From Adelaide Advertiser
Reported by Michelangelo Rucci
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TIMES change — even SA-Victoria football relations have remarkably mellowed.

It is 31 years (almost to the day) since Kevin Sheedy strained SANFL-VFL diplomacy by playing four — rather than three — interchange players in the Australian Championship state game against Neil Balme’s SA team at Football Park.

On Sunday, the SANFL will host the VFL in the first State game played between the leagues on the redeveloped Adelaide Oval — and the home team has given up its significant points of difference.

There will be 50m penalties, as in the AFL and VFL rule book — rather than the SANFL’s 25m rule. The cutaways to the SA coach’s box to monitor Graham Cornes’ reaction to these penalties will be priceless.

There will be the AFL’s interpretation of the “deliberate out-of-bounds” rules — rather than the SANFL’s “last-disposal” penalty for kicks and handpasses that fall out of play.

And there will be no cap on interchange rotations — not the 90 enforced in the AFL nor the 60 imposed in the SANFL. There is no cap on rotations in the VFL State league

The Victorians will feel at home at Adelaide Oval on Sunday — just as Sheedy did on May 14, 1985 at Football Park when the “Big V”, with an extra man, won by 57 points and then had the win stripped by the now-defunct National Football League.

Which is more staggering — that the SANFL has no “home-ground” rules as would apply in baseball ... or that Australian football has more than one law book while trying to claim it is a national sport?

SATURDAY MAY 28
Richmond vs Essendon at Punt Road 4pm

SUNDAY MAY 29
SANFL vs VFL at Adelaide Oval 2:10pm(Melb Time)(3WBC)
(C/Raiser SA U18s vs SA U20s at 11:25am(Melb Time))
*NO TV Coverage of State game there will be a live video stream on VFL Website*

From VFL Website
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The final training squad for the Peter Jackson VFL state team has been announced.

The original list of 30 that was announced last week has been trimmed to 25, with one addition, Casey Scorpion forward Tim Smith.

The introduction of Smith into the squad will provide the VFL team with more forward options, as the 25-man squad will be reduced to 23 for the trip to face the SANFL on Sunday May 29 at Adelaide Oval.

The team will come together next Tuesday at IKON Park, the first of three training sessions leading up to the state clash.

Sam Iles (Box Hill), Hugh Sandilands (Port Melbourne), James Ferry (Essendon), Ozgur Uysal (Coburg), Tom Simpkin (Sandringham) and Anthony Anastasio (Williamstown) were not selected in the final training squad, leaving 10 VFL clubs still represented.

SATURDAY MAY 21
Collingwood vs Williamstown at Holden Centre 4:50pm
Casey Scorpions vs Box Hill Hawks at Casey Fields 7pm(3WBC)
(Development League match at 4pm)
North Ballarat vs Port Melbourne at Eureka Stadium 7pm

SUNDAY MAY 22
Frankston vs Geelong at Frankston Park 11:40am(Channel 7)
(Development League Frankston vs Port Melbourne at 2:40pm)
Essendon vs Footscray at Windy Hill 12pm
Northern Blues vs Coburg at Preston 2pm
(Development League match at 11am)
Sandringham vs Werribee at Sandringham 2pm(Casey Radio)
(Development League Sandringham vs Williamstown at 11am)

VFL Bye Richmond
Development League Bye Werribee