that is the old stadium under the tram overpass

Roosters.

there was around 10 along the wall - is the only one still around is the south adelaide one on the wall at Marion ?

ok - not too bad.

next trivia -

what colours where -

Galwer Gunners?

Modbury Jazz?

would gawler gunners been light grey with green ?

What was the actual height of the ring at the far end of court #3? (the end farthest from the entrance)

The ring was too high for The Doctor.

modbury jazz - purple and yellow


next trivia - what district team evolved from yellow and black and green and white merged teams ?

what was their first colours for district / metro ?

Green and white - was that Celtics? I think they were called Noarlunga Celtics, or something like that.

They meregd with NCT, now Southern Tigers.

if i may - name the player whose photo was in the cabinet at the entrance

Player in the display cabinet was John Wesley

correct

John was an exciting, respected club player whose life was tragically cut short as a result of a car accident. If I remember rightly, he was also an import for the Adelaide Buffaloes?

yep title winner in 1987 alongside Jeff Hayes

nice try vesta - but no cigar.

yellow and black was cheltenham baptist and green and white was chetenham congegational church clubs that combined to become cheltenham -

Q what were their initial colours

and

what club did they become ?

Thanks shufflin - I was wrong about the colours anyway - Noarlunga Celtics were maroon and white, not green and white. They merged with Tigers to become NCT in about the mid 80s I reckon.

To answer your questions, I don't know about the initial colours, but Cheltenham became Woodville.

While we're at it, can anyone remember and quote those little motivational placards that were placed around the Forestville stadium?

I'll start you off..............

"A rebound in hand is worth 2 in the basket"

"Don't let your head get bigger than the ball"

Your teammates are working hard on defence- are you?

"Be agressive get the rebounds" - used to be in my possession, tragically dont know what happened to it.

Looks like you fumbled the ball Uncle Rico and got a turnover instead of a placard.

The ole days are gone forever, the memories are fading away....playing in yellow n black for cheltenham bapt.. later green n white for cheltenham
loooking at club emblems at the end of forrestville
wondering why united church wasn't up and later it was
shooting on a 9ft 6in ring on court 3...
I think..the memory ain't like it used to be...

Hopefully not Ushiro, I have had lots of stuff in storage for a couple years - it might show up.

"Can't is said by losers, can is said by people who give it a go"

camel 31 - on teh money - green and white with black numbers was the original cheltenham uniform.
For "metro"

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ok - now - what district / metro team wore black and white stripes like collingwood?

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what was the ultimate junior church title to won ?

Port Adelaide or Port Districts, cannot remember their exact name. I believe an import, name of ? Smith tried to change to them from West Adelaide but immigration stopped it as it contravened his visa. Possibly the other Phil smythe was the coach - it was all a long time ago.

correct port telstars !

now back to what was the highest junior title obtainable in junior church basketball?

Champions of Champions

I won a few :)

From memory Keith Miller was the stadium manager

G.Q. - well done.

old St Leonards player ?

mr assist -


"While we're at it, can anyone remember and quote those little motivational placards that were placed around the Forestville stadium?"

EXIT ->

LOL

I'll give you that 'shufflin'

Which Radio station & commentator used to broadcast District games in the mid 60s from the little elevated box in the N-W corner of court 1?

mahatma coat ?

you have got me there....

wally may ? dick jones ? ian day ?

sports commentators in 60s

Fred Heaton broadcast originally. father of Bill Heaton who was making his name with the Bearcats about 1967/68. Ian day may have followed on or even been with Ian Day.
Keith Miller was stadium manager. Used to help him change the light bulbs using a VERY long pole. keith coached the 1964 Olympic team and west Adelaide junior teams.
Werner Linde would come in every lunch time and shoot for an hour.

I'd been thinking then of how it might've been...
Barry Richardson.. who later was chairman of sixers and sacked the coach after we won the 86 championship
.. I think....
I seem to recall playing in green n white,,
talkin' bout starting up Woodville , and later playing in pink for a team called Pi...s , instead..
do you remember who it was? We wore pink.

ok another trivia

what essential service ran a regular A grade team on thursday night at St Clair in the mid 70s ?

I recall marvelling as the smyth brothers had some classic games against these teams.

I would've played a few there for Pixies n Cheltenham
could've been St John.. but I've forgotten

no the police cadets - teams were usually called "class 54" "class 55" etc or something like that

remember watching in awe as the police cadets were mega fit and would run all night - and the smyth boys would shoot the lights out.

well done though camel 31 !

I was in course 24 for a little while.

I seem to remember St johns Ambulance had a team called the Saints at St Clair (wore black and white)?

Ian Day was too busy watching his son Tim play for Forestville to call the game on 5aa before he followed Baseball and then became a physio for the the Dodgers or someone like that

5DN broadcast District games on Thursday nights. Dog35 is correct about Fred Heaton being the commentator.

Can anyone remember the little sign that said something like "Any player who has been training and has not left the Stadium before half time of the first game must pay 2/6d." This was directed at District players whose club would train before the start of the night's competition.
I remember that we trained at one end of court 1 and North trained at the other on Monday nights from about 5.30pm until 6.30 in the early 60's. So, we had to be out of the stadium to avoid paying the princely sum of 2/6d.
The board, still with its sign ended up filling a window space on the back wall of the canteen.

The 60's....like a flying saucer landed,,,,everybody heard about it, but very few actually saw it.
I love hearing about it.
I wouldn't call myself a Basketballer.
That might put me in a class with people like Maher and Green. Hey , name them - Michael Ahmatt, Werner Linde, Mike Dancis, Glen Marsland, Scot Davey,Ken Richardson.......
It was the only thing I could do.
I wasn't good at anything else.
I reminisced about my early days.
I wasn't a very good Police Cadet but the police bus would come to Fort Largs and take us to St Clair to play basketball games all day on wednesdays.
How good was that. Getting paid to play the game I loved.... Easter carnivals..I love this game.

Camel 31
Police cadet and not a great player, your not Laurie Harcus by any chance ? LOL

I'm happy just to be able to come across these things.
It tickled me.
Playing church and fluked a few points on Harcus n Alan Hughes.
Later a little jolt of South metro A, training with
Ahmatt and other olympians was a kick for me....
Take care of the memories.. ..
for you cannot re-live them.....

I had lost a few layers of skin on the old cement court 2 at forestville.

gym boots and rubber basketballs..... and to watch court 1 in awe

I lost some blood as a kid running along under the grandstand of crt 1,those steel beams were a bit tricky to negotiate

NBL: City of Sydney Astronauts v West Torrens Eagles
Final score: Astronauts 72-Eagles 70


hows that for a flashback )

I really miss that stadium. I think I still have my black and yellow CBC singlet at home somewhere.

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its clearly the jarch1a's lads, dont be silly dillys! XD

Which District Club was the last to use Forestville as its home?

Easy, Sturt.

I remember when Mrs Brand used to be in the ticket booth & Mr & Mrs Shipway used to run the canteen. As juniors we used to clean the floor on the 1st court on Sat morning prior to games so that we could practice for 1/2 hr with 2 lights on.
Bill Heaton's real claim to fame, is that his first score in competition was for the opposition when playing "Biddyball" for Westies. he got the ball & took off on a fast break with everyone yelling at him. He actually turned out to be pretty good, despite that begi Ning.