Gaelic Football in South Australia

[wristwatcher]

Onkas won the div 1 GF by 2 points in one of the best games ever seen at Gaelic Park and I.a won the women's by a point in another classic GF

[Neville Bartoss]

Very quiet? No match reports? The div 1 final was an awesome game to watch. Very quick end to end stuff. Na Fianna were unlucky but onkas just seemed to have that extra gear when they needed it. Great display of Gaelic though

[Look Good In Leather]

Onkas now moved up to equal 5th on the all-time Hannigan honours:

Padraig Pearses - 5 (1973, 79-80, 82, 87)
Irish Rovers - 5 (1974-78)
Noarlunga Sarsfields - 4 (1983, 85, 88-89)
Flinders O'Neill - 4 (1984, 86, 90, 92)
Onkaparinga - 3 (1999, 2011-12)
Na Fianna - 3 (2000-01, 03)
St. Brendans - 3 (2004, 09-10)
Paringa Wolfhounds - 2 (1993-94)
Clovercrest Gaels/Eastern Gaels - 2 (1995, 02)
Garry Owen - 2 (1971-72)
Sinn Fein - 1 (1970)
Southern Districts - 1 (1981)
T***** - 1 (2007)

[wristwatcher]

Onkas now moved up to equal 5th on the all-time Hannigan honours:

Padraig Pearses - 5 (1973, 79-80, 82, 87)
Irish Rovers - 5 (1974-78)
Noarlunga Sarsfields - 4 (1983, 85, 88-89)
Flinders O'Neill - 4 (1984, 86, 90, 92)
Onkaparinga - 3 (1999, 2011-12)
Na Fianna - 3 (2000-01, 03)
St. Brendans - 3 (2004, 09-10)
Paringa Wolfhounds - 2 (1993-94)
Clovercrest Gaels/Eastern Gaels - 2 (1995, 02)
Garry Owen - 2 (1971-72)
Sinn Fein - 1 (1970)
Southern Districts - 1 (1981)
T***** - 1 (2007)

Im not sure where you got these stats from but i am certain that they are not completely accurate. Unfortunately i am that old that i was there for every Hannigan Cup in the last 22 years. I think the goats might be a little upset that they have been left off of the Hannigan cup stats mountain as well

[Scouser]

Looking on the website, and adding in 2012 - the recent history looks more like the attached...

[schimma]

was going to say i thought i did not dream those 3 cups. The hang overs were not so good. The hounds 9 a side win was one for the ages!!!

[wristwatcher]

was going to say i thought i did not dream those 3 cups. The hang overs were not so good. The hounds 9 a side win was one for the ages!!!

Perhaps we have not heard the last of the Hounds???

[schimma]

was going to say i thought i did not dream those 3 cups. The hang overs were not so good. The hounds 9 a side win was one for the ages!!!

Perhaps we have not heard the last of the Hounds???

Yes have heard a whisper... the jersey is under design.

[Look Good In Leather]

Onkas now moved up to equal 5th on the all-time Hannigan honours:

Padraig Pearses - 5 (1973, 79-80, 82, 87)
Irish Rovers - 5 (1974-78)
Noarlunga Sarsfields - 4 (1983, 85, 88-89)
Flinders O'Neill - 4 (1984, 86, 90, 92)
Onkaparinga - 3 (1999, 2011-12)
Na Fianna - 3 (2000-01, 03)
St. Brendans - 3 (2004, 09-10)
Western Ireland - 3 (2005, 06, 08)
Paringa Wolfhounds - 2 (1993-94)
Clovercrest Gaels/Eastern Gaels - 2 (1995, 02)
Garry Owen - 2 (1971-72)
Sinn Fein - 1 (1970)
Southern Districts - 1 (1981)
T***** - 1 (2007)

Adjusted, missed Western Ireland

[Neville Bartoss]

Been biting my tongue all week but number 11 from port I hope u can read the number 4 next to flinders.
To all the other port boys thanks for the game, you guys have come a long way in the last year and looking forward to many hard contests in the coming years. You guys play the game hard bur fair and managed to have the wood on us all year up to the gf

[wristwatcher]

Been biting my tongue all week but number 11 from port I hope u can read the number 4 next to flinders.
To all the other port boys thanks for the game, you guys have come a long way in the last year and looking forward to many hard contests in the coming years. You guys play the game hard bur fair and managed to have the wood on us all year up to the gf

He is a nob on the field as an opponent but a top bloke off it but i have been accused of something similar myself (without the top bloke off it bit maybe). Not to burst your bubble Nev and not to besmirch your proud club but as i mentioned earlier those stats are not completely correct. Flinders did not win the 92 Hannigan Cup final. They were defeated by St. Pats IIRC despite the best efforts of the Hendersons, the Bienke brothers, the Leveretts and the only man who has ever tattooed the word selectors on his as* Craig Icke . Mick Eaghan was amazing for St. Pats that day and it was another cup win for Gaelic icon and my first ever opponent Seanny Dunne

[wristwatcher]

To be fair my first club Paringa Woolfhounds didnt win back to back Hannigan Cups in 93,94. We did win the league title in those 2 years but i have vivid memories of David "Tickets" Toothill ripping one past "Big Beef" Brian Attenborough very late in the game and running into a sea of assorted bikeys who supported the Clovercrest Gaels to sink the hearts of the young brave Hounds

[Flinders O'Neills]

Icke was an animal! If memory serves broke a na fianna collar bone in one of the biggest hits I have seen in any sport..... Also followed by being sent off 3 games in a row!

[Look Good In Leather]

This discussion is quite interesting as my records are as follows:

Year Hannigan Cup
1970 Sinn Fein
1971 Garry Owen
1972 Garry Owen
1973 Padraig Pearses
1974 Irish Rovers
1975 Irish Rovers
1976 Irish Rovers
1977 Irish Rovers
1978 Irish Rovers
1979 Padraig Pearses
1980 Padraig Pearses
1981 Southern Districts
1982 Padraig Pearses
1983 Noarlunga Sarsfields
1984 Flinders O'Neill
1985 Noarlunga Sarsfields
1986 Flinders O'Neill
1987 Padraig Pearses
1988 Noarlunga Sarsfields
1989 Noarlunga Sarsfields
1990 Flinders O'Neill
1991 St. Patricks
1992 Flinders O'Neill
1993 Paringa Wolfhounds
1994 Paringa Wolfhounds
1995 Clovercrest Gaels
1996
1997
1998-99 Onkaparinga
1999-00 Na Fianna
2000-01 Na Fianna
2001-02 Eastern Gaels
2002-03 Na Fianna
2003-04 St. Brendan's
2004-05 Western Island
2005-06 Western Island
2006-07 Txxxxxx
2007-08 Western Island
2008-09 St. Brendan's
2009-10 St. Brendan's
2010-11 Onkaparinga
2011-12 Onkaparinga

[Major Gun]

Ok, that's it, I'm out of my self imposed retirement from this and many other social networks/forums.....

The great "O'Neils Only" would have stepped in long ago here. Some of the records presented here are plain fictional. Wristy is filling in some balnks and thank god for him keeping the 'ONO Bible' going.

Paringa Wolfhounds won the Hannigan cup in 96 and it essentially ended the league in that form. Why? The Bikies, drug dealers and mafioso who made up the Gaels at that time did not take too kindly to being beaten by a bunch of teenagers and 21 year olds in a final they had made their own through outright thuggery and intimidation. Said intimidation and thuggery extended to the committe and refs. When the Hounds finally beat them, they spat it and the two viable teams no longer had any competition (Hounds and Oneils...sorry St Brendans but you were easy beats at this stage).

Being a major part of the comp at the time was an experience and the subject of the next "Underbelly" series. The Gaels won in 93,94 and 95 but by that stage had warned off every red blooded Irishman and Gaelic lover apart from the drug affected Wolfhounds who had nothing better to do than rock up to Klemzig every Sunday and get the SzHIT kicked out of them.

I love the "new" passion and generations keeping the game going. But making up facts, dates and stats is worrying.

Let Paddy "Gandalf the White (no longer the grey)" McGuiness sit down with Gerry, Wristy and Micky Lawlor to sort out the true history of GFHASA (GAASA).

If someone out there is starting the "Hounds" up again-dont. Unless you speak to me and Con Murphy first.That's a history not to be messed with or built on lightly.

Again,"ONO", you are so missed and the book you were working on about the history of the GAA in SA is a project that would have rectified many records and stats.

[the milky bar kid]

Many people headed out for St Pats tomorrow?

I know me & a few others will be headed to the Whitmore laneway party to celebrate with people who support the Irish Community. Feel free to swing by for some beverages & Irish entertainment, oh and drinking.

Good to see the Gun out of retirement & spreading the all important history of the great game in SA

[wristwatcher]

Well said Sir. They were still fun times though and putting your head over the ball when you know a guy named Grinder, Scurvy, Elsie, Taz, Tickets, Blute, Smudger Smith or Molly Molloy (broke my nose) was going to whack you was very character building. Id go as far as too suggest that its those early challenges that we confronted that has made us always have such a strong appreciation of the Hannigan Cup and its rich traditions. I know we suffered some devestating losses and that really helps appreciate the wins. It probably also makes us fairly protective of the records and the history. It also makes Onkas win even better as that was one of the great games of Gaelic and a superb Hannigan Cup final and a pleasure to be a part of even if on the losing side

Very much in the same way personally i started as a Minor in 1991 when we travelled to Aucland to take on one of Jimmy Connollys devestating squads and you started in 88 i believe (was that Melboune losing to the Vics in the last kick of the game?) as a 14 year old. We had a fairly heavy involvment/interest ever since and waited all the way up until 2003 before the SAs drought at the Nationals was finnally broken and then lucky enough by 2005 to be threepeated. This was an amazing 3 year run that those who had been around and worked towards truly appreciated the magnitude of. It was celebrated long and hard by many of those who brought the rich heritage of Football in this State to life.
I was recently told that the Victorian Minor squad of 2010 was the best one asembled PPPFFFFFFTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!! Another example of people making things up they really know nothing about. I have 8 hours of vidoe footage of the 2005 Undefeated SA Minor team who were a Gaelic Football machine. Not a footy team brought to together for a championships but a Gaelic Football team built from bottom in 2001 several of them as 14 year olds and mentored and taught the games its values and its traditions.

I wouldnt let the incorrect stats bother you Mr Gunn the same way i dont let the negatives bother me. Well thats enough from me for a while on here for a while. Ive got another 7 months of volantary work to do for the association but if i can just take a moment to address the bunch of girls who abused me on preliminary final day for arriving to goal umpire late after i was told i wouldnt have to supply match officials and then continued to abuse me after the game in the presence of several commitee members. Once again i cracked the 60 game mark as a ref or umpire this year and worked behind the bar in excess of 20 different occasions. The fact i dont know your name says enough to me. Still not to worry i wont see them again until late October when the magical Gaelic fairies will have a new season prepared for them with just the wave of a wand AHHh THAT FEELS MUCH BETTER NOW

[Cash 123]

Been biting my tongue all week but number 11 from port I hope u can read the number 4 next to flinders.
To all the other port boys thanks for the game, you guys have come a long way in the last year and looking forward to many hard contests in the coming years. You guys play the game hard bur fair and managed to have the wood on us all year up to the gf

Were you even born when Flinders last played in a Hannigan Cup Final?

[wristwatcher]

BAHAHAHAHAHA , sorry Nev but thats pretty funny even if it is innacurrate. Flinders last grand final in a Hannigan Cup was in March 2000. One of my favourite all time games. Probably the best grand final i ever had as i scored the first and Na Fiannas last goal and managed to sneak over 6 points. My opponent got sent off that day as i may have mentioned to him that i was having an OK game . The man who sent him was the referee obviously and that was the late great Norman John Murphy R.I.P. Great memories indeed. But the stories dont stop there, after the game Paul Blute passed me the Hannigan Cup and.............the next 12 hours of this story are edited and innadmissable

Ive been waiting for 3 years on this site for someone to bring up that game

[Neville Bartoss]

Just shows our club is rich in history and we are the oldest and the most successful club still involved in the competition....cash what have you or your club achieved ?? We are slowly heading back to where we should be with our minors and rebuilding with recruits