Oval usage - Cricket

[FR0GGY]

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The SACA had their debt wiped when footy moved back to AO

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Both cricket Australia and SACA were well aware there could be a date clash well before.

Surely if having premier ovals available is important, then CA schedule the final to occur before the start of the AFL season.

 

[Geoffa32]

Imagine if the AFL agreed.

SA wins the Shield before midday on day 4 (Friday) in front of 4000 people at AO.


It would be embarrassing.

 

[Cromulant]

Imagine if the AFL agreed.

SA wins the Shield before midday on day 4 (Friday) in front of 4000 people at AO.


It would be embarrassing.

Well no it wouldn't be,

 

[1970crow]

The push for Adelaide Oval is starting to make sense though.

Trying to hide that little secret, that some bean counter unwittingly signed away a few days of their lease without realising the significance.

It's a bit like the Tippett side deal. A ticking time bomb.

It's why the Shield final is scheduled for March 26-30. Cricket Australia chose that date because it falls inside every summer/winter sporting lease arrangement in the country.

It's only Shield cricket so I doubt there'll be any major media scrutiny but this would be a major screw up by my measure. Staff responsible sacked, board members who oversaw the signatures forced to resign.

Leaving your team without an oval is about as incompetent as sports administration can possibly get.

I made the same point in 2 sentences and not a single like. I guess that’s politics for ya.

 

[1970crow]

Can't hold it at say Prince Alfred College?

Obviously they'd be aghast at common people on the grounds but surely a deal could be done

Saints Main Oval wicket known as the second best deck on the planet.

 

[spenze]

I made the same point in 2 sentences and not a single like. I guess that’s politics for ya.

Look at you, ya little like farmer

 

[1970crow]

Why isn’t Prospect the second SA oval?

 

[1970crow]

Look at you, ya little like farmer

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I don’t want the likes, I just don’t want Spackler getting them.

 

[R0GUE]

The Sheffield shield final which will have 300 people there doesn't have precedence over round 1 no.

So now it's a Sheffield Shield grand final, not tiddlywinks?

Crowd factor doesn't matter. Our national summer sport, which we make the grand final and the right to host it should always prioitise round one of our national winter sport.

 

[MrBarry]

So now it's a Sheffield Shield grand final, not tiddlywinks?

Crowd factor doesn't matter. Our national summer sport, which we make the grand final and the right to host it should always prioitise round one of our national winter sport.

The afl is the national game winter or summer, cricket is second fiddle and then the domestic state league is even lower mate.

 

[brucetiki]

Such a request would be laughed at if Victoria wanted to play a Shield Final at the G....

8 years ago they had to play their home Shield final in Alice Springs because there wasn’t a suitable ground in Melbourne to host it.

I think that’s how the Junction Oval redevelopment was born (to avoid a repeat of that happening).

The year before we hosted the Shield final at Glenelg and there was no uproar about that.

 

[spenze]

They should host it at Hindmarsh Stadium, it won't be getting used for finals

 

[pmar]

So now it's a Sheffield Shield grand final, not tiddlywinks?

Crowd factor doesn't matter. Our national summer sport, which we make the grand final and the right to host it should always prioitise round one of our national winter sport.

But it's not Round 1, it's round 3 and it's actually the 4th week of the AFL season. This isn't a minor scheduling overlap. Cricket Aust knew AO wasn't available for the shield final. Same for MCG, SCG, Gabba and even Optus Stadium. It's almost like they know there's a good chance they will be playing the final at a "2nd" ground every year unless Tas or WA host

 

[FR0GGY]

They should host it at Hindmarsh Stadium, it won't be getting used for finals

Finally, “getting hit to all corners of the ground” makes sense

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Of course he did. There was no camp too, remember.

That’s a claim that no one has ever made

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Round 1 gets precedence over a grand final.

Cricket at AO for over 100 years vs AFL at AO for a decade.

Football has been played at Adelaide oval for a lot longer than a decade

 

[NTRabbit]

The blame with this lies entirely with Cricket Australia for pushing the shield into football season to accommodate a T20 competition that runs three times longer than it ought to run - the AFL wouldn't have been able to try a cynical cash grab if CA hadn't done one first.

 

[MarcusP2]

The blame with this lies entirely with Cricket Australia for pushing the shield into football season to accommodate a T20 competition that runs three times longer than it ought to run - the AFL wouldn't have been able to try a cynical cash grab if CA hadn't done one first.

The 1995 Shield final was 26-30 March, they squeezed the ODI season to fit in the Big Bash.

It's not having a second decent oval.

 

[Peter Doherty]

The 1995 Shield final was 26-30 March, they squeezed the ODI season to fit in the Big Bash.

It's not having a second decent oval.

1995/96 was even later, 30th March - 3rd April.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Things changed in 2014

2013​	-	2014​	New South Wales	Manuka Oval
2014​	-	2015​	Victoria	Bellrieve Oval
2015​	-	2016​	South Australia	Glenelg Oval
2016​	-	2017​	Victoria	Traeger Park
2017​	-	2018​	Queensland	Alan Border Field
2018​	-	2019​	Victoria	Junction Oval
2019​	-	2020​	New South Wales	North Dalton Park*
2020​	-	2021​	Queensland	Alan Border Field
2021​	-	2022​	Western Australia	WACA
2022​	-	2023​	Western Australia	WACA
2023​	-	2024​	Western Australia	WACA
2024​	-	2025​	South Australia	Karen Rolton Oval

Before 2014, the only 2 games this century not played at their main ground were QLD 2000 and Vic 2009

 

[spenze]

Still can't believe it is so hard, bring the shield final forward a week and move Ports game to Alberton...let them wear the prison bars too so they can feel happy. You could probably get 15k into Alberton and it would be rocking, great theatre.

Police could wait outside and exercise all the outstanding warrants too...win/win/win

 

[Slime Roy]

The year before we hosted the Shield final at Glenelg and there was no uproar about that.

Sam Tugwell said on Radio that it clashed with a Port match but the SACA didn't want to make a fuss. That seems odd (when you compare it to this week)

 

[Cromulant]

Sam Tugwell said on Radio that it clashed with a Port match but the SACA didn't want to make a fuss. That seems odd (when you compare it to this week)

When you compare who the premier was back then, to the premier now, it makes total sense.

Wetherill was a mess, Mali wants to be the hero. In many ways he's doing a great job but it's not a discussion he needed to put himself in.

 

[1970crow]

When you compare who the premier was back then, to the premier now, it makes total sense.

Wetherill was a mess, Mali wants to be the hero. In many ways he's doing a great job but it's not a discussion he needed to put himself in.

I’m not a cynic when it comes to him and that might make me naive, he might be a brutal politician. I reckon he simply wants the best outcome. And if his advice is that there’s no reason the ground can’t be turned around, then he’ll push for what he reckons is the best outcome for SA.

I don’t understand why there’s not a permanent agreement with an SANFL club. When it happens they get paid a reasonable amount for the hassle.