No funds, no flags --- Tigers talk dollars and sense (Age)

[Infamy]

I can't see us fielding our own reserves until the 2013 season at the earliest

Coburg Coach has been appointed for two years.

So 2013 at the earliest sound right.

 

That does seem a bit too coincidental
I think just logistically we won't be able to get things in place for the 2012 season. Resurfacing of Punt Road Oval, getting the license and everything else required in setting up a new team.

[Stripes]

I can't see us fielding our own reserves until the 2013 season at the earliest

Coburg Coach has been appointed for two years.

So 2013 at the earliest sound right.

 

That does seem a bit too coincidental
I think just logistically we won't be able to get things in place for the 2012 season. Resurfacing of Punt Road Oval, getting the license and everything else required in setting up a new team.

Makes a lot of sense  Just hope we get a move on with such developmental tools in case we are again left playing catch up.

[JVT]

Coburg won't go under the day we open our own reserves team will they? It will take a year of them in the comp first surely? Or can we not play in the VFL against the Coburg Tigers?  ???

[1965]

Think merger

 

[gerkin greg]

I fail to see what the length of Adam Potter's contract has to do with an RFC Reserves side.

The PRO resurfacing will be complete before R1, 2012. It will only be out of commission for the pre-season.

Top-up players would be recruited at the same time as other VFL clubs, Oct-Dec.

Coaching staff 

The only real issues I see for a 2012 start are cash and a license. Two pretty big issues for sure.

But the club should be aiming for 2012. Another year of our players running around in the Burger 2's is another year of development lost.

[Infamy]

I fail to see what the length of Adam Potter's contract has to do with an RFC Reserves side.

The PRO resurfacing will be complete before R1, 2012. It will only be out of commission for the pre-season.

Top-up players would be recruited at the same time as other VFL clubs, Oct-Dec.

Coaching staff 

The only real issues I see for a 2012 start are cash and a license. Two pretty big issues for sure.

But the club should be aiming for 2012. Another year of our players running around in the Burger 2's is another year of development lost.

I seriously doubt that the resurfacing will be done by Round 1 2012

[Penelope]

if they start in the first week of september it should be well done by then, it will just be a matter if the new grass has taken or not, all depending on weather or course.

[WilliamPowell]

I fail to see what the length of Adam Potter's contract has to do with an RFC Reserves side.

Beat me to it gerk 

The PRO resurfacing will be complete before R1, 2012. It will only be out of commission for the pre-season.

Top-up players would be recruited at the same time as other VFL clubs, Oct-Dec.

Coaching staff 

The only real issues I see for a 2012 start are cash and a license. Two pretty big issues for sure.

But the club should be aiming for 2012. Another year of our players running around in the Burger 2's is another year of development lost.

The re-surfacng may be complete but the ground would need sign off from the league

Agree about the singing of top-up players but as you mention the biggy is making sure we have the cash. We need that before we are in a position to sign anyone

I don't see coaches as being an issue but we would certainly need extra trainers, physios, volunteers for stats etc.

As I said before, if we are going to do this we need to do it properly = No SHORT CUTS

IMHO take an extra year may just be the right way to go to ensure we get it right 

[1965]

I fail to see what the length of Adam Potter's contract has to do with an RFC Reserves side.

Beat me to it gerk 

Depends who the contract is with.

 

[WilliamPowell]

Depends who the contract is with.

Correct it does and considering that Adam Potter is contracted by the Coburg Football Club his contract has zippo to do with whether the RFC fields its own VFL side

[1965]

Depends who the contract is with.

Correct it does and considering that Adam Potter is contracted by the Coburg Football Club his contract has zippo to do with whether the RFC fields its own VFL side

You sure about that?

 

[gerkin greg]

I seriously doubt that the resurfacing will be done by Round 1 2012

That's your prob mate, you're always so serious  
It's been mentioned previously by club officials that resurfacing would only take a pre-season and we'd have to train elsewhere until the start of the season so the new grass could establish itself. Weather is the only thing that could possibly hold it up - that and RFC sitting on it's hands.

EDIT: What Al said 

[gerkin greg]

You sure about that?

 

C'mon bum whisperer, out with it man!

[WilliamPowell]

Depends who the contract is with.

Correct it does and considering that Adam Potter is contracted by the Coburg Football Club his contract has zippo to do with whether the RFC fields its own VFL side

You sure about that?

 

Yep  absolutely