SA Footy

SANFL Rd 10 1985:

Port 19.15 129 D Glenelg 17.15 117 (Footall Park - Crowd 14,332)
Torrens 17.15 117 D West 13.20 98 (Richmond Oval - Crowd 6,428)
Double Header @ Footy Pk:
South 24.15 159 D Woodville 14.14 98
North 13.10 88 D Central 10.17 77 (Crowd 13,574)
Norwood 11.12 78 D with Sturt 12.6 78 (Nowood Oval - Crowd 14,070)

Table:
North 10 - 0
Norwood 7 - 2 - 1
Torrens 6 - 4
Sturt 5 - 4 - 1
Glenelg 5 - 5
Central 4 - 6
Port 4 - 6
West 3 - 7
Woodville 3 - 7
South 2 - 8

Leading Goalkickers:
Blight 59
Wilmott 45
J. Roberts 43
Copping 42
Beecroft 39
Dietrich 38

Just as an aside the Central cheer squad put plenty of work into the banner it prepared for the match against North which was on a Monday.
The banner read "Today's cock-a-doodle is tomorrow's chicken noodle.":lol:
It didn't work out that way but central certainly made the league leaders fight to remain undefeated after 10 rounds.

Looking back it's amazing that we were in with any chance at any stage of the year of playing finals football.

Five weeks and five losses later we were bottom with 4 wins and 11 losses and staring at our first wooden spoon since 1900.

About the same time rumours first surfaced about Jack Cahill returning to Alberton.

Funny how you chose "that" year and "that" round Wedgie

Coorong wrote:Funny how you chose "that" year and "that" round Wedgie

ha ha, actually the only reason I have the footysa from that round is because Andrew Jarman was the poster in the middle!

Its a good edition and Sturt supporters would appreciate it as has a full page interview with Peter Motley in it.

I think it is interesting to look back at what the ladders were at various stages during past seasons. With the passage of time, people just tend to remember the final positions of teams in a year, and forget for instance that Glenelg did struggle in the first half of 1985, before winning 10 of our last 11 games to win the premiership. Similar to Centrals this year actually!

Quarter by Quarter Scores from that round:

Port 3.3 12.6 15.9 19.15 (129)
Glenelg 5.6 7.9 13.14 17.15 (117)

Torrens 7.3 9.5 15.10 17.15 (117)
West 3.7 9.10 11.13 13.20 (98)

South 11.6 14.10 20.12 24.15 (159)
Woodville 1.2 6.4 9.9 14.14 (98)

North 6.2 7.4 11.7 14.9 (93)
Central 0.3 4.8 6.10 10.17 (77)

Norwood 5.5 7.9 10.11 11.12 (78)
Sturt 5.1 7.4 11.5 12.6 (78)

The Norwood/Sturt game was the 5th lowest scoring game of that year. The last quarter was the lowest scoring quarter of the year; due to heavy rain.

Damn emoticons!

They are all eights, of course.

They came up as smiley faces, but now have changed. Hmmm.

sc, remember when having 8 next to a bracket that it will come out like .
I editted your post and disabled the smilies for ya.

Ah, thanks Wedgie, I've seen that happen before and didn't know why.

spell_check wrote:Ah, thanks Wedgie, I've seen that happen before and didn't know why.

Took me about 2 years on the roost of using [brackets] instead of the (brackets) before I realised the usefuleness of the Disable Smilies box!