Talk:South Australian National Football League

message: why is it called south australian NATIONAL football league? it's a contradiction. It's either the South Australian league or it's the National league? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.98.148 (talk)  2007-08-04 05:56:32 (UTC)
- it's just what it's called! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.253.20.84 (talk)  2007-10-15 11:09:16 (UTC)
Response:-
The word "National" was adopted in the 1920's as part of a broader adoption of the term across the country for governing bodies of Australia's national football code around that time ( see http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/1927_to_1932.htm )
The word "National" in SANFL has never been a contradiction in its intended context.  Whether the term should be dropped to suit the sport's current regime / landscape is open for debate.  However, as far as I am aware, Australian Rules football is still Australia's home grown national sport - irrespective of who is meant to be 'running' the code.  Perhaps as Association Football (soccer) in Australia attempts to allign the word "football" with its own code in Australia, maybe the "N" in SANFL has more credence, not less.  60.231.213.254 (talk) 17:25, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Something of this should be explained in the article. Mark Hurd (talk) 15:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  National? 

message: I recommend removing the AFL Affiliate column from the current clubs section. If there are no affiliations why is it included? —preceding unsigned comment by 203.26.206.129 (talk • contribs) 
:Agreed - just never got round to doing the delte until now.   I assume someone used to the VFL-AFL & affiliations felt SANFL needed such a column.  I will delete it but add a comment to point out that no set affiliations apply in SANFL. Pudgey 10:37, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AFL Affiliate 

message: I removed the Wiki links to previous names for the SANFL in the Info box. One (SAFL) led straight back to this article (surprise!) and the other - South Australian Football Association - is a red link that could only possibly result in a redirect to here. Pudgey 20:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous names 

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message: The article says that Port Adelaide left the competition to join the AFL to be replaced by Port Magpies, but in the list of clubs states that Port Magpies entered the competition in 1877.  This is inconsistent.  Maybe the table should mention both forms of Port (you can't ignore the 30+ premierships they won prior to entering the AFL!)
It would also be worth listing how many premierships West Torrens won (4) in the table.  Did any other former clubs win any?
:: Yes, the old Adelaide Football Club won it once before the 20th century.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.131.209.48 (talk) 12:25, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Port Magpies 1877 or 1997? 

message: This is a matter that desperately needs to be verified. Looking at the OFFICIAL Magpies section of the SANFL website (http://www.sanfl.com.au/clubs/port_adelaide_magpies/), there is no mention of a new club being formed in 1997 to replace the current team being changed into the Port Adelaide Power team.
Also, in the Magpies website (http://www.portmagpies.com.au/about.php), it says that Power joined the AFL with the Magpies continuing in the SANFL, with both clubs sharing history from 1877 - 1996.
I suggest that unless any evidence can be found to support the view that a new Magpies team was formed in 1997, that the evidence I have found to suggest otherwise be used as a basis to change the details on all the wiki pages that states that the current SANFL team was the new team, so it shows that actually the Port Adelaide Power team in the AFL was actually the new team,.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.7.183.131 (talk) 08:54, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1877 vs 1997 

message: I've changed the name of AAMI Stadium (also known as Football Park to Football Park (also known as AAMI Stadium). This reflects other commercially-named stadia (cf Docklands Stadium, where they had a lot of discussion regarding it). Sem boy (talk) 08:42, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed name of SANFL-owned stadium 

message: The earliest recorded football club in South Australia was Adelaide Football Club, formed in 1860[10]. 
The website quoted in ref. 10 has removed this 1860 information. So is it true or not, needs new reference please.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.108.136.237 (talk) 21:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am updating the reference to the "Old" Adelaide Club formed in 1860. Whilst doing this research noted that the general concensus that this club went into some hiatus between 1882 - 1884 after merging with Kensington in 1881 and rejoined in 1885 appears to false. The senior club called Adelaide that joined in 1885 and were Premiers in 1886 was in fact a merger of two junior clubs from the Adelaide and Suburban Association called North Adelaide Juniors (which renamed themselves in 1884 as Adelaide) and North Parks. i.e. it wasn't a merger of the Old Adelaide and North Park in 1885. 124.169.229.24 (talk) 08:47, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-1877 

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message: Currently this page is contradictory with the template and South Australian Football Commission where both the SANFL and the SAFC are the "the sport's governing body" in SA. I assume this page should be updated to 'subsist' the governing rights to the SAFC, but I don't know.
Mark Hurd (talk) 15:32, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Australian Football Commission 

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message: Why is the 1970s called the Golden Era? It needs a reference, or a better name. Adpete (talk) 06:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Era?