Southern Football League

[wenchbarwer]

SFL down to 8 teams if 2 teams dont turn it around fast

Which two? Heard some very good recruits heading to ironbank and numbers are very solid.

Morphies and Noarlunga?

I'm guessing he meant Ironbank as they'd lost a few and are lacking junior teams

Who have they picked up?

Luke Watson and Matthew Beinke.

Couple of ex-Aldinga blokes

[Happytowatchlocal]

Hard to see Ironbank and Noarlunga continuing if things dont turn around. no juniors can be a death sentence, SFL will probably take a few years to act which might save them

[wenchbarwer]

Hard to see Ironbank and Noarlunga continuing if things dont turn around. no juniors can be a death sentence, SFL will probably take a few years to act which might save them

Under the old SFL regime, I'd say both would be safe, given they've already cut Noarlunga slack for years. The new president is one of Warman's mates so it may continue to go down this path. But, if they can't field senior sides, that's a different story altogether.

[Divers]

When will they announce shoes arent filling sides

[Oldman Munga]

When will they announce shoes arent filling sides

Oldest of all member clubs
129 yrs , most Premierships amongst present clubs
We won’t roll over ,didn’t in 2014 and won’t now
Just Might have to eat more shit than sugar this season

[wenchbarwer]

When will they announce shoes arent filling sides

Oldest of all member clubs 129 yrs
We won’t roll over
Just Might have to eat more shit than sugar this season

Don't reckon there'll be any sugar this year, unfortunately, it'll be a lot like the Emus last year.

New committee gets a run at it, chance to set the club up to be successful without trying to buy flags

[SFLanalyst]

UPDATED

Signings (confirmed and unconfirmed) and outgoing players. Info from around the traps...take with a grain of salt.

Reynella
IN: Delahunty (Westies), Arnold, Schirmer (returning), Sowter, Kirkland (returning), Renshaw (17s), Woods (Noarlunga)
OUT:

Flagstaff Hill
IN: Cavouras, Smith (returning), McCormick x2, Etto, Bunworth and Johnson fulltime, Mountford, Walton.
OUT: Shearer (retired), Milson (knee)

Port Noarlunga
IN: Murphy (Crows), Kappler (Victor - rumoured), Carman (South 18s), Ortman (u17s)
OUT: Goss (South full time?), Van Den Burg (overseas), Smith, Walters (Valleys) Johns, Petrohilos (Gaza), K Smith (Pt Districts), Mckay (retired - unconfirmed), Paredes (unconfirmed), Coulthard (Moonta)

Noarlunga
IN: Westhalpen, Broadstock, Lawley
OUT: Anderson (Padthaway), J Snelling (Myponga), Gaspari (Padthaway), Nick Robertson (MV), V Robertson (Goolwa), Williams (Callington), Day (Callington), Mott (Willunga), C Snelling (Myponga), S Miller (Myponga), R Hocking (Myponga), B Goldfinch (Willunga), N Gaskin (MV), Killian (Hills), Inglis (Hills)

Cove
IN: Holder (Glenelg), Wigzell (South 18s), Simpson (South 18s), Evans (17s), Taj Shreev (Hackham), Ethan Willcocks (returning)
OUT: Hall (Pt Districts), Morris (SMOSH), Klomp (Mt Barker), Kendall (Mt Barker)

Morphett Vale
IN: Gilby (returning), Smith, Robertson, Carter (returning), Tolosa (Mt Compass), Gaskin (Noarlunga), Schindler-Taylor (full time), Lang (u17s),
OUT: Trus (Mt Barker)

Ironbank
IN: Watson (Meadows), Beinke (Meadows), Zac Town, Clay Town, Tanner Wood
OUT: Goudman-Glasson (rumoured), Campbell (Angaston), Wooley (rumoured), Bryars (Callington), Lidstone (Pulteney), Marsh (Callington), Cleary (Callington)

Happy Valley
IN: Walters (Porties), Johns (Porties), Goudman-Glasson (rumoured), Everanidis, Sterzl
OUT: Brown (Port Lincoln), Strickland (knee)

Christies
IN: Kai Iwao (Goolwa), Ken Angus (Goolwa), Hooper (Aldinga), Daniel Lee (rumoured)
OUT: Bennett (South full time?), Matthews (O'Sullies), Stock (Solomontown), McIvor, (unconfirmed), Mundy (unconfirmed)

Aldinga
IN: Szalai (Porties), Chay (Yank)
Out: Florence (Encounter Bay), Hooper (Christies)

[Happytowatchlocal]

Ironbanks facebook has a few ins. Nick Marshall returning, Zac Towns and Clay Towns.

[SFLanalyst]

Shane Comer announced as the new Noarlunga coach.

[Show Time]

Shane Comer announced as the new Noarlunga coach.

Just needs players to coach now....

[wenchbarwer]

Grim reading on the socials for the Shoes:

SENIOR PLAYERS & U17's WANTED
We are getting close to fielding both senior sides for 2026.
To make this possible, we need committed players ready to pull on the jumper and represent our club. Without you, we will unfortunately have to forfeit one of our senior sides for the 2026 season.
If that happens, we will continue to rebuild and come back stronger.

Even when they had no intention of fielding an U17 team a couple of years ago, they still kept up the charade until the start of the season.

Talking about forfeiting a senior side at this stage is pretty dire indeed

[Look Good In Leather]

Grim reading on the socials for the Shoes:

SENIOR PLAYERS & U17's WANTED
We are getting close to fielding both senior sides for 2026.
To make this possible, we need committed players ready to pull on the jumper and represent our club. Without you, we will unfortunately have to forfeit one of our senior sides for the 2026 season.
If that happens, we will continue to rebuild and come back stronger.

Even when they had no intention of fielding an U17 team a couple of years ago, they still kept up the charade until the start of the season.

Talking about forfeiting a senior side at this stage is pretty dire indeed

Well hopefully they have learned from poor decisions in the past (pulling the U/17s) and they are only suggesting forfeiting and not withdrawing. Forfeit games if needed to buy time to pull some more players in (or double up to avoid a forfeit like other clubs have in the past), but if they take the soft option and pull the pin on their B's, I doubt there is a 2027 and beyond for them.

[Courtney Fish]

Well hopefully they have learned from poor decisions in the past (pulling the U/17s) and they are only suggesting forfeiting and not withdrawing. Forfeit games if needed to buy time to pull some more players in (or double up to avoid a forfeit like other clubs have in the past), but if they take the soft option and pull the pin on their B's, I doubt there is a 2027 and beyond for them.

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I've heard they want to pull the pin on their A's this year, if numbers don't improve, play B's only. Can't see them doing that though.

[UpThere]

The league shouldn't allow that. C grade side on a sunday only maybe, but if its a saturday comp have to be an A grade side regardless of the talent in the team. They have to eat their humble pie over that one surely.

[Look Good In Leather]

Well hopefully they have learned from poor decisions in the past (pulling the U/17s) and they are only suggesting forfeiting and not withdrawing. Forfeit games if needed to buy time to pull some more players in (or double up to avoid a forfeit like other clubs have in the past), but if they take the soft option and pull the pin on their B's, I doubt there is a 2027 and beyond for them.

I've heard they want to pull the pin on their A's this year, if numbers don't improve, play B's only. Can't see them doing that though.

That would be even worse

[wenchbarwer]

The league shouldn't allow that. C grade side on a sunday only maybe, but if its a saturday comp have to be an A grade side regardless of the talent in the team. They have to eat their humble pie over that one surely.

Agree with this, 100%. Don't make a mockery of the Saturday competition

[Happytowatchlocal]

Anyone heard the non merge merge of Iron Bank and Shoes? Iron Bank As, Shoes Bs and down the line with that.

Wineflies also lost some talent in the Voights.

[wenchbarwer]

Anyone heard the non merge merge of Iron Bank and Shoes? Iron Bank As, Shoes Bs and down the line with that.

Wineflies also lost some talent in the Voights.

Ironbank have announced quite a few players, after losing a heap to Bridgewater. Logistically that would be a bit of a nightmare, too

Winies ins this year make up for those outs 10-fold, they would have been depth players at best

[Dutchy]

The league is a mess, leadership failure at SFL HQ which is no surprise, in the last decade there have been 16 clubs play in this league with little to no consistency with how they have gone about keeping or letting clubs go.

Letting a strong club like Brighton leave started the rot.

[Down the Hill]

In fairness to the SFL, they didn’t let Brighton go. We had been considering the move back to the SAAFL for a few years but the junior structure of the SFL compared to the alternatives was just as much reason for staying and probably outweighed what was best for our senior program. SANFL Juniors was the game changer. We fielded teams in the first year (2016) whilst maintaining a full set of SFL Saturday junior teams. Then a Div 3 spot in the SAAFL was available to us in 2017 so the time was right. I think the biggest issue with the SFL is that the admin and some of the clubs are still trying to run the comp as a country league when for a number of years it’s been essentially a metro league.