Credit to the Power Reserves players for looking like they cared about losing today.

If they had their way they'd build a shed that covers the whole of Victoria square, with surrounding streets devoted to car parking.
If asked about traffic, aesthetics or the historical attachment all South Australians have with the square, the answer would surely be a tear laden rant about where else they could put their bloody shed? They are the Adelaide Crows, after all, and rest of the state can just get out of their ******* way, or get ******* crushed.

Need a hug mate? Bloody hell...
Just telling it as it is.
Before they joined, the SANFL remained a viable alternative to the AFL. Then one day they demanded part of this competition as well, with the basic ultimatum of, "Let us in, or we will **** you over!"
I know you don't want to be following the bad guys, hence the truth will hit a sore spot.
On the other hand, I have followed this forum over the years and read you laughing at those posters who have chosen to give the comp (and possibly football itself) away altogether.
You can't have it both ways.

rinse. repeat. zzzzzz.
Which both ways* do I want it?
All I want is for you quitters to support your team through the good and bad times. SANFL is suffering because you choose to abandon the very club you want to succeed, because the big bad Crows (and Port, but we don't acknowledge them...). They need you more than ever yet you're on an internet forum looking for cheap laughs with your other SANFL cohorts.

I'd argue the SANFL quit on its supporters.

If you physically harm someone by king-hit etc you get arrested for assault and possible jail time, but if it takes place on a sporting field your only punishment is that you don’t get to play that sport for a number of weeks.

JK wrote:$3 for Whittaker to win by KO/TKO this weekend, good bet?

Not anymore.

My Wrestlemania thoughts:
-Am currently watching the tremendous NXT Takeover show. These are becoming more of a highlight than the WWE PPVs.
-Bret getting attacked at the Hall of Fame ceremony was horrible. With his health issues that could have gone a lot worse. Poor Bret just can't catch a break
-The Mania stage, which is usually a highlight, was really bland. After getting the same set-up for Raw, Smackdown and almost every PPV, the best they could come up with was a huge screen?
-Hogan made fun of himself for saying the wrong stadium name in his Mania 30 promo. He actually got it a bit wrong this year, saying Metlife Centre instead of Stadium.
-Heyman coming out and getting the title match happening straight away was good, making an interesting way to start the show. With the weak build up, it kind of made sense to run it early in the show. I don't think Rollins winning with a low-blow did him any favours though (although it did set up an eventual rematch).
-AJ vs Orton was fine. The huge pop from the crowd was apparently from the production crew turning off the blinding lights that made it impossible to look at the ring for many fans.
-For a 4-way tag, the tag-title match was good. 14 months ago Nakamura won the Rumble! Ricochet was a stand out, as he normally is.
-Miz vs Shane was done well (I don't recall that type of match with it going into the crowd happening at many Wrestlemanias). That is until the ending; it made no sense that Miz would do a suplex from that height (and the fall looked very weak on a heavily padded surface when the replay was shown).
-The women's tag match was a mess, and on a ridiculously long show it could have been left off. The Aussie girls, who did almost nothing all match, winning the titles made little sense. It sounds like Sasha Banks agrees.
-Kofi vs Bryan was easily match of the night. It didn't seem like this feud was a long-term plan at the start of the year, especially with the way it was booked in the weeks prior with Vince setting up a gauntlet match, and then another one the following week for no reason, was stupid. But despite WWE's efforts to stuff it up, the story told went down a treat. Daniel Bryan was definitely the MVP of the show. He should get some good heat if/when he wins the title back.
-I liked the way Samoa Joe was booked to look like a bad-ass. but a shame it had to be against Rey Mysterio, who deserves better than a 1-minute squash.
-Reigns vs McIntyre was ok. I thought Reigns coming back would have been a good time to freshen up his look, change his entrance song, introduce some new move-sets etc, but no, still the same thing after quite a few years. He'll be back to being heavily pushed (and "boo"ed by crowds) in no time.
-The build-up to HHH vs Batista made no sense, with Batista attacking Flair (who he has always talked up/respected) just to get a match with HHH (who he beat every time he faced during their feud a whopping 14 years ago). No surprise it was again HHH's match that was the longest on the show, and like his recent singles Wrestlemania matches it was boring and twice as long as it needed to be. A shame he didn't lose and have to retire (not that anyone thought he would) and just stick to booking great NXT shows.
-I was convinced Undertaker would 'walk with Elias' on the show - a huge shock that he didn't appear. Old-school Cena was a pleasant surprise, was great to see him come out not being all smiley and goofy.
-I hated everything about Kurt's retirement match against f'n Brian Corbin.
-Demon Balor winning the IC title was fine, but WWE don't seem to know what they want to do with Finn. He was far better as a heel in Japan - might be time to give that a go.
-The build-up to the main event was a couple months of mess, but the girls definitely should still have been the main event. Their entrances were cool. Being a 3-way was going to make it difficult to have a classic, as was the tired crowd (apparently it was after midnight when the match started!). Becky didn't really shine in the match like she should have, and the horribly booked & executed ending ruined it a fair bit, but it was certainly not from a lack of effort. A Rousey vs Lynch match would be huge and could headline next year's show (especially considering that there are not many men's match-ups that could at this stage).
-7/10 overall for me for this year's show. It kept me awake on what was a very late night watching it all after work.

The SANFL and its clubs are not good at spending money to make money.

I think Power will be more keen to win this one than their previous 2 SANFL Grand Finals, as they can use it to take focus off another failed season from their AFL side.

Bays stopped both the Crows and Power from winning the SANFL premiership this year - rightful winners.

Crows and Power will be back in the SANFL next year. Their reserves sides have been an integral part of their development and incredible success in the AFL in the past 6 years.

Hender's free kick in the last quarter was one of the worst decisions I have ever witnessed in over 30 years of going to the football.

gazzamagoo wrote:

Brett wrote:South easily and I think and this is their best chance since 91

Wouldn't that suck, South finally win a flag after all this time, but in this "irrelevant" season.
South by 8 goals.

This season has teams playing 14 proper SANFL games, the same as 2014-2019.

The Eagles wearing the same colour as the Eagles is very appropriate.

Both Crows & Power broke their contract with the SANFL this year. The comp has not been any worse without them (apart from clubs missing out on the money from the Crows). Perfect time to get rid of them.

Wedgie wrote:

Mic wrote:Did the Advertiser actually have the Brownlow medalist as their main front page story today?

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Thanks Wedgie.

What hope does our comp have when it can't even get the headlines over an individual award in a team sport?

Life is good with footy results on the weekend.
SANFL season 2020 was the purest and most important to be contested for a very, very, long time.
No AFL reserves influence, players not being paid, just playing on passion and heart.
Eagles gave a 3 goal head start to the Adelaide oval, finals, specialists, with a massive crowd advantage and a week off to rest.
Turns out the Eagles turned on the most potent, high scoring quarter of footy in any game this season, let alone a final, let alone a grand final.
So many good players for the Eagles. Some Highlights……….
Foote – simply brilliant, and deadly accurate. 4 goals from a midfielder in a GF.
Toumpas – highest disposal game and presented well with a big improvement on 2 weeks ago.
Angus – best finals game saved for the big stage – 2 goals in 2 minutes, checkside beauty right in front of us.
Redds, playing under duress, set up so many clearances with his centre square taps, especially in 2nd quarter.
Luke Thompson – cool and calm, repelled many attacks
McNeil – silky smooth pace and nice goal during the avalanche.
Rowe – despite a tight defender still snagged 2.
Lowson telling his opponent to look at the scoreboard after slotting a tight angle goal
Some lowlights
Cocky cocks fans – check out @shitadelaide for a quality North fan now going viral. Not social media viral either. Queens head efforts from north fans who left early.
North number 9 – serial sniper seemed to concuss himself with an attempt at hurting an opponent with his head.

Number 1 theme for north continuing in a bad, bad way.
1 (One) Goal Grand Final – 89
1 – guernsey number of Wigg (clearly best for north…..but)
1 – total of Jack Oatey medal votes, for the whole North Adelaide team, earned by Harrison, (Eagles Team collectively awarded 47 votes from the 8 judges)
“Double 1” numbered player – Allmond, diving and getting an absolute bath – trademark pathetic GF effort from him
1 – number of clubs Schwarz played for before becoming a quitter and refusing to play reserves, and having Daddy CEO pressure the coach to play league for the Eagles. (actually he would have fitted right in to your reserves losing team)
1 gutless elbow drop from North number four early on, missing its mark

And I guess there was plenty of Karma for the cheating and gloating in 2018.
Eagles reserves defeating North
Eagles League team conceding a 3 goal headstart, then it must have then felt like the Eagles had 22 players on the field in that devastating, match winning, premiership deciding, second quarter of Gold, green and Blue.
There is a good youtube highlights package of this. Sound was not working today with North’s QC’s apparently injuncting any sound of the bawling of the north fans during the onslaught.

Go You Mighty Eagles – 2020 Reserve and League Champions.
Chimney tomorrow, last ever, saving the best colours till last!!!!!!!!

Don’t you have to be above the age of 18 to post on here?

Eagles Nest wrote:I see that Jarred Allmond won North's Most Consistent Award for 2020.
He must have polled well in the minor round as he certainly went missing in the Grand Final.
Goldy says hello by the way

I bet you’re one of those Crows supporters who still boo Dangerfield when he plays in Adelaide.

I see that Jarred Allmond won North's Most Consistent Award for 2020.
He must have polled well in the minor round as he certainly went missing in the Grand Final.
Goldy says hello by the way

I bet you’re one of those Crows supporters who still boo Dangerfield when he plays in Adelaide.

Typical North fan deflecting their team lost the grand final against the Eagles lmao

No, I commented on a post about North’s player awards that was in an Eagles 2020 Premiers thread.

Has there been any talk of an AFL hubs again due to recent Covid cases in the eastern states? Might impact the number of teams in our comp again this year.

Booney wrote:No report from the North lads?

No need, there's plenty of reports on this thread already and Eagles supporters' views on football are always the most accurate and balanced.

This is ******* bullshit.
Every time there is a case it is now standard procedure to throw a state into lockdown. Then it takes a few months to return to where that state was before the lockdown with regards to the "rules"
It seems to me that everytime a state gets close to full freedom another "case" magically appears.

If people cant see this has nothing to do with health by now i dont think they ever will.
One fng case, please,

This is the CCP reaction to losing the belt and road in Victoria, get their other puppet to cause chaos.

If it's not about health, what is it about then?

Its about controlling your life, taking away freedoms little by little.
Health passports are on the way, make no mistake, have a look at how people are controlled in China.
Also be prepared for the possibility of a lockdown in SA this weekend. I believe the State of Emergency runs out at beginning of May. Without the SOE they can not put the experimental vaccine into anyone.
The WA SOE ran out last Friday and surprise surprise there's a "case"
The QLD lockdown was also at the time the SOE ran out.
Surely more and more people are starting to see the scam that it is.

So it's the government trying to control us? I don't see how any government has benefited from Covid.

FFS, now they are putting healthy people into the medi hotel. All 40 from a barrel room at Tenefeate Winery are in a medi hotel, 10 are positive and you wonder why I and others dont use the QR check in, a real superspreader ffs
Oh and every single one of them has had their day 5 test

Yes, I really do wonder why people choose not to use the (very quick & easy) QR code check-in.

Dogs64 wrote:So, since the advent of the 2 reserve teams the afl clubs have made one gf between them and won none. I wouldn't think it was worth destroying the SANFL for.

And after 8 years of being in the AFL (without reserves sides) the 2 clubs had won 3 premierships between them.

After 30 years of almost always making the finals but only winning a few premierships, the Eagles have certainly got it all together in the past 2 years, with 2 one-sided grand final wins in a row. The fact that their coach has re-signed, and how well they seem to replace departing players, suggests they are likely to be on top for quite a while.

From continually giving into the 2 AFL clubs to raising prices of games/memberships, I have no idea what those in charge of the SANFL and its clubs are doing.

The entire 1989 GF and the 2nd quarter of 2020 GF.

tnt wrote:Reckon Port have had only one win at the Parade in the last decade

They've only played at the Parade since 2014 though.

With the Eagles having played on Monday, why isn't this game on Sunday?

Riley Knight (Eagles)
4.00
Aaron Young (North Adelaide)
4.50
Mitch O'Neill (South Adelaide)
8.50
Harrison Wigg (North Adelaide)
9.50
Luke Partington (Glenelg)
10.00
Patrick Wilson (Sturt)
12.00
Campbell Combe (North Adelaide)
15.00
Nikolaus Rokahr (Norwood)
17.00

Aaron Young
Campbell Coombe
Harrison Wigg

Riley Knight

I reckon Young, Coombe & Wigg will steal votes off each other this year and therefore none of them will win it.

"We'll have our staff (who your players will call "Richmond"), walking around with fake guns, putting players in harnesses, berating them about their past, that sort of thing."

"Sounds great, book us in."

Who from the Crows was directly responsible for this complete farce?

Did Koch say what his problem with the SANFL's conditions are? What does he actually want changed?

Power don't pay anything, unlike the Crows. Apart from the Eagles, they have made the GFs more than any other team since their inception in 2014. Baffling.

Is having Power Reserves' games scheduled to align with their AFL team's games one of those unfair conditions Koch was referring to?

Hopefully gets suspended for 2 weeks for his comments.

Got crashed into and my car was written off.

Looks almost impossible to get a brand new car in our price range, certain size and availability that's not too far away.

Anyone here bought/had an MG? It's one of the very few brands that can be available by the end of the year.

Drove an MG around Perth last weekend, good car and would consider getting one, although air con struggled and it was only 25 degrees!

I’m driving one now in Brisbane for work.
Looks great but drives shit house.
No guts when accelerating.

Test drove one on Saturday morning. Liked it but also did not like the lack of power when I put my foot down (also found the indicator on the left hand side to be annoying).

We actually found a brand-new i30 (which was my previous car, just an older model) available in Murray Bridge, which had only arrived a couple days prior (still had a heap of covering/plastic on it, which got a few looks from people who we went past when taking it for a test drive). Really liked it, so we now have a new car that we can pick up this Friday. Very, very lucky; most are a 4-6 month wait at least.

Thanks again for the replies.

Dutchy wrote:Work show tonight clashing with the footy commencing

Still 2 weeks away.

Based on this year's, it might be time to end state games.

locky801 wrote:Roosters not travelling well right now but should win this by 8 points

Both statements correct.

Mic wrote:North to run South into form. Panthers by 30 points.

Seems I underestimated North, only losing by 27.

whufc wrote:Only a minor thing but really didn’t like our guys walking off before the review was completed.

Disrespectful. They looked ridiculous.

It's always an ugly game at Richmond, but North took it to a new level.

Season over for the extremely overrated Roosters.

Has there ever been 2 SANFL grand finalists who have been so rotten the following year?

Why would the SANFL organise an event that stops fans of the GF teams from going back to their clubs after the game?

Before 2014, Crows and Power claimed that having reserves sides was integral to the development of their players, and that the AFL sides who had reserves sides had an advantage over them.
It only took Crows 8 years to win 2 premierships, and Power 8 years to win 1, while they both had their 'reserves players' spread amongst the SANFL clubs.
In the 9 seasons since they have have their own separate reserves teams in the SANFL, Crows have only had 1 AFL GF appearance and Power have had no AFL GF appearances.

Big Phil wrote:Jimmy Allan is an OUT as an Assistant Coach at North Adelaide.

Got the Senior Coaching gig at Werribee over in the VFL competition.

Devastating news.

My 5-year-old boy saying (at 7:30pm this evening) that he wants to stay up all night with Dad (me) to watch the cricket.
Look forward to when he's old enough to do so.

The 20th of November should be officially made national Head Day.

nwdfanparade wrote:What if the VFL wants to impose restrictions (similar to the SANFL's restrictions ) because the VFL considers PA's reserve side to be stronger than the VFL sides and PA says no thanks we'll stay in the SANFL?

That will give Power someone new to blame for their lack of success.

Sajid took it well.

Great Summer for bills so far. Only had the air con on and had to water the garden a couple times.

DOC wrote:Anyone ever watched “ Barry” and if so any good?

Yes and yes.