Roast The media....*Shakes Head* Part 4

[Grave Danger]

I think that Centrals were worse than Woodville in their first decade.

...and Elizabeth Park were the worst primary school footy team too!

 

[tribey]

Im sure they were glad when the Peckers came along.
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Honestly HTF did they win the flag in 1964? That's some next-level deal with the devil type shet

 

[Lagooner]

Honestly HTF did they win the flag in 1964? That's some next-level deal with the devil type shet

A solitary flag in 80 years of competition, in a league where their rivals can be accounted for with a quick finger tally. It's not witchcraft, it was just mathematically impossible for them to not jag one!

 

[Magpiespower]

I think that Centrals were worse than Woodville in their first decade.

Both were cellar-dwellers in their first decade but the Dogs did make two prelim finals in '71 & '72 while the Peckers collected two more wooden-spoons than their bastard twin spawn...

 

[SgtSchulz]

Would Centrals be a more viable AFL prospect than Footscray?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Would Centrals be a more viable AFL prospect than Footscray?

Kris Grant thinks so.




No one else does.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Would Centrals be a more viable AFL prospect than Footscray?

Prospect would be a more viable AFL prospect than Centrals.

 

[finbarr]

Centrals are a terrible organisation.

 

[rubberman]

Why the **** did the SNAFL want to expand.

For the same reason they use today. To spite us.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

For the same reason they use today. To spite us.

It actually was.

Port Adelaides dominance was the reason.

So as usual in dear old SA instead of forcing the other clubs to get better they try to neuter the strong.

 

[rubberman]

It actually was.

Port Adelaides dominance was the reason.

So as usual in dear old SA instead of forcing the other clubs to get better they try to neuter the strong.

If it was explained to me properly, both teams were formed from our zones.

 

[Lagooner]

It actually was.

Port Adelaides dominance was the reason.

So as usual in dear old SA instead of forcing the other clubs to get better they try to neuter the strong.

Yeah let's ignore territories with no presence and set up shop across the road from Alberton. Great idea in theory, if you're only intention is to destroy an empire. Shame that all it achieved was a swift white-anting of one of their own in West Torrens.

Good one d!ckheads!

 

[Quadzilla]

It actually was.

Port Adelaides dominance was the reason.

So as usual in dear old SA instead of forcing the other clubs to get better they try to neuter the strong.

But it didn't totally stifle us...held us back tho

...it did majorly screw West Torrens giving them a split zone around Thebarton oval and Tee Tree Gully I believe.

Snap Pappagallo

 

[Eddie Dingle]

If it was explained to me properly, both teams were formed from our zones.

Yep.

some of the old scrotes like Ford Fairlane and Lockhart Road would have lived through it and might have some first hand stories.

You can bet your arse sturt wouldn't have won 5 in a row if we hadn't lost access to our kids.

 

[Jim Dixon]

Honestly HTF did they win the flag in 1964? That's some next-level deal with the devil type shet

Deal with the devil? Well, it was actually Neil Kerley, but close enough!

 

[Lockhart Road]

Yep.

some of the old scrotes like Ford Fairlane and Lockhart Road would have lived through it and might have some first hand stories.

You can bet your arse sturt wouldn't have won 5 in a row if we hadn't lost access to our kids.

Ford is not an 'old scrote' he's a 'mature scrote'. Me, I'm not one either, I'm a 'senile old scrote'. I can't help with the early years of Central et al, I'm afraid. I didn't take much notice. Also, I've suffered from memory lapses for as long as I can recall.

 

[GreyPower]

Both were cellar-dwellers in their first decade but the Dogs did make two prelim finals in '71 & '72 while the Peckers collected two more wooden-spoons than their bastard twin spawn...

Ahhh yeah..10 years was probably the wrong timeframe for me to use....I had heard that initially (perhaps first 3-5 years), that Centrals were worse than the Peckers.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

...it did majorly screw West Torrens giving them a split zone around Thebarton oval and Tee Tree Gully I believe.

In 1969 or 1970 the SANFL introduced country zones. Tea Tree Gully was deemed country back then and as it was the closest country zone to the city they gave this to West Torrens.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Lockhart Road is correct I'm more the mature scrote who was a little too young to appreciate the machinations of the time.

There is some interesting historical discussion in this thread

Why Woodville was admitted to the SANFL

And quoting me from the thread, here are some repercussions following the move

It's also worth noting that Sturt were not the only Big 4 club (Port, Sturt, Norwood, Glenelg) of the 1960s-80s to have success in the 1965-1977 period. Let's have a look at the strike rates of the so-called Big 4 clubs other than Port, prior to their ultimate success.

Glenelg - 39 years before their 1973 flag
Norwood - 25 years before their 1975 flag
Sturt - 24 years before their 1966 flag

(North Adelaide won 2 flags in 1971-72 after an 8 year hiatus)

Now there's no doubt that there was a golden era for Sturt under good old JO, but it was also this period that made Sturt a Big 4 club through the 1960s-80s. No premierships or grand finals from 1940-1966 hardly made them a perennial achiever.

Glenelg were barely a blip on the radar with two grand finals in their history before 1969. Norwood of course had always been Port's traditional rival, but had endured 25 years between premierships and were unsighted in grand finals for 14 years between 1961-1975.

Again there's no doubt that Sturt had a great side through that period, their record confirms it. North Adelaide all too briefly were a powerhouse in the early 1970s, and even the Bays pulled it all together under Kerley for a lengthy period (although haunted by too many GF losses). Would these clubs all have been as successful if Port hadn't been nobbled to some extent? Who knows, they may well have been. Counter-intuitively in this period, Port could perform well against the powerhouse sides during the minor round, but couldn't find that extra gear in finals. Sometimes the difference there is one player.

But did the SANFL know these dynasties or at least cyclical upswings of other clubs were on the horizon (with Fos's methods being overtaken in the evolution of football) when the decision was made re Woodville? They couldn't have. If it wasn't a conspiracy, it surely was one happy coincidence for the SANFL.

 

[Magpiespower]

Torrens really caught a bad one.

Although they only won four premierships between 1897-1963, they were around the finals mark most years.

Heard some old commentator on the wireless one day recollect how they were probably the second most-supported side in the comp behind Port back in the day.

Now that view may have been through rose-coloured glasses, but Holy Shit, did the arse fall out of the Eagles once Woodville came in...

 

[_VXV]

Centrals are a terrible organisation.

It annoyed me that we played the WC preseason game at that other dump but it really shits me we'll be generating income for those bastards next preseason.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Kris Grant thinks so.




No one else does.

Chris Grant doesn't.

 

[kirky]

Torrens really caught a bad one.

Although they only won four premierships between 1897-1963, they were around the finals mark most years.

Heard some old commentator on the wireless one day recollect how they were probably the second most-supported side in the comp behind Port back in the day.

Now that view may have been through rose-coloured glasses, but Holy Shit, did the arse fall out of the Eagles once Woodville came in...

Coming from an old West Torrens family, I believe they were the third highest drawing crowd behind Port and Norwood up until 1964.

Woodville was meant to neuter Port but instead it neutered West Torrens. Have a look at some of the crowd numbers when West Torrens got on a winning streak during minor round or made finals post 1964 (not very often).

 

[Magpiespower]

Have a look at some of the crowd numbers when West Torrens got on a winning streak during minor round or made finals post 1964 (not very often).

Thirty years later, I'm still in shock by that 91 point demolition at Footy Park.

Torrens looked good in '85 until falling into a whole in the second half of the year.

Same thing in '89, unfortunately. Though Andy Bennett gave one of the greatest interviews by a coach on 9's Sunday Footy Show early in the season.

One priceless monosyllabic answer after another...

 

[GreyPower]

I was at that '85 game v Torrens too. They smashed us.

Fortunately it was a rare occurrence, and we were belting them again regularly within a year or 2.

I'd say for the whole of a the 80's, they probably only beat us a handful of times.

I remember being at the game in 1980 when both sides were undefeated after about 6 rounds, and we gave them a bit of a touch-up.