Thursday March 28
West Adelaide 16.9 (105)
Central District 13.12 (90)
2,971 @ City Mazda Stadium, Richmond

Norwood 16.11 (107)
Port Adelaide 4.10 (34)
7,560 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood

Friday March 29
Glenelg 17.17 (119)
South Adelaide 14.6 (90)
4,530 @ Hickinbotham Oval, Noarlunga

Saturday March 30
Woodville-West Torrens 18.14 (122)
Sturt 15.6 (96)
3,156 @ Envestra Park, Unley

Crowd total for Round 1 -- 18,217

North had the bye this week... probably a good thing, a case of the sh*ts has gone through the chookhouse. Not kidding.

Big crowd at Noarlunga and Norwood.

Friday April 5
Sturt 18.8 (116)
Port Adelaide 16.14 (110)
3,015 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood

Saturday April 6
West Adelaide 18.14 (122)
Woodville-West Torrens 7.8 (50)
2,483 @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval, Woodville

Norwood 21.21 (147)
Glenelg 9.9 (63)
4,489 @ Gliderol Stadium, Glenelg

North Adelaide 19.10 (124)
Central District 12.11 (83)
3,149 @ Playford Alive Oval, Elizabeth

Crowd total for Round 2 -- 13,136

Friday April 12
West Adelaide 22.12 (144)
South Adelaide 5.8 (38)
2,062 @ Hickinbotham Oval, Noarlunga

Saturday April 13
North Adelaide 17.16 (118)
Sturt 14.8 (92)
3,301 @ Prospect Oval

Port Adelaide 16.10 (106)
Glenelg 15.14 (104)
3,007 @ Alberton Oval

Norwood 9.6 (60)
Central District 7.9 (51)
3,167 @ Playford Alive Oval, Elizabeth

Crowd total for Round 3 -- 11,537

Friday April 19
Woodville-West Torrens 14.6 (90)
Norwood 7.12 (54)
4,663 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood

West Adelaide 8.10 (58)
North Adelaide 7.15 (57)
3,175 @ City Mazda Stadium, Richmond

Saturday April 20
South Adelaide 18.11 (119)
Sturt 13.10 (88)
2,204 @ Envestra Park, Unley

Glenelg 12.12 (84)
Central District 10.14 (74)
3,398 @ Gliderol Stadium, Glenelg

Crowd total for Round 4 -- 13,440

The Norwood bandwagon must be on again if they're pulling nearly 5k against WWT.

Does anybody have the crowd for ANZAC day at the Parade yet..I seem to recall it being annnounced at about 6k...is this correct?

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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl ... 6629568070

Thanking you. I like the tradition the SANFL have. As opposed to the rampant commercialism of the Bombers v Magpies duopoly the AFL have created. I look forward to it returning to Adelaide Oval, adjacent the Anzac Day March completion point ASAP:)

Thursday April 25
Norwood 9.13 (67)
West Adelaide 6.5 (41)
6,038 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood

Friday April 26
North Adelaide 18.9 (117)
South Adelaide 12.7 (79)
1,873 @ Hickinbotham Oval, Noarlunga

Saturday April 27
Woodville-West Torrens 16.8 (104)
Port Adelaide 11.9 (76)
2,710 @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval, Woodville

Glenelg 17.11 (113)
Sturt 12.13 (85)
3,762 @ Gliderol Stadium, Glenelg

Crowd total for Round 5 -- 14,383

The league average is 3535 at this stage. That's pretty good, but there's the usual drop off in the wet and wild months.

Having some of the lesser likes invest in their facilities, for example poor drawing Westies installing lights at Richmond, has helped the averages from the bottom up.

The view from afar though, having cleared my head of the 25 years of Adelaide psyche, is the SANFL is going sideways and suffers from chronic under investment. It's a great league, but could be so much more.

A few questions:

Are Elizabeth night games now off the agenda? Centrals not going to make any further investment to get the lights up to standard?

Sturt home games at the Parade. Hopefully not going to relocate? Yes it's a better ground than Unley, but the home ground tribalism is what footy's all about!

Glenelg - doing many night games at the Bay?

Why are Centrals crap this year? Gowans boys been put away?

Oh and since when have there been night games at Noarlunga? Lights any good?

Gowans boys have finally retired.

Nothing wrong with the lights at Elizabeth, other supporters just bitch about it because its Elizabeth. The light towers have more individual emitters than the models at Glenelg, Richmond and Noarlunga. Glenelg's would have to be the most underpowered, Richmond's are just enough to do the job as are Noarlunga's.

Norwood has been a staple of Friday night footy because of the proximity to the city, so they get a great deal more action. Everyone else usually has their games within the first third of the season. As for Sturt, they're in some serious financial s--t, so night footy more often may be the answer and Norwood is the best bet.

I'm disturbed about the sort of people that would frequent Noarlunga at night.

It's a pity they don't end the season with a bang and schedule night matches in the last few rounds, when the worst of winter has passed. But I guess they're leaving the door open, as the fixture on the SANFL website has matches scheduled at midnight in the last few rounds. Or maybe they're going for night night footy.

Rob: Adelaide rule of thumb - South's no better than North.