SA Footy

If you have Fox have a look at "Bob" episode this week, he chats with Ryan Fitzgerald and there are a number of references to his SFL days which was quite entertaining, worth a look.

First time where there was no red black flags behind goals

Chatting with some Aldinga supporters Saturday. Mentioned club starting to talk about going to another league but just debating Amateurs or GSFL.
Can the SFL survive with 8 clubs?

Front & Centre wrote:Chatting with some Aldinga supporters Saturday. Mentioned club starting to talk about going to another league but just debating Amateurs or GSFL.
Can the SFL survive with 8 clubs?

Surely the GSFL would not be an option. Why would they take Aldinga with their current number of teams and fixture?

Front & Centre wrote:Chatting with some Aldinga supporters Saturday. Mentioned club starting to talk about going to another league but just debating Amateurs or GSFL.
Can the SFL survive with 8 clubs?

Doubt they would go to Amateurs after their President came out in the paper and bagged Lonsdale and Marion for going to a weaker league.
Have heard whispers of Yank and Myponga looking at merging which could open up a spot in their preferred 10 team comp. Unless the Shoes beat them to it.

All clubs signed up to a 2 year affiliation agreement at the end of last year. No clubs will be allowed to join another league in 2019 unless the SFL agrees.

Splinter wrote:

Front & Centre wrote:Chatting with some Aldinga supporters Saturday. Mentioned club starting to talk about going to another league but just debating Amateurs or GSFL.
Can the SFL survive with 8 clubs?

Surely the GSFL would not be an option. Why would they take Aldinga with their current number of teams and fixture?

GSFL have always been very happy with their current setup- everyone plays each other twice and no byes. Very much doubt that will change any time soon.

Front & Centre wrote:Chatting with some Aldinga supporters Saturday. Mentioned club starting to talk about going to another league but just debating Amateurs or GSFL.
Can the SFL survive with 8 clubs?

I think they can, Aldinga wouldn’t be the difference between the league surviving or not I wouldn’t think.

Central United vs Aldinga?
Houghton vs Aldinga?



might be an ammos div 3 vacancy next season (not for aldinga though, they can jump into div 7)

Is that A grade score between Flaggies and Reynella correct? Has Reynella ever been held goalless in the A’s before?

LaughingKookaburra wrote:Is that A grade score between Flaggies and Reynella correct? Has Reynella ever been held goalless in the A’s before?

Yep, made for quite an entertaining day . Not sure what is going on as they were quite good against us early in the year.

The five is set .
Big turnaround for the wineflies .
C/Beach up by 7 points start last loose by 40
How did the carnival go for all yesterday ? well done Lonsdale hosting with a large crowd

shoe boy wrote:The five is set .
Big turnaround for the wineflies .
C/Beach up by 7 points start last loose by 40
How did the carnival go for all yesterday ? well done Lonsdale hosting with a large crowd

My last personal involvement with the U12 carnival and it was a really well run day, spoke with the umpires co-ordinator at the end and apart from a couple of spot fires is was a quiet day for them.

Only 4 clubs represented in the finals which would be a bit disappointing for the league - 3 Porties, 2 Reynella, 2 Flaggies and Aldinga.

One of the Reynella teams taking it out.

Dutchy wrote:Only 4 clubs represented in the finals which would be a bit disappointing for the league - 3 Porties, 2 Reynella, 2 Flaggies and Aldinga.

Not surprising considering 47% of all SFL U/12s play at Port Noarlunga, Reynella or Flagstaff Hill, they have set themselves up very well in recent years.

I believe a number of parents are not happy that during the under 12 carnival their kids missed out so that kids that had played under 13 all year played in the 12 carnival at the expense of their kids who had played under 12 all year !

good luck getting them parents back.

shoe boy wrote:I believe a number of parents are not happy that during the under 12 carnival their kids missed out so that kids that had played under 13 all year played in the 12 carnival at the expense of their kids who had played under 12 all year !

good luck getting them parents back.

Which club?

We didn't play 5 kids who have been playing u13's all year cause of this issue specifically.

This is another issue with the ridiculous 13/15/17.5 junior set up, should have never been agreed to in the first place, time to go back to 14/16/18.

Dutchy wrote:

shoe boy wrote:I believe a number of parents are not happy that during the under 12 carnival their kids missed out so that kids that had played under 13 all year played in the 12 carnival at the expense of their kids who had played under 12 all year !

good luck getting them parents back.

Which club?

We didn't play 5 kids who have been playing u13's all year cause of this issue specifically.

This is another issue with the ridiculous 13/15/17.5 junior set up, should have never been agreed to in the first place, time to go back to 14/16/18.

THIS!!!
Made zero sense changing it in the first place...

woodublieve12 wrote:

Dutchy wrote:

shoe boy wrote:I believe a number of parents are not happy that during the under 12 carnival their kids missed out so that kids that had played under 13 all year played in the 12 carnival at the expense of their kids who had played under 12 all year !

good luck getting them parents back.

Which club?

We didn't play 5 kids who have been playing u13's all year cause of this issue specifically.

This is another issue with the ridiculous 13/15/17.5 junior set up, should have never been agreed to in the first place, time to go back to 14/16/18.

THIS!!!
Made zero sense changing it in the first place...

Might not make sense at local level, but isn’t it to bring the age groups into line statewide?? Was that the reason for the change?? The old CFB getting to push their weight around??

Dutchy wrote:This is another issue with the ridiculous 13/15/17.5 junior set up, should have never been agreed to in the first place, time to go back to 14/16/18.

Rubbish, one of the best things we ever did.

We have not been split up once on a Saturday this year, all clubs have a full set (except for one team in the 17.5s), less behavioral issue as the older kids are now playing senior football whilst also providing a larger pool of players in the oldest age group.

The mistake was not changing the Minis to be inline (ie U/11, U/9 & U/7)

shoe boy wrote:I believe a number of parents are not happy that during the under 12 carnival their kids missed out so that kids that had played under 13 all year played in the 12 carnival at the expense of their kids who had played under 12 all year !

good luck getting them parents back.

I believe the GF had quite a few in both teams. A Reynella parent I spoke to wasn't at all pleased with what her club had done to strengthen the winning side. A Porties kid was bragging out on the field that they had 12 Under 13's playing. Can't believe everything you hear though. They were all under 12 age but is it in the spirit of the carnival?