Petition to save WAFL

[garygroundwork]

Here's a Petition worth signing;

http://Www.stopthetailwaggingthedog.com

OR

http://Www.letsmoveintothe21stcentury.com

typical ******* pt shitlaide supporter. his team is in the number 1 comp so who cares about other comps

[wild dog]

Yeah they did, with the AFL, not to let either the Crows or Port fold. Obviously the crows won't, and Port are safe for the duration of that agreement, which will end once the afl take over the rights to the clubs.

Jeez they were ****** stupid if they did that, weren't they?!

In hindsight, yes. 2004 it all looked rosy. Of course we will be told by the believers that Port more than paid there way beforehand. Wonder if the Lehman Brothers board thought of selling the same story to their shareholders.

Whickers statement makes Port supporters continous attack on the SANFL all the more ludicrous.

Anyway petition Signed.

[Lynwood]

Pettition Signed

[beenreal]

What annoys me is they continue to try and prop up Port Power when it is 100% certain that club will fail within the next 3 to 5 years. You can not survive when you lose money every time you play football.
Adelaide Oval will NOT save Port Power because the novelty will wear off quickly when Port Power continue to lose and play shit football.
The licence should go to Tasmania and have just one team here.

Over one million people in a football mad state cannot support more than one AFL side?
Surely the answer isn't the number of teams, 2 are manageable, perhaps Port should have tried to form a cartel of Western suburbs teams: maybe Woodville, Torrens, West Adelaide and Port should have gone in together. They could have lured Blighty to coach them then, and AFL history in this state would be completely different. Not just that though. A properly named, packaged consortium representing a broader spectrum of SA and not just Port people, would obviously appeal more as an alternative to the Crows.

Yes, when the second licence was being discussed I was hoping for that, and was planning to take out membership if it happened.
I just couldn't bring myself to be associated with the Magpies - I may have come around had the team not been called Port.

Some of you live in an absolute dream world. I can see it now, throngs of Norwood supporting, Crow barrackers all jumping off to clamber aboard a generic "cartel" based in the Western suburbs.

Or perhaps in the spirit of true philanthropy, you would have all reached into those deep pockets of yours and bought TWO memberships? One for each manufactured Franchise.

[Ronnie]

Port were once a successfull AFL team, and provided a point of difference to the Crows. Some of those early showdown's bore that out.
The problem is Port have gone to pot and are now on AFL life support. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's a wretched story, and the individuals at Port who suffered personal hardship in 1990 because of the deceit they were involved in or knew about must be wondering if it was worth it.

[Jim05]

What annoys me is they continue to try and prop up Port Power when it is 100% certain that club will fail within the next 3 to 5 years. You can not survive when you lose money every time you play football.
Adelaide Oval will NOT save Port Power because the novelty will wear off quickly when Port Power continue to lose and play shit football.
The licence should go to Tasmania and have just one team here.

Over one million people in a football mad state cannot support more than one AFL side?
Surely the answer isn't the number of teams, 2 are manageable, perhaps Port should have tried to form a cartel of Western suburbs teams: maybe Woodville, Torrens, West Adelaide and Port should have gone in together. They could have lured Blighty to coach them then, and AFL history in this state would be completely different. Not just that though. A properly named, packaged consortium representing a broader spectrum of SA and not just Port people, would obviously appeal more as an alternative to the Crows.

Yes, when the second licence was being discussed I was hoping for that, and was planning to take out membership if it happened.
I just couldn't bring myself to be associated with the Magpies - I may have come around had the team not been called Port.

Some of you live in an absolute dream world. I can see it now, throngs of Norwood supporting, Crow barrackers all jumping off to clamber aboard a generic "cartel" based in the Western suburbs.

Or perhaps in the spirit of true philanthropy, you would have all reached into those deep pockets of yours and bought TWO memberships? One for each manufactured Franchise.

What a crock, most Norwood supporters I know cant stand either of the Adelaide franchises and certainly wouldnt be members of either. Most people I know have stayed loyal to their VFL side

[beenreal]

Over one million people in a football mad state cannot support more than one AFL side?
Surely the answer isn't the number of teams, 2 are manageable, perhaps Port should have tried to form a cartel of Western suburbs teams: maybe Woodville, Torrens, West Adelaide and Port should have gone in together. They could have lured Blighty to coach them then, and AFL history in this state would be completely different. Not just that though. A properly named, packaged consortium representing a broader spectrum of SA and not just Port people, would obviously appeal more as an alternative to the Crows.

Yes, when the second licence was being discussed I was hoping for that, and was planning to take out membership if it happened.
I just couldn't bring myself to be associated with the Magpies - I may have come around had the team not been called Port.

Some of you live in an absolute dream world. I can see it now, throngs of Norwood supporting, Crow barrackers all jumping off to clamber aboard a generic "cartel" based in the Western suburbs.

Or perhaps in the spirit of true philanthropy, you would have all reached into those deep pockets of yours and bought TWO memberships? One for each manufactured Franchise.

What a crock, most Norwood supporters I know cant stand either of the Adelaide franchises and certainly wouldnt be members of either. Most people I know have stayed loyal to their VFL side

And yet one of your fellow Norwood brethren said that very thing.

[Jim05]

I must associate with the wrong crowd then
Nearly all the people I attend the SANFL with hate the Crows and Port but go for Port in the showdowns.
Most are Geelong, Hawthorn or Collingwood supporters and it wouldnt of mattered what teams from SA had joined the AFL they wouldnt have jumped ship

[therisingblues]

Over one million people in a football mad state cannot support more than one AFL side?
Surely the answer isn't the number of teams, 2 are manageable, perhaps Port should have tried to form a cartel of Western suburbs teams: maybe Woodville, Torrens, West Adelaide and Port should have gone in together. They could have lured Blighty to coach them then, and AFL history in this state would be completely different. Not just that though. A properly named, packaged consortium representing a broader spectrum of SA and not just Port people, would obviously appeal more as an alternative to the Crows.

Yes, when the second licence was being discussed I was hoping for that, and was planning to take out membership if it happened.
I just couldn't bring myself to be associated with the Magpies - I may have come around had the team not been called Port.

Some of you live in an absolute dream world. I can see it now, throngs of Norwood supporting, Crow barrackers all jumping off to clamber aboard a generic "cartel" based in the Western suburbs.

Or perhaps in the spirit of true philanthropy, you would have all reached into those deep pockets of yours and bought TWO memberships? One for each manufactured Franchise.

Sorry. Silly of me to suggest Port try to cooperate with anybody. The only other people in SA are after all Norwood supporting Crows barrackers.

[beenreal]

OK, Norwood, STURT, Glenelg, North Adelaide, etc. supporting, Crow Barrackers.

Silly of me to think anyone might get the general idea.

[therisingblues]

Silly of you for not thinking West, Woodville or Torrens supporters would have interest in a Western suburbs AFL cartel.

[csbowes]

Ermmm I'm a Sturt supporter...

... hate the Crows.

... like Port, definitely want them to be more successful than the Crows.

... but still follow the Roos!

[holden78]

Port were once a successfull AFL team, and provided a point of difference to the Crows. Some of those early showdown's bore that out.
The problem is Port have gone to pot and are now on AFL life support. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's a wretched story, and the individuals at Port who suffered personal hardship in 1990 because of the deceit they were involved in or knew about must be wondering if it was worth it.

I think deep down most of us know Port will now always be a Western Bulldogs type club, no better, and that's just reality.
The AFL has despite everything gone back to what the VFL was in the 80's..... power clubs, the occasional good year or two from one of the bottom teams, thats that!
Long live the SANFL

[passionatelegsfan]

I'm scratching my head with what I am reading here. A sturt and norwood supporter saying they would prefer Port Power over the crows? I must be missing something here. I have no real interest in the AFL but if i had to choose one over the over it would definetly be the crows. Twice norwood have saved Port from bankruptcy and Port chooses to repay them by taking a giant dump on them and the rest of South Australia. Port are the absolute scum of SOuth Australian football and australian football for that matter and every non port supporter needs their head read if they choose to support them in any whatsoever. We should all be hoping for the death of Port in the AFL and the SANFL. Show no mercy to them just like they showed no mercy to South Australia and the SANFL. It would be fntastic Karma if the Power were forced to change their name in order ot broaden their appeal and then the port magpies went bankrupt in the SANFL. Then there would be no Port left and justice will have been served.

[Psyber]

Some of you live in an absolute dream world. I can see it now, throngs of Norwood supporting, Crow barrackers all jumping off to clamber aboard a generic "cartel" based in the Western suburbs.
Or perhaps in the spirit of true philanthropy, you would have all reached into those deep pockets of yours and bought TWO memberships? One for each manufactured Franchise.

Why not, but for the fact that, at the time, membership of the Crows was closed - all you could do was pay to join the waiting list.
And that was so until very recently - something of which the Power can only dream.

A non-Port western suburbs cartel would have been fine with me.
I grew up in the western suburbs and was a Torrens supporter for years as a kid.
That only changed when I was 13 and my older sister started taking me to Norwood matches with her.

(It took most of a year to convert me, unlike my future brother-in-law, who quit his 20 year Port Adelaide membership to join Norwood within 3 months of meeting her.)

[Long live SAnFL]

Port were once a successfull AFL team, and provided a point of difference to the Crows. Some of those early showdown's bore that out.
The problem is Port have gone to pot and are now on AFL life support. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's a wretched story, and the individuals at Port who suffered personal hardship in 1990 because of the deceit they were involved in or knew about must be wondering if it was worth it.

I think deep down most of us know Port will now always be a Western Bulldogs type club, no better, and that's just reality.
The AFL has despite everything gone back to what the VFL was in the 80's..... power clubs, the occasional good year or two from one of the bottom teams, thats that!
Long live the SANFL

Hello I am here and agree with you!

[Psyber]

What a crock, most Norwood supporters I know cant stand either of the Adelaide franchises and certainly wouldnt be members of either. Most people I know have stayed loyal to their VFL side

I am an SANFL supporter first, and was opposed to an SA team entering the VFL, whatever they decided to re-badge it as.
I couldn't support Port because of the part they played in forcing the SANFL to consider it.

Once the (wrong) decision was made to join, I took an interest in the Crows because they were, at least, broadly representative of SA football then, and not "one club", and they were competing against mostly Melbourne teams. That was strengthened while I lived in Melbourne and was annoyed by their media always hyping up Carlton, or St Kilda.

Having developed an interest in the new competition through that process, and given that one couldn't get a membership of the Crows, I would have seriously considered taking membership of another broadly representative team then.

Back in SA, now, I find my interest in "AFL" has diminished a bit, and I doubt I'd join one now.