2007 SANFL Fixture - Full Details & Summaries

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good draw from a quick glance.

Biggest disgrace is Centrals bye in round 23. Why do the league improv some things each year and continually find ways to stuff up the next. Simple solution and most likely to avoid minor premier is giving the wooden spooner the bye at the end.

How can some teams have 2 byes before one has any?

I have always said sunday football is the best day to get crowds so well done.

Hard to have friday night football peoples when ther is no neutrl venue to have it at. Clubs would rather have so called neutral matches at home as have them on a friday at norwood surely? Well thats what theyve done.

As for good draw and bad draw analysis. I think its a load of crap. How do us NAFC supporters know for sure West Norwood and sturt will be easy beats. Look at North in 03 compared to 04. You are gonna get home and away games big bloody deal. North had a supposed shit draw more injuries than a war and went 16-4.

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All that matters is you get minimal 6 day breaks and not a bye in round 23 if ur top. I guess its nice to have crowd friendly programming too.

Otherwise just go and play. If ur good enough ul win.

[cd]

Wedgie – I know I should let go through to the keeper but ….

2006 all teams had 9 home games
2007 due to Adelaide Oval situation all teams have 10 home games, thus less neutral and better value for home match tickets.

2006 WWTFC moved one home game to Adelaide – Easter double header and one to Thebby leaving 7 home games at Woodville.

2007 WWTFC if a normal year would have had home game against Centrals moved to Adelaide for Anzac Day. This game instead has gone to Thebby, with 2 other home games leaving 7 at Woodville.

2006: 7 games at Woodville 3 at Thebby
2007: 7 games at Woodville 3 at Thebby

2006: 7 home games at Woodville, 1 at Thebby, 1 at Adelaide
2007: 7 home games at Woodville, 3 at Thebby

not much difference really

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Col D

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ur correct cd.

last year most teams had 2 neutrals and the other two neutrals turned into one home one away. this year its 4 neutrals turned into 2 home two away with the odd exception like Sturt taking their home match against north to adelaide in round 23.

Essentially u have 10 home 10 away in 2007. Im sure sturt could have played that at unley if they wanted to given all the other teams have the opportunity of playing 10 at home.

[Wedgie]

All the sponsor's names for the ovals are annoying - you have to decode them all first before you can make any sense out of the draw...

Shouldn't be too hard to work out the fixture I typed in considering no sponsors names have been included.

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Summary of 2007 SANFL Fixture:
Ratings (1 is best, 9 is worst)

Central:
10 home games
9 away games
1 neutral games
Plays Norwood, South, Eagles and North 3 times
Rating: 5

Glenelg:
10 home games
9 away games
1 neutral game
Plays Eagles, West, Sturt and Port 3 times
Rating: 3

North:
10 home games
9 away games
1 neutral game
Plays Norwood, Central, Sturt and West 3 times
Rating: 1

Norwood:
10 home games
10 away games
Plays Port, South, North and Central 3 times
Rating: 6

Port:
10 home games
10 away games
Plays Norwood, Sturt, Glenelg and South 3 times
Rating: 2

South:
9 home games
10 away games
1 neutral game
Plays Norwood, Port, Eagles and Central 3 times
Rating: 8

Sturt:
7 home games
10 away games
3 neutral games
Plays Port, West, Glenelg and North 3 times
Rating: 9

West:
9 home games
10 away games
1 neutral game
Plays Sturt, North, Glenelg and Eagles 3 times
Rating: 7

Eagles:
10 home games
8 away games
2 neutral games
Plays West, South, Central and Glenelg 3 times
Rating: 4

Stoked from a North supporters point of view but it does full circle as North and Port had the worse draws from memory in 2006 and get the best draws in 2007.

A freindly challenge to your neutral figures.

Centrals should have 2 thebarton and berri.

Eagles should have 3 encounter, thebarton and ao

six neutral games in all 3 at ao 1 at theb, berri and encounter

[Jimmy]

C'mon Jimmy - by bagging Lizbef, you're bagging your own mate. You can be a toffy nosed Sturt supporter all you like, but you still lived there....maybe it's the fact that it's part of your life that so offends, we tend to reject our own when we're trying to hide from things.

its called a sense of humour mate...

come on mate, you barrack for the Dogs, you grew up with a sense of humour

[sturtpeter]

I can understand Sturt opting to play the Roosters at AO in early September.

I fail to comprehend what happened to our proposed home game in the Country?

Westies get a game at Berri.

The Sturt Football Club has NO games at their mecca after Round 16.

[Wedgie]

Wedgie – I know I should let go through to the keeper but ….

2006 all teams had 9 home games

Heaps of difference mate, for eg North had 7 home games in 2006 and 10 home games in 2007.
In 2006 North had to play Port, Eagles, Glenelg and South 4 times (teams that came 5th, 1st, 4th and 6th in 2006)
In 2007 North play Norwood, Central, Sturt and West 4 times (teams that came 7th, 2nd, 8th and 9th in 2006)
Going from memory the Eagles had about 12 games at Thebby and Woodville in 2006 where this will be lowered to 10 in 2007.

You could make a lame argument that things change every year, of course they do but its pretty well known the teams who will be near the top and the teams who will be near the bottom, there will be the odd exception but a study of the comp over the course of over 100 years shows that its pretty easy to judge a pattern.

Also the big disadvantage to the Eagles in 2007 is they have to move "home" games to Thebarton (where they have a bigger advantage than Woodville) where in 2006 they got to play "neutral" games there.

Of course some teams choose to move "home" games and they have their reasons for it but it doesn't delete the disadvantage of it.

If you check out my analysis of the 2006 draw it proved to be pretty well spot on.
Of course things in 2007 would be thrown into chaos and would need reanlysis if the Dogs, North and Eagles take up the bottom 3 spots and Norwood, Sturt and West fight out the top 3 spots but I think we know that's not going to happen.

[sturtpeter]

Also... Of the 7 games played at picturesque Unley, 4 are played in June/July, traditionally the wettest months of the Season.

[Jimmy]

Stoked from a North supporters point of view but it does full circle as North and Port had the worse draws from memory in 2006 and get the best draws in 2007.

no excuses next year then

[Wedgie]

no excuses next year then

Definately not from a fixture's point of view.
If we had had the 2007 draw in 2006 and the Eagles the same I have no doubt we would have been minor premiers.
Still would have managed a way to choke though. Might have been worse as we might have lost 2 and not won 1 as opposed to losing 2 and winning 1!;)

[Jimmy]

Bye Rounds:

Central: 3, 16, 23
Eagles: 3, 9, 15
Glenelg: 1, 8, 20
North: 3, 7, 17
Norwood: 2, 11, 19
Port: 10, 16, 22
South: 6, 13, 21
Sturt: 5, 14, 18
West: 4, 12, 16

Interesting some of those byes. Port does not have a bye until Round 10 - Eagles and North will already have two at this stage.
Eagles will already have had all three byes before Port and Central have their 2nd.

yeah, ive noticed in recent years rounds between byes for a club get shorter and shorter....very weird.

[Jimmy]

Perhaps CP, but the fixture is supposedly balanced over time based on finishing positions and over the last 7 years the dogs have proven they are going to be at the pointy end come September. If that changes then so should the draw, but I reckon Sturt and West have well earnt the last 2 byes of next season, Norwood and Glenelg can take the next 2 back from that and the rest are probably less relevant, given that is a month out from finals.

Going purely on memory, the dogs have had the bye in the last or second last round 3-4 times since 2000 (including next year). That's just plain disruptive.

At least we got a bye before the ANZAC Game and no game for 10 days afterwards. Last year was a disgrace.

sturt had the bye last round in 04, its your turn, stop your bitching

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disgraceful percentage, and a loss to Norwood are why we wernt top.

[Jimmy]

SP, some good points there mate....

[Adelaide Hawk]

The draw never bothers me. No matters who plays who and when, the best 2 teams over the year will be in the GF.

[Jimmy]

The draw never bothers me. No matters who plays who and when, the best 2 teams over the year will be in the GF.

very true, but its good to discuss it. i think its exciting to see who you play and when.

[Wedgie]

The draw never bothers me. No matters who plays who and when, the best 2 teams over the year will be in the GF.

Disagreed, there's heaps of instances where the 2 teams that have won the most games (including instances where the 2nd team had a worse draw than the 3rd team) haven't played off in the GF.
Of course its not just the draw, there's quite often a lot of factors involved, ie choking, injuries, bad luck, etc.
If you'd said "the 2 most deserving teams will be in the GF" it would be a different story though and I'd tend to agree.

[cd]

Wedgie - minor point - in 2006 all teams had 9 designated home games - 2007 all have 10 designated home games.
I dont know where the roosters played their 9 in 2006 but you did have 9 not 7. You may have moved a couple from Prospect like we did from Woodville?

Everyone who bought a home match ticket got into their clubs designated home games.

In 2007 Eagles fans with the home match ticket get 3 at Thebby and 7 at Woodville - in 2006 their ticket got 7 Woodville, 1 Adelaide and 1 Thebby

2007 Home match tickets at the Eagles are great value - $80 for 10 games and you get full membership - saving $55 on gate price plus membership
2007 Season tickets at the Eagles also great value $110 for 20 games with full membership - saving $115

Col D