The best and worst grounds to play footy on

[Jimmy_041]

Ahh well there's your first mistake... you must have been at a different oval because we dont have clubrooms yet !!!

You did in 2004, albeit they were primitive

Bloody government funding - its just not fair how they give it and take it away....

[Choccies]

Ahh well there's your first mistake... you must have been at a different oval because we dont have clubrooms yet !!!

You did in 2004, albeit they were primitive

Bloody government funding - its just not fair how they give it and take it away....

At least the new oval is flat and smooth... the old oval was like playing on the road and I only ever taped my ankles when I trained or played there !! I remember in the early days walking the oval prior to the game with buckets of sand filling in holes...

[Shake n Bake]

mudlark mudlark hahahah this and the old flaggy ground terrible and stank

Have to agree there, both absolute slopfests after a bit'v rain and the smell....! Their own players seem to love it tho!

[McGovern]

Played a game on Bridgewater this year and there was barely a blade of grass left afterwards. Best venue for footy is Milang. Not sure if we will ever get the opportunity to play there again.

[ballbags06]

Best:
Vansittart Park (Mount Gambier)
Sacred Heart
Westminster
Renmark

Worst:
Bridgewater
Mt Barker
Mt Lofty
Heywood
St Pauls

[HH3]

Best
Hackham - Nice size and a very good surface
North Haven - A big oval that caters for a more flowing style of footy
Old Noarlunga - Great flat surface

Worst
Fitzroy - If the balls on the other wing, all you can see are heads and shoulders because its a pretty big hill
Lonsdale - Massive cracks and a couple of sprinkler heads
Lockleys - Had a baseball diamond cutting into one of the wings
Unley - About the size of a soccer pitch, and same dimensions too. Its a rectangle. Plus theres a massive slop favouring the western goals

[LaughingKookaburra]

North Haven!! Don't know about that......Big oval yes but must say I never really rated it highly.

[HH3]

Dont know what its like now but back in the day (2 years ago) there could be torrential rain and still be solid...as in no mud, not like brightons centre square...

[Look Good In Leather]

The Good Ones
Noarlunga Oval
Bice Oval (Christies Beach)
Unley Oval
Hickinbotham Oval (South Adelaide)
Alberton Oval
Woodville Oval
Aldinga Oval
Happy Valley Oval
Marion Oval
Encounter Bay Oval
Milang Oval
Mount Lofty

The OK Ones
Port Noarlunga Oval
McLaren Vale Oval
Willunga Oval
O'Sullivan Beach Oval
Hackham Oval
Flagstaff Hill Oval
Kenilworth Oval
Mount Compass Oval
Victor Harbor Oval
Moorook Oval
Aldgate Oval
Seaton Oval

The Bad Ones
Yaroona (Kangarilla)
Morphett Vale Oval
Reynella Oval
Brighton Oval
McLaren Flat Oval
Mitchell Park Oval

The Disasters
Cove Oval
Morphettville Park Oval
Morphett Vale High School Oval (Lonsdale)

[Bat Pad]

Can definately add Mt Barker and Bridgewater to the disasters column. Kersbrook is in another column altogether(fixing it now i beleive). It would have to be the worst ova in SA, or at least was.

[plugger12]

Brahma lodges oval is very ordinary also Eastern Park andprobably the worst Fitzroy's

[Bulldogga55]

There are more craters on Fitzroy Oval then this is on the moon. Absolut joke of an oval for any types of sport. Ive heard that it was an rubbish dump back in the day.
My Favs would be:

Plympton- Home ground only before it gets all muddy though
Golden Grove- great surface, Nice Atco hut changerooms! (bloody long drive though).
Hawthorndene- Joan's Pantry accross the road

My most Hated!
BlackfriarsOS- You'd think for a private school, you would get a better oval and facilities than the rubbish parkland ground.
Greenacres- changerooms on other side of ground, Yatala Prison, end up losing money on the pokies!!

[Bulldogga55]

Brahma lodges oval is very ordinary also Eastern Park andprobably the worst Fitzroy's

Does anyone Know if Brahma Lodge have gotton rid of the rubber matting they used to put over there cricket pitch. Hard as a rock and injuries waiting to happen.

[JS SPORTS]

I'm surprised that nobody from the HFL has nominated the Birdwood Velodrome, oops, oval.

[jointman]

Brahma lodges oval is very ordinary also Eastern Park andprobably the worst Fitzroy's

i went past eastern pk oval on a rainy day...would rather have a kick on fitzroys oval than eastern pks on any day...didnt look like a oval but a pig pit to me

[LaughingKookaburra]

There is far worse ovals than Fitzroy. North Pines, Blackfriars, Adelaide Lutheran come to mind straight of the top of the head.....

[Jimmy_041]

Brahma lodges oval is very ordinary also Eastern Park andprobably the worst Fitzroy's

i went past eastern pk oval on a rainy day...would rather have a kick on fitzroys oval than eastern pks on any day...didnt look like a oval but a pig pit to me

So many available responses - too many manners.....

[ORDoubleBlues]

And another one - Macclesfield, the only oval I've ever seen that grows its own mould.

Hard to argue with you that it wasn't substandard but thankfully several tens of thousands of dollars have been spent on it and it has gone from being one of the worst ovals to one of the best and hosted the 2008 country division grand final.

[HH3]

And another one - Macclesfield, the only oval I've ever seen that grows its own mould.

Hard to argue with you that it wasn't substandard but thankfully several tens of thousands of dollars have been spent on it and it has gone from being one of the worst ovals to one of the best and hosted the 2008 country division grand final.

When did that happen? We played them in a trial in March 2008 and it was pretty bad...there were big lines of sand the whole way down both wings...but im guessing that wouldve been due to drainage upgrades or something along those lines...am I right?

[scottroo]

hawk who won that game?