In the night games most SANFL-WAFL teams beat the VFA teams. Don’t think the VfL Reserves would have had much chance either…
VFL fans from the 70's and 80's - did you have a SANFL or WAFL team?
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Vic teams didn't give a s**t about those games, but for WAFL and SA teams it was bigger than their grand final.
SA had the equivalent of the VFA - the SAFA, which also was televised on Sunday's in the 70's and 80's.
A number of top line Victorians transferred to play in the SANFL at the height of their careers in the 1960's and prior.
Barrie Robran, like Stephen Michael, arguably the greatest footballer to play the game. Didn't play VFL.
It's really only been since 1991 when the Crows came in that all the very best players played in the top competition. You could argue a case for the 1980's, but even then players were choosing to stay home than play VFL. Added to this is country footballers (from all states) who stayed home to work instead of travelling to the city to play football.
It's hard to argue the VFL hasn't always been the strongest competition, although you could argue they haven't had the best teams, but it's 2nd rate compared to the AFL from 1991 onwards and all players becoming full time professionals from around that time, or a bit after.
The only thing close to the AFL from 1991 in terms of top tier standard, would've been the national carnivals.
and in your mind Melbourne is bigger than Manchester United.
No use discussing with you when you bring up from your head such hard facts. Keep on trolling along….
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Stephen Michael and Barrie Robran the greatest that ever played Aussie rules? Gimme some of that Barossa Bong Water, that must be some good s**t
Where did I say that Melbourne is bigger than Manchester United?
Deliberately posting lies should probably get a ban.
I should have phrased “probably”
But the sad part is you might really believe what you write here…. hoping you was just having a troll around this thread….
I don't know about Robran as I am not an eastern-stater, so I don't think I ever saw him, except perhaps in state games, but TI is definitely the best player I have ever seen, bar none.
The legend of these guys builds up because they never tested themselves at the highest level. Imagine if Malcolm Blight or Ross Glendinning never moved to Victoria. They would have continued to annihilate lower level opponents and the same would be said of them.
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You're spot on. It must be those night games I was thinking of for the WAFL teams.
You could say the same about any footballer pre 1990. None of them were playing against the best footballers week in week out. There was only a small sample size of state games which pitted the best against the best.
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Correct, all three of the VFL, SANFL and WAFL were top-tier leagues
VFL was obviously better standard but it wasn't the top league like the AFL
There were tons of players in the WAFL and SANFL who would have walked into VFL sides
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Beautiful trolling.
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Had a VFA team, Williamstown
PP effort actually
Ok but you do understand that just about all of those South Australian players at the time had spent years playing in the SANFL right ?It wasn't like these days where you just get drafted as an 18 year old and I'm guessing WA was the same. It was anything but a weak competition. I could make a massive list for you of the plyers I'm talking about but it would just take too much time and effort and I'm not actually sure if your trolling or not . So could you clarify please Are you trolling ?
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Geelong West - VFA
Norwood - SANFL (off the back of watching Garry McIntosh in S.O.O. games)
Clarence - TFL (an old mate from Geelong, Darren Winter played there for years)
ACTAFL - Ainslie (Cowboy Neale)
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Do you realise almost all VFL players played in the reserves at some stage - by your logic the VFL reserves competition was at the same level as the VFL.
I loved watching SANFL finals, very much like for like in the fighting of the VFA, some great fights in both league. i followed Norwood liked watching N Roberts.
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I liked Port Adelaide. Main reasons:
1. Cheer Cheer the Black and the White!
2. Unlike South Melbourne they actually played in Grand Finals
3. Russell Ebert. Also had a lot of hard nuts like Stephen Clifford
In the 70s and 80s I can only remember watching the SANFL Grand Finals plus the Night Competition (and they'd always get knocked out early by a VFL team), but would check their results in the newspapers
1. Cheer Cheer the Black and the White!
2. Unlike South Melbourne they actually played in Grand Finals
3. Russell Ebert. Also had a lot of hard nuts like Stephen Clifford
In the 70s and 80s I can only remember watching the SANFL Grand Finals plus the Night Competition (and they'd always get knocked out early by a VFL team), but would check their results in the newspapers
Gary McIntosh was maybe the last genuinely great SANFL player to never go across to the VFL/ AFL.
Apparently plenty of offers came his way, but just had zero interest in leaving Adelaide.
They would have loved him
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