Premier 2025

[Th3B1gD0g]

I’ll have a crack.
1. Rowville
2. East Ringwood
3. Balwyn
4. Vermont
5. Blackburn
6. Donny East
7. South Croydon
8. Mitcham
9. Noble park
10. Berwick

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Reckon the top 3 is pretty clear.

Balwyn, ER - right back up there again

Vermont - will be alongside the top two you’d think, having added Buxton and Weidemann, two huge additions

Rowville, Blackburn, South Croydon - I’m not sure sure any of these have what it takes to bridge the gap to the top few from last year. Mid table.

Mitcham - unknown. Don’t think they’ll be great but I’d expect them to be competitive.

Doncaster East - wtf can you expect here. They basically imploded last year and after the money they spent, you’d be hard pressed to come up with a bigger failure of a season in local footy. Will that change? Who knows?

Noble Park - an enormous exodus and don’t look to have replaced them. They look a relegation chance at this stage.

Berwick - have haemorrhaged players over the last two years and will be a surprise if they’re not relegated. By rights they don’t belong in the division, they won two games and had a percentage of 47%. They were just lucky Norwood were there.

If Mitcham don’t handle the step up and DE repeat their pathetic showing of last year then there could be a really long tail on this division. That would make a really crap bottom 4 in a 10-team league.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I think the Berwick example shows that the league should be considering an extra relegation in some cases.

Some leagues have two up / two down - personally I prefer one/one (win the flag to go up). But it can stifle movement between the divisions when you have more than one really shit team.

I would say that if the second-last team wins two games or less (as they may only beat the bottom team) AND a percentage below 50% it shows they’re uncompetitive and shouldn’t be in the league.

Of course you can’t force anybody to be promoted so I would offer their spot to the runners-up in the next division down. If they take it then good, if they don’t then things stay as is.

But Park Orchards would be a better shot in Premier than Berwick I reckon.

 

[thefunnelweb]

I think the Berwick example shows that the league should be considering an extra relegation in some cases.

Some leagues have two up / two down - personally I prefer one/one (win the flag to go up). But it can stifle movement between the divisions when you have more than one really shit team.

I would say that if the second-last team wins two games or less (as they may only beat the bottom team) AND a percentage below 50% it shows they’re uncompetitive and shouldn’t be in the league.

Of course you can’t force anybody to be promoted so I would offer their spot to the runners-up in the next division down. If they take it then good, if they don’t then things stay as is.

But Park Orchards would be a better shot in Premier than Berwick I reckon.

Is it automatic that the premier goes up bunk no even up for debate? Or is it optional that premiers of any division goes up? Just that 99% accept the invite to go up?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Is it automatic that the premier goes up bunk no even up for debate? Or is it optional that premiers of any division goes up? Just that 99% accept the invite to go up?

It’s automatic

Though any club can apply to play in a different division, however that is very unusual.