Mid december

Hearing the SANFL draw is due out next Saturday (normally is out around this time anyway).

Rumour that the season will start Easter weekend - not sure if Easter Thursday or Good Friday for first game/s. There's AFL at Adelaide Oval Thursday night so doubt they'll go head-to-head with that to kick things off. Could have five unique time slots for matches which would be awesome - Good Friday arvo, night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday to kick the season off in style. Three Friday night games last year to start was ok, but to have only 3-4 Fri nights after that was a bit sad.

An Easter start makes for 18 rounds (plus three split rounds and the state game weekend = 4 byes each team) which has the SANFL Grand Final the weekend before the AFL again as per usual.

Only thing confirmed at this stage is Sturt v Port on ANZAC Day as a double-header with the Women's Grand Final.

Women's League starts first weekend in February (same as AFLW) and runs for 10 weeks with two weeks of finals I believe.