SA Footy

The SANFL wishes to advise a change of date for the Norwood v Eagles and South Adelaide v
Sturt League and Reserves matches in Round 4.

Round 4
Date Friday 18th April 2008
Match Norwood v Eagles
Venue Coopers Stadium
Reserves Commencing at 4.55pm
League Commencing at 7.40pm

Date Saturday 19th April 2008
Match South Adelaide v Sturt
Venue Hickinbotham Oval
Reserves Commencing at 11.15am
League Commencing at 2.00pm

The League also wishes to advise a change in match commencement time for the Anzac Day
clash between Central District and North Adelaide in Round 5.
Round 5

Date Friday 25th April 2008

Match Central District v North Adelaide
Venue Hamra Homes Oval
Reserves Commencing at 12.30pm
League Commencing at 3.30pm

well done & thanks with the updates cd

Crows home game on the Sat afternoon.
Good for Norwood as the crowd figure will now be much higher compared to the original timeslot. Not good for Norwood because they miss a televised game which already is rare due to the amount of Friday night games. Personally I prefer the new time.
I guess South wanted the ABC telecast?

Stuff The Bloody Crows!!
Satdee arvo is for footy, not pandering to those wankers!

fester69 wrote:Stuff The Bloody Crows!!
Satdee arvo is for footy, not pandering to those wankers!

Agreed, one of the reasons Im stoked that North play every home game on Saturday afternoon this year.

That wasn't the game Sturt & South were going to play at Murray Bridge is it?

zipzap wrote:That wasn't the game Sturt & South were going to play at Murray Bridge is it?

Nup, that's Round 15, Sunday 13 July.
Sturt's 'home' game

...and thanks for the info CD.

What's with staring the anzac game so late? Why not keep it at 2:00pm?

ressies can't start before 12:00 pm on ANZAC day. ANZAC day games always start late

It has to be said that I cannot understand why the SAFC would move their home game v Sturt from the Sunday back to the Saturday?

I certainly don't advocate pandering to the AFL but by moving the game to the Saturday afternoon, the game goes up against the Adelaide v Fremantle game at AAMI. This seems silly as a great majority of Crows supporters hail from the southern suburbs and most, if given the ultimatum, will choose the Crows over the Panthers.

From a SFC point of view it doesn't really matter as Blues fans travel well whenever and wherever they are fixtured, but there again a few will choose AAMI instead of Noarlunga, particularly if it's a nasty day weather wise....

I am sure Phil Herden wouldn't have been so hasty to change the fixture. Aren't South trying to build their supporter/membership base?

Confounded to say the least.

MST wrote:It has to be said that I cannot understand why the SAFC would move their home game v Sturt from the Sunday back to the Saturday?

Somebody had to have a game on the Saturday to honour the agreement with the ABC televising rights, so South probably put their hand up to do it.

Broadie wrote:

MST wrote:It has to be said that I cannot understand why the SAFC would move their home game v Sturt from the Sunday back to the Saturday?

Somebody had to have a game on the Saturday to honour the agreement with the ABC televising rights, so South probably put their hand up to do it.

Does anyone know the actual clause in the broadcasting contract which excludes replaying a Friday Night match in the Saturday afternoon timeslot?

spell_check wrote:
Does anyone know the actual clause in the broadcasting contract which excludes replaying a Friday Night match in the Saturday afternoon timeslot?

Presumably it is meant to be a "live" match...

fatalberton wrote:

spell_check wrote:
Does anyone know the actual clause in the broadcasting contract which excludes replaying a Friday Night match in the Saturday afternoon timeslot?

Presumably it is meant to be a "live" match...

Which would have excluded a special match like the SA vs WA match in 2006, I'm assuming.