SA Footy

As far as i know the adelaide oval scoreboard is not named and i noticed that everything else at the oval is named after someone or something... Even the hill is named the West End Hill.

So if anyone has any ideas for what we should call the Adelaide Oval Scoreboard, speak up, i'd love to hear them.

The scoreboard should be and is called the Adelaide Oval scoreboard.

The hill has never been the West End hill to me, its always been the Scoreboard Hill.
Wouldn't the watered down XXXX Hill be more appropriate?

Steady on Bay Boy. This is the Adelaide Oval Scoreboard we're talking about. It's a sacred site, not some electronic nonsense plastered with sponsor's logos.

I say 'NO' to commercialising the Adelaide Oval scoreboard. I agree with your sentiment Gilly, but there's nothing wrong with naming the A.O. scoreboard.

But name it after someone, not something.

Wedgie wrote:The scoreboard should be and is called the Adelaide Oval scoreboard.

Spot on, the only exception could be "the scoreboard"

If it you were going to name it after someone, it would have to be in honour of one of the old-timers who sweated it out inside the scoreboard for years on end.

The scoreboard is not the original one at the Oval.
The original board was built in 1879 and then, the next in 1885.
The one which preceded this scoreboard was ‘re-erected’ in 1898.
The originals were very basic boards with the attendant hanging plates on hooks from the front.

Architect, Kenneth Milne designed the current Adelaide Oval scoreboard.
It was first used on 3rd of November 1911.
The clock was added in 1912, then windvane was another addition in the 1930s.

The board is operated by SACA’s ground staff.
Only two attendants are required for football matches.
As many as six attendants are required for One Day and Test match cricket.
When a wicket falls, and at the change of an innings, it gets very hectic behind the board.

There is four levels on the inside of the board, they are all connected by stairs.
Except for the light bulbs indicating the batsman on strike, and the fielder who has fielded the ball, it is operated mechanicaly.

I helped out for a bit in the scoreboard a bit during state games as a father of a prossie cricketer runs the show and he let me up there for a look.

I was doing the runs for the batters and would miss it up sometimes as its a reverse view of the numbers we see as compared to the spectators...the phone would ring and it would be the scorers telling us we had made a mistake... my hear would skip a beat when that phone rang as i knew it was my fault LOL!!!!!!!!

Jimmy wrote:I was doing the runs for the batters and would miss it up sometimes as its a reverse view of the numbers we see as compared to the spectators...the phone would ring and it would be the scorers telling us we had made a mistake... my hear would skip a beat when that phone rang as i knew it was my fault LOL!!!!!!!!

So what you're saying is...the Cornelia Rau Scoreboard?

The 'David Hookes' Scoreboard.
So it's your fault my score cards are wrong.

Old Faithfull: Has stood the test of time.
The Sentinel: Has stood watch over a thousand drunken afternoons.
The KG scoreboard: Friggin old and tells you everything whether you want to know it or not.
Johnny Tightlips: Won't say who started off all of those brawls.
The Scoreboard: Brought to you by the people who named Football Park, Football Park.


regards,

REB

Overheard (listened in on) a conversation someone from the scoreboard was having with someone during a game last year. He was talking about why the oval is shaped the way it is, until last year noone ever knew. When they were doing some work last year, putting new seating in front of the Sir Edwin Smith Stand, about a metre down, they found the start-finish line for a cycling track. The pathway around the oval is actually the shape of the cycling track that was there pre-1865. The oval was the infield for the track, hence its odd shape. I found it fascinating hearing about it.

In regards to the scoreboard, Im happy for it to go nameless. Its bad enough having the sponsorship on it on my opinion.

I think we should all call it,"The scoreboard".

The "Save Max" Scoreboard !!

Wedgie... when your at the ground next, take a look at the hill. It is called the West End Hill, i 5hit you not!

I agree that we shouldn't commercialise the board... what i meant was that it should be named after one of our great players of all time.

Gilly i'm totally with your idea that it shouldn't be plastered with logos (even though it often is during international games),

If you take a look at the ground you'll see that almost everything there is named after a great south australian player......Why can't we do the same with the scoreboard?

What i probably should have asked first was.. who are some of our great players who deserve that right to have the scoreboard named after them?

At least 2 great South Aussie cricketers have been honoured on the scoreboard, leave it as "the scoreboard", and honour the greats on it when required.

Got the first one in my wedding photos taken on the sacred turf!! Never fails to start a conversation when people first see it!!

Took a lot of convincing for me to get him to die two weeks before the wedding!!!