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Mounties/cabra joining group 6
Topic Started: Mar 3 2010, 03:48 PM (2,101 Views)
Highlander
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Heard this on another website anyone heard this rumour?

Couldnt see this to be honest.

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This one is hard to believe but it is true, I don't like there chances but they don't have a comp to play in at the moment and they have been told to play each other, Wenty, Mounties and Cabra, wouldn't that spice up the competition! I think it would be good and you could play a 2nd grade, it was like that 30 years ago.
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THE junior club that produced the great Brad Fittler is on the verge of pulling its A-grade team for the first time in 86 years thanks to a dispute with the Parramatta JRL.

Officials from Mounties (formerly Mt Pritchard) yesterday told us they will not be able to enter an open-age side this season because of a new points system designed to level-out the competition. Weaker clubs in the Parramatta district have complained that powerhouse outfits such as Mounties, Cabramatta and Wentworthville - all three of which field teams in the statewide Bundaberg Cup - have an advantage because they can afford to pay players. Over the summer, the Parramatta JRL agreed to introduce a points system designed to cap the number of Bundaberg Cup players that Mounties, Cabramatta and Wentworthville could register for A-Grade. But Mounties now claim there aren’t enough players to make up two separate teams that comply with the cap. “We’ve played in the Parramatta A-Grade since 1924, but at this stage we won’t be able to field a team under these rules,” Mounties manager Michael Pugsley said. “Suffice to say we’re very disappointed. We’ve produced the likes of Brad Fittler, Eric Grothe Snr and Jnr, Steve Ella, Geoff Gerard and Bob O’Reilly. “You would think rugby league should be looking for a way to encourage more teams to play the game not push them away.” Wentworthville and Cabramatta are also understood to be aggrieved, but are keeping their powder dry until closer to the start of the A-Grade competition on April 17. Pugsley said Mounties had appealed to the Parramatta DRL board, which seats club juniors Gerard and Grothe Snr. “They were sympathetic to our plight, but the meeting was two weeks ago and we still haven’t heard anything back,” he said. Grothe said he was unable to comment on the issue, given it was an item of business raised at a board meeting. In the meantime, Mounties have taken the extraordinary step of searching for alternate districts. But the hunt has been fruitless. “We’ve gone to Manly and Penrith, but they can’t take us,” Pugsley said. “We’ve got an application before the combined St George, Canterbury and Balmain competitions, but at this stage it doesn’t look all that promising.”
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well considering our comp has started i couldnt see them coming in now.

Besides its not as if the comp is short on teams.
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Why not let them in? It only strengthens the combined comp. The whole idea of the combined comp is to strengthen rugby league in the senior grades, which it seems to be doing. I've never seen so many senior sides from wests junior clubs. Let them in, re-jig the draw, they start on zero points. Everyones playing footy.
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Let them take Mintos place, don't we have 2 byes at the moment, problem solved! The sad thing is, we all new this months ago, but know the administrators of the game have let it down by not helping not only this club but others in the game, to promote, encourage and foster the game of Rugby League. It seems that alot of power tripping happenes and it see sad descission like this being made
Edited by Blue Devil, Apr 2 2010, 09:40 PM.
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Apparently Mounties were knocked back
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Were do you draw the line? Do you let everyone in? At the end of the day i live in bowral its abit much to travel to Parramatta just for a local a grade game of footy it takes up a whole day. For Ctown and northern group clubs its proberly a different story.

Maybe if we had northern and southern divisions like the old days?

Also us smaller country clubs are not going to able to compete with big clubs like mounties and wenty.

Maybe wests should merged in with Parra and penrth and had a true Western Sydney super comp.
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Apologies to you Highlander. I wasn't thinking of the hurdles it would create for Group clubs.
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Highlander I would much rather drive to Bowral than parra from ctown.

If snr footy has had such a new lease of life with so many ctown teams forming and interest from other areas to join the combined comp would it not be better to have both wests & Group 6 look after there own jnr comps and have nswrl or crl admin the comp ?

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Group 6 Snrs and Jnrs are run by two totally different committees.

All i can say is if Parra sides were let in expect some backlash from clubs.
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And they are pulling out of parra comp because of a new points system to level out the competition ?? Well there is a points system in place in this comp so what would be the difference??
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Group 6 Snrs and Jnrs are run by two totally different committees.

All i can say is if Parra sides were let in expect some backlash from clubs.
wasnt aware of 2 different commitees in Group 6

Im just saying when your on a good thing everyone wants in

I really think we have a great comp now and this could be the for front of something massive with other comps wanting to join.

The 1st grade in parra as been on the down hill for the last couple of year so having the 4 teams who played there 1st grade comp last year would strenghten our comp just a personal view.
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Boundries need to be looked at, we are going to lose clubs that cannot compete due to changes, group 6 may run under a seniors and juniors but west doesn't, the sad thing is Mounties and Wenty are left without a comp, it's a matter of time before someone has to step in for the better of League. Group 6 clubs are already finding it difficult with City and East's strenght so adding Mounties will make it harder, what's the answer, look at boundries from Sydney Metro to country! Bulldogs, St George and Balmain have combined a competition and others need to do the same.
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I agree that the Parra clubs would strengthen the Combined comp even further. The more the better for mine but not at the expense of combined clubs. This comp is new and shows loads of potential. I don't believe travel is a hughe issue. One or two trips a year won't kill anyone, It's more a matter of 'does the glove fit'. Maybe it does't fit at the moment, but it's certainly something to look at in a season or two. Let the comp develope rather than crash. Just my opinion.
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Sorry fellas Wests have only got a senior league because they merged with group 6 otherwise they would have nothing or albiet a very condensed local league as it was 3 years ago. To have southern group 6 sides travel to parramatta, penrith districts is not what the merged comp was designed for. fellas, if its going to ever go that way, a big push will come from many group 6 sides to play in the Illawarra league , which still encapulates the bush spirit and within a easy drive for those, that have to play the game!!! :nono:
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This expansion idea with Mounties and Cabra just seems like too much too soon.
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I couldnt imagine many group 6 clubs being very receptive to these sides coming in to the comp considering how much opposition there was last year when the campbelltown sides were introduced. Keeping in mind however that group 6 still comes under the banner of Country Rugby League I wouldnt blame clubs for being annoyed that these teams would even be considered to be introduced to the current competition. We need to keep in mind the demographic of the teams involved throughout the competition in relation to numbers of players and quality they have to choose from and from what region they can draw players. I think at this stage there is a good balance any adding further clubs from closer to Sydney may spell the end of the combined competition. Lets leave it as it is for a couple of seasons iron out a few more small problems and hopefully enjoy the good football for years to come.
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Maybe a new tier of football needs to be added to Rugby League.

An elite south West Sydney competition.
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That might be a good idea to give players a level in between Bundy cup and group level, this may also give juniors a comp to aspire to play in and help against the isurgence of AFL in Western sydney.
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