Darth Vader wrote:Woofa wrote:Darth Vader wrote:ever heard the saying "if it aint broke dont fix it?"
Country footy is all about junior, senior colts and Two's before the A's on a Saturday arvo in a parallel competition with netball. Frig around with that massively successful formula that has worked since Moses played full back for Jerusalem and you are flirting with danger.
If you dont believe me check out the SGFL. A good crowd on Sunday is 200. A good crowd on Saturday is 210. They stuffed up when incompetence got in the way of common sense and they took footy away from Globe Oval (Sollies hallowed turf) and Ports Oval (the Squids holy ground) and based it all at Memorial Oval (the Lions HQ). Complete failure which is repeated in Port Augusta. SGL also boned one of the better clubs in Quorn Wolves because they insisted on playing a couple of games at home on a Saturday - shocking idea! They no longer exist. No netball either. Its a mess.
APFL is a good strong competition so you blokes should try and preserve it as is.
Very interesting comment DV. I have not heard before of what happened at the SGL. What were they trying to do and what was the outcome? Did they put all resources into one venue and then have shared tennants? Could you go into some more detail please.
there's three clubs in each town. each club has its own oval and facilitites and at least two have pokies so the set up in each case is pretty good. But several years ago the SGL movers and shakers decided to take footy away from the grass roots and just have one ground in each twon where they play all games and finals. It is pathetic really and they are paying the price. Also, I think this right, but they play their junior and senior colts after school o friday's so all you get on Saturdays is Magoos and A's
There's three
Not that long ago the SGL was similar to what it is now - when Pirie and Augusta had 4 teams each and certainly since the demise of one team in each town, all League and Reserves games were played at Memorial Oval Pirie and the main oval at Augusta (Central Oval??) - one set of matches Saturday, one Sunday. This was how it had always been in living memory - certainly in the 70's and 80's. Memorial Oval in Pirie was Props home ground - well they trained there anyway - Sollies (on the Pt Davis road and Globe), Risdon (Frank Green Park) and Ports (Port Oval) all trained elsewhere but always played senior footy at the same ground. Augusta was the same, Centrals I think trained at the main oval, Wilsden had their own, West and South Augusta I am not sure but I think had their own grounds.
When did they start/stop playing senior games at the Port and Globe Ovals DV? Thirds were always played at the Globe as a double header on Saturday, both games finished in time to get to Memorial to watch the A's if they were playing. U15 were played on the training grounds (plus a school oval) mentioned above - normally starting around 9am I reckon.
This seemed to work well when the population of both towns was 17k plus - these days the drop in population sees each town with only 3 teams - a sign of the times I think.
