South Australia v Western Australia, Saturday 26 May

C.K wrote:The crowd lining up for the bus to the Adelaide v Collingwood game post-match was enormous. I very nearly said to them, walking past, they had already missed the best match that would be played that day but held my thoughts.

Forget about the sheep 'C.K', they'll learn.
We all know which supporters went home happier and wealthier last night !

C.K wrote:
The game itself was absolutely befitting of state football. It's just so unfortunate that it wasn't given the support it richly deserved from many supporters. The crowd lining up for the bus to the Adelaide v Collingwood game post-match was enormous. I very nearly said to them, walking past, they had already missed the best match that would be played that day but held my thoughts.

I was in that queue (as were quite a few others that did the double)

Hong Kong Fooee wrote:I Fear for the future of State Football. It can never be the same as before the Crow and Power eras began. Try as we may to hype it up, and generate interest in it, the majority of people as vindicated by the crowd, could take it or leave it. I reckon they voted to leave it.

Not much doubt about that statement being correct. I estimated the crowd at about 2,200 and was surprised with the 2,800 figure.

It will continue because the leagues need it to keep going, but that might need to be looked at again eventually because of the cost, etc.

Hindsight being a great thing, it would have been good if the game could have been played on Saturday June 9.

Port Adelaide playing on Sunday June 10, a bye for Adelaide, and it would have been Round 11 locally - a good midseason break time that may have attracted a bigger crowd.

There would be good reasons why that date didn't suit, however.

TV ratings for state match coverage of the games in Adelaide and Tassie, copied and pasted from http://twitter.com/#!/MediaweekAUS

Sat TV: State footy #VFL 32k #SANFL #WAFL 32k (SA v WA game on ABC1 Ade 14k Per 18k)

Back when the 2008 state match was played, club season ticket holders paid $5 to get it (from the $10 for a minor round match).

Half price. Now, this match was $10 for season ticket holders (100 per cent increase from 2008).

Hong Kong Fooee wrote:I Fear for the future of State Football. It can never be the same as before the Crow and Power eras began. Try as we may to hype it up, and generate interest in it, the majority of people as vindicated by the crowd, could take it or leave it. I reckon they voted to leave it.

I'll probably get a bit of flack for this, but honestly I don't think State Football has a future. I agree with the views expressed above. Interstate rivalry in football as it once was, has become a roadkill under the wheels of the AFL juggernaut and there's nothing we can do to resurrect it. The most important task for the State Leagues now is to protect the integrity of their domestic competitions.

Yes, I also agree, but the blame clearly lies with us, not the AFL. Somewhere between 10 and 15 thousand turn up to watch SANFL each week and only a small proportion of those turned up.

Nobody is expecting AFL supporters to turn up to a State game, but it was the lack of interest by SANFL supporters that meant a small crowd?

Proposed Interstate Schedule 2012-2017
(Hosting State Named First)

2013
- SANFL v NEAFL (North)
- WAFL v VFL
- NEAFL (East) v TAS

2014
- VFL v SANFL
- NEAFL (East) v WAFL
- NEAFL (North) v TAS

2015
- WAFL v SANFL
- VFL v NEAFL (North)
- TAS v NEAFL (East)

2016
- SANFL v VFL
- WAFL v TAS
- NEAFL (North) v NEAFL (East)

2017
- NEAFL (East) v SANFL
- VFL v WAFL
- TAS v NEAFL (North)

SA don't wan't to get embarrassed by Tas again?