2011 Fixture

[BACCS]

The SANFL wouldn't want it. It would detract from the games individually if there were two on one weekend, and then somewhere down the line we'd have no game here on a weekend at all.

Exactly. Having 1 game here per week is better than having 2 one weekend, 0 the next.

 

[FR0GGY]

Exactly. Having 1 game here per week is better than having 2 one weekend, 0 the next.

Think starsky is asking for more home games not just doubling up on some weekends

 

[cmndstab]

Think starsky is asking for more home games not just doubling up on some weekends

If so, the answer is even simpler - by giving us more home games than away games, somebody else has to have more away games than home games. No way the other clubs in the league would go for that.


However, if we can somehow trick the AFL into it, I'm all for it!

 

[Mismatched]

If so, the answer is even simpler - by giving us more home games than away games, somebody else has to have more away games than home games. No way the other clubs in the league would go for that.


However, if we can somehow trick the AFL into it, I'm all for it!

Yeah thats it, technically every side has 11 "home" games and 11 "away" games. Unfortunately with there being 10 Victorian sides, this means that the vast majority of their "away" matches are in Melbourne too and are thus effectively "home" games too. As has happened in the past, at most the Victorian teams could only "travel" up to 6 times, as there's only 6 teams outside of Victoria Now as an Adelaide side, we get effectively 12 "home" games as one of our away matches is always against Port, but then the other 10 must be "away" unless one of the interstate clubs decides to play their "home" matches at Footy Park.

 

[aneale]

footy has always traditionally been played on a saturday arvo, why is this now a problem?

Not at this level in SA tho'. Crows fans never had to go to footy on Saturday arvos unless we went to Victoria. We always got Saturday night games and Sunday games. It meant we all found something other to do.

When we started, I was still playing and wouldn't miss a game. After I stopped, I volunteered at an Ammo club and later at a SANFL club, then the Saturday arvo games started, and that level of commitment to any volunteer gig is not easy if you have 4-5 Crows games in the mix. You either blow of the AFL or you find someone to cover you, which is nigh on impossible at some Clubs.

Victoria friday night, saturday, SA/WA/QLD Saturday night, NSW/SA/WA Sunday is traditionally how it goes. We started getting more and more Saturday arvo games when the AFL decided it was too hot for day games in Brisbane so they all got shifted to Saturday night games.

The people who are not around me on Saturday arvo games are not theatre goers, you can't accuse them of bandwagoner types, there is just more going on now, they've always had commitments elsewhere at those times.

 

[Crow-mo]

Not at this level in SA tho'. Crows fans never had to go to footy on Saturday arvos unless we went to Victoria. We always got Saturday night games and Sunday games. It meant we all found something other to do.

I'm sorry this makes no sense to me.

not at this level?
crows fans?

huh?

 

[Dirty Bird]

I'm sorry this makes no sense to me.

not at this level?
crows fans?

huh?

In SA the tradition is local football, then AFL came along, it has no tradition in this state

A large amount of people in Adelaide would go to the traditional SANFL, SAAFL or Country Leagues on Saturday Afternoon, ditching the AFL for that week

 

[jo172]

In SA the tradition is local football, then AFL came along, it has no tradition in this state

A large amount of people in Adelaide would go to the traditional SANFL, SAAFL or Country Leagues on Saturday Afternoon, ditching the AFL for that week

Agree. AFL is not an automatically substitutable product for 'traditional' forms of footy i.e SANFL, country and amateur. It is to an extent, but while these continue to exist the Saturday afternoon now being a substitute for Saturday afternoon before AFL days is a fallacy.

 

[crows dude]

Got flights booked for the Round 13 game against Bulldogs. That same weekend Port play at Subiaco and I promised my wife a trip to perth this year. Was hoping it was gonna to be a crows game.

So I said to her we can travel to melbourne on the Friday. Watch the Crows and Bulldogs at Edihad Frday night. Fly to Perth from MElbourne on Saturday. Watch Port on Sunday at Subiaco as the wife is a Port supporter then spend a week in perth and come backto Adeladie the following Saturday.

Should be fun.

 

[Allefgib]

tossing up an easter/anzac trip to Melb.

We play the blues at etihad on the saturday. Monday is dons vs pies, Tuesday has cats vs hawks (both games at the g).

Should be a cracker if there is something to do on the Sunday for the girls.