SA Footy

One of the initiatives at South Adelaide for the school competitions in their area is for each team to get a chance to play under lights at Noarlunga Oval.
Tonight in my sons first week of football he got to play on a league oval under lights and had an absolute ball.
They had 3 games going at the same time across the oval, lights were good (better than Elizabeth) and the kids had a ball.
Great facilities with parents being able to drive their cars into the grounds, plenty of toilets, bbq on and canteen open.
And after our game at 6.45 which went for an hour there were 2 more schools playing too.

Fantastic stuff by South, it was worth missing the first 10 mins at Norwood Oval tonight to have the pleasure of watching my son and his mates play on a league oval in his first ever game of footy.

South Adelaide are doing awesome things for their youngsters in the area down there, other clubs (especially North) need to take a leaf out of their book.

Just for the record my son's side (Braeview Primary) beat Reynella East 8-6 to 8-3 and my son kicked a goal too.
Not bad considering his old man played 50 games for Noarlunga (and one year of Under 8s for Camden Primary at full back) to only kick 1 goals 13 for his career.

Well done South Adelaide!

Also boo to Norwood for having 2 mini league games on tonight and not allowing kids at the game to have a catch and a kick at half time.

Wedgie wrote:One of the initiatives at South Adelaide for the school competitions in their area is for each team to get a chance to play under lights at Noarlunga Oval.
Tonight in my sons first week of football he got to play on a league oval under lights and had an absolute ball.
They had 3 games going at the same time across the oval, lights were good (better than Elizabeth) and the kids had a ball.
Great facilities with parents being able to drive their cars into the grounds, plenty of toilets, bbq on and canteen open.
And after our game at 6.45 which went for an hour there were 2 more schools playing too.

Fantastic stuff by South, it was worth missing the first 10 mins at Norwood Oval tonight to have the pleasure of watching my son and his mates play on a league oval in his first ever game of footy.

South Adelaide are doing awesome things for their youngsters in the area down there, other clubs (especially North) need to take a leaf out of their book.

Just for the record my son's side (Braeview Primary) beat Reynella East 8-6 to 8-3 and my son kicked a goal too.
Not bad considering his old man played 50 games for Noarlunga (and one year of Under 8s for Camden Primary at full back) to only kick 1 goals 13 for his career.

Well done South Adelaide!

Is that 1 ball between all three games or a ball each Wedgie

wedgie

maybe you should support south and purchase a membership

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:wedgie

maybe you should support south and purchase a membership

Actually that's a good call, I'll do that.

Good call, my son also played down there last night and I agree great initiative by the Panthers.

Great chance for the young fella to have a game on a big league oval

Jayjake wrote:Good call, my son also played down there last night and I agree great initiative by the Panthers.

Great chance for the young fella to have a game on a big league oval

How may of you guys remember playing the old "Lightning Carnivals" that were played on league grounds?

I remember wearing number 10 in the red and yellow of Eden Hills Primary School on Unley Oval. It was a hectic day and at the end there were a coupla hundred very tired but very happy kids.

I only remember beating Coromandel Valley (but so did everybody).

Spiritof64 wrote:

Jayjake wrote:Good call, my son also played down there last night and I agree great initiative by the Panthers.

Great chance for the young fella to have a game on a big league oval

How may of you guys remember playing the old "Lightning Carnivals" that were played on league grounds?

I remember wearing number 10 in the red and yellow of Eden Hills Primary School on Unley Oval. It was a hectic day and at the end there were a coupla hundred very tired but very happy kids.

I only remember beating Coromandel Valley (but so did everybody).

Lightning carnivals were played on all sorts of grounds when I was playing in PS footy (Ummm.. 84 - 89?)
We played at the Heights School because it was HUGE. And we won almost every year!

I coached the same school I played for (Modbury West PS) around 92 to 95 I think and at that stage, they were played on league grounds - ours was at Prospect Oval.

I should scan a picture of our school team (when I played) for the North fans - has Daniel Walsh and Ray Ebel in it

Dissident wrote:

Spiritof64 wrote:

Jayjake wrote:Good call, my son also played down there last night and I agree great initiative by the Panthers.

Great chance for the young fella to have a game on a big league oval

How may of you guys remember playing the old "Lightning Carnivals" that were played on league grounds?

I remember wearing number 10 in the red and yellow of Eden Hills Primary School on Unley Oval. It was a hectic day and at the end there were a coupla hundred very tired but very happy kids.

I only remember beating Coromandel Valley (but so did everybody).

Lightning carnivals were played on all sorts of grounds when I was playing in PS footy (Ummm.. 84 - 89?)
We played at the Heights School because it was HUGE. And we won almost every year!

I coached the same school I played for (Modbury West PS) around 92 to 95 I think and at that stage, they were played on league grounds - ours was at Prospect Oval.

I should scan a picture of our school team (when I played) for the North fans - has Daniel Walsh and Ray Ebel in it

I feel like a dinosaur. I was talking about the mid sixties. When Jaffas and Marella Jubes or Coke and Fanta were the only options you had at intermission at the cinema.

nb. Intermission... The half time break between either two movies or at a matinee screening between the cartoons and serials (eg. The Purple Monster from Mars) and the feature Movie.

The Southern Football League still finish their season for U9's with a Ligntning Carnival, where all teams play 2-3 games of 10minutes halves. It's a long day but the kids love it and it draws a fair crowd.

Cant knock that work down there ...well done South