SA Footy

I wonder how the SANFL Administration and supporters of the SANFL are feeling to wake up today and to realise that the SANFL competition is now rated as the Third best competition in Australia behind the AFL and now the WAFL?

I have to admit to being more than just surprised that the WAFL players got up and won it. Those guys are paid much less to play for their clubs and I am not sure if they are provided with training resources and coaching that is equivalent to the SANFL.

Could Andrew Jarman now say that he left the SANFL to take the next step up into the WAFL?

The WAFL is not a better comp than the SANFL just because they beat us by a point in a state game.

1 game makes no difference, (i thought wa would win & life long history said they'd win), if you go on 1 game then perhaps it is the vfl !! because i (from memory) think that the vfl absolutely destroyed the wafl the last time they met, nup 1 game means nothing, however if they beat the vfl & then us again then yes you can claim that they are the no 1 rank state competition side in the '3 way dance'

ithey haven't beaten us since '94.... so they are still our bitches!

bayman wrote:1 game makes no difference, (i thought wa would win & life long history said they'd win), if you go on 1 game then perhaps it is the vfl !! because i (from memory) think that the vfl absolutely destroyed the wafl the last time they met, nup 1 game means nothing, however if they beat the vfl & then us again then yes you can claim that they are the no 1 rank state competition side in the '3 way dance'

I agree they took 15 years to defeat us. 2 years ago WA lost to Vic by something like 20 goals. They have to defeat us here in a couple years to have any change to say they are the best outside the AFL.

They currently have a better state team than us, but that doesn't mean their league is better than ours.

Mic wrote:They currently have a better state team than us, but that doesn't mean their league is better than ours.

only because they currently have a coach who picks the best players in their competition, unlike a coach whose intials are DH (which could also describe him as well).

whufc wrote:

Mic wrote:They currently have a better state team than us, but that doesn't mean their league is better than ours.

only because they currently have a coach who picks the best players in their competition, unlike a coach whose intials are DH (which could also describe him as well).

I reckon the team was fine (apart from lacking a bit of speed and toughness), they just didn't perform well on the day.

What would be the major things that make us the second best comp....Average crowd numbers? how financial our clubs are? general standard of the comp? are we really that much better compared to the two other leagues?

Mic wrote:

whufc wrote:

Mic wrote:They currently have a better state team than us, but that doesn't mean their league is better than ours.

only because they currently have a coach who picks the best players in their competition, unlike a coach whose intials are DH (which could also describe him as well).

I reckon the team was fine (apart from lacking a bit of speed and toughness), they just didn't perform well on the day.

I reckon the team was fine apart from missing half the CDFC league side.

The "state championship" if you can call it that, has changed hands. But the mantle of best state league has not been handed over. That title took SA years to earn, in the face of the AFL's wants and needs which the SANFL had to adapt to which it did better than everyone else in the end.

Mic wrote:

whufc wrote:

Mic wrote:They currently have a better state team than us, but that doesn't mean their league is better than ours.

only because they currently have a coach who picks the best players in their competition, unlike a coach whose intials are DH (which could also describe him as well).

I reckon the team was fine (apart from lacking a bit of speed and toughness), they just didn't perform well on the day.

How about picking at least one decent ruckman?

I am a keen follower of the WAFL, but no way are they a stronger competition than the SANFL.

State football proves nothing. All it means is the 21 players selected for the WAFL were able to defeat 21 players from the SANFL on their own dung heap by 1 point.

"I reckon the team was fine (apart from lacking a bit of speed and toughness), they just didn't perform well on the day."

So the team wasn't fine then?
Speed and toughness seem fairly critical elements to me.

My comment about the coach stands.
It was reported in the paper he said;

"They never stopped fighting. They had every right to give up in the last quarter against the wind, but they kept fighting on."

Could anyone please explain why they would have had a right to give up.
Does that mean, if they did give up the coach would have said, "ok boys, no worries, it was probably too hard anyway."

For god's sake find a state coach who is fair dinkum and knows what the next level is.

Chambo100 wrote:For god's sake find a state coach who is fair dinkum and knows what the next level is.

I don't know if you've heard of him but i'd like to nominate Central District coach Roy Laird as a potential candidate for state coach...but i'm sure you can find plenty of other coaches with more experience and a better finals record than him...

The Apostle AK wrote:

Chambo100 wrote:For god's sake find a state coach who is fair dinkum and knows what the next level is.

I don't know if you've heard of him but i'd like to nominate Central District coach Roy Laird as a potential candidate for state coach...but i'm sure you can find plenty of other coaches with more experience and a better finals record than him...

I read on one of these boards not long ago that he doesn't want the job, along with most of the other coaches. That's why we have Hart.

It's probably good to have someone who can just focus on the one team/game.

Not advocating that these are all good possibilities, but they are possibilities:

Cahill
Cornes
Jarman D
Williams S
Phillips
McDermott

All of them except maybe Phillips have extensive pedigree in state footy.
Hart cannot be the only option.

Chambo100 wrote:Cahill
Cornes
Jarman D
Williams S
Phillips
McDermott

Are any of these still coaching?

Chambo100 wrote:Not advocating that these are all good possibilities, but they are possibilities:

Cahill
Cornes
Jarman D
Williams S
Phillips
McDermott

All of them except maybe Phillips have extensive pedigree in state footy.
Hart cannot be the only option.

The last time we Cahill as coach we lost to Tasmania.