Ron Fuller on club zones

[RustyCage]

I thought you were a former Norwood supporter Wedgie ???????

Yeah I am mate, both my parents were Norwood supporter's. My father's first SANFL game was when North knocked off Norwood in the 52 GF by 110 points!

What about Port? I do recall a certain photo from a Port grand final!

[purch]

I grew up in the South also, go have a look at the number of schools that have closed in the area, Morphett Vale High, Morphett Vale South & West along with a number of others in addition to various schools that are just hanging on with three or four year levels in the one class, the point being that the area was built up in the 1960s-70-80s and large portions of Morphett Vale, Reynella and Hackam are home to the Boomer generation. SANFL is based on "Participation Rates" and South have been at a strong disadvantage for a number of years. Also unlike what many people think, South are not fed into by a number of SFL clubs who are in fact feeder clubs for West, Glenelg and Sturt. In terms of the Murray Bridge League, its not 1 & 1/2 hours through to places like Strathalbyn from Morphett Vale as you can go straight across the hills via local roads.

South relocating to Strath?

[purch]

FACT: Zones dont really mean that much as you can recruit anyone from ouside your zone.... its just SANFL rules that have transfer fees.

In the past Port Adelaide were very good at taking players from other peoples zones - Tregenza etc....

There is always a way around it. If a talented kid wants to end up at his club of choice he will.
Plenty of kids play for clubs not in their zone.
Id hope that with all the work clubs like Sturt have done in their zones that the kids stay loyal to them

Given the Murray League has been quite satisfied with it's Sturt FC association over many years, and the fact they are not happy with the new arrangement, I think there might be a good chance of that.

This could also lead to many young players in the region, who are not quite up to AFL level, preferring to stay put in the Murray and not going to the SANFL at all..

[Wedgie]

I thought you were a former Norwood supporter Wedgie ???????

Yeah I am mate, both my parents were Norwood supporter's. My father's first SANFL game was when North knocked off Norwood in the 52 GF by 110 points!

What about Port? I do recall a certain photo from a Port grand final!

Ha ha, always cheered for the Maggies against the Bays! Saw that pic the other day, was from 1990.

[Dogwatcher]

I thought you were a former Norwood supporter Wedgie ???????

Yeah I am mate, both my parents were Norwood supporter's. My father's first SANFL game was when North knocked off Norwood in the 52 GF by 110 points!

What about Port? I do recall a certain photo from a Port grand final!

PAFC, your club's in enough trouble without you trying to claim Wedgie as a supporter, albeit a former/occasional/once off one.

[Pseudo]

Glenelg were actually my 2nd side for a while in the 00s till a couple of their supporters who were friends to my face decided to start slagging me off behind my back so they jumped to my most loathed list again then.

What a load of rubbish - I always slag you off to your face!

[Pseudo]

In Glenelg's case I find that they have a big big dislike for us more so than us hating them at the same level??? Not sure why as I always say, if it wasn't for North they would have ONE premiership only so they should be bloody grateful to us!

One premiership if it weren't for you lot

But...on this site, I reckon you should watch Punky, he's always baiting the Bays!

He's good at it. He's a master baiter.

[Blacky]

Is it a prerequisite (for some) to follow south you have to be constantly paranoid about Glenelg?

Much like West supporters being parnoid or worrying about what the NAFC is doing?

Or a norf supporter being paranoid about what west supporters are doing.

Bingo on cue, one of the persons I was referring to!

3 minutes not bad but trolls are normaly faster than that

[darley16]

Response to Reported Boundary Changes

SAFC Response to Reported Boundary Changes

The South Adelaide Football Club on Monday received proposed boundaries changes prepared by the SANFL Boundaries Commission.


South Adelaide has until Monday December 10 to provide its official response to these changes.

The Club will not be making any further comment on the proposed changes until the Boundaries Commission Report is finalized, other than to make the following points –

•Glad that South Adelaide’s case has been heard
•Respect the River Murray Football League as an established country competition with a rich history
•Disappointed that yet another bunch of Southern Suburbs boys living within ten minutes of Hickinbotham Oval will not have the opportunity to play for the South Adelaide Football Club
•Advise that SAFC will be lodging an application this week for Federal funding for the Southern Sporting Complex to develop facilities to serve the southern region

[am Bays]

Wonder if any kid living on the South side of Kensington Rd Toorak Gdns (2 mins) from the Parade wish they could play for Norwood instead of Sturt? 10 mins travelling time is quite a generous buffer compared to the border of Nwds zone to Elizabeth oval and the example provided on the previous sentence.

With the geographical spread of Adelaide it is an impossibility to locate clubs near the centre of their zone or provide a travel time buffer around it.

[The Sleeping Giant]

First world problems at its best.

[Pseudo]

•Disappointed that yet another bunch of Southern Suburbs boys living within ten minutes of Hickinbotham Oval will not have the opportunity to play for the South Adelaide Football Club

That problem is easily fixed. Relocate to Cape Jervis.

[SDK]

What are South on about regarding 10 mins from their Oval ??????

[holden78]

What are South on about regarding 10 mins from their Oval ??????

Well if you jump in the old Ferrari, Magnam style, at 3am in the morning, it takes around 10 minutes to get from the Bay or Unley oval...... so to jump ahead they want all that zone as well! See it's the zones why they can't win anything not even their own raffle comps. or keep top players!

[RustyCage]

In 10 minutes you can get from Alberton Oval, to Woodville Oval and back!

[Ronnie]

The South statement is quite comical, and underlines that no one, least of all anyone in the Murray Bridge area, should have any confidence in them being able to service that area in the manner it has been in the past.

[darley16]

Really Ronnie? Where does it say that?

[on the rails]

Main page of the Adelaide Now website Local Footy Section has a number of articles up re those clubs unhappy with the re-zoning proposals. Centrals, Sturt, Norwood and the Eagles all angry!

How does the SANFL stuff so much up?

[Bluedemon]

South will stuff this relationship up with the River Murray league

[smac]

Main page of the Adelaide Now website Local Footy Section has a number of articles up re those clubs unhappy with the re-zoning proposals. Centrals, Sturt, Norwood and the Eagles all angry!

How does the SANFL stuff so much up?

Upfront, I will state I haven't seen the proposal or any of the articles written so am coming from a pretty naive position.

The SANFL approach the boundaries review with equity in mind while the clubs approach it with their own interests - I'm more surprised there's only 4 clubs unhappy!