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In the YPFL both Moonta and Maitland ovals are on the smallish size. Can score quickly at both grounds but reduces the number of one on one contests.

Minlaton and Kadina the two best decks in the comp, both in terms of size and condition.

The Wallaroo oval runs the wrong way, late in the day the sun is right behind the goals...crazy.

In the Hills League would suggest Mount Pleasant the biggest as it was built to the same size 165m x 135m as Footy Park. The smallest most likely Bridgewater.

I played on Ovingham when Elizabeth kicked 60-odd goals. Yep, it was small.
In the Riverland, Moorook has a 40-metre line. You could kick a goal from a centre clearance there.
TransAdelaide's Oval was also very small.

I always felt like Paringa was the biggest oval in the Riverland, its boundaries just kept going.

Dogwatcher wrote:I played on Ovingham when Elizabeth kicked 60-odd goals. Yep, it was small.
In the Riverland, Moorook has a 40-metre line. You could kick a goal from a centre clearance there.
TransAdelaide's Oval was also very small.

I always felt like Paringa was the biggest oval in the Riverland, its boundaries just kept going.

Do balls end up in the Murray @ Paringa? I only seen it from the road but looks like you could dob one in the drink or hit one over the mid-wicket fence into it.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:I played on Ovingham when Elizabeth kicked 60-odd goals. Yep, it was small.
In the Riverland, Moorook has a 40-metre line. You could kick a goal from a centre clearance there.
TransAdelaide's Oval was also very small.

I always felt like Paringa was the biggest oval in the Riverland, its boundaries just kept going.

Do balls end up in the Murray @ Paringa? I only seen it from the road but looks like you could dob one in the drink or hit one over the mid-wicket fence into it.

I never played cricket there - they were in a different comp.
But, I think, I remember footballs going over the flood wall but never into the river. Couldn't imagine anyone hitting a cricket ball that far, though.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:I played on Ovingham when Elizabeth kicked 60-odd goals. Yep, it was small.
In the Riverland, Moorook has a 40-metre line. You could kick a goal from a centre clearance there.
TransAdelaide's Oval was also very small.

I always felt like Paringa was the biggest oval in the Riverland, its boundaries just kept going.

Do balls end up in the Murray @ Paringa? I only seen it from the road but looks like you could dob one in the drink or hit one over the mid-wicket fence into it.

On a kind-of-similar topic, Loxton Oval is fairly large (but by no means the largest oval going around) and I've heard stories of Clive Lloyd, in a tour match, launching some bombs into the swimming pool at the end of the oval, which was quite a distance.

According to the council's "Walkerville Oval Precinct Master Plan" our oval is "approximately 160m long x 120m wide (including run off)"

Suri wrote:According to the council's "Walkerville Oval Precinct Master Plan" our oval is "approximately 160m long x 120m wide (including run off)"

Oval or perimeter?

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Suri wrote:According to the council's "Walkerville Oval Precinct Master Plan" our oval is "approximately 160m long x 120m wide (including run off)"

Oval or perimeter?

I would think the perimeter so take some metres off that measurement for the oval size.

Suri wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Suri wrote:According to the council's "Walkerville Oval Precinct Master Plan" our oval is "approximately 160m long x 120m wide (including run off)"

Oval or perimeter?

I would think the perimeter so take some metres off that measurement for the oval size.

I was thinking the same. I love umpiring there, well pre-July anyway.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Suri wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Suri wrote:According to the council's "Walkerville Oval Precinct Master Plan" our oval is "approximately 160m long x 120m wide (including run off)"

Oval or perimeter?

I would think the perimeter so take some metres off that measurement for the oval size.

I was thinking the same. I love umpiring there, well pre-July anyway.

Hopefully the upgrades to the drainage system helps with the rains

Some big ovals in the Riverland but Renmark takes the cake. You'd wanna be an Ethiopian to run out 4 qtrs.

Peter Griffen wrote:Some big ovals in the Riverland but Renmark takes the cake. You'd wanna be an Ethiopian to run out 4 qtrs.

I was never sure if Renmark was as big as it looked - that bike track is a little bit deceiving.

ferryden park primary school had some mini grounds back in the day, who else played school footy grade 3 every saturday mornings out there

i played for OLM/Seaton other teams like challa gardens and thats all i can remember

marbles wrote:ferryden park primary school had some mini grounds back in the day, who else played school footy grade 3 every saturday mornings out there

i played for OLM/Seaton other teams like challa gardens and thats all i can remember

Played there for Hendon... 85-87, mum still has the team photos.

The school is being sold off for housing at the moment

Haha yep 88 to 1990 for mine

marbles wrote:Haha yep 88 to 1990 for mine

Was that 3 years of Grade 3?

Grade 6 was the best 4 years of my life.

Dutchy wrote:Anyone play at the old STA ground at Regency in the 90's? Where Coopers Brewery now is. Would have been 140m long tops, both 50m arc's came well into the centre square.

In the SFL Bice Oval at Christies is the biggest with Cove the smallest (short but very wide)

Yep, against the old Trans Adelaide Tigers. Tough place to play footy.

No mention of Henley Oval in here? Pissed off a captain once and went fine leg to fine leg for about 12 overs back when we used that as our second ground ( way back in the day ).

We used the fence east and west for the boundary and markers from fence to fence going around the pockets all the way to the goal line. Massive oval when marked out like that!

Dutchy wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Dutchy wrote:Anyone play at the old STA ground at Regency in the 90's? Where Coopers Brewery now is. Would have been 140m long tops, both 50m arc's came well into the centre square.

In the SFL Bice Oval at Christies is the biggest with Cove the smallest (short but very wide)

I remember that one, we played them and Ovingham in the same year, I'd say Ovingham is the smallest I've ever played on, I thought we'd score massively being on such a small ground but had an adverse affect on us as we we're all cramped and couldn't find space, it was easily the worst game I've ever played.
My daughter was born the previous day though, could've been a contributing factor.

Who did you play for back then LM?

I've played on both grounds, I'd suggest the scoreline would have me think Ovingham's was smaller (we won 27 goals to 9). On STA's ground, which we played against TransAdelaide Tigers, we lost something like 42 goals to 16. Of course I could be wrong. Glandore was pretty small but not as small as either of those two.

I also played on Weston Creek's ground in the ACT and thought that was pretty small.

The biggest grounds I've played on.....St Mary's and Manuka.

Footnote: I played on Manuka with banged up knees and a dodgy back so it felt like I was running miles when I could've just been a tiny oval in reality.