South Adelaide creates mural at Noarlunga Oval with champions of the club
SANFL club South Adelaide is recognising its champions with a mural at the entrance to its Noarlunga Oval home.
South Adelaide is honouring its champions with a huge mural on the entrance to its Noarlunga Oval ground.
Jim Deane, Mark Naley and Peter Darley are among the players being recognised by the club for their illustrious careers, while Joel Cross, Nick Liddle and Nikki Gore are among the current stars.
The initiative follows a board room discussion on making the club more appealing to people when they walk into the facility, according to Panthers chief executive Neill Sharpe.
“We want to acknowledge some of the champions of the club, there was conversations on player’ records and the history of the Panthers and all the names chose for the mural held up,” Sharpe said.
“Joel and Nick are as good as we have had at the club since it has been based at Noarlunga, David Kantilla is the club’s first Indigenous player and Nikki Gore our the first female best and fairest winner and was a member of the club’s first women’s premiership in its first season.”
Graffiti artist Morris Green has been employed to paint the mural. He said the toughest aspect of the job was working from old photos.
Players on the mural:
Mark Naley — 236 games, 231 goals, Magarey Medal 1991, Knuckey Cup
1984. SAFC Hall of Fame, SANFL Hall of Fame.
Joel Cross — Magarey Medal 2012, 2015, Knuckey Cup 2011, 2015, 2016.
Jack Cockburn — 167 games, 59 goals, Magarey Medal 1935, Knuckey Cup 1935, 1941, premiership 1935, 1938. SANFL Hall of Fame, SAFC Hall of Fame.
Peter Darley — 206 games, 123 goals, Knuckey Cup 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972,
1973. Captain 1967-1969, 1971, premiership 1964. SANFL Hall of Fame, SAFC Hall of Fame.
John “Dinny” Reedman — 172 games, captain 1889-1898, 5 premierships, AFL Hall of
Fame, SANFL Hall of Fame, SAFC Hall of Fame.
Dan Moriarty — 97 games, 2 goals, Magarey Medal 1919, 1920, 1921, Knuckey Cup
1923, AFL Hall of Fame, SANFL Hall of Fame, SAFC Hall of Fame.
Frank Tully — 168 games, 200 goals, captain 1935-1936, Knuckey Cup 1929, 1930, 1933,
1935, premiership 1935, SAFC Hall of Fame.
Jack Tredrea — 220 games, 53 goals, captain 1910-1915, SAFC Hall of Fame.
Nick Liddle — Knuckey Cup 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018.
David Kantilla — 113 games, 106 goals, Knuckey Cup 1961, 1962, premiership 1964, SAFC Hall of Fame.
Jim Deane — 157 games, 95 goals, captain 1951-1953, 1957, Magarey Medal 1953, 1957, Knuckey Cup 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1957, AFL Hall of Fame, SANFL Hall of Fame,
SAFC Hall of Fame.
Nikki Gore — First SAFC Women’s Best & Fairest Medallist 2018, SAFC’s first women’s
premiership 2018.