Will the SANFL fixtures for 2012 be out earlier this year?

[eaglehaslanded]

I just picked up a copy of the tiser hot off the press and I can reveal:

Round 1
Fri 23rd Mar ~ 7:40pm
Eagles vs Port Adelaide ~ Thebarton Oval

Sat 24th Mar ~ 7:10pm
South Adelaide vs West Adelaide ~ Hickinbotham Oval

Byes: Central District, Glenelg, North Adelaide, Norwood, Sturt

[eaglehaslanded]

Round 2
Sat 31st Mar ~ 2:10pm
North Adelaide vs South Adelaide ~ Prospect Oval
Sturt vs Port Adelaide ~ Commander Centre Oval

Sat 31st Mar ~ 6:30pm
Central District vs Norwood ~ Play Ford Alive Oval
Glenelg vs West Adelaide ~ Gliderol Stadium (subject to final planning approval)

[eaglehaslanded]

I can also confirm:



Good Friday footy is here

Fri 6th Apr ~ 5:00pm
South Adelaide vs Sturt ~ Hickinbotham Oval

And Anzac Day

Wed 25th Apr ~ 3:10pm
Eagles vs Central District ~ Unleash Solar Oval

[eaglehaslanded]

Season 2012 will be played over 24 rounds instead of the usual 23 round format with each team having 4 byes instead of the usual 3.

[pels]

I just picked up a copy of the tiser hot off the press and I can reveal:

Round 1
Fri 23rd Mar ~ 7:40pm
Eagles vs Port Adelaide ~ Thebarton Oval

Sat 24th Mar ~ 7:10pm
South Adelaide vs West Adelaide ~ Hickinbotham Oval

Byes: Central District, Glenelg, North Adelaide, Norwood, Sturt

Seriously start of the season and you have 5 teams starting with a bye. What a joke

[eaglehaslanded]

Just had a closer look at the fixture and I seriously want to know WTF the SANFL are playing at. The eagles have again drawn the short straw in terms of bye placement not once but twice in 2012 we have a 2 week break between games.

We have drawn the bye in round 9 and the week immediately after is the state game and then later in the season we are drawn byes in consecutive rounds in 18 and 19.

How could they make that big a stuff up?

[Hopeful Jelly]

Port (state game, round 10), North (rounds 14 & 15), and Glenelg (rounds 15 & 16) also have two week breaks.

Seeing as though this is the third year in a row that the Eagles have had the two week break towards the end of the season, perhaps the club actually requests it? It worked last year.

[Big Phil]

Full fixture available below:

http://www.sanfl.com.au/files/_system/F ... ixture.pdf

[am Bays]

And best of all, all finals at Footy Park. Good to see the SANFL listening to the players and the officials of clubs.

[once_were_warriors]

Like the first round schedule for us.

1st match of the season everyone's hungry for footy.
On a warm Friday autumn night under lights at great venue.
Against Port

Subject to weather , this will get 5000, I would think.

Do they have flagpoles at Thebby to raise the 2011 Premiership Flag?

[bloods08]

Have the lights improved significantly at Thebarton in the last few years.

I remember going to to a trial game (Eagles v Central I think?) a few years ago and barely could see anythong in the last quarter as the lights were horrible.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Just had a closer look at the fixture and I seriously want to know WTF the SANFL are playing at. The eagles have again drawn the short straw in terms of bye placement not once but twice in 2012 we have a 2 week break between games.

We have drawn the bye in round 9 and the week immediately after is the state game and then later in the season we are drawn byes in consecutive rounds in 18 and 19.

How could they make that big a stuff up?

Should have entered the Foxtel Cup.

[beenreal]

And best of all, all finals at Footy Park. Good to see the SANFL listening to the players and the officials of clubs.

As opposed to listening to what the supporters want?

[RB]

Just had a closer look at the fixture and I seriously want to know WTF the SANFL are playing at. The eagles have again drawn the short straw in terms of bye placement not once but twice in 2012 we have a 2 week break between games.

We have drawn the bye in round 9 and the week immediately after is the state game and then later in the season we are drawn byes in consecutive rounds in 18 and 19.

How could they make that big a stuff up?

For the 3rd time in a row as well...

[zipzap]

Dumb dumb dumb first round...beginning with a whimper rather than a bang

[CUTTERMAN]

And best of all, all finals at Footy Park. Good to see the SANFL listening to the players and the officials of clubs.

Don't see where else they're meant to play as AO will probably be a construction site

[Pseudo]

Just had a closer look at the fixture and I seriously want to know WTF the SANFL are playing at. The eagles have again drawn the short straw in terms of bye placement not once but twice in 2012 we have a 2 week break between games.

We have drawn the bye in round 9 and the week immediately after is the state game and then later in the season we are drawn byes in consecutive rounds in 18 and 19.

How could they make that big a stuff up?

I note that my mob also has consecutive byes, and am not happy with this.

My guess: The SANFL is forced to design its program around the WankTel cup. That a sovereign competition has to pervert its operation in order to accommodate the vagaries of a pretend competition is simply arse-backwards. What is more important - a balanced SANFL draw, or a "competition" whose raison d'etre is to give AFL viewers something to ignore in between AFL matches? If the FakeTel cup cannot be reorganised properly - ideally outside the regular SANFL season - then it is high time to tell the AFL and Foxtel to jam their plastic cup.

[The Sleeping Giant]

And best of all, all finals at Footy Park. Good to see the SANFL listening to the players and the officials of clubs.

So they can play minor round games at suburban ovals no problem. Who cares what the water boys think.

[Dutchy]

Glenelg going for 14 rounds straight we only 1 Sat arvo game, good for us Glenelg fans that love seeing grass roots footy!

[beenreal]

Just had a closer look at the fixture and I seriously want to know WTF the SANFL are playing at. The eagles have again drawn the short straw in terms of bye placement not once but twice in 2012 we have a 2 week break between games.

We have drawn the bye in round 9 and the week immediately after is the state game and then later in the season we are drawn byes in consecutive rounds in 18 and 19.

How could they make that big a stuff up?

I note that my mob also has consecutive byes, and am not happy with this.

My guess: The SANFL is forced to design its program around the WankTel cup. That a sovereign competition has to pervert its operation in order to accommodate the vagaries of a pretend competition is simply arse-backwards. What is more important - a balanced SANFL draw, or a "competition" whose raison d'etre is to give AFL viewers something to ignore in between AFL matches? If the FakeTel cup cannot be reorganised properly - ideally outside the regular SANFL season - then it is high time to tell the AFL and Foxtel to jam their plastic cup.

Pretty sure the rest of Australia sees it the other way around.

The number of people in this state who bitch about the AwFuL swallowing up football, then something comes along that actually promotes non-AFL football and the bitching continues.

IT'S JUST STAGGERING!! Or as Aurelio Vidmar so eloquently described, Pissant.