Gaelic Football in South Australia

[Neville Bartoss]

Thanks for having me, but thats it for me....My final tip is The Goats to BEAT F,O Niels in the Hannigan cup final (possibly reffed by me)....or not Thanks for havin me. Good luck to ya all.....

Im hoping that most of that prediction is true, all except for us losing! Id hope you would be officiating in the final because I believe you are the best umpire, not sure about the rats tail tho........

On a personal note I thought we did ok considering the amount of people we had missing (had our two coaches pull on the boots due to us being short) and the amount of subs irish had! Im thinking we will have a much stronger side this week but we will definitely need it!

[the milky bar kid]

This couldn't be the end of the wristwatch... Sure you were on here drunk, sure you have used the term over rated, sure i only get South Aussie Shahid Afridi (born & raised in Davoren Park), sure you said that FON would still have a team in march, but it isn't time for the wristwatch to be hung up just yet.
I will be looking for an alter ego of your good self to appear back on this forum shortly, you'd want to get a few mates on here at the same time as identities of people on this forum are revealed quite quickly (unless you're a mysterious cowboy that wears purple).
Should be another good weekend of gaelic coming up with Onka's to smash Irish (15-20), St Brendans over FON by 1-5 (if FON have enough coaching staff) & WI by 5-10 over Mitcham who have reportedly seen the "madman" Fergal & the unfortunate recipient of the present left in room 220 Chris Carey play in the same side for the last time this season.

[wristwatcher]

Super Funny Stuff... Especially the Room 220 Big Bad Brown Borry with climate control on 30+ degrees.
Sorry though Milko, Ill only get a couple of mins a day, not hours now. No altar egos either, just the occasional post if its completely necessary.

[Neville Bartoss]

Tips this week Boys

ONKAS v Irish - Onkas to bounce back after shock loss - 10-15
WI V Mitcham - Mitcham to come back to reality. WI 5-10
FLINDERS v St Brendans - Flinders close to full strength minus coaches. Flinders 5-10

[Cheese Twisties]

Woah! The web at home goes cactus for a week and I come to find that the Wristwatcher has hung up the SAfooty boots! Say it aint so Wristy...

Tips for this week:

Onkas to have to much class for Irish, but good to hear Irish have some more players around.

Western Ireland to come out ANGRY and win their clash with Mitcham. Good for the comp to see Mitcham record their first win tho, and good to South Australia's own Fergal Crossan suit up in the SA state league for the Hawks!

Taints to beat Flinders... Taints looking at being the closest to full strength this year. Hey Nev it should be a much different game than last year, when we played with 10 and you guys had 12 or something!

[Cheese Twisties]

Heres another topic, that might hopefully spark a bit more convo on this thread - and who knows may even coaxe Wristy out of his self imposed banishment...

Who is the biggest name player to have played Gaelic in the GFHASA?

Im talking AFL players, SANFL players, A-League players, news reporters, anything really!

To start things of - it was a year or so before i began playing, but St Brendan's fielded Bulldogs Brownlow medalist Adam Cooney, and Eagles Beau Watters for a few games.

[Breaking Balls]

Mitcham beat Onkas! What the!

No Fergal and Carey will mean they won't win another game this season!

Onkas will bounce back though! Everyone writes them off yet they've won 3 of the last 4 premierships up for grabs and the one they didn't win they should have!

Is it true the big polish bear got himself all 6 votes for his outstanding performance the other night??

[Major Gun]

Big names...Andrew and Darren Jarman played for Paringa Celts in late 80's. Pre Crows and Port, they were two huge names at the time in SA football.

[Neville Bartoss]

Woah! The web at home goes cactus for a week and I come to find that the Wristwatcher has hung up the SAfooty boots! Say it aint so Wristy...

Tips for this week:

Onkas to have to much class for Irish, but good to hear Irish have some more players around.

Western Ireland to come out ANGRY and win their clash with Mitcham. Good for the comp to see Mitcham record their first win tho, and good to South Australia's own Fergal Crossan suit up in the SA state league for the Hawks!

Taints to beat Flinders... Taints looking at being the closest to full strength this year. Hey Nev it should be a much different game than last year, when we played with 10 and you guys had 12 or something!

Yeah not sure about that one, we will be pretty strong this week too, so im still sticking with my tip!

[Motorboat]

Tommy Javor Or Thomas William Maria Dirtbag Duurland after his stint on the TV at the cricket

[the milky bar kid]

Tommy Javor

EASE UP!

Stamatakis is definitely a bigger name, it has many more letters.
Yes i know this post isn't about that.
CT & MG you could have started with the guys who played SANFL then progressed into those names. There is no way we can top them & hence the coversation is over

[Neville Bartoss]

Who would you rate as the top 10 players in the comp at the moment? Here is my top 10

1. Gabe
2. Rhys Townsend
3. Ken Fay
4. Klunny
5. Todd McSorley
5. Gags
6. Anto
7. Carey
8. Jolly
9. Floriani
10. Aysh

[the milky bar kid]

1. Gabe
2. Jolly
3. Carey
4. Gags
5. Klun
6. Townsend
7. Fay
8. Hill
9. Zaluski
10. Johny Peg

apologies to J Flo, Aysh, Bruno Rocca & myself (lol)

[Motorboat]

1. Gabe
2. Jolly
3. Carey
4. Gags
5. Klun
6. Townsend
7. Fay
8. Hill
9. Zaluski
10. Johny Peg

Spot on but i would have 2. fay and 7. Bryant

[Major Gun]

Now now MBK, just because you haven't seen any "Big Names" in the five minutes you've been around doesn't mean the discussion is over. The "Biggest Name" thing will always be a matter of personal opinion. Some other names that could be thrown up are...

SANFL/AFL-The Gowans Brothers, The other James Gallagher, Soderstrom, Martin McKinnon (currently playing?), plus the others already mentioned just to name a few. I think Garry McIntosh may have even played once Motorboat.

Jim Stynes and Sean Wight have played in SA but representing Victoria and a visiting club team (The Victorian Club Champions used to play the SA Club Champions at Easter every year, alternating between Victoria and SA)

Soccer- Fred Agius,

Media- Think Cornesy played a game of 9 a side and Hamish Arthur used to play for Wolfhounds when he 'was' the Footy Budget in SA. Some may even remember Jeremy Pudney but you would have to be as old as the Wristwatcher to remember that one.

I'm sure there are heaps more than those too MBK...

[O'Neills Only]

Heres another topic, that might hopefully spark a bit more convo on this thread - and who knows may even coaxe Wristy out of his self imposed banishment...

Who is the biggest name player to have played Gaelic in the GFHASA?

Im talking AFL players, SANFL players, A-League players, news reporters, anything really!

To start things of - it was a year or so before i began playing, but St Brendan's fielded Bulldogs Brownlow medalist Adam Cooney, and Eagles Beau Watters for a few games.

CT & MG have covered most and dug up a couple of gems - including Jeremy Pudney. Yes, McIntosh played a game and of course was enormously popular in Ireland for his uncompromising style as goalkeeper for Australia (pre AFL) in the mid 80's.
Here's a couple more:
Adam Heuskes - a real natural at Gaelic, powerful, and could kick the ball over the bar off one step from the sideline at the 45m line;
Neil Cross - ABC sports presenter and SANFL anchor/commentator. Played for Queensland Minors, then popped up in the Glenunga team at Brighton 10 years later and played for SA;
Wayne 'Weed' Weidemann played for the Titans;
Jack O'Shea - one of the greatest Gaelic footballers of all time in Ireland played in an Irish touring side at Klemzig - at the '86 Australasian Championships. This was during the return series against Australia in hybrid rules;
Kiwi guy called Logan Edwards played Rugby League for NZ and for Adelaide Rams in Super League, also played Rugby League professionally in NZ, England, France, played a whole season of Gaelic (98/99) for Glenunga at Brighton. He was the last player to leave the Adelaide Rams. Bloody handy Aussie Rules player too. See an article about him at: http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgu ... N%26um%3D1

And one to turn the tables - Gaelic player that had an extremely short professional stint in media - Norm Murphy, Special Comments for ABC during Aust v Ireland International Rules game at Football Park in 1999. Officicially 47,000 fans but the place was jam packed and at least 5000 fans were locked out.

[O'Neills Only]

Here's another big name sports star with a Gaelic SA connection:
In 1984 (Centenary year for GAA in Ireland) the GAA of SA's Public Relations Officer arranged to have John Platten as guest of honour to throw the ball up to start the Grand Final and present the Hannigan Cup to the winning team's captain afterwards. That was the year that he won the Magarey Medal (a couple of weeks later). Later that year he played in the Australian team in Ireland for the hybrid rules with greats including Steve Malaxos, Michael Aish, Craig Bradley, Terry Daniher, Dipper, Robbie Flower, Ross Glendinning, Brad Hardie, Gerard Healy, Sticks Kernahan, Peter Motley, Gary McIntosh, Simon Madden, Maurice Rioli, Dermot Brereton, and others - what a team. They won the three game series 2-1. And this, of course was before he started his stellar 258 game career at Hawthorn in 1986. See his bio's here: http://www.cdfc.com.au/players/champs/johnplatten.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Platten

[wristwatcher]

Eddie "POMPOM" Howlett

[Swooper16]

Who would you rate as the top 10 players in the comp at the moment? Here is my top 10

1. Gabe
2. Rhys Townsend
3. Ken Fay
4. Klunny
5. Todd McSorley
5. Gags
6. Anto
7. Carey
8. Jolly
9. Floriani
10. Aysh

Can be a bit difficult as you have indicated Top 10 at the moment and put Gabe as no.1 - i dont think gabe has been anywhere near as dominant as previous seasons yet if i was picking a team he would be my first pick.

A couple that i would add to your list would be Sczezny & Zaluski from St Brendans.
The Full forward from Onkas that puts them over the bar from the car park.
Klunny from W.I

Creates a good discussion point tho NB.

On a sour note it seems SA wont be sending a state team to the nationals this year due to no senior coach. Will be quite disappointing if this is indeed the case.

[Neville Bartoss]

Unfortunately Im not aware of all the players names so I guess I just put down names that I know, but Im sure ive missed a few!

Not good that they wont be sending a side, wouldnt think it would be an easy job to organise!

I may be a little bias but I would have to say Townsend is the form player of the comp atm, hence the reason I raked him so highly