ports 'prison bar' design to go ?

[gossipgirl]

crows 2 the power 1

winners are grinners and losers become bitter and twisted

[Apachebulldog]

Don't get sucked in people one allmighty con job my friends, they say they won"t do this and that but watch out once they get a foot in the door every thing will change and it will become a VFL/AFL reserves side for the Power you can not trust them remember 1989/1990 i do i hope the SANFL clubs do not fall for this bullshit.

[smithy]

After 2-3 years when half the team is full of power listed players, this will give them the full salary cap to spend on the other 10-12 players won't it ?

[topsywaldron]

The WA experience was still dealing with 2 composite sides. Port Adelaide remains a unique situation in that it is still 1 AFL club, with an SANFL affiliate

The Power is a 'franchise' and you know it.

What you're missing is that the two clubs are not affiliated. When you signed away your heritage for thrity pieces of silver the then Board agreed to the complete split of the two clubs. For you to now turn around and claim penury, on behalf of both poorly run clubs mind you, as a reason for a reconiciliation is too cute by half and symptomatic of the misguided sense of self worth that got you into this postion.

If you chose to live by the sword then the Maggies are just going to have to die by it too.

[mackdaddy]

i think the only real losers no matter what happens will be the magpies players

[Booney]

The WA experience was still dealing with 2 composite sides. Port Adelaide remains a unique situation in that it is still 1 AFL club, with an SANFL affiliate

The Power is a 'franchise' and you know it.

What you're missing is that the two clubs are not affiliated. When you signed away your heritage for thrity pieces of silver the then Board agreed to the complete split of the two clubs. For you to now turn around and claim penury, on behalf of both poorly run clubs mind you, as a reason for a reconiciliation is too cute by half and symptomatic of the misguided sense of self worth that got you into this postion.

If you chose to live by the sword then the Maggies are just going to have to die by it too.

So are the other 15 AFL clubs then?

[Psyber]

The WA experience was still dealing with 2 composite sides. Port Adelaide remains a unique situation in that it is still 1 AFL club, with an SANFL affiliate

The Power is a 'franchise' and you know it.

What you're missing is that the two clubs are not affiliated. When you signed away your heritage for thrity pieces of silver the then Board agreed to the complete split of the two clubs. For you to now turn around and claim penury, on behalf of both poorly run clubs mind you, as a reason for a reconiciliation is too cute by half and symptomatic of the misguided sense of self worth that got you into this postion.

If you chose to live by the sword then the Maggies are just going to have to die by it too.

So are the other 15 AFL clubs then?

I'm not sure whether they are..
Like the SANFL clubs they may have owned the VFL, and hence own the AFL.
Franchises to join the VFL were offered to clubs or states outside Victoria to give birth to our pseudo-national league.
Anyone know what the structure is for sure?

[Barto]

i think the only real losers no matter what happens will be the magpies players

That's cool, we can increase the salary cap of the remaining 8 clubs.

[HeartBeatsTrue]

Hypothetically, if the magpies get all of the power's non SA recruits I'll be happy with that, providing that the magpies then lose their recruiting zones and given to different SANFL club(s).

The magpies IMO have a good country zone and to have talented kids miss out because of interstate AFL listed youngsters will not be fair.

[drifter]

I dont mind if the Maggies go under because their proposal isnt any good or a win for both them or the other 8 clubs. What gets me is when small minded people base it on something that happened 20 years ago, or because their team at the time couldnt stand the heat of a Grand Final, namely Glenelg, North, Centrals,Eagles etc etc and they hate Port because they were good.
Maybe North just want them to go under so they can pick at the bones of the leftover Maggies with their slush fund ?
They go on about when they were broke. Dont forget the times Port supporters sent 10,000 supporters to your home games over the years all spending 10 bucks each in the pre crows era. Happy to take the money then, no questions asked.
Also, how can losing 3000 supporters be good for the SANFL ? I'm not saying give us a handout, just listen and if its a good idea give it a chance to work.

[fish]

i think the only real losers no matter what happens will be the magpies players

That's OK - after their on-field performances of the past few years they're used to it.

[Wedgie]

or because their team at the time couldnt stand the heat of a Grand Final, namely Glenelg, North, Centrals,Eagles etc etc and they hate Port because they were good.

How exactly do you work that one out?
North have won 2 out of 3 grand finals against Port in my lifetime and thought our record even prior to that wasn't too bad especially when we kept them to something like 10 points in one grand final.
Hardly deserved to be grouped with the Bays!

[drifter]

1 goal 8

[Wedgie]

1 goal 8

is more than 1 goal 4.

Our president played in only winning GFs against Port and wasn't even at the club in 89 so I doubt one result when he wasn't even at the club is going to affect him. I would suggest some organizations contempt for all SANFL clubs would be more likely to impact upon his decisions but that's a separate point to the one I was adressing.

[FlyingHigh]

I dont mind if the Maggies go under because their proposal isnt any good or a win for both them or the other 8 clubs. What gets me is when small minded people base it on something that happened 20 years ago, or because their team at the time couldnt stand the heat of a Grand Final, namely Glenelg, North, Centrals,Eagles etc etc and they hate Port because they were good.

Of course we hate Port because of their onfield success. But that doesn't mean I want to see them go under at all.

[X Runna]

I dont mind if the Maggies go under because their proposal isnt any good or a win for both them or the other 8 clubs. What gets me is when small minded people base it on something that happened 20 years ago, or because their team at the time couldnt stand the heat of a Grand Final, namely Glenelg, North, Centrals,Eagles etc etc and they hate Port because they were good.

Of course we hate Port because of their onfield success. But that doesn't mean I want to see them go under at all.

And that comment makes more sense than 7/8's of the crap posted in this thread...........

[Ruben Carter]

I dont mind if the Maggies go under because their proposal isnt any good or a win for both them or the other 8 clubs. What gets me is when small minded people base it on something that happened 20 years ago, or because their team at the time couldnt stand the heat of a Grand Final, namely Glenelg, North, Centrals,Eagles etc etc and they hate Port because they were good.
Maybe North just want them to go under so they can pick at the bones of the leftover Maggies with their slush fund ?
They go on about when they were broke. Dont forget the times Port supporters sent 10,000 supporters to your home games over the years all spending 10 bucks each in the pre crows era. Happy to take the money then, no questions asked.
Also, how can losing 3000 supporters be good for the SANFL ? I'm not saying give us a handout, just listen and if its a good idea give it a chance to work.

[bayman]

hey drifter can you explain how you say 'us' & 'we' when talking about port yet on your avatar it says norwood &

[Barto]

hey drifter can you explain how you say 'us' & 'we' when talking about port yet on your avatar it says norwood &

Possibly another non Port fan who jumped on the Power. There's a couple of posters on BF who are Sturt supporters who barrack for the Power

To me that's more evidence that the Power are a new club rather than the same old Port Adelaide. No Sturt or Norwood supporter would also support Port Adelaide.

[bayman]

hey drifter can you explain how you say 'us' & 'we' when talking about port yet on your avatar it says norwood &

Possibly another non Port fan who jumped on the Power. There's a couple of posters on BF who are Sturt supporters who barrack for the Power

To me that's more evidence that the Power are a new club rather than the same old Port Adelaide. No Sturt or Norwood supporter would also support Port Adelaide.

but barto it also says 'adelaide crows' on his avatar