2007 SANFL Fixture - Full Details & Summaries

[Wedgie]

Round 1
Thursday 5th April
Norwood v Port Norwood Oval (n)
Saturday 7th April
West v Sturt Richmond Oval
South v Eagles Encounter Bay
Central v North Elizabeth Oval (n)
Glenelg bye

Does anyone else dectect a hint of Phil Herden in that decision?

[TroyGFC]

The June long weekend also features another blockbuster game between Glenelg and North Adelaide at the newly named Challenge Recruitment Oval (formerly Glenelg Oval).

Mondays are even worse than Sundays!!!

[am Bays]

hey Troy, Tell me why, you don't like Mondays....

[Peter Falconia]

I have always said sunday football is the best day to get crowds so well done.

I wonder if you will be still thinking that when you start working dasher.

The stats speak for themselves in recent years.

What stats? If Glenelg are playing North on Sunday, it doesn't mean it will draw a bigger crowd than if it was played on Saturday. Show me the stats for a South v West game at Richmond Oval on a Saturday versus a Sunday.

Two teams with a big supporter base will draw a decent size crowd which ever day it's played. Do you really think that playing games on Sunday will result in crowds of 8,000 people?

[Thiele]

Looking forward to going up to Berri and Watching West vs Centrals

[dash61]

Bad enough if we drove all that way to lose, worst of all no matter what you have to drive through a elizabeth on the way back,,,, if we won and hung scarfes out we may be pelted with bottles

[giffo]

You could always go via Mannum & Tea Tree Gully if you're worried.

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I have always said sunday football is the best day to get crowds so well done.

I wonder if you will be still thinking that when you start working dasher.

The stats speak for themselves in recent years.

What stats? If Glenelg are playing North on Sunday, it doesn't mean it will draw a bigger crowd than if it was played on Saturday. Show me the stats for a South v West game at Richmond Oval on a Saturday versus a Sunday.

Two teams with a big supporter base will draw a decent size crowd which ever day it's played. Do you really think that playing games on Sunday will result in crowds of 8,000 people?

1. nth v glen bigger crowd on sun than sat this year. played on both dayz at bay

2. there must be sumin in it otherwise why is sanfl doing sundee footy

[Rushby Hinds]

I have always said sunday football is the best day to get crowds so well done.

I wonder if you will be still thinking that when you start working dasher.

The stats speak for themselves in recent years.

What stats? If Glenelg are playing North on Sunday, it doesn't mean it will draw a bigger crowd than if it was played on Saturday. Show me the stats for a South v West game at Richmond Oval on a Saturday versus a Sunday.

Two teams with a big supporter base will draw a decent size crowd which ever day it's played. Do you really think that playing games on Sunday will result in crowds of 8,000 people?

1. nth v glen bigger crowd on sun than sat this year. played on both dayz at bay

2. there must be sumin in it otherwise why is sanfl doing sundee footy

The Bays believe that they get 25% (?) bigger crowds for a Sunday vs the same game on a Saturday.

[Jimmy]

C'mon Jimmy - by bagging Lizbef, you're bagging your own mate. You can be a toffy nosed Sturt supporter all you like, but you still lived there....maybe it's the fact that it's part of your life that so offends, we tend to reject our own when we're trying to hide from things.

its called a sense of humour mate...

come on mate, you barrack for the Dogs, you grew up with a sense of humour

Yep, you're right. Sorry. Should've noticed the smilies. Forgive me, please.
Sense of humour? Try being a Collingwood and a Doggies supporter...

a collingwood supporter....thats rough...

[Jimmy]

Bad enough if we drove all that way to lose, worst of all no matter what you have to drive through a elizabeth on the way back,,,, if we won and hung scarfes out we may be pelted with bottles

lizbeff cant be that bad compared to your destination on the way back dash

[Peter Falconia]

The stats speak for themselves in recent years.

What stats? If Glenelg are playing North on Sunday, it doesn't mean it will draw a bigger crowd than if it was played on Saturday. Show me the stats for a South v West game at Richmond Oval on a Saturday versus a Sunday.

Two teams with a big supporter base will draw a decent size crowd which ever day it's played. Do you really think that playing games on Sunday will result in crowds of 8,000 people?

1. nth v glen bigger crowd on sun than sat this year. played on both dayz at bay

2. there must be sumin in it otherwise why is sanfl doing sundee footy

1. the sat game this year was telecast

2. yes the sanfl are wonderful promoters of their own league, and over recent years, have shown how much respect they have for the sanfl fc supporter.

[Wedgie]

Yeah, a big thanks to the SANFL for giving North so many Sunday games at Prospect when the club requested all Saturday games.
FFS league, the club knows its fans better than you do, do your research and find out which supporters aren't bandwagonners and impacted as much by AFL games.
And how bloody short is their memory?
The Sunday experiment was tried years ago, failed and at the time the league came out and said that Saturday afternoon footy was the way to go.
They either have no care of the comp, are completely incapable of running the comp, have shocking memories or all of the previous.
Sunday does have MAY an impact aka 2006 to a degree (one would argue crowds would have been down in 2006 had it been a normal winter) if used sparingly.
You have to look at the crowds overall to make a judgement, not just what they get on Sundays as some "fringe" supporters become unaware of when their team is playing if it keeps chopping and changing.

Cue November 2007:
"Saturday Arvo footy is the catchcry for 2008"

Full circle, too predictable.
Morons.
You'd think they'd at least leave the decisions up to the club who at least have an interest in the competition.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

Cant wait to play at Thebby.
2 game for Centrals @ Norwood Oval (Coopers beer)
Night Game @ Elizabeth V Port & North (should be 7000+) maybe even sturt, ladder permitting.
Game @ Berri (Somthing Diffrent)
18 by round 2.

Not a bad draw, dont like the Bye in round 23 though.

[Pseudo]

Not a bad draw, dont like the Bye in round 23 though.

Would you rather play the Elimination Final without the week's rest?

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Ilagree that the sunday factor is overused in 07.

Everything in the sanfl is about novelty. 06 it was different on sundays and their happened to be some good contests along with the noarlunga car factor. fridays were big when they came in and became overused. i think the sanfl had to respond to sunday polling well last year.

I think some of u r a bit annoyed about sunday fooy 4 ur own selfish reeasons tho

See my previous thread of making the programme malleable.

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Cant wait to play at Thebby.
2 game for Centrals @ Norwood Oval (Coopers beer)
Night Game @ Elizabeth V Port & North (should be 7000+) maybe even sturt, ladder permitting.
Game @ Berri (Somthing Diffrent)
18 by round 2.

Not a bad draw, dont like the Bye in round 23 though.

the bye in rnd 23 is a disgrace

[smac]

Not a bad draw, dont like the Bye in round 23 though.

Would you rather play the Elimination Final without the week's rest?

What are they? I think I may have read about them in the papers at some stage. Is that the game that finishes before Centrals consider playing finals?

[Jimmy]

Not a bad draw, dont like the Bye in round 23 though.

Would you rather play the Elimination Final without the week's rest?

What are they? I think I may have read about them in the papers at some stage. Is that the game that finishes before Centrals consider playing finals?

gee, how quickly you forget...wasnt long ago you were dreaming of playing in an EF ...now its Sturts turn to do that

[Ecky]

The Bays believe that they get 25% (?) bigger crowds for a Sunday vs the same game on a Saturday.

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Disclaimer: This figure does not originate from any GFC statisticians. There are so many different factors which contribute to the size of crowds, that there aren't enough "similar" games on both days to accurately estimate the effect of playing a game on a Sunday. So I have no idea how they could make such a claim.