North Shore boys play this great ol' game!

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Went to the SFL Grand Final today. Was a really enjoyable day watching the grass roots of the game at an oval that has great potential as an AFL-friendly facility.

The standard wasn't too bad, but you sure noticed how much further Frosty booted it than most of the other players. Thought St George were going to make a game of it in the 2nd quarter when they hit the front. But with the breeze lifting quite a bit, North Shore hit the Crows with a brace of goals. The wind died in the last quarter, but just like on Friday night with us the Crows struggled with the footy across half forward. The Scarlett-lookalike Underwood who showed such promise in the 2nd quarter went missing, hence the Crows couldn'ty buy a goal.

There was heaps of great banter from some of the players in the crowd. A group of Penno boys were giving it to Jarrod Crosby all day. But the latter had the last laugh.

Spent the last quarter on the outer side with the North Shore 'cheer squad' consisting of very pissed reserves premiership players and supporters. One guy was banging a bin to get the Cheers going. In the loast quarter they broke into "see the Bombers fly up" before one guy proceeded to break a seat.

The thing that got my attention was the venue for the match, Henson Park. Sure it is bit delapidated, but the venue is a perfect arena for AFL footy. The surface on the grandstand side was pretty uneven, but I feel AFLNSW should see if they could develop the facility. It has sloping hills around it and with a bit of a spruce-up, would be the perfect venue for an AFL practice match. I'd be more than happy to see an Wizard Cup match played there if they could look at fixing the playing surface. It could easily hold 15000.

It is great that the oval on Sydney Park Rd has been done up for AFL footy. But had the grandstand been built at Henson, you would easily have a near-AFL standard facility, complete with lights and everything.

Still a good day at the footy. Well worth the $5 to go and watch it.

JF

[gossipcom]

Well that sums up a crappy weekend of sport for me - it was the last thing to make it a bit brighter but nope

Congrats to North Shore though they were the best team all year.

Who won the Under 18's?

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by gossipcom
Well that sums up a crappy weekend of sport for me - it was the last thing to make it a bit brighter but nope

Congrats to North Shore though they were the best team all year.

Who won the Under 18's?

St George by a point over Penno from memory. Teal said they kicked 5 goals in the last term and won it with the last kick of the day.

JF

[Troy G]

How completely embarrassing that when the U18's won they played complete with lyric, " The Pride of South Australia...Adelaide Crows etc" and again when their seniors ran out!

Surely the NSWAFL had long enough to find -or even record with some musicians- an instrumental version!

Would have been even funnier if St George won and they played it two more times.

Least North Shore's just refers to Bombers and not Essendon.

[gossipcom]

Thanks for that info JF

At least we can celebrate one win this year

[chammond]

It's celebration time for North Shore . .

NL's report (with lots of pics) on the final day of Sydney Afl is at

http://redandwhiteonline.com/content.php?id=455_0_3_0_C

[Norris Lurker]

Originally posted by Troy G
How completely embarrassing that when the U18's won they played complete with lyric, " The Pride of South Australia...Adelaide Crows etc" and again when their seniors ran out!

After hearing "Who let the dogs out" for the last couple of seasons, at least it was football-related.

[jude_boltons_babe]

go you mighty bombers

well done on winning the grand final in all 3 grades cant wait to next year

[in_the_outer]

Jude_Bolton_Babes,

Do you read this website or just post meaningless replies. No where in any report does it say that Nth Shore won all 3 grades. In fact if you did read NL's fantastic report you would have read that St George won the 18's Grand Final (in what was a sensational game of footy). Nth Shores 18's didn't even make the finals.

[Jacks]

Just a quick one to say that N.L. has done a great job this year with his reports by providing a balanced and unbiased look at at least one game every week.
It is great to see the reports each week and I certainly hope that you continue to provide quality reports next year.
It is great to see that there are people in Sydney that are committed to promoting the local league including yourself and the team from Digital Sports and hopefully with the continued support of the league and possibly some extra assistance from the new head Honcho the league can continue to improve both on and off the field.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by in_the_outer
Jude_Bolton_Babes,

Do you read this website or just post meaningless replies. No where in any report does it say that Nth Shore won all 3 grades.

ROTF.

Some people don't get it, do they?

JF

[Captain]

Originally posted by in_the_outer
Jude_Bolton_Babes,

Do you read this website or just post meaningless replies. No where in any report does it say that Nth Shore won all 3 grades. In fact if you did read NL's fantastic report you would have read that St George won the 18's Grand Final (in what was a sensational game of footy). Nth Shores 18's didn't even make the finals.

Brilliant

[Wil]

Re: North Shore-SFL Premiers 2004!

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG


Still a good day at the footy. Well worth the $5 to go and watch it.

I should of thought about going. I went to school with Ben Scheidow and played (rucked) against him and Matty Parker in the younger grades many years ago. I did get to play a few games for the North Shore reserves but only to make up the numbers. How did they go?

Didn't Stefan Carey play for North Shore as well? Where is he up to now?

[benny_w]

No Stefan Carey was drafted by sydney from penno and his brothers played there as well.

[Rod]

Good on you NL. Was great reading the Sydney AFL update each week. Hopefully it's back next year.