Today, we rake over the ashes of the election campaign and identify a few people who are feeling very, very nervous.

Baseball bats

We have to confess – we thought South Australians were preparing to smash Labor about the head last Saturday.

But we forgot the crucial first rule of Adelaide life: change must be combated with fierce tenacity.

In the context of South Australia’s glacial pace of evolution, 12 years of Labor is but the blink of a Panda’s eyelids.

“Steady on”, the electorate said, like a wild-eyed, flat-capped crazy uncle, “we’re only just getting used to these Labor chaps!”

The only baseball bats around now are those being prepared for use on Iain Evans’ bonce. He seems to be the lightning rod for anger within the Liberals, following the implosion of his cunning plan to unseat independent Bob Such.

If Labor is returned with the support of Such and fellow independent Geoff Brock, Evans might be in for some Casino-style cornfield action, metaphorically speaking of course.

Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese’s film Casino. This scene didn’t end well.

All the single ladies

A senior Liberal MP decided to introduce former leader Isobel Redmond to some young media lads at the Libs’ election night party at the Arakaba.

We’re sure she didn’t appreciate this cheery addendum to the introduction: “She’s single, boys!”

Those of a certain age may remember the Arkaba’s reputation as a “grab a granny” joint.

Those days are gone, senior Liberal MP!

Secret sound

That squeaking noise is coming from polyester trousers squirming against the faux leather of office chairs all over Adelaide.

Many business people, industry bodies and lobby groups had bet heavily on the Liberals winning a comfy victory on Saturday.

Now, they face the real prospect of having facing four more years of a Government that they’ve spent the last six months bagging.

But the most awkward experience might be for media types.

FIVEaa’s Leon Byner was the voice of the “scrap the tax” commercials on his station, which led to some raised eyebrows. Having said that, radio announcers commonly voice ads – at least it’s transparent.

It does seem a bit weird, however, to see a radio announcer openly spruiking a vote for a particular political party.

Jason “Snowy” Carter from Mix FM nailed his colours to the mast on Saturday morning with not one, but two, Tweets endorsing the Liberals:

“@marshall_steven hoping u r the man to get SA building a better future for our kids! Help small business the rest will follow #savotes”

“Let’s hope today SA puts the right team in, to keep building a better state for our kids! @marshall_steven is the man for me! #ilovesa”

Ch-ch-changes

Independent Geoff Brock is going to ponder his options over the weekend – in other words, decide for all of us who will govern the state for the next four years.

Given his past record, it might be that he’ll go with the opinion of the last person he speaks to.

He told Parliament last year that as Mayor of Port Pirie he once went to a climate change conference in Adelaide – and ended up utterly confused.

“I went to that before lunch and I was convinced when I went to lunch that we had to do all these issues and, as the member for Port Adelaide has indicated, look at the scientific evaluation and the advice from the scientists. When I went to lunch I was very convinced that we had to do all these things to improve the issue, to reduce climate change. After lunch, I went back to the second stage of that conference. Again, there were professional and qualified scientists there and the view was completely opposite. How can anyone make a decision when there are two different views out there on one day on how we can control climate change?”

Settle in. This could take a while.