SA Footy

Was there only one match? Does anyone have details of scorers, teams or best players? Found this pic from the match recently:

may 1990 wasn't it because Victoria played NSW instead of us as "punishment" for not joining the AFL.

Country (The Advertiser) beat City (The News). Papers got behind the different sides to help promote the game.

Country was coached by Cahill with Port support staff and City was coached by Cornes - with Glenelg Support staff as the two dominant clubs of the late 80s pre Crows era

IIRC correctly Schwerdt did his knee in that game.

Country wore red, City wore blue....

I believe a big part of the AFL's dummy spit was the existence of the player retention scheme too, boo bloody hoo!!!!

Only one match as far as I know and that was in 1990:

Country 8.3 12.7 17.9 23.15 (153)
City 4.5 7.14 11.22 14.28 (112)

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:may 1990 wasn't it because Victoria played NSW instead of us as "punishment" for not joining the AFL.

And NSW won that match!

Most memorable moment from that game was EJ's reaction to the loss.
Arms hanging over balcony railing, gaunt look on his face, looking as if
we'd just lost to SA.

FWIW, the SANFL recognizes the City v Country match as a state game...

In League, 'N.S.W. City versus N.S.W. Country' matches still remain a big deal!
However with interstate AFL draftees etc. the concept couldn't really work here in the SANFL nowadays!

I went to that game and may have the Football Budget from the game somewhere ..... I remember it as an exhibition game with no real passion on the field or in the crowd, but still a reasonable crowd in the circumstances I think.

Someone mentioned the old SANFL retention scheme ... might be an interesting thread to get the full list of players who were in that scheme. Rudi Mandermaker and Scott Salisbury are two names that come to mind. I remember a lot of debate about Michael Aish's absence from the scheme because of his low AFL prospects (due to age) at the time.

Although I dont have details...... Im pretty sure the 1990 match was not the first City v Country clash

There was only 1, i still have the budget and who scored what... will find it and report back.... the main thing i remember was Jakovich kicking 2.9 or something ridiculous like that.

The city -country game was played from memory due to no State of Origin that year ( i think ).. watch this space for more info

JamesH wrote:Although I dont have details...... Im pretty sure the 1990 match was not the first City v Country clash

I know they played City v Country matches in the late 1800's also played games billed as South v North (which I took to mean players North of the Torrens v players South of the Torrens).

I remember A. Jarman booting the ball into the crowd after a free kick was paid against him because he thought the game was a joke...

I don't recall being too interested either

Im pretty sure that the Football Budget for the week after the match stated it was the first City v Country since.......

I think Tregenza was named as BOG.

I didn't go to the game, but I remember it well 'coz I got lucky the night beforehand

Pseudo wrote:I didn't go to the game, but I remember it well 'coz I got lucky the night beforehand

The VFL obviously didn't...
Thinking that they could easily screw the SANFL!

hey you werent at lennies that night were you ? i remember being there with bayman and some other guys on a pussy hunt

The teams were:
Country:
F: Neave Stoeckel Hynes
HF: McAdam D.Smith Schache
C: Tregenza Abernethy Clarke
HB: G.Smith Phillips Champion
B: Seebohm O'Dwyer Lee
R: Redden Whittlesea Fielke
Int: McKinnon Dewhirst

City:
F: Jakovich Hodges Brown
HF: Williams Bennett Staritski
C: Payze A.Jarman Hutton
HB:Lindsay Clisby Thompson
B: Smart Schwartz Patterson
R: Negri D.Jarman Sims
Int: Christie Paynter

Scorers:
Country: Schache 6.0, Hynes 3.3, Fielke, D.Smith 3.1, Neave 2.0, Dewhirst 1.1, McAdam, Abernethy, Clarke, Redden, McKinnon 1.0, Stoeckel, Tregenza, G.Smith, Lee 0.1, Rushed 0.5.
City: Sims 3.1, Jakovich 2.7, Hodges, Hutton 2.3, Paynter, D.Jarman 1.2, Williams 1.1, Lindsay, Staritski 1.0, Bennett 0.2, A.Jarman 0.1, Rushed 0.6.

Best:
Country: McAdam, Tregenza, G.Smith, Schache, Redden, Champion, Fielke, D.Smith.
City: Sims, Hutton, Payze, A.Jarman, Smart.

At a rough guess 22 played AFL after that game.