Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Officejet » Tue Jan 03, 2017 3:40 pm

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Ye Olde Place Kick » Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:32 pm

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Dogwatcher » Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:12 am

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:09 am

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Dogwatcher » Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:27 pm

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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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Dogwatcher » Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:29 pm

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Fricky » Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:49 pm

According to the council's "Walkerville Oval Precinct Master Plan" our oval is "approximately 160m long x 120m wide (including run off)"
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Jan 04, 2017 2:25 pm

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?
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Fricky » Wed Jan 04, 2017 3:10 pm

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Jan 05, 2017 9:00 am

Suri wrote:
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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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Fricky » Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:13 pm

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
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Peter Griffen » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:21 am

Some big ovals in the Riverland but Renmark takes the cake. You'd wanna be an Ethiopian to run out 4 qtrs.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Dogwatcher » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:37 am

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby marbles » Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:58 pm

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 :D
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby mickey » Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:06 pm

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 :D

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

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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby marbles » Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:41 am

Haha yep 88 to 1990 for mine
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Lightning McQueen » Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:55 am

marbles wrote:Haha yep 88 to 1990 for mine


Was that 3 years of Grade 3?

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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Booney » Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:00 am

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.
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby Booney » Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:09 am

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!
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Re: Biggest and smallest ovals around the state

Postby gadj1976 » Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:51 pm

Dutchy wrote:
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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.
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