JK wrote:Question for the Dogs fans, during the Golden period, did most/many/all recruits live out North?
Nope.......to start with not many blokes were from our 'metro zone'
We had a very 'infamous' house in Prospect that many of the younger 18-21 up and comers who were at uni use to live in. Many of the Barossa Uni students also used to rent close to the city.
Most of the interstate recruits lived closer to the city and then we had a bunch of Barossa lads who were scattered throughout the Barossa in particular Nurioopta and Tanunda being a very solid breeding ground.
Appreciate though that times were a bit different, petrol prices and employment situations. Back then we seemed to have a lot of school teachers of which many had jobs in school north of the city (immediately thinking Slade, Healy, Steinberner, Cochrane, Thomas) who uni students, sports power and aquadome were big employers which saw players work and then go to training straight after so their days were full ‘down north’. At least one gun recruit always seemed to have a job with the club like Bello, Goodrem.
If I’ve read the cdfc premiership players page right 8 of our 62 premiership players came from the metro zone. 18 from the country zone and then the rest from elsewhere. Happy to be corrected though as I’m sure I’ve made a mistake or two.