Round 1
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:00 pm
Round 1 courtesy of Channel 7
Spargo wrote:Excuse my ignorance, why are we playing 4 games on Good Friday & none on Easter Saturday, Sunday or Monday?
Spargo wrote:Excuse my ignorance, why are we playing 4 games on Good Friday & none on Easter Saturday, Sunday or Monday?
RB wrote:Any reason been given for why the South Adelaide game is at 1.10?
The Eagles game is the TV game.
The Crows first XVIII aren't playing till 7.20 that night.
RB wrote:I'll grant that it takes a long time to get down to Noarlunga Oval (or Southern Elizabeth Oval as it's also known). I think the Crows staff could probably manage the trip back within 2 and a half hours though.
blueandwhite wrote:South dudded again.
After being the first club in Australia to have a crack at Good Friday Footy, and making a success of it , its fair to say we've drawn "the Crow "!
The game which sees us playing The Crows, will as per usual be a financial disaster for the club-its barely worth opening the gates.
The crows have very little or no support at SANFL level; and those few that do attend will drive in seated in their Toyota Camrys, bring their own Thermos of tea, a knee rug and Apricot slices, and spend zero at our food outlets.
A far better option would have been South playing Glenelg, which was the original Good Friday fixture which proved to be very well attended in the past. Also with former Glenelg favourite son Bryce Gibbs donning the Navy Blue and White it may have added a little more spice to the game.
blueandwhite wrote:South dudded again.
After being the first club in Australia to have a crack at Good Friday Footy, and making a success of it , its fair to say we've drawn "the Crow "!
The game which sees us playing The Crows, will as per usual be a financial disaster for the club-its barely worth opening the gates.
The crows have very little or no support at SANFL level; and those few that do attend will drive in seated in their Toyota Camrys, bring their own Thermos of tea, a knee rug and Apricot slices, and spend zero at our food outlets.
A far better option would have been South playing Glenelg, which was the original Good Friday fixture which proved to be very well attended in the past. Also with former Glenelg favourite son Bryce Gibbs donning the Navy Blue and White it may have added a little more spice to the game.
RB wrote:I don't reckon there's been an SANFL game on Easter Monday in 25 years+. (Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.)
I assume because they like generally to schedule a couple on Thursday night, and more recently Friday, and it throws the fixture for next week out of whack if you've got big discrepancies between teams in terms of days since last match.
Easter Sunday is a terribly bad day for footy so I understand why they give that one a miss. Am a bit surprised they didn't schedule one on the Saturday.
Spargo wrote:Excuse my ignorance, why are we playing 4 games on Good Friday & none on Easter Saturday, Sunday or Monday?
southernbulldog wrote:Mentioned in the Advertiser we have a challenging first round match against North .Wont be our only challenging game unfortunately we appear to be a long way off the other clubs with who we have picked up and it could be a long long season .Would love to be wrong and hope i am just cant see it
southernbulldog wrote:Mentioned in the Advertiser we have a challenging first round match against North .Wont be our only challenging game unfortunately we appear to be a long way off the other clubs with who we have picked up and it could be a long long season .Would love to be wrong and hope i am just cant see it
Spargo wrote:blueandwhite wrote:South dudded again.
After being the first club in Australia to have a crack at Good Friday Footy, and making a success of it , its fair to say we've drawn "the Crow "!
The game which sees us playing The Crows, will as per usual be a financial disaster for the club-its barely worth opening the gates.
The crows have very little or no support at SANFL level; and those few that do attend will drive in seated in their Toyota Camrys, bring their own Thermos of tea, a knee rug and Apricot slices, and spend zero at our food outlets.
A far better option would have been South playing Glenelg, which was the original Good Friday fixture which proved to be very well attended in the past. Also with former Glenelg favourite son Bryce Gibbs donning the Navy Blue and White it may have added a little more spice to the game.
Glenelg in its 100th year may well have requested to play Westies in the opening round as that’s who they played in their first ever game back in 1921.
I agree however with your point that South deserve a crowd drawing opponent on Good Friday.