The 1967 SANFL Grand Final was a rematch of the 1966 decider, pitting Jack Oatey’s skills based approach against Fos Williams’ physical style of football. The bigger, bolder ‘souvenir’ Football Budget says much about mid-1960s Adelaide.
1971 SANFL Mobil Cards – Part 7: Sturt
The mighty Double Blues were the kings of the SANFL at the beginning of 1971. The Mobil Footy Cards of that year featured some of their many stars. Swish has a bit to say about each of them here.
Neil Craig: Elite Performer (Part 1)
Neil Craig’s career has been so prolific Rulebook is covering it in two parts, all starting with the Yorke Peninsula, Carmel Court and the Norwood Football Club.
SANFL 1966 Grand Final – Sturt v Port Adelaide: First of Five
Norwood’s Ron Kneebone featured on the cover of the 1966 SANFL Grand Final Budget. The second successive Oatey-Williams Grand Final proved to be the beginning of a Double Blue era of dominance.
Bruce Winter: Mr Significance
Time to sit down for a cuppa and enjoy Rulebook’s review of the career of Sturt, Norwood and Woodville West Torrens stalwart, Bruce Winter
1971 – The Greatest Game I Never Saw: Sturt v Centrals 1st Semi Final
Swish harks back to his beloved Centrals’ first ever final in 1971, which he missed due to a visit to relatives in not so greater western Sydney.
SANFL Round 14 – Sturt v Norwood: Redlegs go bang in record last quarter blitz
Coming home with the breeze, the Redlegs seemed a chance of chasing down a 24 point deficit. What followed was the biggest last quarter in the club’s history
SANFL Round 4 – Sturt v Port Adelaide: Powell-Pepper crashes the grand final replay
Peter Sweeney witnesses the controversy first hand as Sam Powell-Pepper takes to the field in the traditional Anzac Day SANFL Grand Final rematch
Tim Weatherald: Footballer, mentor, Bali survivor
Often a footballer’s story involves more than one club and much more than football. Rulebook pays tribute to Tim Weatherald
SANFL Grand Final – Port Adelaide v Sturt
Peter Sweeney was over the moon with the Sturt upset win over the favourites Port Adelaide in the SANFL Grand Final.
SANFL Grand Final: Underdone Woodville-West Torrens v match-hardened Sturt
BD wins a prelim final bet on underdog Sturt so travels with his young son Benno from Sydney to the Adelaide Oval where the Double Blues fight like blazes to hold hot favourites Woodville-West Torrens at bay. Excellent story of the day – with an unmistakably South Australian flavour.
Round 5 – Hawthorn v Adelaide: and football and football
Dave Brown cements his place by getting in the first stobie pole reference of 2016 – one more stirring Friday night in Adelaide.
Chappelli at Sturt
Ian Chappell recently launched a new book ‘We Are Sturt’ for the Double Blues, for whom his grandfather played. Mike Sexton reports on the occasion.
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