SA Footy

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From baggygreen.com.au:

The Adelaide Oval remains one of cricket's most pictureseque Test venues despite recent developments to increase the capacity and upgrade the facilities. It position, situated amid gardens and trees and with the spire of St Peter's Cathedral as a backdrop, gives it a quintessentially English feel.

The ground opened in 1873 amid bitter local disputes over boundaries and money, and in its early years the pitches were often dreadful. Things gradually improved, although Adelaide's tendency to attract controversy remained. In 1884-85 it staged its first Test, but that was dogged by arguments with the English tourists over appearance money and who would umpire. In 1932-33, the Bodyline affair reached its nadir at The Oval when Bill Woodfull and Bert Oldfield were struck, and on the third day mounted police patrolled to keep the 50, 962 spectators in order. But these days the pitches are true and disputes rarer.

The ground has hosted many sports other than cricket - the biggest attendance there was 62,543 to watch the 1965 AFL final between Port Adelaide and Sturt - as well as concerts.

The ground is a true oval, which makes straight sixes a rarity but ones square of the wicket more common. The western public and members grandstands and the famous scoreboard are all items listed on the City of Adelaide Heritage Register, and two news stands finished in 2003 have raised the capacity to 34,000 (for football) and 32,000 for cricket.
Martin Williamson

spell_check wrote:The ground has hosted many sports other than cricket - the biggest attendance there was 62,543 to watch the 1965 AFL final between Port Adelaide and Sturt - as well as concerts.

Ha!

that comment from baggy green would've emulated from sydney & if you/we play 'aussie rules' we automatically play afl now, not footy or aussie rules or dare i say it aerial ping pong as they used to say, now you could play d12 reserves in the ametuers & according to the east (nsw & qld) you play afl, which is a joke, afl is (as we know) a competition of our code as is the wafl sanfl etc etc but try telling them that

that makes me ******* sick

bayman wrote:that comment from baggy green would've emulated from sydney & if you/we play 'aussie rules' we automatically play afl now, not footy or aussie rules or dare i say it aerial ping pong as they used to say, now you could play d12 reserves in the ametuers & according to the east (nsw & qld) you play afl, which is a joke, afl is (as we know) a competition of our code as is the wafl sanfl etc etc but try telling them that

lol, is that where second-rate hip-hop artists play?

Emerged, evolved, emitted, originated, incepted...emulated?

Jimmy wrote:that makes me ******* sick

Sour grapes because you lost the 1965 AFL grand final?

lol MP. I would say the AFL would be pissed to see that. And most victorians would also be pissed as back then it was the VFL and is still the VFL to all the old diehards vics.

Huh??? Port have won 2 AFL premierships?

Definately proves that baggygreen should stick to cricket

The AFL will be thrilled to bits with this.

The AFL is all about rebranding the sport itself into AFL. The reason for this is that the AFL wants to be the readily identifiable brand whenever anything football related is brought up, from juniors/local leagues up. You don't play aussie rules, you play AFL. The next step is rebranding history so that it was the AFL all along. If people start actually remembering footy 15 years ago, they'll suddenly start doing naughty things like choosing which of 11 teams to follow instead of 2. Dangerous stuff for the AFL (at least that's what they think).

Still the BEST ground 4 FOOTY ! (and cricket) too !