SA Footy

With the match on tonight between the AFL and the GAA it was brought up at work that the SANFL played the GAA also in the early 1980s.

Details are sketchy, yet its believed that it was a composite side that wore the CDFC guernsey and were coached by the Centrals coach and the coach of a local Gaelic side here in SA.

The result was that the SANFL side lost by a long way and the concept was later abandoned.

Just wondering if any of the SANFL history buffs are across it and can fill in any more details?

Sojourner wrote:With the match on tonight between the AFL and the GAA it was brought up at work that the SANFL played the GAA also in the early 1980s.

Details are sketchy, yet its believed that it was a composite side that wore the CDFC guernsey and were coached by the Centrals coach and the coach of a local Gaelic side here in SA.

The result was that the SANFL side lost by a long way and the concept was later abandoned.

Just wondering if any of the SANFL history buffs are across it and can fill in any more details?

All I remember is that the SANFL side used the West Adelaide soccer goalie Martyn Crook as the goalkeeper

Sojourner wrote:With the match on tonight between the AFL and the GAA it was brought up at work that the SANFL played the GAA also in the early 1980s.

Details are sketchy, yet its believed that it was a composite side that wore the CDFC guernsey and were coached by the Centrals coach and the coach of a local Gaelic side here in SA.

The result was that the SANFL side lost by a long way and the concept was later abandoned.

Just wondering if any of the SANFL history buffs are across it and can fill in any more details?

Wasn't the GAA.

It was Kerry, the mighty Kingdom, lead by the great Jack O'Shea.

My Dad's a Kerryman so he was pumped for this game, played under lights at Norwood Oval. Pretty sure my cousin played that night. For Kerry, of course.

I didn't go coz I was already sick of him talking up Kerry (which he never stopped doing until the day he died.) Then the SOBs won.

IIRC, they played one half Gaelic football and the other half Aussie Rules?

Kerry are streets ahead the greatest football county in Ireland with 36 All-Ireland championships and this was arguably its greatest era.

Kerry made a few tours of Australia in the 70s and 80s.

Old man would be turning in his grave this year. Kerry lost to arch-rivals Dublin by one point in the All-Ireland Final this year...