West vs Tassie scores

[Wedgie]

Could have weed been feeling like bob woolmer in his motel room last night, armed guards are on hand at adelaide airport to safely return him to richmond today

Heard on the news there were riots last night in richmond and surrounding suburbs in protest over the loss. heard the "Pram Lady" rammed her pram into a police car after a high speed pursuit after being seen doing burnouts on the kerb ourside the football club.

PS, police in the report said the baby looks very much like Coorong

lmao, that's funny, well done Dash!

[dash61]

LATE BREAKING NEWS

In a late breaking report on CNN, it has now been reported:

Leigh Wicker has deployed Red Coats to all parts of Richmond to quell the violence, and ex president Doug Thomas in exile in Clarendon through his lawyers Mugabi & Mugabi has pleaded for peace and calm in which many political commentators say this could be seed to a new coup

[Wedgie]

Just on Westies, I was talking to a South player during the week and he's never seen a team as desperate to win a trial game as Westies when they played them, dunno if that's a good thing or bad thing, it was only 4 years ago we used to treat them a bit more seriously than we do now. Its a pity even with the build up they couldn't get a win against a mediocre VFL side.

[redandblack]

Just on Westies, I was talking to a South player during the week and he's never seen a team as desperate to win a trial game as Westies when they played them, dunno if that's a good thing or bad thing, it was only 4 years ago we used to treat them a bit more seriously than we do now. Its a pity even with the build up they couldn't get a win against a mediocre VFL side.

Keep trying Wedgie In the same post, we're in strife for trying too hard in a trial game and then in strife for losing a trial game

[Wedgie]

Keep trying Wedgie In the same post, we're in strife for trying too hard in a trial game and then in strife for losing a trial game

Yeah its a worry if they're trying their guts out for no result especially when representing the state.

[dash61]

Just on Westies, I was talking to a South player during the week and he's never seen a team as desperate to win a trial game as Westies when they played them, dunno if that's a good thing or bad thing, it was only 4 years ago we used to treat them a bit more seriously than we do now. Its a pity even with the build up they couldn't get a win against a mediocre VFL side.

Must have been one of the players who was in awe of a side running in second gear and never released the hand brake that day, westies that is!!!!

We were so serious in Tassie that we let a preacher go to church and a kid go home for his 21st, we have the pressure of getting of the bottom, must be similar to the roosters who have to get into a Grand Final and win it, we both have monkey's on our backs but i'd rather get of the bottom than get to a final series and get stage fright yet again.

But Wedgie i pick the roosters with that class squad to go the year undefeated and take the ultimate prize, most others on SA Footy feel the same way, we really all are closet Rooster supporters and i have the Advertiser Rooster team pic up on my wall

[redandblack]

Keep trying Wedgie In the same post, we're in strife for trying too hard in a trial game and then in strife for losing a trial game

Yeah its a worry if they're trying their guts out for no result especially when representing the state.

I can't see much difference in losing a trial to a mediocre VFL side, or as North did yesterday, losing to a mediocre SANFL side

[Wedgie]

We were so serious in Tassie that we let a preacher go to church and a kid go home for his 21st, we have the pressure of getting of the bottom, must be similar to the roosters who have to get into a Grand Final and win it, we both have monkey's on our backs but i'd rather get of the bottom than get to a final series and get stage fright yet again.

I would have thought it was a club decision to let players go home or to church? I was talking about the players, not the coaching staff.
And Im not sure why you'd bring up North on a West v Tasmania thread, its pretty irrelevent but as you have brought it up I hope we get stage fright like we did in the last grand final we played and just snuck home by a lazy 12 or 13 goals. Still hurt mate?:D

[rd]

I've been saying for years on this website that the SANFL, in conjunction with the VFL,WAFL & NT should be involve in a pre season knock out comp to generate enthusiasm and media coverage in March for the state leagues, rather than the usual mish mash of trial matches and a scores-only service in the papers. Westies play Tassie yesterday in Tassie and presto - look at page 67 of today's Sunday Mail. A larger than usual match write up from Doug Robertson and two pics from the game - the SANFL trials got squashed into a column on the left hand side and the scoreboards booted to page 70 in with Junior Cricket and Bowls. And I notice that this thread has started up some healthy debate on the standard of SANFL footy and whether Westies did us proud or not. The players love playing interstate opposition and the journos love covering these matches as it is something different ! In a perfect world the AFL would sanction a NAB Cup for State Leagues with the matches played as curtain raisers to AFL NAB Cup games. Sadly in the real world, the AFL is reviewing the state leagues and will certainly diminish the strength and appeal of these leagues to create an AFL reserves comp that will only bring more dullness to March footy.

[dash61]

rd super idea

run in a different state each year

Id love it, start a poll and have a vote on it

[Wedgie]

I can't see much difference in losing a trial to a mediocre VFL side, or as North did yesterday, losing to a mediocre SANFL side

Heaps of difference as it gives critics of the SANFLs some ammo, North got themselves up for the Darwin game last year when they were representing the SANFL against a State Side but take it considerably low key approach when only playing the Bays in a trial game. You're probably right about the quality of opposition though but the Bays did come 6th where Tassie came 9th.

[redandblack]

rd is right. Westies got a heap of good publicity both here and in Tassie.

It was a good trip, too

[Thiele]

Good to here you had a nice trip redandblack and nice to see you have arrived home safely

[Wedgie]

rd is right. Westies got a heap of good publicity both here and in Tassie.

It was a good trip, too

What sort of coverage did it get in Tassie r&b? We were overwhelmed with the amount of press in the NT especially with a 12 page newspaper spread, tv crews everywhere, etc and did you get a couple of hundred Westies supporters there too?

[redandblack]

Thanks, Thiele.

[Thiele]

You will be glad to know the reserves are still undeafted after having a good hit ou against the u/19s

[redandblack]

rd is right. Westies got a heap of good publicity both here and in Tassie.

It was a good trip, too

What sort of coverage did it get in Tassie r&b? We were overwhelmed with the amount of press in the NT especially with a 12 page newspaper spread, tv crews everywhere, etc and did you get a couple of hundred Westies supporters there too?

It got a couple of small articles, Wedgie.

I actually had a chat to the journalist who wrote it and he told about a conversation he'd had with his editor. It went like this.

Editor: "you don't expect much space for this, do you?"

Reporter: "well, I was hoping for a reasonable run. After all, I know we won the Pura Cup yesterday, but it's the only footy game in Hobart today."

Editor: "I've got news for you, Smith, you're getting just a quarter page. Now, if it was North Adelaide instead of West Adelaide, it would be a different matter. We'd relegate the Pura Cup win to the Births and Deaths page and run a 20 page spread just on the Roosters. After all, they did beat the cream of Australia's footballers in Darwin last year, they play the most attractive footy in Australia, they make squillions each year and it's only bad luck they choked, I mean narrowly failed to win the premiership again last year. So, don't come to me looking for space for West Adelaide, the people of Tassie want to read about the Roosters!!! Who are they playing, by the way?

Reporter: Oh, the Tassie Devils.

Editor: What, that mediocre lot!!! We'll cut it to 16 pages in that case, 15 on North, one on the Devils.
By the way, what sort of coverage will this get in Adelaide?

Reporter: Oh, I think West have had a lead-up article in the paper before the trip and they'll get a prominent article from Doug Robertson on Sunday, next to the 4 lines about the North v Glenelg trial.

Editor: They've got no idea. Don't they realise this trip by West Adelaide is a triumph for North Adelaide? Don't they realise the only way any SANFL club will ever be any good is to be just like the Roosters? Don't they understand anything over there?

Reporter: Sorry boss, of course you're right. I'll scrub this and write an article about Jars thoughts on the disgrace West might bring on the state of South Australia.

Editor" That's all right then. Good to see you understand what the real stories are at last.

[Wedgie]

Sorry for asking a genuine question r&b, I was genuinely curious. I should have known better, I didn't think they were hard questions.

[redandblack]

A thousand pardons, Wedgie.

I thought you were genuine, but I mistakenly thought you were having a bit of a go in asking me if 200 Westies supporters went to Tassie.

Don't ask me why, but I thought you'd suggested once or twice that Westies didn't have very many supporters, so I thought you were being uncharacteristically disingenuous.

Given that you were genuine, I once again apologise and, to make up for it, will give a genuine answer to your genuine question.

No, Wedgie, we didn't have 200 supporters. There were only about 350 at the game. Apart from the travelling party, probably only a few Westies supporters could afford to make the trip. My brother paid his own way to help out, one of the trainers also did and I doubt whether there were many others, if any.

I can say, though, that they are genuine supporters, as were the many others who received text message scores and put them on our Forum or read them there. We're not many in number, although our Forum has been a roaring success, but we're proud of our Club and passionate in our support. No more or less, no doubt, than the supporters of the Bays, or the Redlegs, or the Double Blues, or any other club, probably, but certainly no less.

So the genuine answer is 'no, not 200, not many at all, but those that did represented the ones who couldn't'.

PS: My original reply was purely meant as a bit of fun, so don't get too sensitive.

[Wedgie]

A thousand pardons, Wedgie.

I thought you were genuine, but I mistakenly thought you were having a bit of a go in asking me if 200 Westies supporters went to Tassie.

Don't ask me why, but I thought you'd suggested once or twice that Westies didn't have very many supporters, so I thought you were being uncharacteristically disingenuous.

Given that you were genuine, I once again apologise and, to make up for it, will give a genuine answer to your genuine question.

No, Wedgie, we didn't have 200 supporters. There were only about 350 at the game. Apart from the travelling party, probably only a few Westies supporters could afford to make the trip. My brother paid his own way to help out, one of the trainers also did and I doubt whether there were many others, if any.

I can say, though, that they are genuine supporters, as were the many others who received text message scores and put them on our Forum or read them there. We're not many in number, although our Forum has been a roaring success, but we're proud of our Club and passionate in our support. No more or less, no doubt, than the supporters of the Bays, or the Redlegs, or the Double Blues, or any other club, probably, but certainly no less.

So the genuine answer is 'no, not 200, not many at all, but those that did represented the ones who couldn't'.

Cheers mate, apology accepted. Not being a big cricket fan I forgot about the Sheffield Shield win so Im assuming every paper down there was dedicated to that? No articles about a possible joining of the SANFL?