2018 fixture

[WasaVicnowaSAboy]

Hi all, does anyone know when the 2018 SANFL fixture will be released now that the AFL schedule is out?
I believe NEAFL are playing SANFL in next year's state game?
Cheers

[mighty_tiger_79]

Mid december

[Booney]

With only 1 AFL game in Adelaide on a Saturday afternoon ( Port v Brisbane in the first week of April ) we should expect SANFL football to be back in it's rightful home at 2pm Saturday afternoon.

Over to you, SANFL.

[Jim05]

With only 1 AFL game in Adelaide on a Saturday afternoon ( Port v Brisbane in the first week of April ) we should expect SANFL football to be back in it's rightful home at 2pm Saturday afternoon.

Over to you, SANFL.

Only 4 AFL games for the year at the traditional Saturday arvo slot. Heaps of 4pm starts, old Gil is conditioning us for a twilight GF

[Dutchy]

With only 1 AFL game in Adelaide on a Saturday afternoon ( Port v Brisbane in the first week of April ) we should expect SANFL football to be back in it's rightful home at 2pm Saturday afternoon.

Over to you, SANFL.

Not what the SANFL have mentioned, they are talking about much more Sunday footy

[mighty_tiger_79]

Lots of tv double headers with SANFL coverage leading into AFL...

[WasaVicnowaSAboy]

Anyone heard whispers about the 2018 state game? Are the SANFL playing at home or away?

[PhilH]

By rotation it should be WAFL here .... WAFL d VFL in Melbourne for first time EVER this year.

[therisingblues]

I think I am going to need more information there Phil.

I am pretty sure that back in the 80's and previous, the VFL regarded SA as a warm up for the real enemy: WA. Yet we had beaten the Vics on the MCG at least a couple of times before the 80's.

How then could WA not have at least equaled that achievement if they were the "real" enemy, and we were just the "warm up"?

[Wedgie]

I think I am going to need more information there Phil.

I am pretty sure that back in the 80's and previous, the VFL regarded SA as a warm up for the real enemy: WA. Yet we had beaten the Vics on the MCG at least a couple of times before the 80's.

How then could WA not have at least equaled that achievement if they were the "real" enemy, and we were just the "warm up"?

No more info required, what Phil says is a straight out fact.
None of the 80s games between WA and Victoria were in Melbourne, and even then it was SOO not WAFL v VFL.
WA weren't regarded as the "real" enemy at any time but were regarded as stronger than SA at various points of history.

In 58 the WAFL beat the VFA at the MCG which some may argue evolved into the current VFL but I would say they're different due to what went on in the 90s and onwards.

[therisingblues]

Thanks for that Wedgie.
I had just assumed they had beaten the Vics at their home at some stage. This just based on the rhetoric that came out of Victoria during the early 80's to about the late eighties (late nineties even?) where SA more than matched the Vics on the Origin stage. Something along the lines of what I posted earlier. But that might have just been a mix of snobbery and sour grapes.

[RB]

Thanks for that Wedgie.
I had just assumed they had beaten the Vics at their home at some stage. This just based on the rhetoric that came out of Victoria during the early 80's to about the late eighties (late nineties even?) where SA more than matched the Vics on the Origin stage.

Well South Australia/the SANFL last won in Melbourne in 1993, and before that in 1963, and before that in 1926, so it wasn't easy to win there. In that period in the '80s when SA consistently pushed or defeated the Vics just about all the games were in Adelaide I think.

[therisingblues]

Thanks for that Wedgie.
I had just assumed they had beaten the Vics at their home at some stage. This just based on the rhetoric that came out of Victoria during the early 80's to about the late eighties (late nineties even?) where SA more than matched the Vics on the Origin stage.

Well South Australia/the SANFL last won in Melbourne in 1993, and before that in 1963, and before that in 1926, so it wasn't easy to win there. In that period in the '80s when SA consistently pushed or defeated the Vics just about all the games were in Adelaide I think.

Yes, that is right RB.
The Vics believed that playing us on their home turf would be so lop sided that they couldn't even be bothered with it. But by the late 80's they finally had to admit that it was perhaps worthwhile. In 1989 we played them over there, and we got pummeled.
I think that state games were not so regular during the 70's, however. I think they were played once every 3 years or so during certain periods. I remember after we smashed them at Footy Park in '83, a newspaper article mentioned that we hadn't even beaten the Vics since 1970, or something like that. But then there had only been about 3 state games played between the two in all that time IIRC, so it could be made to sound worse than it was.

[PhilH]

I think this covers it, always enjoy John Townsend's articles ... he helped Life FM call the last game in Perth ... rusted on WAFL man.

https://thewest.com.au/sport/the-tuesday-wafl---vfl-demise-a-warning-to-wa-football-ng-b88491770z

[therisingblues]

I think this covers it, always enjoy John Townsend's articles ... he helped Life FM call the last game in Perth ... rusted on WAFL man.

https://thewest.com.au/sport/the-tuesday-wafl---vfl-demise-a-warning-to-wa-football-ng-b88491770z

I think I know another thread where this article belongs mate. I'll copy and paste now.

[scott]

Hearing the SANFL draw is due out next Saturday (normally is out around this time anyway).

Rumour that the season will start Easter weekend - not sure if Easter Thursday or Good Friday for first game/s. There's AFL at Adelaide Oval Thursday night so doubt they'll go head-to-head with that to kick things off. Could have five unique time slots for matches which would be awesome - Good Friday arvo, night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday to kick the season off in style. Three Friday night games last year to start was ok, but to have only 3-4 Fri nights after that was a bit sad.

An Easter start makes for 18 rounds (plus three split rounds and the state game weekend = 4 byes each team) which has the SANFL Grand Final the weekend before the AFL again as per usual.

Only thing confirmed at this stage is Sturt v Port on ANZAC Day as a double-header with the Women's Grand Final.

Women's League starts first weekend in February (same as AFLW) and runs for 10 weeks with two weeks of finals I believe.

[Dogwatcher]

Great the Anzac Day game is a double-header.

I'm really hopeful that the SANFL will soon run with this as a more regular program - having the women's games prior to the senior matches.
I think that would be a bit visionary, plus it will help to build a strong community around SANFL clubs.

[vics01]

I'm really hopeful that the SANFL will soon run with this as a more regular program - having the women's games prior to the senior matches.
I think that would be a bit visionary, plus it will help to build a strong community around SANFL clubs.

Ressies play when??

Woman as a curtain raiser to the 16's would more appropriate for the standard.

[Dogsbody]

I read something from WA that they will be coming here in 2018, starting an annual defence of the Haydn Bunton Trophy.

Furthermore, there was mention that the other three competitions are sitting out rep football next year.

[scott]

South are playing Glenelg in Round 1 at Noarlunga on Good Friday.