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Just reading the paper this morning & noticed that Ciccolella drives straight past Elizabeth on his 130km trip to work & it also mentions that Ryan Viney was travelling from work in Tanunda to play/train for South at Noarlunga. Surely, players such as these would have to be targeted as potential recruits to Central, especially when you consider the lure of playing in such a successful side!

Mike Redden travelled a long way as well, why didn't he play for the dogs?

we weren't successful.

and there was a thing called player loyalty back then, as well.

CENTURION wrote:we weren't successful.

yeah, but only 'coz you didn't have Mick Redden

I recall stories of Rick Davies and Trevor Sims travelling a long way each week to play for Sturt.

CENTURION wrote:Just reading the paper this morning & noticed that Ciccolella drives straight past Elizabeth on his 130km trip to work & it also mentions that Ryan Viney was travelling from work in Tanunda to play/train for South at Noarlunga. Surely, players such as these would have to be targeted as potential recruits to Central, especially when you consider the lure of playing in such a successful side!

These players may drive straight past Elizabeth that doesnt mean the area that they live in is "Centrals Area" to play for the clubs they play for they must either live in their teams ZONE or not be wanted by the team whose zone it is they live in and From memory Cica lives in WWT zone .

Cicolella is from Port Wakefield I think? The gateway to the Yorke Peninsula which is WWT zone. Not sure if he still lives there now. Plenty of YP players playing for the Eagles at the moment including Westbrook and Skipworth.

He doesnt live there now cos in the article it says he drives to Port Wakefield 3 or 4 times a week to do a spot of fishing.

Aerie wrote:Cicolella is from Port Wakefield I think? The gateway to the Yorke Peninsula which is WWT zone. Not sure if he still lives there now. Plenty of YP players playing for the Eagles at the moment including Westbrook and Skipworth.

Well Aerie you just proved my point he lives or lived in a country area zoned to woodville west torrens , stiff that he has to drive past elizabeth !!

What I was getting at was if it is such an imposition to drive that far, why not play for a club that is closer, or get a job closer! We don't need the little prick, anyway!

CENTURION wrote:What I was getting at was if it is such an imposition to drive that far, why not play for a club that is closer, or get a job closer! We don't need the little prick, anyway!

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I think the key here is all of the footballers drive past ELIZABETH

He doesn't drive past Elizabeth - more like Virginia and Two Wells.

Ryan Viney was travelling from work in Tanunda to play/train for South at Noarlunga. Surely, players such as these would have to be targeted as potential recruits to Central, especially when you consider the lure of playing in such a successful side!

Salary Cap!!!

There is a salary cap?

I know they spent some time living in Adelaide, but I'd imagine the Maynard (Rodney and Brenton) boys did a bit of travelling throughout their SANFL careers

It's estimated that Mick Redden travelled 260,000 kms during his playing days at North Adelaide.

The late Brendon Howard use to travel from Port MacDonnell in the states South East to play every week and as far as I'm aware he also used to train at least once a week after the long trek as well as having worked from sparrow's fart in the morning pulling up craypots!!!!

Sturtpeter or someone else may be able to verify this one but I'm pretty sure this was the case.

I used to get up in the morning at 10.00 o'clock at night & go & work down mine for 30 hours, come home & drink cup of sulphuric acid & dad would slash us to death with a broken beer bottle & dance on our graves whilst singing Hallelulaj! Tell the youth of today that & they won't believe a word of it!

Luxury!