Prediction time:
Ladder
Virginia - have got stronger
Mallala - have also added to list, Parish is big loss
Two Wells - will push for top 2, will improve with quality recruits
United - lost some quality but new coach and players will ensure they are better.
Balaklava - will push for finals, will miss J Walker
HWE - similar to previous years, lost a few
Angle Vale - will trouble a few teams, but largely unknown
Hamley - no reason to suggest they will be better

Goal kicker: Brendan Nicklaus (Virginia)
Mail Medalist: Nigel Osborn (Mallala)

Headed out to the tower on the weekend to watch the great Mark Pym play his 300th game ,what a legend. Congrats Marty a true champion of the club. What a let down the umpiring was . Still has not changed , complete muppets in my view , especially when the taller ruled a sliding free kick . Terrible . That rule does not even apply in the APFL I'm told. As usual they are not held to account and can do whatever they want depending on what mood they are in. United a little disappointing as well could not go on with a 19 point lead at 3/4 time , very sad for Marty .

Was very frustrating. Made worse by the other umpire saying to 1 of our players at the time that the rule doesn't exist in our league. Should have over ruled it on the spot if that's the case. You can't just make rules up. Plus the slide was actually because he dived head first and got 2 hands to the footy before the Hummocks player arrived to the contest. The taller umpire you referred to just simply is not up to standard, hasn't been for a long time, but you could say that about some players too, so I probably shouldn't complain. Ha.
It is not the reason we lost the game, in fact Hummocks won it by playing much better football than us particularly in the first 5 minutes and the last quarter, but a couple of dicey decisions that resulted in goals certainly helped build their momentum which we couldn't stop. Players make mistakes as well, but it would be nice if an ump just came up after the game and said "sorry lads I got that particular one wrong" but I doubt that will ever happen.

Have not been out to Kilburn for 20 odd years (change rooms were painted totally black back then) but how good are the facilities there now, great bar and viewing area to watch the footy. Kilburn too good for CLG in the A's.

Q. wrote:

ScubaSteve wrote:Can someone please tell me if the slide in rule is used in SAAFL.

Pretty sure it's not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM7gjb-9BDg&feature=em-upload_owner

10min 26sec mark

That's no good! Was a bloke from hectorville B grade that did the same to one our indigenous lads yesterday, no excuse for it

It would be in everyone's best interest to leave this one alone. She said/ he said if you all get it. It will pan out normally as it does. No need for SA Footy speculation on non facts.

On a lighter note it was great for me personally to finally meet The Big Shrek for the first time, after years of banter back and forth. He gave his all in the ruck, but was obviously carrying injury. Still a gun full back being played out of position. Taking it for the team. ;)

Sorry couldnt hang around for a beer mate but I was no good. Physio fixed up the neck andI prompt;y got pissed. In fact Im still pissed . If anyone can find my phone that would be good

Now that I've sobered up a bit and found my phone, time for a sensiblish post. Was nice to put a face to the Yank Man name and good to see the Edwardstown boys come in for a beer. It looks likely that we will meet again in the finals.

I understand a report/complaint has/will be made. The umpire spoke to the team manager about it during the game but I'm in the dark as to the details of what's going on. Needless to say we support the guys who had the comments directed at them. Edwardstown seem to me to be a very well run club full of decent people, it shouldn't reflect on them as a club, I'm certain that the overwhelming majority of people there would abhor racism as much as anyone. This certainly isn't an us vs Edwardstown thing.

Unfortunately racism is still a real issue. Sometimes it's overt and sometimes less obvious. I went to the Mundine vs Green fight this year and it was shocking there. I've got a mate who writes for the Advertiser and when he wrote an article about changing the date of Australia Day the comments on social media were atrocious. So despite the fact that when Eddie Betts had a banana thrown at him the public were baying for blood, a lot of the time racist behaviour goes uncondemned/unnoticed by the general public. I've been exposed to it mainly because of my Aboriginal friends through football. If it wasn't for that I'd probably wouldn't be that aware of the extent of it. When someone stands up and calls it out I think it's important to support them. If we don't it can perpetuate the effect of the abuse because not only has the person been abused, but then been disbelieved or ignored.

We've been lucky at Kilburn to have a lot of indegenous players over the years. We've also had Aboriginal rounds in previous years which have been pretty special occassions and great fun to play in. We've had dance and music performances, indegenous food and some language taught to us. One of our A grade players has had a documentary made about him and his work reinvigorating the Kaurna language, it was on tv last week. It made me proud of my club to see the hall full of people after the first dreamtime game at Kilburn learning about Aboriginal culture.

The guys involved in this are very proud of their heritage. We might be having another dreamtime game late this year. If we do I'd encourage everyone to come down it's a great day. Hopefully we can put this behind us in due course and have get on with creating some more good news stories and promote the indegenous culture we are fortunate enough to have.

Edwardstown well run and under control.What a crock. Last yr our laddies supporters were abused.Our runner was the subject of serious verbal vilification and two of our players were racially abused and nothing was done .
Houghton played Edwardstown last year? :? ;)

Nothing like getting the story from someone who was there... :lol:


i was posting on behalf of people from Pooraka football club who are currently still at the club and had to put up with the abuse last year racial slurs and sexual eundo..But a complaint was made and nothing ever happen guess going to the media will get results against a golden child club spoon fed into this league

What about Andy Graham the big dick playa?

I'm barracking for Beetlejuice.

If Galbraith wins I'm retiring from football, quitting Facebook, turning off my phone and moving to Syria. Will never hear the end of it.

Smokey for the medal is big bad Tommy Lipson who has kicked s few bags. I don't follow the results in the paper but I agree Merret is a serious player. Would have thought Murphy running around like an unregistered dog would probably poll a fair few.