Dont be a troll the coaches would say they are Country Champions thats all. Country Champs are about division 1.5 standard. Nothing more nothing less.

This is a joke thread, right?

They would still be very well aware of the difference. Dont detract from their FB entries during moments of excitement.

Well, the "metro" competition is actually open to anyone in the state. So those championships are actually state championships. The country championships are just a silly tournament.

Wow! Now Clarke is almost gone you people start feeding on each other. Entertaining though!

I can remember exactly one really good country team (from a boys teams persepctive) - a Broken Hill U/14 Boys team about 10 years or so ago. Pretty sure they qualified for Nationals. All the other teams have rarely been competitive with the top 5 or so teams, and often got wiped. But having said that, good on them for exposing thier players to a higher level of competition and developing them.
The only chance they would have would be with their cheating amalgamations.

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Anon #409132
I dont think all Sturt or Norwood players live in these suburbs? or any other district club for that matter! District clubs have players from everywhere, so what is the difference? Pt Pirie & Pt Augusta (40 minutes apart)combined a few years ago in the 14 boys Easter tournmaent and took care of all other SA disrict teams quite comfortably. If this team competed in the State champs they would have ended up going to the Nationals that year.
All teams are composite teams.

#215, ummm no they wouldn't. They were a reasoable group and would have been a mid-range div 1 group. Having said that, the fact that you have one specific example kind off defeats your own argument. I know the group you're talking and as is often the case with SAC people, you have an inflated opinion of all things country.

Oh please SA Country are completely irrelevant. Metro teams would smash SA Country teams like guitars. I remember a few years back when this all conquerring Whyalla U-14 Girls team come down to play in the State Championships as the Whyalla mob thought this was a once in generation side & this team could go to Natinal Club Championships if they finished Top 2. Anyway this team was completely embarassed & a reality check was given!

132 - what has where players live got to do with anything? It is where they PLAY. Port Pirie and Port Augusta combining are an amalgamation - not a club - and thus would be cheating if they entered state championships as anything other than their own seperate entities. Do they play that way (combined) in SAC Champs? Of course not. What would be the same would be if Forestville and Sturt COMBINE to put a team in as "they are only 10 minutes apart". Or Woodville, West and Magic as an amalgamated Western suburbs team.
It is cheating, plain and simple.

I think its a laugh, talking about country teams this way, to think that many of the big clubs aren't taking kids from other areas to strengthen their teams.??? You often see a kids playing for one of the weaker clubs/teams one season, If they are noticeably great players in their respective club/team, then all the sudden they may appear at one of the big two teams. Wonder how that happens.. Yes it comes under the cloak of what they like to call development, as I often read on this forum. This happens as you are telling the weaker teams/clubs to stop whinging and fix your club.
Yes its all legal at State Champs time, but is just not called amalgamating. I believe the word may be poaching BUT ONLY FOR DEVELOPMENTS SAKE...LOL
If the shoes fits, you may be wearing it

So under your premise anon, SA country could put in a State team under the Eastern Hill association?

If you are looking for something similar, it would be Southern and South combinng for the State Champs.

The idea is that were you affiliate you play.

SA Country could put a state team in State Champs in most grades and still not win. There are kids in most of the SAC teams who are barely Div 1 players in the district comp.

And 274 there are some Country Kids that may be better than some of their BSA District Kids, your point being ??...
I am going to assume there are some great players all over the state. City and Country. Thats got to be great for South Australia.. Just some of you dont get far past the toll Gate, further up North or South from you Metro areas to have any idea what may be there.
I believe I heard in Ballerat this year that a certain 15s Country team blitzed most of the competition. Yes one team, but small country population, training would have been hard for them being all over the state, but their wins Including Metro SA, by quite a margin, WA Metro, a couple country Vic teams and a VIC Metro team. Losing the GF by 2 points to a Vic Metro team that beat the our other SA Metro team by 43.
My point being there Must be some great country players out there somewhere then, going by those results
Especially as you are now saying they could put a state team in, and still not win. ? Yes the district teams are of course very, very good, but don't dismiss so easily what some country players may have to offer.

Agreed, there are some great country players out there, but not enough to make any country teams competitive in Div 1 at State Champs.

That is my point, which was the original topic of this thread.