ok, compromised massively then. And I don't give a fat rat's clacker if we DO finish bottom, I've seen us win 9 flags, that's pretty good I reckon.
I'd rather win the spoon in this COMPROMISED season than any other!
If Centrals were in South’s position this year you’d be singing a different tune...
I can 100% guarantee you I wouldn't, yes it would be a flag but with a somewhat "unusual" feeling about it.

Well I'll tell you one thing... if by some chance the team I support stumbles into the GF and by some freak of nature manages to win the flag this year.. if some flog comes up to me and says its compromised...... :shock: :shock:

Also...
Very classy from the centrals coach, the Menzels and a few other Centrals players who came into Jimmy Deanes for a drink post match. Great to see.

Hopefully the SANFL tribunal remains consistent in reprimanding players after finding them guilty for blatant breaches of the game for the rest of the year.
Contrary to you Doc I believe Haren and Highmore will both play.
South went very close last time, poor kicking for goal proving very costly.
Hunter v Baulderstone duel will be enthralling.
South use the vast acreage at Flinders Uni Stadium well, and I expect them to get over the line and secure a finals spot, end Norwoods finals dream and put a fullstop on Cottons tenure at Norwood.

Godden let go by the Crows. I wonder if he and Mattner will coach SANFL again next year?

Should be in demand I'd think..from what I understand there will be at least 3 new coaches at League level next year, possibly 4.
The salary cap will reduced by 50% as well- a disaster for the SANFL. Players will be heading for the bush and earn more for less commitment.
Going to be a very interesting off season with player movement as well...

A big investment by South in its local juniors is beginning to bear fruit.
Some of the bigger names had a quiet day today, but to their credit the youngsters werent over awed and stepped up to the plate.
Wilkinson,Mcgreery, Sampson,Horne and Bogle arent household names... but one or two of them certainly will be in years to come.
A great win today, but lots more to play for next week.
Go Panthers!

Eagles and finals are most seasons where as South are not quite as regular.

Thinking only Joel Cross has played in a preliminary final before and the Eagles still have a number from 2018.

A game apiece during the minor round.

South appear set for a selection headache with Tyson Brown fit but do you drop anybody from that team?

Forecast is great and I already can't wait.

Might not need to drop anyone, has Overall been sighted for the high hit in the first quarter??? From the stands it looked late and very high so wouldn’t be surprised if he got a week off

Did someone mention Partington.... :roll:

Spargo wrote:

blueandwhite wrote:didnt see it so I cant comment.
Can you comment on Partingtons..?

Why would you bring up an incident totally irrelevant to the one mentioned?

Why would you bring up an incident that allegedly occurred under a topic that doesnt even concern the tigers?just throwing out some bait I guess..

southee wrote:

DOC wrote:Sure as eggs Hunter will get drafted now.

My first thoughts too .....

No question,,, but they'll leave it until the pre season draft to do us over properly..

Puopolo signs with Norwood.
Some great recruiting there by Norwood to quickly fill the large void left with Szusts' departure....

Buddha Hocking in the mix...??

South dudded again.
After being the first club in Australia to have a crack at Good Friday Footy, and making a success of it , its fair to say we've drawn "the Crow "!
The game which sees us playing The Crows, will as per usual be a financial disaster for the club-its barely worth opening the gates.
The crows have very little or no support at SANFL level; and those few that do attend will drive in seated in their Toyota Camrys, bring their own Thermos of tea, a knee rug and Apricot slices, and spend zero at our food outlets.
A far better option would have been South playing Glenelg, which was the original Good Friday fixture which proved to be very well attended in the past. Also with former Glenelg favourite son Bryce Gibbs donning the Navy Blue and White it may have added a little more spice to the game. :roll:

Re Hunter..
this as an absolute bloody joke.
If you know of any gangly young 200cm ruckmen, send them to South and they will be ushered onto an afl list almost immediately. 4 bloody years in a row this has happened with a few weeks to commence the season...

2018 Keegan Brooksby (West Coast)
2019 Hayden McLean (Sydney), Michael Knoll (Sydney)
2020 Keegan Brooksby (Hawthorn)
2021 Paul Hunter

AFL clubs have 2 drafts to select players for the upcoming season back in early december. They have 6-7 scouts and team list managers et al to select players, then at the last f---g minute they decide they might just go and grab so and so from a state league club and put him on the rookie list as insurance. The player will then train his guts out 5 nights a week to play in some pissy b grade team in ahalf baked reserves comp that probably wont get off the ground any way' and never play an AFL game :twisted: :evil: :twisted: . ffs!!

Not a betting man ... but South @ 9.00 isnt a bad bet.....

Dutchy wrote:Well done to Nobes, certainly a talent, must have had a huge pre-season.

He has.

Port Adelaide are NOT a member club of the SANFL. They are the reserves team of an AFL franchise playing under license in the SANFL.
Port Adelaide are not paying to play in the SANFL, unlike the Crows who are paying a couple of hundred k per year.
Port Adelaide have not yet paid the SANFL for the license fee they purchased from the SANFL.They are 12 mill in debt currently.
Port Adelaide were financially propped up by the SANFL prior to transferring to Adelaide Oval for many years, I was told somewhere north of 20 mill.in total.

As far as Im concerned Port Adelaide can go and take a long walk on a short jetty.

Jim05 wrote:Good win by the flag favourites.
I fear the rest of us are just making up the numbers

Good to see Knoll racking up those mountainous stats on a weekly basis...When is the mid season draft again...?

Great game, and a great win.
Really happy with the way we persisted after what I thought was a poor first quarter.
Against a quality midfield of Rockliff and P-P and two towering ruckman in Hayes and Ladhams it was always going to be tough.
Broadbent BOG buy the length of the Southern expressway. Skinner and Fitt were always dangerous and Summerton and Haines were very good in defence also.
Great to be a Southie atm, looking forward to next week. :D

Bays v South should have been Good friday... but the SANFL does the draw so there you go....

Looking forward to this game , however it wont be easy.
South with a mounting injury count- 9 of first 25 out injured, and a couple under a cloud....however core of the side in tact.
South to get the job done on the vast acreage of Flinders Uni Stadium..

Joel Cross will play his 200th. What a fantastic servant for the club he has been; his CV is outstanding..but sadly missing is a Premiership..

200 games
State representative multiple times, Captain on 2 occasions
South Adelaide Captain 2018-20
2 Magarey Medals
4 Knuckey cups
2 Shearman Medals
IMO 1 of the 5 greatest players to wear the Blue and White in the club's 145 years.

Great win by Eagles.
margin flattered South IMO, even though the combine kicked 3 in the last 5 minutes.
Souths decision making and skill execution was very poor. In most statistical categories South were around the mark; but if you are going to kick the ball on top of your forwards heads, over their heads , 5 metres wide of them, or straight to the opposition -you are not going to get close to winning.
Redden completely dominated the centre bounces, often gathering the ball himself, just too big for South to combat, seeing we havent got a ruckman.
Caillotto battled manfully but he was ragdolled by Redden.
South with too many not contributing. Time for some who seem to have a gold pass to be dropped for a few weeks, theyve let the coach and their team mates down too often imo.

Hayes on the CH 7 News had a shocker.....I learnt that Partington had won the Brownlow Medal and that South were going in unchanged...must have had a long lunch I think.
South with the return of Broadbent will be too good for Norwood. Eagles to get over Bays.

2021 Knuckey Cup
1st , Bryce Gibbs
2nd Joe Haines
3rd Haydn Sampson

I hope Jack Hayes gets his chance in the AFL. Can't believe he is not on a list. His work as a mobile ruck over the last couple of years adds to his credentials to be capable of being a roaming forward at AFL level who can work up the ground and deliver inside 50 or a key forward who can take a good mark either in a pack or on the lead. Still only 24. Obviously would be a huge loss to the Eagles if he gets listed!

I'd suggest Sheedy knew that this might happen and why we went so hard for Ballenden.

went extremely hard at Ballenden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :roll:

Appalling.

Cant believe what I saw today....still in shock.....
what a difference when you have 22 players who to a man- have a crack.....
Brooksby had a field day- BOG by a mile.....gave our mids -who were minus Davis and O'Neill - our best 2 players this year imo, an armchair ride.

great to see the Glenelg coach and players having a quiet beer in Jimmy Deames at the pressos, classy.

I suspect as others have mentioned that it is both a deflection to take the heat off Hinkley and an ambit claim to get a better deal from the SANFL.

Port Adelaide magpies since its merger with the Port Adelaide AFL franchise has become "one club."
The fact is, the only reason the magpie name still exists, is a marketing exercise by the AFL franchise to garner support from those magpie diehards who still embrace the sanfl magpies.
The Port Adelaide Magpies team that currently plays in the sanfl is in fact an AFL reserves team, playing by license in the SANFL.
Port Adelaide have NOT been a member club of the SANFL since the "one club" merger.
Like the Crows they do NOT have a delegate who sits on the SANFL League club delegates table.
The Crows are paying the SANFL to field a reserves side in the SANFL.-Port Adelaide are not.

Before the "one club" merger the SANFL bailed Port Adelaide out of financial ruin - both SANFL and AFL (when they held the license) on numerous occasions .In fact the week before Port Adelaide played its first game at Adelaide Oval,Port asked the SANFL for a further 1 mill to see them through.
The SANFL went into debt, to borrow money to give to Port Adelaide to keep them afloat. Port Adelaide could not get a loan from anyone.

The SANFL have bent over backwards for Port Adelaide. they have helped them financially to survive. The SANFL have changed vast numbers of rules and requirements for them to field a team in the SANFL and compromised the competition to accommodate them.

As for Kochy bleating about a game where Finlayson was the only senior player representing them in an SANFL game earlier in the year....Not that he would know or even care...but Finlayson's salary alone would be more than double the opposing teams entire salary cap for the year.

If Port Adelaide want a better deal,then go elsewhere.

Well,thats the season gone,if it wasnt gone already.
Its just a bloody awful shame that the players dont have the same desire to end a 58 year premiership drought, as the few die hard supporters that still follow this club.

Panthers by 9 points.
Hot showers for all at Noarlunga.
Not sure how "the combine" will handle a game where they actually have to run on top of the surface.....

Not a game for the highlight reel at Noarlunga today- a real game of the defences and it boiled down to who made the most of their opportunities. Thankfully, for a welcome change South were more accurate after giving "the combine" a 3 goal start.
brooksby was in control in the ruck from the start but the eagles mids seemed to take advantage- that changed in the second quarter and I felt South after gaining the lead were always on top. However the eagles fought back late in the game and threatened to snatch a win.
Loved Elis Smiths second half and I thought Skinner and Clavarino were very good in defence.

Alf retired from league footy in 1970 because of a heart condition. he underwent surgery for a aorta valve replacement- a procedure which was very new in those times. His specialist gave him 10 years to live post surgery...... :roll:
Alf finally succumbed after a battle with cancer...
An extraordinary man- one of the nicest men Ive had the pleasure of meeting.
Condolences to his family..

South Adelaide's Bryce Gibbs will retire from SANFL footy after Saturdays match v Glenelg