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Fair first half from Jared Petrenko - 15 disposals, 5 clearances, 5 tackles, 4 inside 50s and a goal.

Fair enough, there's expense to them, and they "rent" it from the council. It's still officially a public park that they happen to play state league football on, rather than a proper home ground like other clubs have. I'd say any maintenance costs would fall to the City of Unley too, rather than...

How much of that has to do with Sturt not having/owning a true home ground? Are maintenance and operating costs for each club's ground costing them a lot of money? For those that aren't quite aware, Peter Motley Oval is basically a public park in Unley that they just happen to play organised...

Also gives them a much smaller pool of players to choose from. Take away the Tea Tree Gully/Modbury area and their portion of the Hills, and Norwood's metro recruiting zone would be miniscule and almost non-existent. Taking the Hills away from Sturt would seriously damage them too, and puts a...

I don't think so, but introducing two new sides in the areas I mentioned would severely cut into Norwood and Sturt's recruiting zones. Whether that's ultimately a good or bad thing for local footy, I don't know.

Well, I've already advocated for a composite Hills side in this thread, and think that the Modbury/Tea Tree Gully area could also be represented in a side at SANFL level too (even though putting both in place would significantly damage recruiting zones/sources for the club I support). I don't...

I never said anything about doing away with clubs, just the Reserves grade. With the number of SAAFL clubs, and the money they offer in comparison to what an SANFL Reserves player would get, the latter is somewhat redundant these days. I don't see simply doing away with it, and using the SAAFL...

Good idea IMO. Would strengthen the SAAFL, and would also cut costs for SANFL clubs (or at least allow them to offer more money to true senior talent, instead of seeing them leave for more money in SAAFL or country footy) and create a better pathway into senior footy for talented juniors, and...

Mount Barker aren't even especially dominant in Div 1 of the HFL though - Just one premiership in the past decade, and six overall since the league began in 1967. Uraidla Districts (five premierships in the past decade, including four of the past six) and Echunga appear to have been the stronger...

Mount Barker (32.7km from Victoria Square) isn't really that much farther to travel than Elizabeth Oval (27.4km) or Hickinbotham Oval (30.8km) is for most supporters. It's probably more of a direct drive, too, due to most of it being freeway driving. Granted, the weather up there is terrible in...

They're pretty much representing the same area... I'm more about those areas (north-eastern suburbs and the hills) being represented in some form at state league level, than especially worried about which club should get "promoted" from the SAAFL or HFL.

Definitely think given population growth over the past 10-20 years, the Modbury and Mount Barker teams are a must if expansion happens.

So what's your issue then?

Who's claiming that he was a Norwood junior?

Just the one player selected in this AFL draft period - Anthony Wilson at Pick #44 in the Rookie Draft to Adelaide. Was surprised not to see Baulderstone and Panos not get a shot in the Rookie Draft. Thought they'd be more useful that some of the guys that got selected or re-drafted. One...

Regardless of size, Unley Oval is a shocking surface. I know it's technically a public park that they just happen to play league football on, but still, there's hardly any actual grass, and it's a rolled ankle or twisted knee waiting to happen because of all the divets, unevenness and softness...

Still looks great for her age now too - https://au.tv.yahoo.com/the-morning-show/video/watch/24386985/flashback-friday-jackie-love/

Can't say I've really had that consistent confusion TBH. I'd rather they let it go than have such overkill and over-umpiring too.

Would you really prefer 80-100 frees a game given out (and looking at some of the game stats on AFL Tables, this was quite common back in that era) though? Would be stop-start all over the place.

Weren't there (at least in the VFL, anyway) more free kicks than ever given in the late '70s/early '80s?

I think you're remembering wrong :p

Wasn't he always more of a natural forward though? He wasn't exactly failing as a forward at SANFL level either (consistently averaged 2-3 goals per game as I recall), to justify trying him in a different role. Seem to remember a fair few Power fans wondering at the time why he wasn't in the AFL...

There is a slight basis for some whinging TBH, but I personally wouldn't engage in it. Ex-AFL listed players in Norwood's side yesterday: - Kieran McGuinness (Captain, Eastern Ranges, ex-Western Bulldogs) - Callum Bartlett (Geelong Falcons, ex-Brisbane) - Michael Newton (Murray Bushrangers...

BTW, biggest SANFL GF crowd since the last Norwood-Port decider in 1999 drew 39,135.

"The Valley"?

Was a better set-up when it was on ABC, because along with the WAFL, VFL and NTFL, they'd always have the SANFL Match of the Round (and all finals) available on ABC iView for up to a month after they'd originally aired.

Lol. "He had to be stopped."

Nobody said the SANFL had to agree...

To be fair, why shouldn't Norwood be looking out for their own best interests first?

I also lived at Mount Barker for a number of years, and with the number of players the Hills area produces (many of which filter down to Sturt through zoning), the number of quality players in the HFL, the continually growing population of Mount Barker and surrounding areas, and the real...