Shannon Gill

And there had been a lot of publicity.

Not much of it was good.

No, most of them was, most of it was adverse publicity.

Um, so he wasn't lying that there was publicity.

Yes.

So a lot went on, as we said, with state of origin in town, this makes sense.

Um, we

Played a bit of Neil Danaher from this game a few weeks ago on 360.

So it all... And we had some suggestions from listeners that they wanted this game looked at.

So...

We go ahead and give the people what they want.

Now, I will give you a brief introduction, then I'll get Sandy Roberts to explain.

But in 1989, Victoria played South Australia in a State of Origin match at the MCG.

90,000 people turned up.

Big success.

Victoria win by a long way.

Now, at the same time that this is happening...

The AFL, as it's now become, is trying to get up the national competition and South Australia are the holdouts here.

So 1990, after this big 90,000 crowd, it would be expected that Victoria would go to South Australia next year, which would be a big windfall for the SANFL because there'd be a packed crowd wanting revenge.

So the AFL decide that, no, we will not schedule a game with South Australia this year because of their unwillingness to come to the table and talk about joining the national competition.