Fixing Thebarton Oval

[McAlmanac]

Yes improve Thebarton oval as much as possible and move all the Eagles home matches there. Then all they need to do is get rid of that pesky green in their colours and drop that annoying Woodville from their name.

Not interested in trolling. Especially coming from Victoria.

No trolling there.

The point (from my perspective) is that the more the club lurches towards Thebarton, The more it takes the "W-" out of "W-WT". It might be an old topic, but any marriage should remain true to its original vows.

[eaglehaslanded]

Agreed. does need some work. I would love to see more Eagles games played there, maybe 5 a season 4 as home games with a neutral game. I love Adelaide as well so I wouldn't want our couple of games taken away from there but we do need to use thebby more. A new electronic scoreboard is a must with a time clock you can see, permanant canteen facilities can come in time as I feel those are ok for time been. Grandstand is good but changeroom facilities both home and away need urgent work.

[eddie eagle]

Needs eftpos facilities to save the jog, mid term, to the west thebby to access cash for beer.

[Aerie]

Yes improve Thebarton oval as much as possible and move all the Eagles home matches there. Then all they need to do is get rid of that pesky green in their colours and drop that annoying Woodville from their name.

Not interested in trolling. Especially coming from Victoria.

No trolling there.

The point (from my perspective) is that the more the club lurches towards Thebarton, The more it takes the "W-" out of "W-WT". It might be an old topic, but any marriage should remain true to its original vows.

That's a fair point. I don't think the Eagles will ever move their home away from Woodville unless the council makes things difficult. However, there is no denying Thebarton Oval plays a part in the history of the Woodville-West Torrens football club. It has tradition, is in a great location and if the SANFL are wanting to make the most of the oval as a neutral venue, I think the Eagles should come to the party and hold 3 home games there each year. Particularly if the lighting is used in the future.

Originally, Woodville-West Torrens moved to Woodville Oval because West Torrens owned the club rooms at Thebby and therefore could get more money from selling them and then moving to the council owned club rooms at Woodville Oval. IMHO, Woodville-West Torrens Football Club should continue to do what is best for the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club to ensure a secure future, whether that involves Thebarton Oval or not.

[spell_check]

Yes improve Thebarton oval as much as possible and move all the Eagles home matches there. Then all they need to do is get rid of that pesky green in their colours and drop that annoying Woodville from their name.

Not interested in trolling. Especially coming from Victoria.

No trolling there.

The point (from my perspective) is that the more the club lurches towards Thebarton, The more it takes the "W-" out of "W-WT". It might be an old topic, but any marriage should remain true to its original vows.

I think 3 home games at Thebarton - one moved from Adelaide and 7 at Woodville would be a fine balance.

[Pseudo]

The point (from my perspective) is that the more the club lurches towards Thebarton, The more it takes the "W-" out of "W-WT". It might be an old topic, but any marriage should remain true to its original vows.

Perhaps they could be the Peckers when they play at Thebby

[eaglesfan]

Thebarton Oval has great potential - location, tradition, atmosphere etc - and should be used more often, especially by the Eagles. It would certainly help to increase Eagles' attendances.

[MightyEagles]

Thebby Oval needs money to fix it up, we all agree on that, but how much is needed. Scoreboard is a must. The Away Rooms (which are bad, from what I hear) needs to be done. The home rooms aren't that bad, just needs a touch of paint and new carpet and the like. Toliets on the outer side (South Rd side).

[HeartBeatsTrue]

Neutral games at thebby should not involve the Eagles, especially if they use it also for "home" games. Its a clear advantage to them as all the teams they've played against there had not played there since 1989.

If its going to be used as a neutral venue then all teams play there equally. If the Eagles want to use it for some home games then thats fine, as long as its one of their alloted 9 home games. Effectively this year (playing wise, not home match functions/reponsibilities/tickets wise) the Eagles have 10 home games. North have 10 away games, just 1 being neutral.

[Wedgie]

The point (from my perspective) is that the more the club lurches towards Thebarton, The more it takes the "W-" out of "W-WT". It might be an old topic, but any marriage should remain true to its original vows.

Goin on that logic (and correct me if I misread this post) but shouldn't the Eagles play out of Football Park where the club played where it first played in 1991?
When they moved to Woodville going on your logic woudln't it have taken the WT out of "W-WT"???
Considering you have more home games at Woodville than North at Prospect I fail to see your point.

[Mickyj]

Yes improve Thebarton oval as much as possible and move all the Eagles home matches there. Then all they need to do is get rid of that pesky green in their colours and drop that annoying Woodville from their name.

Not interested in trolling. Especially coming from Victoria.

No trolling there.

The point (from my perspective) is that the more the club lurches towards Thebarton, The more it takes the "W-" out of "W-WT". It might be an old topic, but any marriage should remain true to its original vows.

Seeing that you are in Melbourne McAlmanac you may not have heard about the fuss caused by the Charles Sturt Council (the old WOODVILLE Council),they were chasing a huge increase in RENT due to the fact that the football club was playing in grandfinals must mean they are making a huge profit and they wanted a huge part of any profit in a rent increase . The West Torrens council stepped in and offered thebarton to the football club(they train there during the summer) at a cheaper rent, Charles Sturt reduced the rates and everything returned to normal.Well thats my take of it and since its been a HELL of a long time since we merged arent we one CLUB YET !!! We have sons of West Torrens Players playing with the SONS of Woodville players surely that should prove we can be one club .

Anyway as an EX Torrens fan Thebarton is ok but Woodville is better its closer to home in fact Wedgies idea is better because footy park is closer to home than Woodville lets go back to footy park .Hey we may even be able to play footy park and win a grandfinal

[Macca19]

Probably just repeating what others have said, but after the Port game I noted:

- Proper scoreboard first off. If this isnt viable then at least have one on the 'members' side of the ground so those that wish to stand in the outer dont have to hang over the fence or walk around half the oval to try and see the score

- Ditto for time clock

- The light towers looked like a great health hazard. Half the lights looked like they were hanging by a thread and with the wind there was during the Port game, it wouldnt have surprised if some fell down.

Dont know anything about cold showers, busted headphones etc.

Grandstand looked in decent nick and as has been said, the surface looks fine.

If it is to be used as a semi-regular/regular venue then the scoreboard is the main priority followed by fixing up the lights.

[Wedgie]

I spent half of the game watching the light towers just waiting for the creak to happen so I could run and dive out of the way of them, they looked pretty ordinary close up!

Another thing noticable about Thebby was how far the boundary line was in from the fence, I'm sure it never used to be like that, did they move the goals or just the boundary in, in the 90s when it wasn't being used?

[MightyEagles]

I agree with the lights, something has to be done. But I don't know about the boundry lines.

[Macca19]

I spent half of the game watching the light towers just waiting for the creak to happen so I could run and dive out of the way of them, they looked pretty ordinary close up!

Another thing noticable about Thebby was how far the boundary line was in from the fence, I'm sure it never used to be like that, did they move the goals or just the boundary in, in the 90s when it wasn't being used?

Yeah I noticed that too, that it was almost waverley like.

[RoosterMarty]

Something needs to be done as its a decent enough spot to watch footy. The ground was in perfect condition. Having to walk a mile to go to the dunny is bloody annoying though, and the scoreboard and timeclock need to be placed somewhere everybody can see... but im kinda glad it was out of sight on Saturday!

[Strawb]

I have soem ideas
1. is do up Thebarton oval to match a great SANFL venue for games.
2. Have the eagles play 4 games at Thebby a year

now i do have a question How can Woodville and West Torrens be a merged club when all home games at mainly played at Woodville.
The West Tigers merged back in 2000 and they share their home games between Balmains and Western Suburb's grounds.

[McAlmanac]

now i do have a question How can Woodville and West Torrens be a merged club when all home games at mainly played at Woodville.
The West Tigers merged back in 2000 and they share their home games between Balmains and Western Suburb's grounds.

West Torrens were homeless and comparatively Woodville were heritageless. The emblem and guernsey are more Torrens - Woodville retained some "localness". That was what I was alluding to before as "the original vows" of the marriage - taking the best parts of each in creating one club.

[Strawb]

Fair is fair and i will say this the SANFL stuffed up getting in Woodville. They should have looked at Tea Tree Gully or Mt. Barker or Salisbury if you understand what i am getting at.

[Aerie]

Fair is fair and i will say this the SANFL stuffed up getting in Woodville. They should have looked at Tea Tree Gully or Mt. Barker or Salisbury if you understand what i am getting at.

Funny you say that strawb. West Torrens were actually going to move out to Tea Tree Gully and I assume would have just been called Torrens. I think Bruce Lindsay and a few others were from this area. In hindsight, I think Woodville-West Torrens Eagles is a better deal than if the club relocated to the other side of town. Especially now a few games are being played at Thebby. South Adelaide moving to Noarlunga is probably the closest a club has got to relocation, although obviously still in the southern area, just further out.