Round 20: the other games. Is there life on Mars?

[dejavoodoo44]

Deja, this incident occurred in a reserves match in 1985. In the early 80s, there was a reserve game played at the old South ground and televised on Channel 7 on the Sunday afternoons when there wasn't a Swans game in Sydney to televise. It wasn't always a Swans reserves game that was televised but the clip is our reserves versus Collingwood reserves. The Collingwood player, John Bourke, was suspended for 10 years which was later reduced to 6 years. He was apparently leading the Reserves goalkicking at the time of the incident.

10 years seems about right. Though I wonder if a Collingwood lawyer argued it down from life?

It's hard to work out which of Bourke's actions was the most egregious: the kick on his opponent, the umpire hit, or whatever he did to the guy in the crowd?

[dejavoodoo44]

I think it was in 1985 at a reserves match. Bourke (Collingwood #13) got suspended for 10 years.

Anyone who opposes a send-off rule should keep that incident in mind.

Although if they wanted to keep arguing, they could claim that taking out an umpire doesn't disadvantage either side, so therefore, a sending off isn't necessary.

[Mel_C]

How come hawthorn had to play the saints at Marvel stadium? That was an unfair advantage to the saints.

[Thunder Shaker]

How come hawthorn had to play the saints at Marvel stadium? That was an unfair advantage to the saints.

Looking back on the recent history of Hawthorn-St Kilda matches, they are usually not at the MCG since 2014. One has to go back further to see the MCG featuring more frequently.

* Venues of Hawthorn-St Kilda matches 2014-2023: Docklands 7, York Park 3, MCG 2, Carrara 1 (pandemic).
* Venues of Hawthorn-St Kilda matches 2000-2013: Docklands 8, MCG 8, York Park 1.

(1999 was the last year of Waverley being a venue.)

[barry]

Just a thought relating to the initial post:

I wonder if Cairns might be an option for Team 20. A slightly larger population than Darwin and growing (from the Cairns Regional Council website - In the past 30 years, Cairns' population has nearly doubled - growing from 89,000 residents in 1992, to more than 165,000 today - and it’s predicted to reach up to 265,000 by 2050. That’s 100,000 more people than live here today), is not in a two-team market such as Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and (ostensibly) Brisbane), not in a strong RL market and far enough away from Townsville, has its own local comp, has a welded on NBA Cairns Taipans supporter base which in part could ease across to follow their AFL side in the winter.

There are a couple of things in darwins favour....

1) our winter, their dry season, is peak tourism season and the population at least doubles and there are countless festivals on. It's a cracking place.

2) there is an abundance of local talent if the new team was given an NT academy.

[Mel_C]

Looking back on the recent history of Hawthorn-St Kilda matches, they are usually not at the MCG since 2014. One has to go back further to see the MCG featuring more frequently.

* Venues of Hawthorn-St Kilda matches 2014-2023: Docklands 7, York Park 3, MCG 2, Carrara 1 (pandemic).
* Venues of Hawthorn-St Kilda matches 2000-2013: Docklands 8, MCG 8, York Park 1.

(1999 was the last year of Waverley being a venue.)

Seems strange that the Hawks have been continuously made to play a home game on the opposition's home ground. It's obviously not because of crowd size. I only took notice this week because I wanted the Hawks to win to help our ladder position.