AFL Gather Round is about to put Mount Barker's new football oval on the sporting landscape

Mount Barker's new sporting complex is about to make its AFL debut. (ABC News: Trent Murphy)

If you looked at a recent satellite image of the site of the next AFL match between North Melbourne and Brisbane, you would probably see little more than parched fields and sheep paddocks.

But that's because cartography is yet to catch up with developments.