SA Footy

First of all for a club touted as a wooden spoon chance they did a great job to finish 4th
BUT
ST gave up 3 home games at Unley to play at Adelaide Oval
THE RESULTS
UNLEY 7 games 6 wins
ADELAIDE OVAL 3 games 0 wins

ST in essence only played 7 TRUE home games in 2007.
The other clubs had a distinct advantage with home grounds compared to ST

DID playing 3 home games at Adelaide Oval cost ST a double chance ?
I think it did.

A good point Mal.

I think an inability to stand up to the second half pressure on Friday night cost us the double chance though...

Possibly, but if that's their choice, then they have to wear it.
Even so...playing three games at Adelaide gives them a leg up
for finals footy, as opposed to the other clubs who don't get a
game there. Surely it'd help Sturt having played three games there
compared to Glenelg, North & Eagles who have played one, and the
Doggies none...

SJABC wrote:Possibly, but if that's their choice, then they have to wear it.
Even so...playing three games at Adelaide gives them a leg up
for finals footy, as opposed to the other clubs who don't get a
game there. Surely it'd help Sturt having played three games there
compared to Glenelg, North & Eagles who have played one, and the
Doggies none...

They got exposure BUT
Id rather not play there and have the Double chance

2008 DRAW
Granted each club plays each other 3 times
One of those games will be Adelaide oval
With that in mind for 2008 will ST give up 3 Unley Oval games ?

mal wrote:

SJABC wrote:Possibly, but if that's their choice, then they have to wear it.
Even so...playing three games at Adelaide gives them a leg up
for finals footy, as opposed to the other clubs who don't get a
game there. Surely it'd help Sturt having played three games there
compared to Glenelg, North & Eagles who have played one, and the
Doggies none...

They got exposure BUT
Id rather not play there and have the Double chance

2008 DRAW
Granted each club plays each other 3 times
One of those games will be Adelaide oval
With that in mind for 2008 will ST give up 3 Unley Oval games ?

mal we have to play home games at AO as the City of Unley restrict the amount of games played there don't they?

heater31 wrote:

mal wrote:

SJABC wrote:Possibly, but if that's their choice, then they have to wear it.
Even so...playing three games at Adelaide gives them a leg up
for finals footy, as opposed to the other clubs who don't get a
game there. Surely it'd help Sturt having played three games there
compared to Glenelg, North & Eagles who have played one, and the
Doggies none...

They got exposure BUT
Id rather not play there and have the Double chance

2008 DRAW
Granted each club plays each other 3 times
One of those games will be Adelaide oval
With that in mind for 2008 will ST give up 3 Unley Oval games ?

mal we have to play home games at AO as the City of Unley restrict the amount of games played there don't they?

The plot thickens ....

I think that we will only know after the next three weeks if it was a good thing or not for Sturt to do. There is nothing to say that they would have won any of those matches had they been at Unley. It will give Sturt a huge advantage in the finals to have played at Adelaide Oval so often.

heater31 wrote:

mal wrote:

SJABC wrote:Possibly, but if that's their choice, then they have to wear it.
Even so...playing three games at Adelaide gives them a leg up
for finals footy, as opposed to the other clubs who don't get a
game there. Surely it'd help Sturt having played three games there
compared to Glenelg, North & Eagles who have played one, and the
Doggies none...

They got exposure BUT
Id rather not play there and have the Double chance

2008 DRAW
Granted each club plays each other 3 times
One of those games will be Adelaide oval
With that in mind for 2008 will ST give up 3 Unley Oval games ?

mal we have to play home games at AO as the City of Unley restrict the amount of games played there don't they?

But how about the juniors who play at Unley when Sturt play away.

mal wrote:First of all for a club touted as a wooden spoon chance they did a great job to finish 4th
BUT
ST gave up 3 home games at Unley to play at Adelaide Oval
THE RESULTS
UNLEY 7 games 6 wins
ADELAIDE OVAL 3 games 0 wins

ST in essence only played 7 TRUE home games in 2007.
The other clubs had a distinct advantage with home grounds compared to ST

DID playing 3 home games at Adelaide Oval cost ST a double chance ?
I think it did.

Funny the EAGLES played 3 games at Thebarton(the eagles second home whether the fans like playing there or not) and did not win every game at thebarton.And the EAGLES scrapped through into third spot with the double chance .
The eagles fans are not complaining about not finishing higher up the ladder .What helped the EAGLES is winning more games after round 10 than before round 10.
Yes before the season started Sturt were tipped as being bottom then when Sturt started winning something about the second best side and coach in the league was mentioned .Then what happened Sturts win loss ratio changed .
Its one thing being touted as playing in a grandfinal in April/may but the real season starts now.And if sturts fans were fair dinkum fans like Eagles(we are few in number but loud in voice on the net) or Centrals you would not be making posts like above.

Forget the minor round it doesn't matter what happened last week .Get behind your team not just on a BANDWAGON .Be at the ground and give voice and not run down your side or Coach. Because if you don't you aren't never going to go forward.

Thats all IMHO.
But geez forget whinning and get on with the finals.

bulldogproud wrote:I think that we will only know after the next three weeks if it was a good thing or not for Sturt to do. There is nothing to say that they would have won any of those matches had they been at Unley. It will give Sturt a huge advantage in the finals to have played at Adelaide Oval so often.

UNLEY OVAL.............ADELAIDE OVAL..........MT BARKER

ST 17-08 ................ST 15-14
GL 13-06..................GL 22-09

ST 16-10.................ST 15-05
NA 12-06.................NA 15-12

ST did not play.........ST 12-11
EG..........................EG 15-08

There is some evidence there that ST MIGHT have beaten GL/NA/EG
had those games been at Unley and not Adelaide Ovals.

If I was a ST barracker I would be stoked they made the finals given pre season assessments
BUT also very disappointed not to achieve the Double Chance

Mickyj wrote:

mal wrote:First of all for a club touted as a wooden spoon chance they did a great job to finish 4th
BUT
ST gave up 3 home games at Unley to play at Adelaide Oval
THE RESULTS
UNLEY 7 games 6 wins
ADELAIDE OVAL 3 games 0 wins

ST in essence only played 7 TRUE home games in 2007.
The other clubs had a distinct advantage with home grounds compared to ST

DID playing 3 home games at Adelaide Oval cost ST a double chance ?
I think it did.

Funny the EAGLES played 3 games at Thebarton(the eagles second home whether the fans like playing there or not) and did not win every game at thebarton.And the EAGLES scrapped through into third spot with the double chance .
The eagles fans are not complaining about not finishing higher up the ladder .What helped the EAGLES is winning more games after round 10 than before round 10.
Yes before the season started Sturt were tipped as being bottom then when Sturt started winning something about the second best side and coach in the league was mentioned .Then what happened Sturts win loss ratio changed .
Its one thing being touted as playing in a grandfinal in April/may but the real season starts now.And if sturts fans were fair dinkum fans like Eagles(we are few in number but loud in voice on the net) or Centrals you would not be making posts like above.

Forget the minor round it doesn't matter what happened last week .Get behind your team not just on a BANDWAGON .Be at the ground and give voice and not run down your side or Coach. Because if you don't you aren't never going to go forward.

Thats all IMHO.
But geez forget whinning and get on with the finals.

Err... shouldn't that be " Forget WINNING !!! "

LoudEagleHooligan wrote:

Mickyj wrote:

mal wrote:First of all for a club touted as a wooden spoon chance they did a great job to finish 4th
BUT
ST gave up 3 home games at Unley to play at Adelaide Oval
THE RESULTS
UNLEY 7 games 6 wins
ADELAIDE OVAL 3 games 0 wins

ST in essence only played 7 TRUE home games in 2007.
The other clubs had a distinct advantage with home grounds compared to ST

DID playing 3 home games at Adelaide Oval cost ST a double chance ?
I think it did.

Funny the EAGLES played 3 games at Thebarton(the eagles second home whether the fans like playing there or not) and did not win every game at thebarton.And the EAGLES scrapped through into third spot with the double chance .
The eagles fans are not complaining about not finishing higher up the ladder .What helped the EAGLES is winning more games after round 10 than before round 10.
Yes before the season started Sturt were tipped as being bottom then when Sturt started winning something about the second best side and coach in the league was mentioned .Then what happened Sturts win loss ratio changed .
Its one thing being touted as playing in a grandfinal in April/may but the real season starts now.And if sturts fans were fair dinkum fans like Eagles(we are few in number but loud in voice on the net) or Centrals you would not be making posts like above.

Forget the minor round it doesn't matter what happened last week .Get behind your team not just on a BANDWAGON .Be at the ground and give voice and not run down your side or Coach. Because if you don't you aren't never going to go forward.

Thats all IMHO.
But geez forget whinning and get on with the finals.

Err... shouldn't that be " Forget WINNING !!! "

mal wrote:

bulldogproud wrote:I think that we will only know after the next three weeks if it was a good thing or not for Sturt to do. There is nothing to say that they would have won any of those matches had they been at Unley. It will give Sturt a huge advantage in the finals to have played at Adelaide Oval so often.

UNLEY OVAL.............ADELAIDE OVAL..........MT BARKER

ST 17-08 ................ST 15-14
GL 13-06..................GL 22-09

ST 16-10.................ST 15-05
NA 12-06.................NA 15-12

ST did not play.........ST 12-11
EG..........................EG 15-08

There is some evidence there that ST MIGHT have beaten GL/NA/EG
had those games been at Unley and not Adelaide Ovals.

If I was a ST barracker I would be stoked they made the finals given pre season assessments
BUT also very disappointed not to achieve the Double Chance

So by reading this you are saying that Loud Eagle hooligan is in fact correct Sturt will finish fifth because they can not win at ADELAIDE oval.
Watch out north or eagles Glenelg just have to show up to win this week!!

Mickyj wrote:

mal wrote:First of all for a club touted as a wooden spoon chance they did a great job to finish 4th
BUT
ST gave up 3 home games at Unley to play at Adelaide Oval
THE RESULTS
UNLEY 7 games 6 wins
ADELAIDE OVAL 3 games 0 wins

ST in essence only played 7 TRUE home games in 2007.
The other clubs had a distinct advantage with home grounds compared to ST

DID playing 3 home games at Adelaide Oval cost ST a double chance ?
I think it did.

Funny the EAGLES played 3 games at Thebarton(the eagles second home whether the fans like playing there or not) and did not win every game at thebarton.And the EAGLES scrapped through into third spot with the double chance .
The eagles fans are not complaining about not finishing higher up the ladder .What helped the EAGLES is winning more games after round 10 than before round 10.
Yes before the season started Sturt were tipped as being bottom then when Sturt started winning something about the second best side and coach in the league was mentioned .Then what happened Sturts win loss ratio changed .
Its one thing being touted as playing in a grandfinal in April/may but the real season starts now.And if sturts fans were fair dinkum fans like Eagles(we are few in number but loud in voice on the net) or Centrals you would not be making posts like above.

Forget the minor round it doesn't matter what happened last week .Get behind your team not just on a BANDWAGON .Be at the ground and give voice and not run down your side or Coach. Because if you don't you aren't never going to go forward.

Thats all IMHO.
But geez forget whinning and get on with the finals.

THEBARTON OVAL

EG 11-03
CD 22-13

EG 11-07
nw 19-11 [thanks mt79]

EG 19-21
WA 08-08

EG just got the double chance this year
Had they not MICKY J and finished 4th or 5th Im sure you would have been disappointed

EG did have a horror draw this year
Played CD 3 times in 2007 and not once at Woodville
And perhaps 5 times this year, and not once at Woodville


EG beat ST by 1/2 a game in 2007
If ST had played those 3 games at Unley and not Adelaide......

Mickyj wrote:

mal wrote:

bulldogproud wrote:I think that we will only know after the next three weeks if it was a good thing or not for Sturt to do. There is nothing to say that they would have won any of those matches had they been at Unley. It will give Sturt a huge advantage in the finals to have played at Adelaide Oval so often.

UNLEY OVAL.............ADELAIDE OVAL..........MT BARKER

ST 17-08 ................ST 15-14
GL 13-06..................GL 22-09

ST 16-10.................ST 15-05
NA 12-06.................NA 15-12

ST did not play.........ST 12-11
EG..........................EG 15-08

There is some evidence there that ST MIGHT have beaten GL/NA/EG
had those games been at Unley and not Adelaide Ovals.

If I was a ST barracker I would be stoked they made the finals given pre season assessments
BUT also very disappointed not to achieve the Double Chance

So by reading this you are saying that Loud Eagle hooligan is in fact correct Sturt will finish fifth because they can not win at ADELAIDE oval.
Watch out north or eagles Glenelg just have to show up to win this week!!

If the final was at Unley oval ....

mal wrote:

Mickyj wrote:

mal wrote:First of all for a club touted as a wooden spoon chance they did a great job to finish 4th
BUT
ST gave up 3 home games at Unley to play at Adelaide Oval
THE RESULTS
UNLEY 7 games 6 wins
ADELAIDE OVAL 3 games 0 wins

ST in essence only played 7 TRUE home games in 2007.
The other clubs had a distinct advantage with home grounds compared to ST

DID playing 3 home games at Adelaide Oval cost ST a double chance ?
I think it did.

Funny the EAGLES played 3 games at Thebarton(the eagles second home whether the fans like playing there or not) and did not win every game at thebarton.And the EAGLES scrapped through into third spot with the double chance .
The eagles fans are not complaining about not finishing higher up the ladder .What helped the EAGLES is winning more games after round 10 than before round 10.
Yes before the season started Sturt were tipped as being bottom then when Sturt started winning something about the second best side and coach in the league was mentioned .Then what happened Sturts win loss ratio changed .
Its one thing being touted as playing in a grandfinal in April/may but the real season starts now.And if sturts fans were fair dinkum fans like Eagles(we are few in number but loud in voice on the net) or Centrals you would not be making posts like above.

Forget the minor round it doesn't matter what happened last week .Get behind your team not just on a BANDWAGON .Be at the ground and give voice and not run down your side or Coach. Because if you don't you aren't never going to go forward.

Thats all IMHO.
But geez forget whinning and get on with the finals.

THEBARTON OVAL

EG 11-03
CD 22-13

EG 11-07
CD 19-11

EG 19-21
WA 08-08

EG just got the double chance this year
Had they not MICKY J and finished 4th or 5th Im sure you would have been disappointed

EG did have a horror draw this year
Played CD 3 times in 2007 and not once at Woodville
And perhaps 5 times this year, and not once at Woodville


EG beat ST by 1/2 a game in 2007
If ST had played those 3 games at Unley and not Adelaide......

IF is a very big word in football Mal
IF Eagles had kicked 10 straight Saturday would glenelgs running game have got going.

Those that take a chance on a football field will win more games than those that don't.
Would I have been disappointed if the EAGLES missed the double chance and the answer would be yes.But they would have still made the finals.At one stage this year the EAGLES looked like missing the finals or more than once. And this EAGLES fan would have been more disappointed if his team missed the five.

Correct me if I am wrong did not Norwood win a flag from fifth spot and Sturt from fourth.Its never over until the final siren sounds Mal.

I wont correct you
At least 2 teams have won flags from 5th
NW 1984
PP 1998 ?

2 teams in over 100 years of footy says it all

EG finished 3rd be grateful

mal wrote:I wont correct you
At least 2 teams have won flags from 5th
NW 1984
PP 1998 ?

2 teams in over 100 years of footy says it all

EG finished 3rd be grateful

I am very grateful brother don't you worry about that .Never look a gift horse in the mouth as they say.

Sturt blew a 50 point lead in the 3rd quarter- THAT cost them the double chance!

mal

IN your thebarton results for the EG you have centrals playing and winning twice, but didnt norwood win there by 12 goals or so????????