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Interesting to read the HDFNL will go to U18s for 2021 "to avoid a potential mass exodus of players" according to Peter Cole.

It's because the top age U17 players were denied their final season of under-age football in the HDFNL.

What about all the U18 players in the the BFNL and LVFNL who missed their final year of under age football?

Maybe those leagues should go to U19s for 2021 for the same reason.

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The article (Bendigo Advertiser 31/8/20) also stated one club expected to lose 18 players, another 16 players, two would lose 15 and one club 10 players.

This has been an ongoing problem for the HDFNL for years.

When the VCFL did their report on this situation last year I did an analysis of their report that gave evidence to this problem.

As coach of North Bendigo U17s last year, I and the North Bendigo club did all we could to get the situation changed but to no avail. Consequently, Maiden Gully YCW Eagles offered me their U18 coaching position which I accepted and the players followed.

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North Bendigo lost 23 players for the 2020 season through no fault of their own.

They were actually a great club that fully supported their U17 team but these boys wanted to play U18s.

Five went to South Bendigo, 1 to Golden Square, 1 to Calivil, 14 went to Maiden Gully and 2 stopped playing.

I agree with Peter Cole, but LVFNL and BFNL now need to go to U19s.

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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are figures from chapter three of the Book of Daniel, three Hebrew men thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (Wikipedia).

But it was first called Sandhurst, so it changed from that.

Anyone read the Council minutes to find out why?

And it would have to be approved by the Legislative Assembly in Melbourne.

I think it's a furphy.

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