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Years ago

Melbourne Tigers SEABL (Women)

Hearing around the traps that the women will joining the men for the 2017 season as that was part of the original agreement?

This is the same team that is unable to compete right now in state champ isn`t it?

Interesting move.

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spot up  
Years ago

The Men's team were in the same position when they made the move, and they've done fine. Oh..wait a second...

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PJ  
Years ago

I think the men's team HAVE done fine. They've only got three wins but they've been competitive in most of their games which is a good result for their first season in the comp.

Their biggest issue is going to be finding the money to put together a competitive women's program without taking money away from the men. The men's team needs more talent if they want to compete for championships but having to fund a women's program too is going to make this really difficult.

The other SEABL Club's voted them in on the basis that they would have a women's team in 2017. Not sure the other club's would let them back out of that promise even if they wanted to.

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Hmmm  
Years ago

PJ, As far as i am aware that is part of the process of entry to SEABL..Having both Senior Women and Men.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

If the women's bigv team is funded the same as the men via junior teams contributions ( and that's just guessing ) then the move to seabl should not be a problem financially , though if they are already struggling in big v SCW then will struggle even more in SEABL

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Hmmm  
Years ago

The majority of the team competeting for the State Champ team are the youth players.Would assume the better ones there would be heading off to college. Without spending up to get players from elsewhere how are they going to compete. Plus pay for the extra costs of travel etc.

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