, Redland, Broadbeach, NT, Aspley, Southport, Labrador and Mt.Gravatt, and one game each against the Suns and Eastlake. Will have a bye in Round 9 and Round 17.

MT.GRAVATT - Will play eight home games at Dittmer Park while travelling interstate to Canberra to play Queanbeyan (Round 3) and Alice Springs (Round 7) and Darwin (Round 20) to play the NT. Will have three games against Aspley, two each against the Suns, Southport, Labrador, NT, Redland and Morningside, and one each against the Lions, Broadbeach and Queanbeyan. Will have a bye in Round 4 and Round 17.

N.T. THUNDER – Will play 12 ‘home’ games – eight in Darwin against Aspley, Suns Reserves, Morningside, Redland, Lions Reserves, Giants, Mt.Gravatt and Labrador, and four in Alice Springs against Redland, Mt.Gravatt, Aspley and Broadbeach. Will travel to Cairns to meet the Suns Reserves in Round 16), and to south-east Queensland to meet Broadbeach (Round 3),Southport (Round 6), Lions Reserves (Sherwood – Round 8) and Morningside (Round 15), plus the Giants at Blacktown (Round 19). Will play Lions, Giants, Suns, Aspley, Broadbeach, Redland, Morningside and Mt.Gravatt twice each, and Southport and Labrador once each. Will have a bye in Round 9 and Round 18.

REDLAND – Will play eight home games at Victoria Point, and will travel to Canberra (Round 17) to play Tuggeranong, and Alice Springs (Round 4) and Darwin (10) to play the NT. Will play Aspley three times, Labrador, Morningside, NT, Broadbeach, Southport and Mt.Gravatt twice each, and the Lions, Suns and Tuggeranong once each. Will have a bye in Round 3 and Round 18.

SOUTHPORT – Will play nine home games at Fankhauser Reserve, including Queanbeyan in Round 19, and will travel to Canberra to meet Ainslie in Round 13 but will be the only southern team spared a trip to the NT. Will play Broadbeach three times, Mt.Gravatt, Labrador, Morningside, Redland and the Suns twice, and the Lions, NT, Aspley, Ainslie and Queanbeyan once each. Will have a bye in Round 5 and Round 17.
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howard77 said:
Not sure about rumours re Morningside and Mt Gravatt- I have heard that virtually all Panthers players have re-signed and that they have got Spackman back and Brown from Mayne. Gough, Kimball Hickey big losses but they like always will be there abouts.

Labrador have picked up a couple and lost a couple and will be good again. Broadbeach with Rhan Hooper and Jason Eagle and no major player losses will improve. Redland with Howard and Corrie and retained most of their blokes will also press for finals. Southport as always and Aspley with strong finances will be ok, although lost Carpenter and tighe I believe.

Lions identified a few areas in their footy dept that were underfunded and I believe the ressies were one of the areas. Expect their 2's to be better in 2011 than what they were in 2010. GC reserves with their extended list will always play with the maximum listed players, however I expect they will be full of 18 year olds and may struggle against bigger bodies.

Will be a really good comp in 2011.

Interesting to see how QAFL clubs go against the likes of Ainslie and Belconnen , what do people reckon?
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What are Labradors losses and gains apart from Grayson?
 
chikka ferguson said:
all rumours 4 the last time
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Chikka I have very good info that the panthers can't pay for 2010, stop saying it's only rumours when you know it's real problem there. I know you might not lose anyone but you might in 12 months time, and playings signing for 2011 what are the panthers paying with pies and cokes again. But what I will say is you don't need to pay bucks to win flages. Mt Gravatt and the panthers show that good setups with coaches can cover for the old no money problem.
 
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