SANFL 2014

[U REDS]

Thursday April 3
Norwood 11.10 (76)
Port Adelaide 8.9 (57)
6,324 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood

Friday April 4
Sturt 12.12 (84)
Glenelg 6.5 (41)
4,344 @ Gliderol Stadium, Glenelg

Saturday April 5
Woodville-West Torrens 12.11 (83)
Central District 8.4 (52)
2,327 @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval, Woodville

South Adelaide 14.16 (100)
West Adelaide 8.3 (51)
1,790 @ Hickinbotham Oval, Noarlunga

Sunday April 6
North Adelaide 20.13 (133)
Adelaide 12.14 (86)
4,015 @ Prospect Oval

Crowd total for Round 1 -- 18,800

[yob]

When Norwood plays Adelaide will the supporters' heads spin round and round until they explode?

[yob]

Former Paaa/Cow Brad Symes getting decked while playing for Central:

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/brad-s ... 6877430632

Bit of a cold chill watching this about a day after I watched the PBS Frontline doco on the NFL concussion scandal.

[U REDS]

A calculated act. Seven week suspension for the culprit just announced.

[yob]

It's the same penalty you get in the NRL for breaking a guy's neck rendering him a quadriplegic, and pleading not guilty.

[U REDS]

Friday April 11
Woodville-West Torrens 10.12 (72)
West Adelaide 9.8 (62)
1,945 @ City Mazda Stadium, Richmond

Saturday April 12
Central District 13.8 (86)
Norwood 6.8 (44)
1,959 @ Playford Alive Oval, Elizabeth

South Adelaide 18.8 (116)
North Adelaide 12.10 (82)
2,145 @ Prospect Oval

Sturt 13.19 (97)
Adelaide 9.6 (60)
3,505 @ Envestra Park, Unley

Sunday April 13
Port Adelaide 29.15 (189)
Glenelg 5.7 (37)
2,738 @ Alberton Oval

Crowd total for Round 2 -- 12,292

[yob]

How many fruit tingles fans are attending games?

[U REDS]

I'm sure they'll go up a little now that they've won a game.

[U REDS]

Thursday April 17
North Adelaide 9.16 (70)
West Adelaide 7.13 (55)
2,251 @ City Mazda Stadium, Richmond

Sturt 10.14 (74)
Norwood 7.14 (56)
4,856 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood

Friday April 18
South Adelaide 17.14 (116)
Glenelg 10.11 (71)
3,984 @ Hickinbotham Oval, Noarlunga

Saturday April 19
Adelaide 16.16 (112)
Central District 9.7 (61)
3,337 @ Playford Alive Oval, Elizabeth

Sunday April 20
Port Adelaide 15.19 (109)
Woodville-West Torrens 8.3 (51)
4,247 @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval, Woodville

Crowd total for Round 3 -- 18,675

[yob]

It's pretty cool when you have a round where all the games get a decent crowd.

Having a look at how the league is structured now. Season still 90 games, with all clubs playing each other home and away twice, except for the bumble bees who play all games away. Looks pretty good. Hopefully the bees can get 3-4k each week and give the whole league average a boost.

[dibo]

What on earth happened to Port? They've been sh*t for years, and now they're kicking arse.

The missus' dad will be well chuffed.

Related: would quite like to catch a game at Alberton one day.

[U REDS]

What happened? The Power happened. The Magpies and the Power are practically one, last weekend they had 16 Power listed players playing against W-WT. And of course, the Alberton crowd are loving the newfound might the Magpies have so it's like the old saying goes... the ends justify the means.

Although it must be said that the long standing Magpies supporter group have left the club in the belief that their team is indeed gone, totally taken over by "big brother" in the Power.

[yob]

What on earth happened to Port? They've been sh*t for years, and now they're kicking arse.

The missus' dad will be well chuffed.

Related: would quite like to catch a game at Alberton one day.

Previous years the AFL listed players were spread over all sanfl clubs via a mini draft. Now it's just Paa players to the magpies and Cows players to the new Cows reserve team. To even things up a bit the clubs can only top up with under 23s.

[dibo]

Well that's just silly. Why would they bugger up the local comp like that?

[yob]

Well that's just silly. Why would they bugger up the local comp like that?

There was a perceived disadvantage compared to other AFL clubs that they could keep all their magoos together in the one team, and had control over what positions they were played in. That said it was nowhere near as bad as in the early 90s when SANFL coaches like Neil Craig hated the Cows so much that he used to drop the Cows players to the North Adelaide magoos.

There is some upside to the situation, notably with the inclusion of the fruit tingles there's no more bye, and all clubs play each other twice.

To even things up the remaining non listed players are mostly under 23s. Also they're donated from the other clubs, on an opt in basis before the season is run. There is potential for it to be like Gladiators where all the contestants were failed gladiator try outs so had a point to prove, and therefore added incentive to grab Vulcan by his girly hair and make him their bitch.