Anonymous ...check your details ... 2 players given a chance at a Div 1 experience which requires 2 players to be moved to create room. Summer season for goodness sake, 3 games in, 'big names' are all in the squad mix and opportunities for all squad members is a sign of good development I reckon ... but hey ... I think the age group you mentioned would be chuffed to hear of your assessment of them as 'big names'!

Ouch someone hit a nerve ........

I think the bylaw applies to the div 3 competition about players staying in the same team for the 5 game segment. I didn't think a player in the Div 3 comp could move between teams during the 5 games. Can someone confirm this.

Div 1 and 2 players are free to move between teams from what I understand and where there are two div 2 teams from the same club they can move between the teams in the first 7 games. Can someone confirm this.

if we had a tough game we may not win and could get a couple of higher graded players in that lower grade to secure the win - I'd be doing it. Also using it as a chance to rotate players up against a weaker opponent in the higher div walkover - it all sounds like good squad management.

Mr 867, that is what I thought, so if a player who played for (let's pick a random team) Forestville 8 in U14 boys group F one week needs to stage with that team for the entire phase. They can't say move to Forestville 7 in U14 boys group F until the end of that phase? Can you move within teams in the same group during a phase, or is it just between groups?

Would that mean both teams have field teams illegally and need to forfeit?

By laws SA
During the Summer Season and where clubs have multiple teams in the same division, a player may play in more than one team in that division only as follows;
i) In competitions which do not use promotion /relegation, a player may not move between teams in the same division after round six (6).
ii) In competitions which do use promotion /relegation, a player may not move between teams in the same division within phase 2 or 3. However a player may move to another team during phase 1, or between the end of one phase and the beginning of the next phase.

2.5. Transfer Between Teams in Different Divisions
a) During the Summer season, a player cannot move from any team in any division into a team that is playing in a competition that uses promotion/relegation, during phase 2 or during phase 3. A phase is considered to have started when the first round 1, 6, or 11 game is played in any division, and is considered to have ended when the last round 5, 10 or 15 game is played in any division.
b) During the Summer season, a player can move from any team in any division into a team that is playing in a competition that uses promotion/relegation, during phase 1 or between phases.
c) This restriction does not affect players who have not yet played any games in any team in the current phase.
d) Other than the restrictions above, players may be promoted any number of divisions from one week to the next.
e) In addition to the restrictions above, players can only be demoted one division within an age grade from one week to the next, i.e., from one division to the next lower division in which the club has a team

Short version of the above: in the first five weeks of summer season, players may move freely between teams, even within the same Division, or if the team is in pro/rel Pools.

Phew! I had a Philadelphian Lawyer looking over it and even he was confused.