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The West End-SANFL promotion to pick the team coached by 10-premiership winner Jack Oatey proved the power of social media with 17,340 fans linking to the Facebook site and 3300 on the Twitter account created to find SA football's legends...

F: John Platten, Scott Hodges, Rick Davies
HF: Andrew Jarman, Barrie Robran, Michael Graham
C: James Gowans, Russell Ebert, Chris Gowans
HB: Peter Motley, Greg Phillips, Phil Carman
B: Rex Voight, Martin Leslie, Neil Kerley
1R: Peter Carey, Malcolm Blight, Garry McIntosh
Int: Ralph Sewer, David Kantilla, Grenville Dietrich, Rudi Mandemaker
Coach: Jack Oatey

Magpiespower wrote:The West End-SANFL promotion to pick the team coached by 10-premiership winner Jack Oatey proved the power of social media with 17,340 fans linking to the Facebook site and 3300 on the Twitter account created to find SA football's legends...

F: John Platten, Scott Hodges, Rick Davies
HF: Andrew Jarman, Barrie Robran, Michael Graham
C: James Gowans, Russell Ebert, Chris Gowans
HB: Peter Motley, Greg Phillips, Phil Carman
B: Rex Voight, Martin Leslie, Neil Kerley
1R: Peter Carey, Malcolm Blight, Garry McIntosh
Int: Ralph Sewer, David Kantilla, Grenville Dietrich, Rudi Mandemaker
Coach: Jack Oatey

When they name Legends one would think they would spell his name correctly

REX VOIGT

no disrespect to the gowans twins but they made their mark in a vastly different era/2nd tier competition compared to the others

stampy wrote:no disrespect to the gowans twins but they made their mark in a vastly different era/2nd tier competition compared to the others

I agree and can't also recall them playing too much on the wings either!

WTF IS BOMBER CLIFFORD!!!???

Magpiespower wrote:The West End-SANFL promotion to pick the team coached by 10-premiership winner Jack Oatey proved the power of social media with 17,340 fans linking to the Facebook site and 3300 on the Twitter account created to find SA football's legends...

F: John Platten, Scott Hodges, Rick Davies
HF: Andrew Jarman, Barrie Robran, Michael Graham
C: James Gowans, Russell Ebert, Chris Gowans
HB: Peter Motley, Greg Phillips, Phil Carman
B: Rex Voight, Martin Leslie, Neil Kerley
1R: Peter Carey, Malcolm Blight, Garry McIntosh
Int: Ralph Sewer, David Kantilla, Grenville Dietrich, Rudi Mandemaker
Coach: Jack Oatey

Wtf? Gowans twins out of their depth in that team.

Kind of agree. Although, I don't know the selection criteria.
There's a few other strange choices as well.

Rudi Mandemaker's an interesting selection as well!

I don't think there was a selection criteria, which makes it a bit of a joke.

Appears to be whoever the selector(s) think is a "legend", although in what context, is not known.

I'm thinking Legend means "character of the game". So, the Gowans boys are fair enough in that context.
Looking through that list there are outright Legends and then Legend characters, characters outweighing the Legends (if that makes sense).

I reckon I'd put blokes like Klanger Klenjans in there. Who was the other South Adelaide bloke of that era who was a bit of a "character"?

Maybe Lee Robson from Torrens; Stan Wickham; Eddie Hocking; Bruce Lindsay.

As it is, the side just looks like a "best of the 70's and 80's" team, with a few random exceptions.

Without comparing eras and weighting every SANFL season the exact same the Gowans 9 premierships medals plus Jack Oateys and overall performances in the 2000-2010 probably compare very well to any footballers to play SANFL.

But obviously the SANFL in the 2000s was clearly the second best comp in the land while in other eras it may have been the best comp in the land.

Probably should have had two sides one before and after the inclusion of the SA based AFL sides.

GWW wrote:I reckon I'd put blokes like Klanger Klenjans in there. Who was the other South Adelaide bloke of that era who was a bit of a "character"?

Gordon Gatti?

Gatti - yeah thats the one, long scruffy hair I reckon.