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David 
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I was just thinking about this yesterday while watching the game on iview presuming we don't have a VFL reserves side, where do our VFL-list players play if they don't get selected in the main squad? Do they just get the weekend off?
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Pies4shaw 
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| No - to make sure they get game time, we play them in the seniors. |
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jackcass 
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| Players who don't get a VFL gig are released back to their club in the minor leagues. |
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David
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I see so, every VFL-list player is really just moonlighting from another club?
Must make team selection a little confusing for the minor leagues...
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jackcass
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| Maybe we should be looking at our own reserves tem |
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Fire Up 
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all our afl listed players play each each week.
the other players with numbers 51+ are all vfl listed players who can be dropped and playing at their local club. same with some other players who are listed as vfl players but are not playing in the pies vfl team are at their local team trying to get into the vfl team |
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Dave The Man 
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Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Play with there Local Club
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David
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^ Thanks guys. As I said, I just wonder how selection works in the local leagues (presuming this system is followed by the other VFL teams). The VFL line-up is dependent on the AFL line-up, which can be changed at the last minute, so you must have plenty of situations in which the local teams lose their star players on the morning of the match or later. Must be kind of annoying!
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MagpieBat
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| David wrote: | | ^ Thanks guys. As I said, I just wonder how selection works in the local leagues (presuming this system is followed by the other VFL teams). The VFL line-up is dependent on the AFL line-up, which can be changed at the last minute, so you must have plenty of situations in which the local teams lose their star players on the morning of the match or later. Must be kind of annoying! |
David, there was an article on Tom Sundberg in 2011 in the VFL Record that brushed on this. I had the record around here somewhere, but I've gone and misplaced it.
Anyway, Tom explained in that article that he always packs two bags on a Thursday night. One bag contains his Collingwood VFL kit, the other bag his local team kit. He gets selected by both his local team and our VFL team when selections are announced in both competitions on a Thursday evening, then he waits to get confirmation of who he'll be playing for right up until 90 minutes before a game, then jumps in the car and dashes off to wherever he is playing. In 2011, it was almost always with the VFL team.
I hope that helps shed some light on the matter...
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David
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Thanks MB, very interesting. 
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | No - to make sure they get game time, we play them in the seniors. |
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