Mate - you need your head read!
It doesn’t matter how many old blokes run around in Mosman 7ths….they forfeited a series of colts games - and deserve no mercy. The Club Champs is the ONLY measure…..
A 10 team complete Div One would be a complete joke…. Mosman better get Google maps out and discover the delights of Yettinden and Somerville
With a whole off season to go, I'm going to sell you my proposal for Division 1:
Division 1 (10 clubs - 4 grades and Colts)
Pool A: Blue Mountains, Forest, Hunters Hill, Lindfield, Mosman
Pool B: Colleagues, Drummoyne, Petersham, St Patricks, Waverley
Home and away for your own pool in Rounds 1-8, then cross over and play everyone in the opposite pool in Round 9-13. Round 14 is a shoot out for positions - 1st in Pool A vs 1st in Pool B; 2nd in Pool a vs 2nd in Pool B, etc.
Semi Finals: Teams are ranked based on the last round playoff, winner of 1v1 is ‘minor premiers’.
Week 1 Qualifying Finals: 3 v 6; 4 v 5
Week 2 Semi Finals: 1 vs Winner of 4v5; 2 vs Winner of 3v6
Week 3 Grand Final: Winners of Semi Finals play off
Before you toss my proposal, I'll remind you that a number of Division 2 clubs are on the brink and might be unwilling to compete in the Division if Mosman and Petersham are dropped, or Lindfield stays. It is a tough slog getting players to games, without the threat of these Division 1 clubs, after a down year, taking it out on the rest of them.