SA Footy

10.35pm Live from West Lakes,

The SANFL has tonight inducted 5 new people into the West End South Australian Football Hall Of Fame

They are
- Keith Thomas
- Geoff Kingston
- Doug Thomas
- Peter Woite
- Nigel Smart

More information to follow

As promised here is more info courtesy of Melanie Reid of the SANFL.

A more in depth article on the magic moments of the night will follow shortly..

Cheers
Phil Herden


SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME

2008 INDUCTEES

More than 300 distinguished guests gathered at AAMI Stadium tonight to welcome five new inductees into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.



Established in 2002, the South Australian Football Hall of Fame acknowledges players, coaches, umpires, administrators and journalists who have made a significant contirbution to the game of Australian Football in this state.



This year’s inductees are:



Geoff Kingston (West Torrens 1960-1968 and Advertiser sports journalist from 1964-1989)



Peter Woite (Port Adelaide 1969-1978 and Magarey Medallist 1975)



Nigel Smart (South Adelaide 1988-1992, 2004, and Adelaide Crows 1991-2004)



Doug Thomas (West Adelaide 1951-1956, 1961-1965)



Keith Thomas (Norwood 1979-1986, 1989-1992)



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Geoff Kingston Era : 1961 - 1990



PLAYING RECORD :

¨ Played an unknown number of games for the Wagga Football Club prior to 1960

¨ 130 games and 301 goals for West Torrens (1960 – 1968)



MATCHES FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA :

¨ 14 matches for South Australia, including Carnivals in Brisbane (1961) and Hobart (1966)



ACHIEVEMENTS :

¨ Best and Fairest West Torrens (1965)

¨ Leading Goalkicker West Torrens (1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965)

¨ All Australian (1961)

¨ Player Life Member West Torrens (1968)

¨ 7-time Advertiser Team of the Year player

¨ Sporting Hall of Fame Member Wagga Wagga

¨ Named in the top 25 players in any era of SA Football (1976)



MEDIA CAREER :

Kingston was a sports journalist at The Advertiser from 1964 and Chief Football Writer from 1979 – 1989. He was also a part-time columnist in 2000.



As testament to his professionalism his colleagues offer the following:

¨ Kingston was considered somewhat ahead of his time with a new writing style that added emotion and more “art” into football writing at a time when television and talk-back radio was stealing ground as to detailing how football was being played.

¨ Multi-award winning news and feature writer.

¨ Commanded the confidence of many football administrators.





Peter Woite Era : 1961 – 1990



PLAYING RECORD :

¨ 182 games and 102 goals for Port Adelaide (1969 – 1978)

¨ 20 games for Glenelg (1979 – 1980)



PREMIERSHIPS :

¨ Member of the Port Adelaide premiership team (1977)



MATCHES FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA :

¨ 12 games for South Australia



ACHIEVEMENTS :

¨ Magarey Medallist (1975)

¨ Best and Fairest Port Adelaide (1975)

¨ Port Adelaide Player Life Member (1978)

¨ SANFL Player Life Member (1978)

¨ Port Adelaide Team of the Century (2001)

¨ SANFL League Life Member (2008)

¨ Awarded T.S. O’Halloran Trophy (1970)



ADMINISTRATION RECORD :

¨ SANFL Tribunal Commissioner (1993 – present)

¨ SANFL Drug & Disciplinary Tribunal (2003 – present)

¨ SANFL Salary Cap Investigation Committee (2008)

¨ State League Selector/Team Manager (1996)





Nigel Smart Era : 1991 - Onwards



PLAYING RECORD :

¨ 78 games and 29 goals for South Adelaide (1988-1992, 2004)

¨ 278 games and 116 goals for Adelaide (1991–2004)

¨ 32 games for Adelaide in AFL Pre-season Cup (1991-2004)



PREMIERSHIPS :

¨ Member of Adelaide’s premiership teams (1997, 1998)

¨ Member of Adelaide’s Pre-Season premiership cup team (2003)



MATCHES FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA :

¨ 8 games and 3 goals for South Australia (1990, 1992-1996, 1998-1999)



ADMINISTRATION RECORD :

¨ Adelaide Board Member (2004–present)

¨ AFL Players’ Association Delegate (1991–1998)

¨ AFL Players’ Association Executive Board (1998–2004)



ACHIEVEMENTS :

¨ All Australian (1991, 1993, 1998)

¨ Adelaide Team of the Decade

¨ First Adelaide player to play 250 games

¨ AFL Player Life Member (2003)

¨ Adelaide Life Member (1999)





Doug Thomas Era : 1991 – Onwards



PLAYING RECORD :

¨ 223 games and 110 goals for West Adelaide (1951–1956, 1961–1965)

¨ West Adelaide Captain (1963–1965)



PREMIERSHIPS :

¨ Member of the West Adelaide premiership team (1961)



MATCHES FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA :

¨ 5 games for South Australia



COACHING RECORD :

¨ West Adelaide Coach (1963–1964)



ADMINISTRATION RECORD :

¨ West Adelaide General Manager (1977–2006)

¨ SANFL Match and Permit Committee (1987–2006)

¨ SANFL League Director (1977, 1991–1993)

¨ Proxy League Director (1978–1990, 1994–2006)

¨ SANFL Umpires Board (1989–1993)

¨ SANFL State Selector/State of Origin Selector (1990–1995)



ACHIEVEMENTS :

¨ West Adelaide Life Member

¨ SANFL Player Life Member (1966)

¨ SANFL League Life Member (1997)

¨ Inaugural Member of the West Adelaide Hall of Fame (2005)





Keith Thomas Era : 1991 - Onwards



PLAYING RECORD :

¨ 304 games and 303 goals for Norwood (1979-1986, 1989-1992)

¨ 28 games and 15 goals for Fitzroy (1987-1988)



PREMIERSHIPS :

¨ Member of the Norwood premiership teams (1982, 1984)



MATCHES FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA :

¨ 5 games for South Australia



ACHIEVEMENTS :

¨ Best and Fairest Norwood (1985)

¨ Runner up Best & Fairest Norwood (1982, 1983, 1984)

¨ Leading Goalkicker Norwood (1986)

¨ Jack Oatey Medallist (1984)

¨ Norwood Player Life Member (1990)

¨ SANFL Player Life Member (1990)

¨ Inaugural Member of the Norwood Hall of Fame (2006)

¨ Norwood Team of the Century (1901–2001)

¨ Australian Sports Medal, commemorating Australian sporting achievement (2000)



ADMINISTRATION RECORD :

¨ Norwood Committee Member (1998–2000)

¨ Norwood Board of Directors (2008–present)

all very good people but really are they hall of fame material?

Sorry but it stinks of putting new people in for the sake of putting people in

Get me to do a list of the best 50 players of all time and I doubt any of them would be in it.

Now Keith Thomas can you tell us how you use to do those under ground handballs so they sat up for the runner

I bet that some of them will.

Here's some

M. Blight, R. Ebert, DN. Kerley, RB. Quinn, K.Farmer, RW. Hank, LH. Head, TN. Evans, M. Aish just to name a few.

Without wanting to sound rude (which no doubt I do) that set of inductees is embarrassing
It's time for all the members of the selection committee to do some research on football in this state prior to WW2.

I think Doug Thomas fully deserves his induction...

TigerBoss wrote:I think Doug Thomas fully deserves his induction...

agree a true West Adelaide champion

Leaping Lindner wrote:Without wanting to sound rude (which no doubt I do) that set of inductees is embarrassing
It's time for all the members of the selection committee to do some research on football in this state prior to WW2.

Doug Thomas is an South Australian Football icon. I find it amusing that people think he is not a worthy inductee .

Well done Doug on your induction to the hall of fame it was well deserved and certainly the people at West Adelaide are aware of what you have given the game.

wycbloods wrote:

Leaping Lindner wrote:Without wanting to sound rude (which no doubt I do) that set of inductees is embarrassing
It's time for all the members of the selection committee to do some research on football in this state prior to WW2.

Doug Thomas is an South Australian Football icon. I find it amusing that people think he is not a worthy inductee .

Well done Doug on your induction to the hall of fame it was well deserved and certainly the people at West Adelaide are aware of what you have given the game.

I wouldn't call Doug an SA Football Icon he certainly is a west Adelaide Icon. He is worthy of inclusion in the SA Hall of fame though, IMO.

Given the research LL has done on pre-war football (pre WWI) he is probably aware as anyone in this state that there are probably others who have made a countribution to SA Football as worthy as those who were inducted last night

I would agree, certainly does seem like a fairly lacklusture list.

Nigel Smart's contribution to the SANFL is exactly what?
Very good AFL career granted, but does that constitute anything positive to the SANFL?

Mr66 wrote:Nigel Smart's contribution to the SANFL is exactly what?
Very good AFL career granted, but does that constitute anything positive to the SANFL?

We had this argument last year Mr66.
It's the SA football hall of fame not the SANFL hall of fame.

smithy wrote:

Mr66 wrote:Nigel Smart's contribution to the SANFL is exactly what?
Very good AFL career granted, but does that constitute anything positive to the SANFL?

We had this argument last year Mr66.
It's the SA football hall of fame not the SANFL hall of fame.

Last year!?
Shyte!
I can't remember last week.
Still think Smart's selection is a bit dodgy.

Congratulations to all.

From a personal point of view delighted to see Kingo inducted a favourite son of the WT Eagles and was great to see at Woodville the other night - a great kick for goal. A wondrful football writer too.

Doug Thomas is a legend of SA footy - a tough hard player - who we loved to hate! An amazing commitment to footy, in particular to Westies but also as a servant of the League.

Peter Woite, Nigel Smart & Keith Thomas still contributing in offical roles to footy in SA and have great records as players too

All worthy inductees.

Leaping Lindner wrote:Without wanting to sound rude (which no doubt I do) that set of inductees is embarrassing
It's time for all the members of the selection committee to do some research on football in this state prior to WW2.

Any suggestions LL?

does anyone have a list of who is now members of the hall of fame

whatever wrote:does anyone have a list of who is now members of the hall of fame

Try here whatever...

http://www.sanfl.com.au/season_07/awards/hall_of_fame/

No Macca yet??

Constance_Perm wrote:No Macca yet??

Nah, even as a Glenelg supporter I think Justin McConnell needs to do more to get into the HOF...

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:

Constance_Perm wrote:No Macca yet??

Nah, even as a Glenelg supporter I think Justin McConnell needs to do more to get into the HOF...

The governing body for diving would already have him