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My son's birthday is coming up and a while ago he said he wanted to go to the Adelaide game for his present. Come Tuesday we still hadn't actually organised anything like tickets or transport or anything so I aid to him "mate I'm sorry but I can't see how we are going to the footy in Friday night. We haven't got tickets to get into the ground for one thing" but he said he didn't care he still wanted to go to Adelaide. Even if we just stood outside the ground watching on the big screen he just wanted to go. So we booked tickets to Adelaide on the overnight bus on Wednesday night.
We rock up to the ground (it's a great venue, easily the best in the AFL) have a couple of laps around the ground and then head over to Hungry Jacks before we went to find a pub close to the ground to watch. While we were sitting in HJ's ( in our bulldog gear) an Adelaide supporter comes over and asks if we were right for tickets. We said we weren't so he handed us two crows memberships and took us into the ground with him.
I may have said some harsh things about Adelaide in the past but i have totally changed my opinion. And Adelaide Oval is almost perfect for watching the game. Even standing on the hill behind the goals you can see what's happening in the goal square at the other end of the ground. That's amazing because I've never been to a ground where you can do that.
Anyway, Adelaide us a great place. Friendly locals and a terrific footy ground.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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Great to hear you had a good experience. Completely at odds with every experience I've had there, but anyhoo....
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Originally Posted by
AndrewP6
Great to hear you had a good experience. Completely at odds with every experience I've had there, but anyhoo....
Me too Andrew. Footy Park was an awful, awful place to watch football at. But this trip has been so positive (except for the result) that I wanted to mention it.
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I'm sorry the team put in a worrying effort, glad you had an opportunity to have a great time with your son Carl.
Best story to come out of the night so far.
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Originally Posted by
Twodogs
Me too Andrew. Footy Park was an awful, awful place to watch football at. But this trip has been so positive (except for the result) that I wanted to mention it.
Maybe its a football park thing, and Adelaide Oval has an air of dignity to it.
Or maybe Adelaide supporters have grown up.
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Happy Birthday to mini-Twodogs (does that make him Onedogs??)
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Commitment is super impressive off the back of the abysmal West Coast performance. I still have the sads from that week's showing.
I tip my hat to both of you.
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Originally Posted by
westdog54
Maybe its a football park thing, and Adelaide Oval has an air of dignity to it.
Or maybe Adelaide supporters have grown up.
Definitely the former.
But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.
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Adelaide really does get a harsh wrap. I worked at AAMI for several years and am a regular at AO and there is nothing I have seen from the crowd (in terms of type or frequency) that you don't see from every other ground in Australia. Glad you had a great experience (aside the result).
Just as aside, if you ever find yourself on a bus to Adelaide without tickets to a sold out game hit me up. Perhaps we need a weekly who has spare/needs extra tickets thread akin the GF one.
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Originally Posted by
westdog54
Maybe its a football park thing, and Adelaide Oval has an air of dignity to it.
Or maybe Adelaide supporters have grown up.
Originally Posted by
1eyedog
Definitely the former.
Footy Park just wasn't a good place to watch footy. It reminded me a lit of Waverly Park with the concrete and seating bays and atmosphere whereas AO is a great venue-they have certainly learned from the mistakes that Etihad made and have given it a more homely feel with the hill. Definitely a case of boiled lollies to chocolates.
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Scraggers
Happy Birthday to mini-Twodogs (does that make him Onedogs??)
He's busily trying to earn the nickname if that helps. He seems pretty committed to that goal at the moment.
Originally Posted by
Doc26
Commitment is super impressive off the back of the abysmal West Coast performance. I still have the sads from that week's showing.
I tip my hat to both of you.
You just never know. We might have seen something special from the boys and if we'd missed I wouldn't have been popular.
Originally Posted by
The Adelaide Connection
Adelaide really does get a harsh wrap. I worked at AAMI for several years and am a regular at AO and there is nothing I have seen from the crowd (in terms of type or frequency) that you don't see from every other ground in Australia. Glad you had a great experience (aside the result).
Just as aside, if you ever find yourself on a bus to Adelaide without tickets to a sold out game hit me up. Perhaps we need a weekly who has spare/needs extra tickets thread akin the GF one.
Cheers mate.
How's this? We bought a serve of chips at a seafood place called Pauls seafood (I think) and sit out the front to eat them and just as we are finishing the chef comes out with another serve and pours it in the container! " enjoy boys" he says.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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Other than the Footy TD, sounds like you had a good trip with your son.
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Originally Posted by
bornadog
Other than the Footy TD, sounds like you had a good trip with your son.
Great time. We were supposed to go back yesterday but we've booked the departure date back twice already. ATM we are booked in for the Monday night trip back but who knows.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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I like Adelaide I have a few relations there and the beaches are so clean, its a bit of a time warp of about 10 years but very friendly and scenic place.
Bring back the biff
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Travelled with the whole family to see us play The Power last year. No issues with their supporters and reckon it's the best ground to watch football in the AFL.
Went to the Cairns match the previous year and we're travelling to Brisbane in August this year hoping to keep our winning record intact.......although I'm not confident the way this year is turning out.
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.
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Originally Posted by
ledge
I like Adelaide I have a few relations there and the beaches are so clean, its a bit of a time warp of about 10 years but very friendly and scenic place.
It's a lot like Melbourne used to be before we managed to *!*!*!*! the place up knocking down or building on top of all the heritage buildings and making it look like a monstrosity.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.