SA Footy

Big Phil wrote:

Jim05 wrote:

Big Phil wrote:Is there a recently delisted AFL player who could be returning home to SA but may not play for his oringal SANFL club?

Tapscott?

I think so, yes.

Well say it in your first post then. Just trying to rack up post numbers?

daysofourlives wrote:

Big Phil wrote:

Jim05 wrote:

Big Phil wrote:Is there a recently delisted AFL player who could be returning home to SA but may not play for his oringal SANFL club?

Tapscott?

I think so, yes.

Well say it in your first post then. Just trying to rack up post numbers?

Yes, that is right. I am going for a world record number of posts. Is that alright with you?

South Adelaide Football Club welcomes Ben Haren from Port Adelaide Magpies to the Club for the 2015 season.

At 197cm and 95kg Ben is a key position player that can play at either end of the ground. The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014. He was previously selected onto the Sydney Swans Rookie List in 2011

saintal wrote:The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014.

By my maths, that means he's played one pure league game.

RB wrote:

saintal wrote:The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014.

By my maths, that means he's played one pure league game.

One could argue that yes.

saintal wrote:South Adelaide Football Club welcomes Ben Haren from Port Adelaide Magpies to the Club for the 2015 season.

At 197cm and 95kg Ben is a key position player that can play at either end of the ground. The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014. He was previously selected onto the Sydney Swans Rookie List in 2011

Thats a good pick up and Port are weaker again from this.

stan wrote:

saintal wrote:South Adelaide Football Club welcomes Ben Haren from Port Adelaide Magpies to the Club for the 2015 season.

At 197cm and 95kg Ben is a key position player that can play at either end of the ground. The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014. He was previously selected onto the Sydney Swans Rookie List in 2011

Thats a good pick up and Port are weaker again from this.

He struggled in the port reserves in 2013 . Wouldn't say a huge pickup

FOOTY TALK wrote:

stan wrote:

saintal wrote:South Adelaide Football Club welcomes Ben Haren from Port Adelaide Magpies to the Club for the 2015 season.

At 197cm and 95kg Ben is a key position player that can play at either end of the ground. The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014. He was previously selected onto the Sydney Swans Rookie List in 2011

Thats a good pick up and Port are weaker again from this.

He struggled in the port reserves in 2013 . Wouldn't say a huge pickup

I said good pickup not huge.

FOOTY TALK wrote:

stan wrote:

saintal wrote:South Adelaide Football Club welcomes Ben Haren from Port Adelaide Magpies to the Club for the 2015 season.

At 197cm and 95kg Ben is a key position player that can play at either end of the ground. The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014. He was previously selected onto the Sydney Swans Rookie List in 2011

Thats a good pick up and Port are weaker again from this.

He struggled in the port reserves in 2013 . Wouldn't say a huge pickup

Obviously didn't see him last season

Tambling returning to the NT. Big loss for Sturt.

FOOTY TALK wrote:

stan wrote:

saintal wrote:South Adelaide Football Club welcomes Ben Haren from Port Adelaide Magpies to the Club for the 2015 season.

At 197cm and 95kg Ben is a key position player that can play at either end of the ground. The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014. He was previously selected onto the Sydney Swans Rookie List in 2011

Thats a good pick up and Port are weaker again from this.

He struggled in the port reserves in 2013 . Wouldn't say a huge pickup

thought he played some pretty reasonable footy for Port in 2014 before being dropped halfway through the year to make way for others....

blueandwhite wrote:

FOOTY TALK wrote:

stan wrote:

saintal wrote:South Adelaide Football Club welcomes Ben Haren from Port Adelaide Magpies to the Club for the 2015 season.

At 197cm and 95kg Ben is a key position player that can play at either end of the ground. The 21 year old has played 14 SANFL League matches with Port Adelaide including 13 in 2014. He was previously selected onto the Sydney Swans Rookie List in 2011

Thats a good pick up and Port are weaker again from this.

He struggled in the port reserves in 2013 . Wouldn't say a huge pickup

thought he played some pretty reasonable footy for Port in 2014 before being dropped halfway through the year to make way for others....

Yeah thats what I thought but time will tell.

saintal wrote:Tambling returning to the NT. Big loss for Sturt.

Yeah big loss along with Hinge and Kane. James Battersby returns which will help but losing a fair bit of experience.

As noted above:

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/2745/

Very big loss for us but glad to see Battersby is back. Anyone know much about this former Glenelg player Richard O'Grady that's mentioned as also signing for Sturt?

Millsie89 wrote:As noted above:

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/2745/

Very big loss for us but glad to see Battersby is back. Anyone know much about this former Glenelg player Richard O'Grady that's mentioned as also signing for Sturt?

Only played 2's at Glenelg I think, been playing in the South East the past couple of seasons.

heater31 wrote:

Millsie89 wrote:As noted above:

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/2745/

Very big loss for us but glad to see Battersby is back. Anyone know much about this former Glenelg player Richard O'Grady that's mentioned as also signing for Sturt?

Only played 2's at Glenelg I think, been playing in the South East the past couple of seasons.

Reserves Best and Fairest 2010, played 14 league games 2009-2011.

blueandwhite wrote:thought he played some pretty reasonable footy for Port in 2014 before being dropped halfway through the year to make way for others....

The question isn't why Haren's gone, but why anyone else who's SANFL league standard would stay unless their name is Steve Summerton.

Playing SANFL reserves in a club's 3rd-tier side, with promotion to the club's 2nds (and re-relegation back to its 3rds) based more on the number of injuries in the AFL squad then the merits of their form, on significantly less coin than they could be getting anywhere else (going out on a limb and presuming that Port are following the rules), ain't exactly selling it. What happened with Biemans in the finals and then Bruggemann in the grand final was like a big advertisement: 'Hey, SANFL players! Go somewhere else!'

Zac Milbank's list of major SANFL player movements this off-season:

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/2746/

Molineux and O'Brien back at Centrals?

Dogwatcher wrote:Molineux and O'Brien back at Centrals?

O'Brien definitely is