A SANFL without the Port Magpies.

[Brucetiki]

Regardless, as if the AFL give a sh*t about this issue.

I dont think the rest of Australia does either. I missed all the news reports tonight, so watched Fox Sports News. Didn't rate a mention on air, or via snippets across the bottom of the screen.

Maybe it will be in the centre spread the Sunday Mail, in the Real Estate section (pubs)

Fox Sports (via AAP) have posted an article on their web site - clearly from a Sydney backoffice though as the headline is Port Adelaide Crows Merger With Port Adelaide Magpies Thrown Out

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,,26 ... 10,00.html

[pom pom]

I have thought long and hard about this and even as i write i come back to the same things. I am not a port supporter and even thou against a merger i most definately do not want them out of the SANFL, the comp i grew up with for most weeks of my 37 years and if it were my team in the same position, no matter who was to blame i too would fight tooth and nail to save them and i would beg for others, no matter what their backgound to support my clubs cause. So 2 Points. Point 1. To all other teams,their supporters,delegates, i would hope you thought how you would feel under the same position because it really hit me yesterday between 430 and 9pm while i was at football park. This suddenly was not just a madia beatup but we are dealing with human beings feelings and loyalties. In some cases it is peoples lives,what has made them proud and given them great enjoyment and friendships and even shaped some of them as the people they are today. point 2. On the other hand i wish it was not a merger they came forward with to save their club as we cannot honestly distinguish them as separate clubs apart from finacially,as they should be. In my opinion the ideal senario back then,with which inicially it was able to be, Power or Port Adelaide be just that! No ties, no history,no claiming premierships or magarey madals and wore teal! Start FRESH. Other sanfl supporters may then have chosen to get on board sustaining their AFL credability. Port Magpies on the other hand keep all and there would be no confusion who deserves their well earnt,hard fought history. Then just maybe they would not have had to go into yesterdays meeting holding someones elses hand and gone in there on their own merits as i believe there is not another non port sanfl supporter who does not want them in the comp but in there standing on their own 2 feet. I wish someone back then from the maggies had had the guts to tell the Power that THEY,the Power are the BRAND NEW club and i truely believe it would have been better for all now and who knows there may have been no need for a meeting yesterday at all. It is not a day to mock or say hooray,nor is it a day to blame or cry. Learn. Maybe there is a White Knight out there who will save,NOT our competition because it CAN survive,it has without black and white in the finals for a whole decade, but that Knight might help the team i have barracked against my whole life. They will not just lie down until the very final siren. My young son will never know the woodville peckers and when i look back thats a bit of a shame but as i write this i wonder if he will ever know the importance of the magpies?It is in my boys blood. I guess time or some may say carma,i say fate will tell.

[Wedgie]

Paragraphs are your friends.

[pom pom]

gday wedge. sorry but im in a hurry. this site is not my whole life!

[Wedgie]

gday wedge. sorry but im in a hurry. this site is not my whole life!

Yeah I know, just stirring, hope you and the family are well, will try to catch up at Alberton this year.

[Hodges 153!]

Thanks for being there last night pom pom....

[mackdaddy]

in all seriousness will the SANFL survive???

my sources would suggest not... a no vote might not just mean no magpies/ power merger
but it might also mean the end of the SANFL.

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... if so will they SANFL become AFL SA??? im sure the AFL has this on their agenda = end of SANFL

or

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... allow them to play away from AAMI Stadium and hence screw the SANFL of its revenue streams, hence meaning the SANFL competition will drain the financial resources of the company and hence the SANFL dies a slow death!!!

yes i am a magpies supporter... however, i am talking purely business (remember the 2 AFL clubs earn the SANFL all its cash... regardless of the power supposedly being in need of hand outs... when they've actually earnt the SANFL superior amounts of money by playing at AAMI and obviously the crows have earnt the SANFL tonnes more!)

this would to me suggest a business blunder by the SANFL, its club and the commission

[Strawb]

Port will somehow survive but it comes back to people supporting the Magpies and screwing the power. How would the AFL feel if the power's membership dropped by 5000 people and these people become members of the magpies. That is the biggest picture here when the Power was founded alll Port supporters jumped on the bandwagon and left the maggies for dead. Why because we are in the big time now, Maybe the SANFl is trying to right a wrong but jeeze I would miss beating the Magpies.

[Courtney Fish]

And that happens alot doesn't it.

[rod_rooster]

in all seriousness will the SANFL survive???

my sources would suggest not... a no vote might not just mean no magpies/ power merger
but it might also mean the end of the SANFL.

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... if so will they SANFL become AFL SA??? im sure the AFL has this on their agenda = end of SANFL

or

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... allow them to play away from AAMI Stadium and hence screw the SANFL of its revenue streams, hence meaning the SANFL competition will drain the financial resources of the company and hence the SANFL dies a slow death!!!

yes i am a magpies supporter... however, i am talking purely business (remember the 2 AFL clubs earn the SANFL all its cash... regardless of the power supposedly being in need of hand outs... when they've actually earnt the SANFL superior amounts of money by playing at AAMI and obviously the crows have earnt the SANFL tonnes more!)

this would to me suggest a business blunder by the SANFL, its club and the commission

Explain how legally the AFL could "take back" the licences that the SANFL own. Just scaremongering from a douchebag named Rucci. He basically just makes sh*t up to suit his agenda but continually just comes across as a fool.

The SANFL will not die if the Magpies fold.

[Tassie Blues]

This is the kind of stuff the working class port supporters (and media) love the club that's been around for 140 years and 36 premiership almost on its death bed this is going to be its last season and at the last minute it is saved. 10 tears time they win the flag supporters come out of the wood work we were there when we almost lost the club now we have won another premiership bluh bluh bluh. Don't need to be Nostradamus to see this in the future

[Brucetiki]

in all seriousness will the SANFL survive???

my sources would suggest not... a no vote might not just mean no magpies/ power merger
but it might also mean the end of the SANFL.

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... if so will they SANFL become AFL SA??? im sure the AFL has this on their agenda = end of SANFL

or

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... allow them to play away from AAMI Stadium and hence screw the SANFL of its revenue streams, hence meaning the SANFL competition will drain the financial resources of the company and hence the SANFL dies a slow death!!!

yes i am a magpies supporter... however, i am talking purely business (remember the 2 AFL clubs earn the SANFL all its cash... regardless of the power supposedly being in need of hand outs... when they've actually earnt the SANFL superior amounts of money by playing at AAMI and obviously the crows have earnt the SANFL tonnes more!)

this would to me suggest a business blunder by the SANFL, its club and the commission

Explain how legally the AFL could "take back" the licences that the SANFL own. Just scaremongering from a douchebag named Rucci. He basically just makes sh*t up to suit his agenda but continually just comes across as a fool.

The SANFL will not die if the Magpies fold.

I think Rucci needs to be offered a job on Today Tonight or transferred to a News Corp paper in London - he'd fit in well promoting the latest wonderba or reporting on Brangelina's split

[Mr Irate]

in all seriousness will the SANFL survive???

my sources would suggest not... a no vote might not just mean no magpies/ power merger
but it might also mean the end of the SANFL.

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... if so will they SANFL become AFL SA??? im sure the AFL has this on their agenda = end of SANFL

or

will the AFL step in and take the 2 AFL licensces from the SANFL... allow them to play away from AAMI Stadium and hence screw the SANFL of its revenue streams, hence meaning the SANFL competition will drain the financial resources of the company and hence the SANFL dies a slow death!!!

yes i am a magpies supporter... however, i am talking purely business (remember the 2 AFL clubs earn the SANFL all its cash... regardless of the power supposedly being in need of hand outs... when they've actually earnt the SANFL superior amounts of money by playing at AAMI and obviously the crows have earnt the SANFL tonnes more!)

this would to me suggest a business blunder by the SANFL, its club and the commission

Explain how legally the AFL could "take back" the licences that the SANFL own. Just scaremongering from a douchebag named Rucci. He basically just makes sh*t up to suit his agenda but continually just comes across as a fool.

The SANFL will not die if the Magpies fold.

Let's trial it for three years

[hearts on fire]

I'll die if the Magpies fold.

[rod_rooster]

I'll die if the Magpies fold.

LMAO, from memory you aren't exactly a regular attendee of Port Magpies games. Bit over drmatic from you isn't it?

[hearts on fire]

I'll die if the Magpies fold.

LMAO, from memory you aren't exactly a regular attendee of Port Magpies games. Bit over drmatic from you isn't it?

yes rod, just having a bit of a laugh. The SANFL won't die if the Magpies fold, just being a bit sarcastic......

but if the Magpies do fold, i will be very disappointed, but won't be planning on killing myself anytime soon

[UK Fan]

Has anyone seen Adelaide Now at the moment?

Rucci and co are obviously p*ssed off that the SANFL didn't fall for their rubbish, about 4-5 more stories and a petition.

Also a story in there about heritage listing the Magpies? Heard it all now. Show some damned dignity would you........even if they survive now, and I hope they do for the leagues sake, can anyone really ever truly respect them again after seeing how they react in a crisis?

[85 WAS A GOOD YEAR]

Has anyone seen Adelaide Now at the moment?

Rucci and co are obviously p*ssed off that the SANFL didn't fall for their rubbish, about 4-5 more stories and a petition.

Also a story in there about heritage listing the Magpies? Heard it all now. Show some damned dignity would you........even if they survive now, and I hope they do for the leagues sake, can anyone really ever truly respect them again after seeing how they react in a crisis?

Was just on there. Have closed down the Comments section due to "technical difficulties"

[hearts on fire]

can anyone really ever truly respect them again after seeing how they react in a crisis?

of course you can bloody respect them look at there history...... this whole thing hasn't been handle well at all and yes the Magpies should of dealt with it before any of it happened but all this carp is coming from the media..... the media are making it even worse.

[rod_rooster]

can anyone really ever truly respect them again after seeing how they react in a crisis?

of course you can bloody respect them look at there history...... this whole thing hasn't been handle well at all and yes the Magpies should of dealt with it before any of it happened but all this carp is coming from the media..... the media are making it even worse.

Port just look patheic now though. I want them to survive but i hate the way they are going about it.