10, 9 or 8 teams

[Pseudo]

Bring in a Eyre Peninsula team and you stuff Port up.

The Porter Gutter Sharks it is then!

[Pseudo]

Simple - Maxie and co. wanted a Port team to remain in the SANFL.

As did Mr. Cunningham.

[doggies4eva]

I was disappointed that the addition of an NT team stalled. It will be interesting to see how they go against Norf. I think that the SANFL needs to come up with a refreshed format given the slow death currently occuring -see threads on crown numbers over past 10 years. I would also like to see a format where everyone plays eveyone twice and the spare games is used for some sort of super series with WA.

[westside]

12 teams

West
South
North
Central
Norwood
Port
Eagles
Sturt
Glenelg

Southport Sharks (AFLQ - very rich club)
Tassie Devils (VFL s ide, strong support)
NTFL Rep side

[Dogsbody]

Team No. 10 must come from the NT.

We can't have another SA team without screwing up recruitment areas for the existing SANFL clubs. One trip to Darwin a year would be an absolute pisser. The Tasmanian Devils won't leave the VFL, so forget them, and the Sharks are priming themselves up to join the AFL.

[Blacky]

easy just bring in a side from ttg or golden grove
one area that should have a team in the sanfl
people that side of town do have a long way to go to the footy
belive it or not it would get more people going to the footy
just an idea

[Wedgie]

people that side of town do have a long way to go to the footy

Fair enough Blacky, good brainstorming, but I wouldn't exactly call a 10 min drive to Prospect or a 15 minute trip to Elizabeth as a long way.
I wish I only had to travel that far for home games! lol

[Blacky]

it is just an idea wedgie
we have 4 sides on the western side of town
and bugger all on the eastern side
i just think it is an idea

[Wedgie]

it is just an idea wedgie
we have 4 sides on the western side of town
and bugger all on the eastern side
i just think it is an idea

Oh I agree its a good idea to throw it out and about for discussion, I just didn't think that it was a long way to goto the footy that's all.
As I said I'd love to have a 10 min drive to my home ground! lol

[Blacky]

will be a long way for me from woodcroft
but i will go any where to see WESTIES play

[Wedgie]

:roll: will be a long way for me from woodcroft
but i will go any where to see WESTIES play

Woodcroft to Richmond is quicker than Happy Valley to Prospect.

[Blacky]

yea i know great

[Wedgie]

Mind you considering Fish from The Roost made more than half of Norths games in 2005 whilst living near Streaky Bay I don't think either of us has something to complain about!

[eyeofthetiger]

Why not add Adelaide Uni , largest senior football club in Australia with eight teams I believe.

[Wedgie]

Why not add Adelaide Uni , largest senior football club in Australia with eight teams I believe.

Nice ground, maybe hard to get a fence around though.
Amateur sides wouldn't get within 10 goals of SANFL reserves sides so its not really an option.

[Ian]

Why not add Adelaide Uni , largest senior football club in Australia with eight teams I believe.

maybe hard to get a fence around though.

hasn't stopped Sturt playing at Unley

[Wedgie]

hasn't stopped Sturt playing at Unley

Agreed, but my point was mainly that its a part of the parklands and it'd be probably easier to give a Port supporter an education than negotiate a fence in the Adelaide City Council area.

[Ruck Legend]

I am sure nobody wants to see there club go. Ask Woodville and West Torrens supporters what it was like. Yer I know the Eagles have been a successful club but I would prefer to see my club stand on its own feet and see how its goes rather than mergering.
As a Sturt member I would never want to see my beloved Double Blues merge with anyone. Nobody does.
The bye is not the best. Some times it suits but not the week before or after the state bye or possibly the week before the finals and you finish top. For example when Sturt knocked Centrals of in 2002 in the GF Centrals were playing there 2nd game in 5 weeks. Round 23 (last round) Centrals bye, First week finals Centrals bye, 2nd week, played and won, 3rd week, bye and then GF played. Don't get me wrong I know if you finish top and win the second semi you are getting some good breaks but 2 games in 5 weeks, I would not want that.
Now I live at Sheidow Park and and don't know alot about the Hills e.g Mt Barker, and other areas like Golden Grove but I always thought that maybe the Great Southern Sharks at Victor would be a good set-up. I know with talked about South and their zones but how many blokes do you reckon play for South come from this area. Actual fact South struggle enough trying to get players from the Southern League and Great Southern league to play for them.
However a new team would be exciting. I think you need a team that is quite a distance away to focus on an area that does not usually go to SANFL matches.

[zipzap]

As a fan I hate the Bye, but I'm sure most if not all trainers (and other volunteers I would imagine) welcome the week off, as would the players possibly?

...and a few supporters. I actually don't mind a break here or there. Means I can go to the Bay and watch them get flogged which is always fun. Or worst case scenario, catch up with some of the jobs the missus wants done.

[Ian]

However a new team would be exciting. I think you need a team that is quite a distance away to focus on an area that does not usually go to SANFL matches.

Spot on, a 10th team from an Area close to the city would struggle to get supporters to the game. Most people that would go to an SANFL game already would go now, and wouldn't change their allegance to a new club.
Someone from the Riverland, Mt Gambier or perhaps even Murray Bridge may at least attract new supporters to their home games, the down side to travelling a couple of hours or more would be the exixting clubs supporters may not travel the distance required to see their side play that far away.