June 01, 2008
From the Sunday Age
Reported by Ashley Porter
Reported by Ashley Porter
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NO SOONER had South Australia set records in flooring Victoria at Adelaide Oval yesterday than it raised its arms to claim its state league was the best outside the AFL.
The Croweaters actually started squawking after kicking a 9.2 to 0.2 second term, setting up a surprisingly easy 65-point win — their fourth in five of these games between the SANFL and VFL since 1999.
It was a record margin and record score in all 18 state league games involving the SANFL, VFL and WAFL since a forced revamp of interstate football in 1991, and SA believes it tells tomorrow\'s hopefuls where to come if they want to resurrect their chances of an AFL career.
But the contest didn\'t quite end with the final siren as a gracious Victorian coach Gerard FitzGerald — who emphasised how much SA deserved its win — said the game highlighted the differences between the leagues; between older, more mature players, and those in the VFL, where there were more kids on the horizon.
