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Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:15 pm**

Footy Chick wrote:Based on surface alone

Worst

Anything in the parklands (except CBCOC)
They don't call it Mudbery for nothing
TTG

I refuse to go into the square at HV but otherwise the rest of the oval pulls up fine now days.

Best

Adelaide Uni (Bob Neil #1, park 10 comes under parklands, see above)
Gaza (now)
Goodwood, for the whole 3 times i've been there, seems to have a decent surface, someone feel free to correct me.

Special mention to Plympton, whose oval i can't recall ever seeing much mud on but didn't get a berth because it faces the wrong way

Based on visitor changerooms

Worst
Dwight reserve
North Haven
Glenunga
Hectorville

Best
Hope Valley
Walkerville
Golden Grove
Brahma Lodge

I would've put PNU but i understand they've cut it in half.

Nope

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:21 pm**

Footy Chick wrote:Based on surface alone

Worst

Anything in the parklands (except CBCOC)
They don't call it Mudbery for nothing
TTG

I refuse to go into the square at HV but otherwise the rest of the oval pulls up fine now days.

Best

Adelaide Uni (Bob Neil #1, park 10 comes under parklands, see above)
Gaza (now)
Goodwood, for the whole 3 times i've been there, seems to have a decent surface, someone feel free to correct me.

Special mention to Plympton, whose oval i can't recall ever seeing much mud on but didn't get a berth because it faces the wrong way

Based on visitor changerooms

Worst
Dwight reserve
North Haven
Glenunga
Hectorville

Best
Hope Valley
Walkerville
Golden Grove
Brahma Lodge

I would've put PNU but i understand they've cut it in half.

From the grounds we've played away at so far this season, Westminster and Kilburn's away Changerooms are pretty good. Salisbury's weren't that great although they're better than our but it's not hard. I thought all three grounds were in very good nick at the time we played on them.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:25 pm**

I'd imagine Campbelltown Oval would've produced a few low scores over the years, I remember winning a game with 2.3 on the board.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:28 pm**

Forgot about Kilburn..theyre right up there...

So the visitor rooms are still the same size as the home rooms Jo?

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:33 pm**

Footy Chick wrote:Forgot about Kilburn..theyre right up there...

So the visitor rooms are still the same size as the home rooms Jo?

Yep, only changes to each since you left are cosmetic.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:46 pm**

The Dark Knight wrote:
Footy Chick wrote:Based on surface alone

Worst

Anything in the parklands (except CBCOC)
They don't call it Mudbery for nothing
TTG

I refuse to go into the square at HV but otherwise the rest of the oval pulls up fine now days.

Best

Adelaide Uni (Bob Neil #1, park 10 comes under parklands, see above)
Gaza (now)
Goodwood, for the whole 3 times i've been there, seems to have a decent surface, someone feel free to correct me.

Special mention to Plympton, whose oval i can't recall ever seeing much mud on but didn't get a berth because it faces the wrong way

Based on visitor changerooms

Worst
Dwight reserve
North Haven
Glenunga
Hectorville

Best
Hope Valley
Walkerville
Golden Grove
Brahma Lodge

I would've put PNU but i understand they've cut it in half.

From the grounds we've played away at so far this season, Westminster and Kilburn's away Changerooms are pretty good. Salisbury's weren't that great although they're better than our but it's not hard. I thought all three grounds were in very good nick at the time we played on them.

Our home change rooms are a mirror image of our away rooms, bar the medical room.

I've always enjoyed playing at Kilburn, Pooraka and Flinders Park.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:50 pm**

Modbury's Oval was a disgrace in Round 18 last year and I've no idea how they hosted finals on that deck.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:51 pm**

Q. wrote:Modbury's Oval was a disgrace in Round 18 last year and I've no idea how they hosted finals on that deck.

The photos going around of the Pembroke OS v Modbury PF were ridiculous.

Shows how perfunctory filling out the ground check form has become for umpires/team managers.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:54 pm**

jo172 wrote:
Q. wrote:Modbury's Oval was a disgrace in Round 18 last year and I've no idea how they hosted finals on that deck.

The photos going around of the Pembroke OS v Modbury PF were ridiculous.

Shows how perfunctory filling out the ground check form has become for umpires/team managers.

Its a bowling green now

fingers crossed the new drainage and better management of traffic on the oval allows it never return to the way it has historically been.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:54 pm**

Ah, i just remember the grand plan to make half the visitors a store room as the room next to the trainers room was vast becoming too small

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 1:55 pm**

Footy Chick wrote:Ah, i just remember the grand plan to make half the visitors a store room as the room next to the trainers room was vast becoming too small

We still have a series of grand plans for it. All cost prohibitive.

We also suspect that the big second changeroom (and central location and fence) plays a reasonable roll in securing neutral grand finals when necessary

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:04 pm**

Footy Chick wrote:
Based on visitor changerooms

Worst
Dwight reserve
North Haven
Glenunga
Hectorville

Best
Hope Valley
Walkerville
Golden Grove
Brahma Lodge

I would've put PNU but i understand they've cut it in half.

based on my last 10 years involved..

Worst
west croydons visitor rooms are pretty much a spare room with a shower..

mitchell parks oval is great but the visitor rooms are about the same size as wcfc and also have that nasty shower/toilet area at the front..
houghton districts..
alfc..

Best
blackfriars oval, whilst horrible, does have great visitor facilities..
colonel light gardens..
the lodge..
thebby..
westminster..
rosewater and woodville south's are new and clean but still a bit small..

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:05 pm**

jo172 wrote:
Q. wrote:Modbury's Oval was a disgrace in Round 18 last year and I've no idea how they hosted finals on that deck.

The photos going around of the Pembroke OS v Modbury PF were ridiculous.

Shows how perfunctory filling out the ground check form has become for umpires/team managers.

That takes the amount of times I've heard the word "perfunctory" in my life up to 1.

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:08 pm**

zedman wrote:
Based on visitor changerooms
Best
blackfriars oval, whilst horrible, does have great visitor facilities...

Their 'home' change rooms are extremely good, but never was a fan of the visiors rooms with the bench/rack whatever you call it in the middle of the room

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:15 pm**

Zartan wrote:
zedman wrote:
Based on visitor changerooms
Best
blackfriars oval, whilst horrible, does have great visitor facilities...

Their 'home' change rooms are extremely good, but never was a fan of the visiors rooms with the bench/rack whatever you call it in the middle of the room

the rack is there to dry out the B grade jumpers..dont touch the door handles in there either..

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:17 pm**

i base good visitors rooms as not necessarily being massive but they need not only to comfortably seat all players but also need to have enough room so that a trainer can move freely around rub down table without tripping over bags and/or giving players a lap dance :oops:

*Adequate lighting is also a pre-requisite

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:22 pm**

As a junior I hated playing at Walkerville, crap thick mud in the middle that you could hardly walk in.

Enjoyed Modbury and Tea Tree Gully though, a better quality mud.

Playing home games at Hillcrest Hospital was always interesting!

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:43 pm**

Footy Chick wrote:i base good visitors rooms as not necessarily being massive but they need to comfortably seat all players so i can move freely around rubbing down and giving players a lap dance *Inadequate lighting is also a pre-requisite to set the mood

Edited for accuracy

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:55 pm**

RustyCage wrote:Playing home games at Hillcrest Hospital was always interesting!

Who's ground was that?

Posted: **Tue May 12, 2015 2:58 pm**

Look Good In Leather wrote:
RustyCage wrote:Playing home games at Hillcrest Hospital was always interesting!

Who's ground was that?

I played junior football at Broadview and we played out of Hilcrest Hospital oval before the Rams came in.

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