The best and worst grounds to play footy on

[Bold Strategy]

Wobbly Kness you have no idea. I played at peake last season and have played on many worse grounds!.

what ground are they, if WK description is correct dont see how you can get much worse

[Demon68]

Metro
Best Ovals
Campbelltown (Rostrevor Old Collegians Oval Now) - good size, good surrounds, good surface
St Marys Park (Kenilworth) - Great Surface, holds up to wet really well, good atmosphere
Golden Grove - Great Surface
Walkervillle - good surface, godd facilities and great atmosphere
Goodwood - Ground could be better however good atmosphere
Smosh West Lakes - good surface, good atmosphere and good facilities
Gardens Oval (Darwin)

Best Overall Metro Ground (surface, facilities and atmosphere)
Smosh West Lakes

Worst Metro Ovals
Gaza
Edwardstown
Kingswood (Unley FC)

Worst overall
Gaza

Now for Country Grounds

Best
Stansbury - like a bowling pitch, great huge changerooms under the grandstand, good atmosphere
Minlaton - Best oval to watch footy at from cars - great atmosphere and holds up really well and the best changerooms in SA in country footy
Milang - great surface and good atmosphere
Mount Lofty - best atmosphere I have seen under lights, awesome.
Yorketown - good oval, huge grandstand which creates an awesome atmosphere and good all round facilities
The old Woomera Oval under lights - awesome

Best Overall
Tie Stansbury - Yorketown - Minlaton

Worst
Macclesfield
Mount Barker
Edithburgh - hard as a rock

[Baron Greenback]

Best oval I've seen was Angaston on grand final day in 2002.
Surrounded by massive trees, netball courts right next to it, great atmosphere.
Surface looked great too.

[tedbullpit]

Best Ovals
Now for Country Grounds
Best
Mount Lofty - best atmosphere I have seen under lights, awesome.

You've got to be kidding? Mt.Lofty is one of the worst ovals in country SA. It has a massive slope, the boundary on one side is less than a metre away from a concrete wall, it doesn't take much rain to bog it up and when it is dry the surface is rock hard.

[Demon68]

tedbullpit, ready the bit next to it - I was talking about the atmosphere of the ground, not about the actual surface, however the surface has improved over the last couple of years and holds up well now.

as for level ovals, try Gumeracha, Nairne, Birdwood

[LMA]

Best - Adelaide Oval (grand final helps) SMOSH, Nth Haven(under lights)
Worst - Fitzroy, Burnside-Kensington

[FlyingHigh]

Metro



Best
Stansbury - great huge changerooms under the grandstand, good atmosphere
Minlaton - great atmosphere and holds up really well and the best changerooms in SA in country footy

Not if you're a visitor

[/quote] Yorketown - good oval, huge grandstand which creates an awesome atmosphere and good all round facilities[/quote]

Agree with this though


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[Goldberg]

Peake Oval is easily the worst oval going around. They have worked hard on it recently but the fact remains, it was built on the side of a hill, with one end around 3 metres highers then the other. Not exadurating! Add to this its size (125m long) they should relocate to Jabuk

[Iron Fist]

fitzroy is still the worst oval
as for smosh, is to hard, not a bad place to play one or twice a year

i really like playing portlands oval!!!
and nth haven in a night game

[tedbullpit]

tedbullpit, ready the bit next to it - I was talking about the atmosphere of the ground, not about the actual surface, however the surface has improved over the last couple of years and holds up well now.

as for level ovals, try Gumeracha, Nairne, Birdwood

Demon 68 - Read the title of the thread. Having played many a game there the surface is one of the worst to play football on and hasn't improved in the last decade.

[norm11]

Worst Hamely Bridge.
Best Mallala

[wobbly knees]

in the mallee league my grounds from best to worst are
lamaroo
pinnaroo
tintinnara
murrayville
coonalpyne
karoonda
peake

whats your thoughts

[Footy Smart]

I forgot the Sacred Heart Ground. I played my school football there when Brian Quist was the first 18 coach in 95 and 94. Was probably the best surface outside aami and adelaide oval back then

Not the Middle School Ground that they normally play on is terrible... shape of a hotdog and had a sand covered cricket pitch at about 50 metres out at one end.

[White Unicorn]

I forgot the Sacred Heart Ground. I played my school football there when Brian Quist was the first 18 coach in 95 and 94. Was probably the best surface outside aami and adelaide oval back then

Not the Middle School Ground that they normally play on is terrible... shape of a hotdog and had a sand covered cricket pitch at about 50 metres out at one end.

I agree re the middle school oval, they have widened it over the last couple of years, but the cricket pitch is terrible and no atmosphere. the A & B grade dont play there anymore, play the the senior school and brighton oval, but the c's and d's still play there.
Agree about the senior school, one of the best ovals in SA to play and watch. Is very well cared for by the curator though! Amazing cricket deck too.

[nuggety goodness]

if you're talkin atmosphere then 'most' country footy clubs crap all over the amateur league. reason being is the country towns hang out for their footy and it's usually a day out. they have the whole family playing basically cos generally there's (in the bigger leagues) 15s, 18s, magoos and As and sometimes netball play at the same venue to correspond with the footy. it's a whole day out and by the time the As play the crowd swells up.

talkin about grounds, it's not played on much anymore as the club folded but the United footy club in the Riverland Indys aka Prickle park was a shocker,
as mentioned Gaza is a mud pit,
Modbury's middle isn't as bad but not too flash,
i think it's pembroke who has trees overhanging on the ground and one end is more like a soccer pitch than an oval, very square

the best are harder to pick,
Moorook had a nice surface when i was playing there in 03
Lyrup also similar, i played in a losing GF there but the ground was great
Ovingham is a fairly good ground to play on, only because it's so easy to rack up the possies...

but none really come to mind as being a cut above the rest

[Baron Greenback]

if you're talkin atmosphere then 'most' country footy clubs crap all over the amateur league. reason being is the country towns hang out for their footy and it's usually a day out. they have the whole family playing basically cos generally there's (in the bigger leagues) 15s, 18s, magoos and As and sometimes netball play at the same venue to correspond with the footy. it's a whole day out and by the time the As play the crowd swells up.

talkin about grounds, it's not played on much anymore as the club folded but the United footy club in the Riverland Indys aka Prickle park was a shocker,
as mentioned Gaza is a mud pit,
Modbury's middle isn't as bad but not too flash,
i think it's pembroke who has trees overhanging on the ground and one end is more like a soccer pitch than an oval, very square

the best are harder to pick,
Moorook had a nice surface when i was playing there in 03
Lyrup also similar, i played in a losing GF there but the ground was great
Ovingham is a fairly good ground to play on, only because it's so easy to rack up the possies...

but none really come to mind as being a cut above the rest

Yep, prickle park was a shocker. They had the best changerooms though.

[wattle]

if you're talkin atmosphere then 'most' country footy clubs crap all over the amateur league. reason being is the country towns hang out for their footy and it's usually a day out. they have the whole family playing basically cos generally there's (in the bigger leagues) 15s, 18s, magoos and As and sometimes netball play at the same venue to correspond with the footy. it's a whole day out and by the time the As play the crowd swells up.

talkin about grounds, it's not played on much anymore as the club folded but the United footy club in the Riverland Indys aka Prickle park was a shocker,
as mentioned Gaza is a mud pit,
Modbury's middle isn't as bad but not too flash,
i think it's pembroke who has trees overhanging on the ground and one end is more like a soccer pitch than an oval, very square

the best are harder to pick,
Moorook had a nice surface when i was playing there in 03
Lyrup also similar, i played in a losing GF there but the ground was great
Ovingham is a fairly good ground to play on, only because it's so easy to rack up the possies...

but none really come to mind as being a cut above the rest

Ovingham is only good if you play on the ball,no good for forwards or backman they would get sore necks watching the ball going over there heads

[KS41]

if you're talkin atmosphere then 'most' country footy clubs crap all over the amateur league. reason being is the country towns hang out for their footy and it's usually a day out. they have the whole family playing basically cos generally there's (in the bigger leagues) 15s, 18s, magoos and As and sometimes netball play at the same venue to correspond with the footy. it's a whole day out and by the time the As play the crowd swells up.

talkin about grounds, it's not played on much anymore as the club folded but the United footy club in the Riverland Indys aka Prickle park was a shocker,
as mentioned Gaza is a mud pit,
Modbury's middle isn't as bad but not too flash,
i think it's pembroke who has trees overhanging on the ground and one end is more like a soccer pitch than an oval, very square

the best are harder to pick,
Moorook had a nice surface when i was playing there in 03
Lyrup also similar, i played in a losing GF there but the ground was great
Ovingham is a fairly good ground to play on, only because it's so easy to rack up the possies...

but none really come to mind as being a cut above the rest

Ovingham is only good if you play on the ball,no good for forwards or backman they would get sore necks watching the ball going over there heads

Completly agree! Played ful forward there a few years back, only shots on goal I got were in the centre sqare, only cos it came out of the backlines and hit me on the lead!!

[Saint]

I know the oval is on a fair bit of a slope but the playing surface of Uraidla is one of the best in the hills probably only second behind milang (they dont play there any more so that would make it the best)

[Demon68]

You are spot on Saint, I played down with Milang during there last three years (before they folded) and even though we were getting pumped each week (with a win here and there) it was an absolute pleasure to play on that ground, really good country atmosphere and the best surface in the Hills League, and one of the best clubs I have played with, an absolute pleasure to finish my playing days with them.

Demon68