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The Eagles last weekend continued their dominance around south aussies regional grounds taking their record to 4-0 with wins at Clare, Mount Pleasant, Whyalla and now Encounter Bay. It just got me wondering what other clubs performances are at regional grounds.

I remember the game at Clare, the Eagles flogged North and Brett Burton made his debut that day taking speccies all over the shop.
We've played a couple of games at Pirie, might have played one at Jamestown too.
I remember beating Port in a great game at Pirie one night.
Was a while ago though as I think Brodie was playing for us then.

Wedgie wrote:I remember the game at Clare, the Eagles flogged North and Brett Burton made his debut that day taking speccies all over the shop.
We've played a couple of games at Pirie, might have played one at Jamestown too.
I remember beating Port in a great game at Pirie one night.
Was a while ago though as I think Brodie was playing for us then.

Geeeeeez that was a while ago if brodie was playing for you. Maybe we should ask the question of our stats guru spelly for the stats on all clubs at regional grounds

eaglehaslanded wrote:The Eagles last weekend continued their dominance around south aussies regional grounds taking their record to 4-0 with wins at Clare, Mount Pleasant, Whyalla and now Encounter Bay. It just got me wondering what other clubs performances are at regional grounds.

Why dont then the Eagles look into having a home game once a year maybe at Easter in their country zone? An Eagles game at either Moonta or Kadina would likely be packed!

Sojourner wrote:

eaglehaslanded wrote:The Eagles last weekend continued their dominance around south aussies regional grounds taking their record to 4-0 with wins at Clare, Mount Pleasant, Whyalla and now Encounter Bay. It just got me wondering what other clubs performances are at regional grounds.

Why dont then the Eagles look into having a home game once a year maybe at Easter in their country zone? An Eagles game at either Moonta or Kadina would likely be packed!

Good idea Sojourner. I'm all for the SANFL as a whole programming more regional games. Maybe if each team has 1 home match transferred to a location in their zone it would be a great idea and an ideal way to promote our states competition.

Sojourner wrote:

eaglehaslanded wrote:The Eagles last weekend continued their dominance around south aussies regional grounds taking their record to 4-0 with wins at Clare, Mount Pleasant, Whyalla and now Encounter Bay. It just got me wondering what other clubs performances are at regional grounds.

Why dont then the Eagles look into having a home game once a year maybe at Easter in their country zone? An Eagles game at either Moonta or Kadina would likely be packed!

Which game would WWT give up a home game at Woodville or a home game at Thebarton ?
After travelling on a bus booked by the club to a country oval I think perhaps its one of the other 8 teams turn to travel to the country .I know I had a tounge in cheek dig at spell check but if the bus was not available I was not going and I wonder how many others could not attend if a bus was not put on by the club and paid for by the members.
And I'm sorry but why do other teams fans always want the EAGLES to do something!! Big thumbs up for south perhaps some other teams should do something.If you want crowds get Port or Centrals to travel to the country just a thought.

Matches outside of Adelaide:

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C.D  4  2  2  -
Eag  4  4  -  -
Gl.  5  3  2  -
N.A  6  4  2  -
Nor  5  1  4  -
P.A  5  5  -  -
S.A  9  4  5  -
St.  8  1  7  -
W.A  6  3  3  -
W.T  2  -  2  -

You got details of those matches Spelly?

It appears north didnt beat port in a country game.

who played at mount pleasant?

- wrote:It appears north didnt beat port in a country game.

Must have been the Central game I confused it with.

Eagles beat Norwood at Mt Pleasant in 1994.

Looked like country games were popular in 1994.

West 16.11 (107) d South 9.10 (64) at Waikerie
Eagles 14.12 (96) d Norwood 9.11 (65) at Mt Pleasant
North 28.9 (177) d Central 13.13 (91) at Pt Pirie
Port 14.15 (99) d Sturt 13.11 (89) at Pt Lincoln

i remember beatin dogs in 95 i reckon in a day game or 94.
we also lost a night game to em up there

Yeah Ive found a 94 year book (as you can see from my edit above).

In it it says that they were the first games with premiership points played in the country for 40 years.

(Winning Team is on the left)



The only match I went to was the Mount Pleasant one.

I think the Whyalla match in 1995 was when David Niemanns' parents were killed in a car accident on the way back from the match.

Crikey, North and Norwood got over 19,000 people in Sydney for their game!

Thanks Spelly, great work as per usualy, you're a treasure to this site!

Wedgie wrote:Crikey, North and Norwood got over 19,000 people in Sydney for their game!

Thanks Spelly, great work as per usualy, you're a treasure to this site!

What I find interesting, is that for a supposed "country league" the SANFL only got 4,500 less than the VFL match there the year before.

North beat Port in Pirie in a 1990 foundation cup game the first meeting since the debarcle of 1989 GF.

thanks spelly

1997 round 11 north v centrals at port pirie

i was there but in what capacity ?????

and who else was there

spell_check wrote:I think the Whyalla match in 1995 was when David Niemanns' parents were killed in a car accident on the way back from the match.

Yes happened on National Highway One near Crystal Brook.

spell_check wrote:

Wedgie wrote:Crikey, North and Norwood got over 19,000 people in Sydney for their game!

Thanks Spelly, great work as per usualy, you're a treasure to this site!

What I find interesting, is that for a supposed "country league" the SANFL only got 4,500 less than the VFL match there the year before.

Knowing Sydneysiders, they probably thought they were two Victorian sides.