SA Footy

In what may well have been the first game for the year in Country SA, Port Pirie sides Ports and Solomontown squared off at Memorial Oval on Thursday night in the opening SGL Round 1 clash.
Ports are now under the guidance of first year coach Donny De Palma, whilst David Bickley (yes, brother of Mark) has the reigns at Solomontown.
De Palma was assistant coach under former AFL listed player (Crows) Damien Mellow at Crystal Brook last year.

Ports won what was an evenly contested match by a few goals.
Ben Luteria and Brady Puddy were good for Ports.
A very good battle in the Ruck with Ports Matthew Burford and Solomontown's Craig Tee both playing well.

Ports also won the Bs, with Sollies looking a bit light on for numbers there at this stage of the year.

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Central 9.11 65 def South 6.20 56

Yep, South kicked 20 points!

Best Central: A Williams, B Page, D Myles, C McKnight, C Pannach
Best South: J Di Cance, P Grantham, D Shilabeer, S Brusnahan, M Reid

Ports 12.13 85 def Sollies 8.4 52

Best Ports: B Mudge, C Parrish, B Puddy, M Burford, B Luteria
Best Sollies: J Adams, J Davies, D Foster, C tee, R Hoare

Goals Ports: B Simpson 3, B Mudge, J Coombe 2, C Parrish, M Burford, D Allison, B Puddy.
Goals Sollies: J Adams, L Promnitz, R Cable, D Thompson, S Norris, R Hoare, K Hudson, J Twigden each 1

PPLions wrote:Ports 12.13 85 def Sollies 8.4 52

Best Ports: B Mudge, C Parrish, B Puddy, M Burford, B Luteria
Best Sollies: J Adams, J Davies, D Foster, C tee, R Hoare

Goals Ports: B Simpson 3, B Mudge, J Coombe 2, C Parrish, M Burford, D Allison, B Puddy.
Goals Sollies: J Adams, L Promnitz, R Cable, D Thompson, S Norris, R Hoare, K Hudson, J Twigden each 1

Puddy back in best again in the SGL! Really struggled in Northern Areas last year.

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Saturday's result:

Central 15.16 (106) d. West 9/11 (65)

Best:
Central: Not named in Sunday Mail
West: M Brine, A Zubrinich, S Foulis, L McIntosh, J Lukich

Goals:
Central: A Ruffles, R Brascher 4, P Higginbottom 3, M Keatley 2, J Crabtree, K Crabbe

Seconds: West 80 def Central 43

Thirds: West 81 def Central 48

Will try to post a score later topday from the game here in Pt Pirie. Ports versus Lions at Memorial Oval

Howd the games go between Lions and Ports?

Lions were competitve in the first half.....
Then.....
ended up losing by 104 points!

PPLions wrote:Lions were competitve in the first half.....
Then.....
ended up losing by 104 points!

Bad luck...........

Howd the B's go?

The Bs were a bit more competitive
Had more scoring shots than the Squids but lost by I think 3 goals.
Nuggety on baller James Congdon got injured around half time and that hurt the Lions a bit
The As have a few to come back in.
Matt Tuohy didnt play and someone else, so if 2 more slot down into the twos I think they should be aroudn the mark.

Just letting you know that a new footy website is up and running called
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What did the ladder end up like at the end of 2006? Does anyone know how Jess Rivers played this year?

Jess Rivers played for CBCOC this year in D4 SAAFL. Had a good year, played in a GF.

Navy2005 wrote:What did the ladder end up like at the end of 2006? Does anyone know how Jess Rivers played this year?

Central finsished topped followed by Port, West and South.

Central went straight through, South knocked out West.

South hammered Port in the Preliminary by 15 goals and won the GF by about 5-10 goals.

West won B & Under 18's.