Eagles2014 wrote:goddy11 wrote:No Petrenko. He's been one of the top Eagles players this year.
Petrenko made himself unavailable, said he wanted to concentrate on Eagles.
Reckon that is disappointing decision, if every player did that we would not have a team!
Jim05 wrote:Eagles2014 wrote:goddy11 wrote:No Petrenko. He's been one of the top Eagles players this year.
Petrenko made himself unavailable, said he wanted to concentrate on Eagles.
Reckon that is disappointing decision, if every player did that we would not have a team!
Good on him, a Premiership for the Eagles is far more important than a meaningless game.
State game cost us big time last year, wish all our players would pull out
Eagles2014 wrote:Jim05 wrote:Eagles2014 wrote:goddy11 wrote:No Petrenko. He's been one of the top Eagles players this year.
Petrenko made himself unavailable, said he wanted to concentrate on Eagles.
Reckon that is disappointing decision, if every player did that we would not have a team!
Good on him, a Premiership for the Eagles is far more important than a meaningless game.
State game cost us big time last year, wish all our players would pull out
Well they may as well never play these games again then if players, clubs and supporters feel like this!
BUT, speak to the players who play and they absolutely love it!!
Jim05 wrote:Eagles2014 wrote:Jim05 wrote:Eagles2014 wrote:
Petrenko made himself unavailable, said he wanted to concentrate on Eagles.
Reckon that is disappointing decision, if every player did that we would not have a team!
Good on him, a Premiership for the Eagles is far more important than a meaningless game.
State game cost us big time last year, wish all our players would pull out
Well they may as well never play these games again then if players, clubs and supporters feel like this!
BUT, speak to the players who play and they absolutely love it!!
Wouldn't be fussed if they were not played anymore. It's not a true reflection of SANFL v VFL as the VFL is basically a reserves comp now. The guys representing the Vics wouldn't be in the top 100 players in the comp.
Norwood copped a stack of injuries from this game last year and what compensation did we get?
2old2slow wrote:not enough sturt players cougar.
saintal wrote:When I'm reminded that G. Cornes is coaching/selecting this team I can't help but think of Monty Burns.
"I'm afraid all those players have retired and...passed on. In fact, your centre half back has been dead for 130 years.."
Keefy wrote:Did anyone get a text message from the SANFL reminding them that the game is on Sunday and it's free entry when using your club membership card?
Big Phil wrote:Cameron Hitchcock and Kory Beard will be the emergencies, missing out on the final 22 selection...
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
Keefy wrote:Did anyone get a text message from the SANFL reminding them that the game is on Sunday and it's free entry when using your club membership card?
SA state game host, but Vics set rules
From Adelaide Advertiser
Reported by Michelangelo Rucci
TIMES change — even SA-Victoria football relations have remarkably mellowed.
It is 31 years (almost to the day) since Kevin Sheedy strained SANFL-VFL diplomacy by playing four — rather than three — interchange players in the Australian Championship state game against Neil Balme’s SA team at Football Park.
On Sunday, the SANFL will host the VFL in the first State game played between the leagues on the redeveloped Adelaide Oval — and the home team has given up its significant points of difference.
There will be 50m penalties, as in the AFL and VFL rule book — rather than the SANFL’s 25m rule. The cutaways to the SA coach’s box to monitor Graham Cornes’ reaction to these penalties will be priceless.
There will be the AFL’s interpretation of the “deliberate out-of-bounds” rules — rather than the SANFL’s “last-disposal” penalty for kicks and handpasses that fall out of play.
And there will be no cap on interchange rotations — not the 90 enforced in the AFL nor the 60 imposed in the SANFL. There is no cap on rotations in the VFL State league
The Victorians will feel at home at Adelaide Oval on Sunday — just as Sheedy did on May 14, 1985 at Football Park when the “Big V”, with an extra man, won by 57 points and then had the win stripped by the now-defunct National Football League.
Which is more staggering — that the SANFL has no “home-ground” rules as would apply in baseball ... or that Australian football has more than one law book while trying to claim it is a national sport?
The other contradiction is how the SANFL maintained its “independent” image by introducing the 25m rule, a differing cap on interchange rotations and the boundary penalty — and then cast aside these differing points for a State game on its home deck.
Strange ... as it is bewildering that Australian football would have differing ways to control its game from state to state. Those who argue the game needs an experimental field to test rule changes may concede the trial of rules is best kept to a junior competition, such as the under-18s, rather than senior football.
If the decision to play to “Victorian Rules” in an SANFL-hosted State game at the Oval is not enough to raise eyebrows, the more concerning point is how many SANFL players have passed up the opportunity to wear the famed red SA state jumper on Sunday.
State-of-Origin collapsed under the pressure of clubs — and then players — putting the chase for the AFL premiership before the honour of representing a state.
Now SANFL players — and clubs — are thinking the same way, preferring to rest this weekend to enhance their campaigns for the State league premiership rather than take up the privilege of representing SA.
Ultimately, such disregard from the players for the SA jumper will have state games tumble into football history in the same way as Origin games did ... regardless of whether AFL, SANFL or VFL rules are favoured.
Grenville wrote:What's with having a game on Adelaide Oval tonight? It'll ruin the surface for the big game tomorrow. The 11 people going to watch tomorrow deserve better than that.
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