End of season looking like

Contenders:
Forestville
North
West

4/5 Gambier/Norwood
6th only just Southern

Daylight

The rest



Top 3 have a great mix of imports + veterans for the club. Both West Imports look super reliable. And they have a bunch of club juniors filling roles for the club. Forestville have come out hot and have stars in every role. Forstville junior Harris taking another massive step. Forestville junior De Wit fitting in superbly as a distributor and defender at PG.
North too will be right around the mark come seasons end. Will be extra dangerous if they get Harding/Marshall back from College. Hard to see these 3 teams not being the top 3.

But Gambier might pop them off. Have not seen a single minute of them but the pedigree is there. And a tough home venue for opposing teams. Norwood to make finals IMO after a nice start but not sure they have championship winning balance. Likewise, depth looks to be a bit of an issue if an injury occurs to one of their core 6.
Southern re-tooled with another set of ex forestville/sturt juniors (how many southern juniors do they have now?) but will just miss out. Johns looking grumpy to start the new season. Has the rent at the hackham mansion not been payed on time? Can "Coach of the year" Nyberg pull out a 4th straight finals appearance at Southern despite not having the clear best roster this year??

I reckon Sturt can turn it around and get some wins here. South looked pretty garbage besides their import big. Woodville should be doing better. Don't know much about Centrals besides what I saw v F'ville. Can they defend and be strong inside? Definitely looks like they can run and attack the paint and might pick up a few surprise wins as the season goes on but lack of experience will hurt them. Eastern turning it around? Lol. Imports look decent but no structure, no culture.

Will take a little bit of time for those Rockets to find chemistry, am sure they will be just fine. BJ is fitting in team wise, Starling and McVeigh will destroy teams together and Dowdell compliments those guys. Dont stress about North, they will be there at the pointy end.
Totally agree with Woodville, poor import recruiting again and only one person is at fault there.
Eagles are just plain scary right now and should be number 1 in the power rankings. Getting Teys clarification changed allowing Mays in has put them levels above most other teams.
Norwood are and will be tough but rely on very few and they will have top be up and about all season.
West look good and balanced but yet to meet a contender. Imports look exciting, core still solid.
Gambier will be right amongst it but still not sure how they will go against the top 2/3. They will win alot of home games i suspect.Sam Daly joining Tom beef them up alot.
Southern lack shooters outside Drmic and size, will see how Deano coaches without the best rostor in the competition. May miss out this year.
Eastern will pinch a few, particularly from the bottom five. No wooden spoon going there this year.
Centrals new import arriving will help but how an import can be brought in this late reflects the culture of the club really, season started almost a month ago guys.
South and Sturt, not much to say but young and average teams that will be fighting to stay out of last at this point.

The league looks really healthy three rounds in, with some real talent showing through in games. Just on the topic of the Pioneers charging $18 for admission, whilst I don't agree with this inflated price I understand the cost. When you go to a Pioneers game you get the whole package and it’s a great night’s entertainment. The music, promotions etc are first class and extremely professional, it’s a show and worth the price of admission.
PL clubs need to watch closely and bring their game nights up to speed with what works and can pull crowds in. I would like to see how clubs are ranked on their game night presentation, announcer, music, promotions and crowd interaction.

$18 admission to Icehouse worth every cent.

Presentation, atmosphere and game experience.

Get a movie ticket for the same price if that's more your thing..or watch the free livestream.

or just continue whining...and STAY away.

Looking forward to Mt Gambier climbing through the power rankings over the next couple of weeks. Richard Hills ability to get the best out of his team is being extremely underrated. They won't lose too many more games this season.

Thoughts on this weekend's matchups?

Congrats to Tom Daly and Jaz Fejo on round 3 POTR honors. Ironically enough both scored 40 points, same as Harris in round 2 yet no hate towards the decision. Perhaps no one else had those highly important double doubles that round. Good to see scoring a lot of points is still an important criteria for POTR. Great to have players in this league that can put up those numbers.

This round:

Southern > Centrals
Sturt < Eastern
South < Woodville
North < Forestville
Norwood < West