Talk:Australian rules football in South Australia

Merge
This article has a similar content to the South Australian National Football League article. Ozdaren 13:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't believe a merge is necessary, but suggest that duplicated elements eg. History (which is principally about SANFL), be removed from this article. Murtoa (talk) 00:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I plan to remove all elements of history that are specific to the SANFL; it is simply duplication across two articles and otherwise requires unnecessary synchronising. Murtoa (talk) 06:47, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:55, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Great elite footballers
What constitutes a great footballer? What constitutes a great, elite footballer? Why are there no pre 1967 footballers noted? Who is Andrew Payze? Browning ave (talk) 12:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Pre 1967 - likely because we don't have any verifiable info on that period. Andrew Payze (from memory) is a West Torrens legend, but I can be corrected on that. AFL-Cool (talk) 12:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * There's nothing to stop verification via books or other offline references; Google references may be hard to come by, but that doesn't mean that claims of pre-1967 stars can't be substantiated in other ways. Just for the record, I've never heard of Andrew Payze. Murtoa (talk) 12:44, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * As I recall there weren't many books on the subject if any at all. Limited mostly to the Magerey Medal history and such. Just listed winners isn't verifiable by itself. Books are far more difficult to source anyway because of WP:OR issues - although that's on a case by case basis. AFL-Cool (talk) 03:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Current listing of "great" footballers and notable AFL is a totally arbitrary list. Propose to replace with those SA footballers who have been recognised in Australian Football Hall of Fame. Murtoa (talk) 10:49, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Early form of football in SA
I'm currently reading 'How Football Began' by Tony Collins, and there's a brief but intriguing reference to the historic Adelaide Football Club playing "its own version of football" prior to deciding in 1877 to adopt the Victorian rules (to facilitate inter-colonial matches). I wonder if anyone knows anything more about this and is able to add something to the article. The reference given is Shane Pill & Lionel Frost, 'R.E.N. Twopeny and the Establishment of Australian Football in Adelaide, International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 33.' — Preceding unsigned comment added by SDavies (talk • contribs) 09:36, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It's probably referring to the Harrow Rules, which already has a section in the article. Footy Freak7 (talk) 22:49, 2 March 2019 (UTC)