Southern Football League

[LaughingKookaburra]

Shiiiit. Marbles mate Smithfield wouldn't make the 8, Ingle Farm wouldn't either.

Reckon Havens and CLG would but would get walloped in the first week. Top 6 in that league are v good.

[Numbers]

Marbles

Reading the link below in particular the Controversy tab I am surprised anyone wants to play in that league

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Au ... all_League

[marbles]

Shiiiit. Marbles mate Smithfield wouldn't make the 8, Ingle Farm wouldn't either.

Reckon Havens and CLG would but would get walloped in the first week. Top 6 in that league are v good.

yeah for sure i agree, the top sides in SFL are easily Div1- Div 2 standard

my philosophy to smithfield is a variable really. any established accomplished football sides beating the 2nd placed sides by 20 goals deserves some creditability - they would be a powerful footballing unit

but smithfield aside, these SFL boys believe their Hackham, Lonsdale, Marions would smash Div 7, when these clubs are traditionally now poor performers who have hardly won 10 games in 4 years

i dont care who theyre playing, these bottom SFL sides would not be impressive to watch, and would not be a big fish in a small pond

i dont discredit the quality sides of the SFL and i am not over exaggerating the standard of div 7 because for most of the games here are also not very impressive to watch

it would be the shit vs the shit, no offense

[marbles]

Marbles

Reading the link below in particular the Controversy tab I am surprised anyone wants to play in that league

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Au ... all_League

well yeah your right, but SFL has history too

my motives is only to bring happier times for all

the bottom SFL sides could find victories for 1st time in 4 or 5 years, and the SFL wont have a surplus of teams, preventing each other playing twice

im not sure why some of you are against shifting some clubs along. its a win win for all

[Dutchy]

If you don't like the SFL marbles why is your lad playing in it?

[marbles]

i love the SFL, has enormous qualities much to like

im just an admirer of those who at grassroots put in tireless work for their football community day in day out - its their livelihood

continual misery is not much fun for those who do equally the same for as those at the quality performing clubs who sit on their high horses with continual footballing good times, and then speak ignorantly that 10 victories in 5 seasons is just fine for them little minions

give an old man a beautiful night of celebration just once a decade in his tenure of volunteering. someone like your grandpa, or dad who busts his balls getting those boys out on the track all just for another 20 goal loss

cant anyone make a few simple harmless changes in direction to bring good times to these deserving people??

anyways

[Dutchy]

Christies, Flaggies & Morphie Parks have all spent more time at the lower end of the ladder than the top end in the past decade, however with hard work they are all very competitive in recent years...it can change

[marbles]

its hardly a loss to the league in its current state of 15 sides, who refuse to go to 2 divisions, if 2 or 3 sides went elsewhere to better themselves and trial themselves against clubs in which they can compete

[shoe boy]

How are ovals holding up?

Driving past Lonsdale it looks a mess but am told not boggy but very slippery.?
Reynella is having issues with centre and still club side very boggy?
Brighton very ordinary from reports from 18 game?

[afc9798]

How are ovals holding up?

Driving past Lonsdale it looks a mess but am told not boggy but very slippery.?
Reynella is having issues with centre and still club side very boggy?
Brighton very ordinary from reports from 18 game?

Valley is holding up well, but only courtesy of the fact that we have 3 away games (including a bye) in a row. Oval always copes well until you get days like yesterday and today. It then becomes about duck shooting season.

[Down the Hill]

Brighton Oval not great but our next Saturday home games are not until 9 August so hopefully the worst of the weather has passed by then. We do actually have some better drainage that has been installed the last couple of years and the areas outside the centre wicket that are prone to muddying up, don't seem to be as boggy as they used to get.

[shoe boy]

Brighton Oval not great but our next Saturday home games are not until 9 August so hopefully the worst of the weather has passed by then. We do actually have some better drainage that has been installed the last couple of years and the areas outside the centre wicket that are prone to muddying up, don't seem to be as boggy as they used to get.

Did you see the state of Troy Johnson

[Look Good In Leather]

Brighton Oval not great but our next Saturday home games are not until 9 August so hopefully the worst of the weather has passed by then. We do actually have some better drainage that has been installed the last couple of years and the areas outside the centre wicket that are prone to muddying up, don't seem to be as boggy as they used to get.

Any drains in the away changerooms?

[afc9798]

Marbles

Reading the link below in particular the Controversy tab I am surprised anyone wants to play in that league

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Au ... all_League

Makes the SFL look like choirboys. Why anyone would enter that farce is beyond me.

[godra]

How are ovals holding up?

Driving past Lonsdale it looks a mess but am told not boggy but very slippery.?
Reynella is having issues with centre and still club side very boggy?
Brighton very ordinary from reports from 18 game?

Marion is above average I would suggest. Some areas are still lush and green but there are mud patches in some areas. Last Saturday gave it a good working over. An away game for us this week will help.

[marbles]

Marbles

Reading the link below in particular the Controversy tab I am surprised anyone wants to play in that league

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Au ... all_League

Makes the SFL look like choirboys. Why anyone would enter that farce is beyond me.

them wiki's are open for anybody to edit yeah?

someones sure got it in for the SAAFL, listing its controversy before anything else and listing every detail of every foot wrong in the last 2 years?

numbers is this your work?

[King]

How are ovals holding up?

Driving past Lonsdale it looks a mess but am told not boggy but very slippery.?
Reynella is having issues with centre and still club side very boggy?
Brighton very ordinary from reports from 18 game?

Flaggies is holding up exceptionally well considering all the rain we have had. No mud ................... A vast difference to the PigPen of yesteryear!!

[LaughingKookaburra]

Please don't tell me I was the only one who laughed @ the Sex Worker approaching junior parents....

I remember being captain of a reserves side one day @ West Croydon and trying to focus blokes before the game who were busy laughing @ a Hooker hailing down cars on Hanson Rd. Must admit I laughed during the pre game address. God knows how we won the flag that year with that sort of professionalism.... Hahaha.

[Down the Hill]

How are ovals holding up?

Driving past Lonsdale it looks a mess but am told not boggy but very slippery.?
Reynella is having issues with centre and still club side very boggy?
Brighton very ordinary from reports from 18 game?

Flaggies is holding up exceptionally well considering all the rain we have had. No mud ................... A vast difference to the PigPen of yesteryear!!

I first played at FH in 1983 when they still wore green and yellow and were called the Tigers (I must say I've never seen a green and yellow tiger). Back then on a wet day the smell from whatever laid beneath the top soil was atrocious. And the top soil was more like a coarse sand and you would finish a game covered in cuts and grazes that stung for days after.

[Dazza44]

How are ovals holding up?

Driving past Lonsdale it looks a mess but am told not boggy but very slippery.?
Reynella is having issues with centre and still club side very boggy?
Brighton very ordinary from reports from 18 game?

Flaggies is holding up exceptionally well considering all the rain we have had. No mud ................... A vast difference to the PigPen of yesteryear!!

I first played at FH in 1983 when they still wore green and yellow and were called the Tigers (I must say I've never seen a green and yellow tiger). Back then on a wet day the smell from whatever laid beneath the top soil was atrocious. And the top soil was more like a coarse sand and you would finish a game covered in cuts and grazes that stung for days after.

Yes my friend, and I can remember spending my early playing days at Flagstaff oval throwing rocks off the oval from my customary back pocket, and yes, the original make-up of the oval was atrocious. The pertinent point here is that the club [FHFC] and the council [Onkaparinga more so than the old Happy Valley] have invested massive dollars on drainage and turf management to continually improve the oval and it's surface. Hence, our oval is now holding up as well as any.

Brighton, however seems to have slipped badly from being a premier ground where we loved playing finals to a boggy mess. I know work is being done, but the quality of the surface and facilities is now an embarrassment compared to other grounds.