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Mobbenfuhrer
24 Sep 2002, 16:25
Hey countryside South Aussie people, assistance required!
Both the eastern Eyre and the Spencer Gulf footy leagues have shown a team in their ranks known as Ports.
Is it one team that changed leagues, or two different teams?
Which one is the one that came about as a merger between Arno Bay and Port Neill?
Any help offered gratefully appreciated!
Jars458
24 Sep 2002, 16:31
Definitley two different ones
Ports in the SGL are based in Port Pirie and arte notionally the "Catholic" football side.
A couple fo my best mates played for them.
Bob Hammond once coached them.
Mobbenfuhrer
24 Sep 2002, 16:33
Originally posted by Jars458
Definitley two different ones
Ports in the SGL are based in Port Pirie and arte notionally the "Catholic" football side.
A couple fo my best mates played for them.
Bob Hammond once coached them.
Grouse thanks ... now which one was brought about by Arno Bay and Port Neill merging? Or to rephrase, where are Arno Bay and Port Neill? Which league are those places nearest to?
Cheers jars thanks.
FattyLumpkin
24 Sep 2002, 16:58
Arno Bay on Eyre Peninsula - obviously on the coast - makes a triangle with Cleve & Cowell. Port Neil further down EP towards Port Lincoln, but not as far as say Tumby Bay.
AB, PN, Cleve, Wharminda, Rudall, Darke Peake & 2 Cowell sides made uop County Jervois league many eons ago. Now called Eastern Eyre.
As for the other Ports in the SGL being catholic..... hey I played for 'em & at that stage I had no idea what a catholic was (or a churvh for that matter). Must have been why I spent a lot of time on the bench!!
Fatty
timelord
24 Sep 2002, 19:13
To add to that -
Port Neill and Arno Bay merged for the 1989 season, the very same season the Eastern Eyre FL was formed from the merger of the County Jervois FL and the Kimba FL.
Ports in the SGL (who I call Port Pirie on my website) have been around for a lot longer than that, even before the formation of the SGL in 1961.
Wish I'd seen this post before everyone else did! Kev knows how good I am at this sort of thing!! Even in South Australia!
Mobbenfuhrer
24 Sep 2002, 20:17
Thank you everybody who's assisted! Yep its true, I should have just attn'ed this to Timelord ... I dare someone here to give him a question similar to mine that he can't answer!
Ahh so Port Pirie and Ports are one and the same ... the plot thins!
Mobbenfuhrer
25 Sep 2002, 16:10
... so the word I had that County Jervois was a footy club, that merged with a footy club called Kimba, to form Kimba Districts footy club, was completely up the spout, then?
timelord
26 Sep 2002, 00:48
Yep, although it was more like the communication line got garbled (leagues and clubs got entangled - if you know what I mean)
Mobbenfuhrer
26 Sep 2002, 06:46
I'll say! Thanks again Timelord.
The Port Pirie version is actually the 'Port Football Club'.
Ports is more of a nickname.
I also played my junior years there, and my dad was on the board for a few years around late 80's, early 90's.
Port has been around longer than the SGL, which is one reason why there are 2 bulldogs in the SGL (Port and South Augusta), started in the PPFL which obviously no longer exists.
As for any Eyre league, have no idea.
Mobbenfuhrer
26 Sep 2002, 20:18
Thanks Port01!
screech
27 Sep 2002, 00:20
That wasnt my dodgy info was it :)
timelord
27 Sep 2002, 10:16
Originally posted by Port01
Port has been around longer than the SGL, which is one reason why there are 2 bulldogs in the SGL (Port and South Augusta), started in the PPFL which obviously no longer exists.
Yeah well the Port Pirie FL and the Great Northern FL (Port Augusta) merged in 1961 to form the SGL - and the Whyalla FL was a part of that before they opted out in 1967.
At that time there was no Roopena or Weeroona Bay (they came in the early 1970's) so it was a 12 team comp - with of course Risdon and Proprietary separate. And the fourth Augusta team was Willsden and not Quorn.