No stars left from South Australia

[Crowbots are dead]

SANFL club system is terrible. Havent come to terms with the fact they are purely a feeder league and spend more time and effort trying to recruit ex AFL Hacks rather than junior development.

This is spot on

 

[hawkermitch]

Ryan Burton is a future star from Adelaide. Watch out for him and he will step up and be elite in a few years....

 

[Crowbots are dead]

Ryan Burton is a future star from Adelaide. Watch out for him and he will step up and be elite in a few years....

Wayne Milera goes alright too.

 

[Crowbots are dead]

Why isn't South Australia producing stars anymore?

Champion South Australians since the mid-80s – Kernahan, Bradley, Jarman, Platten, McGuinness, Rehn, Modra, Ricciuto, Goodwin, Edwards, Hart, Smart, Pickett, Tredrea, Wanganeen, Cornes, Burgoyne, Cooney, Enright, Pavlich. Includes four Brownlow medallists from the last 30 years.

Cooney, Enright and Pavlich have retired meaning the best South Australians in the AFL – its only genuine stars – are Wingard, Neale and Gibbs, not counting the soon to retire Burgoyne, Thompson and Griffen.

The majority of the premiership winning Crows and Power teams were South Australian. Now, only one of the Crows – Brodie Smith - and three of the Port B&F top 10 – Ebert, Broadbent and Westhoff - were locals.

Lots of solid contributors from SA including Jacobs, Vince, Mackie, Puopolo, Varcoe, Laird, Pearce, Thomas, Davis, Edwards and Grundy. But most of these are close to retirement too.

The real worry is when you look at the South Australians chosen in recent drafts, the situation is only getting worse. Excluding the 2015 draft because it's too early to judge, and accepting that 2009 draft potential stars Trengove and Menzel have suffered injury, apart from Wingard and Neale there's virtually no star potential since then in the early rounds of the draft from 2010.

• 2010 - Sam Day #3, Jared Polec #5, Daniel Gorringe #10, Seb Tape #13, Brodie Smith #14, Scott Lycett #29, Patrick McCarthy #34, George Horlin Smith #37
  
  
• 2011 - Brad McKenzie #18, Alex Forster #29, Mitch Grigg #41, Sam Rowe #44, Nicholas Joyce #46, Jordan Murdoch #48
  
  
• 2012 - Jimmy Toumpas #4, Sam Mayes #8, Troy Menzel #11, Brodie Grundy #18, Ben Kennedy #19, Tim Broomhead #20, Tim O’Brien #28, Brodie Murdoch #40, Matthew McDonough #42
  
  
• 2013 - Matt Scharenberg #6, James Aish #7, Luke Dunstan #18, Sean Lemmens #27, Trent Dumont #30, Malcolm Karpany #31, George Hewett #32
  
  
• 2014 - Sam Durdin #16, Harrison Wigg #35, James Rose #37, Declan Hamilton #39, Alex Neal-Bullen #40

The 2016 draft shapes up with the strong possibility of no South Australians going in the top 20 picks according to the experts.

My question is what's happening in SA? Is this the bad part of the cycle or this this the new normal? Do South Australians really want to watch local teams made up of Victorians?

Eddie betts is a star and is SA through and through

 

[Mr Gurns]

They're the second smallest state, what do you expect?

 

[SterlingArcher]

Brodie Grundy could finish 2017 as an All-Australian or at least the 2nd best ruck in the comp in my opinion.

Wingard needs a full season and he can alsi return to his elite best.

Sure, SA SoO wouldn't come close to WA/Vic right now, but it's not cause for concern.

I don't know who out of those guys played SANFL seniors before being drafted but considering a few do, maybe they are put into seniors too early and that holds back their development if they get injuries?

 

[1970crow]

Dark Ale is where it's really at.

Coopers were a bit behind Tooheys in the dark ale stakes. Obviously they had their stout, but I'm sure Old came before the Coopers version. So, it's about sparkling and pale.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Did the op really insinuate that Cooney was a star?

Sent from my SM-P555 using Tapatalk

He was at one point.

 

[The Unforgiven]

Says the bloke from Werribee.

This was a good thread until the dialogue read like it was posted in Bay 13. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. So my two bobs is that I drove through that suburb Bolivar once. I was heading up North. Bolivar stinks worse than Werribee. Ergo, Werribee>Bolivar. Port Adelaide isn't far from Bolivar either... both shit holes. One figuratively, the other literally.

 

[Damon_3388]

This was a good thread until the dialogue read like it was posted in Bay 13. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. So my two bobs is that I drove through that suburb Bolivar once. I was heading up North. Bolivar stinks worse than Werribee. Ergo, Werribee>Bolivar. Port Adelaide isn't far from Bolivar either... both shit holes. One figuratively, the other literally.

Bolivar and the surrounding areas like St Kilda and Globe Derby aren't really proper residential surburbs, certainly nowhere near the scale of Werribee in that regard anyway. Probably a few hundred people total living there, if that.

 

[Bokonon]

Sparkling Ale my friend, Pale Ale if you're a little soft.

Went downhill when Soutwark Premium went off the market. Favourite drop for many years

 

[The Unforgiven]

Bolivar and the surrounding areas like St Kilda and Globe Derby aren't really proper residential surburbs, certainly nowhere near the scale of Werribee in that regard anyway. Probably a few hundred people total living there, if that.

Yes, but the suburbs immediately east of Port Wakefield Road are. I would hate to live in a suburb like Paralowie/Burton in summer with a hot north westerly blowing. I was filling up at BP servo en route to the Flinders Ranges and the smell after a gust blew through was that bad the missus and I were nearly dry retching.

 

[Papa G]

Yes, but the suburbs immediately east of Port Wakefield Road are. I would hate to live in a suburb like Paralowie/Burton in summer with a hot north westerly blowing. I was filling up at BP servo en route to the Flinders Ranges and the smell was that bad the missus and I were nearly dry retching.

I'd hate to live in those places too and the Bolivar Shit Farm would be a long way down the list of reasons.

 

[Moist Biscuit]

Betts.

 

[Ok Boomer]

SA is poor.

 

[The_Reaper]

I think we need to slowly build up those industries of the future that the pollies keep talking about. The closure of the car industry and associated businesses will land a punch in the nuts to an economy that's already the worst in Australia. Reducing unemployment in SA is a long-term project, and a few hundred billion dollars from that nuclear dump and more affordable electricity wouldn't go astray.

Getting back to footy, you'll note that there are almost no South Australians in the national cricket sides. The Redbacks have been the worst Shield side for 20 years. Perhaps the SA sporting culture has some sort of problem. But the more likely explanation is the less dramatic one: it's just a statistical cyclical coincidence.

National cricket cycle is fairly logical - South Australia only has 5% of the national population and Adelaide is too big on its own to benefit from the the large regional town/small city advantage in sports

 

[sonnywalters]

Because Rundle Mall

POTY. Short but insightful.

 

[sonnywalters]

Didnt they win the U 18 champs recently? Aaron Francis looks good. Milera and Burton. Caleb Daniel. Fantasia.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Some sort of allowance for the cost of living also would help.

You know what, We might have to pay people more to live in Adelaide TBO

 

[craffles]

Ryan Burton is a future star from Adelaide. Watch out for him and he will step up and be elite in a few years....

LOL **** off

 

[The Bomb]

Soccer clubs popping up everywhere, so many kids playing soccer in SA now.

 

[00Stinger]

He was at one point.

For a season 7-8 years ago maybe

Sent from my SM-G925I using Tapatalk

 

[FootyJunkie]

drinking too much farmers union

 

[MitchRobinson12]

Can't question their populations passion for sport, has to be something in the youth pathways.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Pot is decriminalised over there, dudes are to busy smashing cones.