Port Adelaide's Finances

[Barto]

I know the paranoid Port fans scream that the rest of the league want them on their knees and to die, but that coudn't be further from the truth. A dead Port Adelaide is bad for SA footy, but one that is continually draining finances is even worse. How can they survive while constantly losing money?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/p ... 5878946909

PORT Adelaide is set to have an AFL or SANFL representative put on its board to shore up the club's future amid reports it is set to post a loss of $4 million this season.

The drastic measure will be raised at a a meeting between the AFL, SA Football Commission and Port Adelaide on Thursday.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou will meet with the commission and the Power amid concern the club's financial position is becoming untenable.

[Psyber]

Perhaps the AFL licence could be sold on the Norwood. Then the two Port Adelaide clubs could merge in the SANFL.

[Chuck Wepner]

Ah norwwod what a success story!.. 5 premierships in the past 50 years why aren't they in the AFL already????

[Barto]

See, we said it was the Logical Option .. but noooooo

[Psyber]

Ah norwwod what a success story!.. 5 premierships in the past 50 years why aren't they in the AFL already????

Because they were loyal to the SANFL when they were invited before Port Adelaide, invited as the second choice, tried to get in and precipitated the formation of the Crows.

[auto]

A negative Port thread with Barto and Psyber the contributors....what are the odds.

[Dutchy]

A negative Port thread with Barto and Psyber the contributors....what are the odds.

Factual however

[auto]

Im not a fan of 15 other AFL teams but i dont dwell on every negative fact i come across that suits my animosity for certain teams.

[The Dark Knight]

How can they survive while constantly losing money?

There's this thing where if you where Black and White you are Cockroaches and you always seem to survive no matter the situation, success and status of the club.

[Barto]

Im not a fan of 15 other AFL teams but i dont dwell on every negative fact i come across that suits my animosity for certain teams.

Jeez have a sulk. This is a reasonably big story, if we were going after every negative fact then the forum could be full of threads.

The problem for your club is that it is a fact, not an opinion.

[Psyber]

Despite my animosity to the SA Magpies from the old days, and from their letting down the SANFL, I actually support the new club, the Power, against any AFL team but the Crows.
That is mainly because they are at least SA based, and my wife had family connections.
However, if the second AFL licence had gone to a composite club, not Magpies derived, I may have actually taken up membership.

[Barto]

If the second AFL licence had gone to a composite club, not Magpies derived, I may have actually taken up membership.

Same for me as well. Went to the Crows games for the first season but lost interest pretty quickly, just never felt a real connection for them.

Supported them against a few Vic teams and in the 97/98 finals but they never felt like "my" team.

[Hondo]

If the second AFL licence had gone to a composite club, not Magpies derived, I may have actually taken up membership.

Same for me as well. Went to the Crows games for the first season but lost interest pretty quickly, just never felt a real connection for them.

Supported them against a few Vic teams and in the 97/98 finals but they never felt like "my" team.

So why would a second composite team have felt any more like "your" team then? It's easy for people to say they would have jumped on board a second composite team as a hypothetical but I find it hard to believe when those same people aren't into the 1st composite team we had (and an element of them already supported another AFL team). They'd be set up exactly the same as the Crows so what's the point of difference? They'd frustrate the SANFL fans in the same way the Crows do with the player interchanges, etc (animosity factor would be the same).

For the sake of the thread it's important to note that even the Crows are finding it tough financially at the moment. it's not great times for AFL football in this state.

[Booney]

If the second AFL licence had gone to a composite club, not Magpies derived, I may have actually taken up membership.

Same for me as well. Went to the Crows games for the first season but lost interest pretty quickly, just never felt a real connection for them.

Supported them against a few Vic teams and in the 97/98 finals but they never felt like "my" team.

Lots of folk on here bleat on about the Power not being the real Port Adelaide so why not support them? Cant have it both ways my friends.

[Choccies]

Port Adelaide $3-4million loss + Crows $500K+ loss = HUGE SANFL loss this year
Not good times for anyone in 2010

[Psyber]

So why would a second composite team have felt any more like "your" team then? It's easy for people to say they would have jumped on board a second composite team as a hypothetical but I find it hard to believe when those same people aren't into the 1st composite team we had (and an element of them already supported another AFL team). They'd be set up exactly the same as the Crows so what's the point of difference? They'd frustrate the SANFL fans in the same way the Crows do with the player interchanges, etc (animosity factor would be the same).

For the sake of the thread it's important to note that even the Crows are finding it tough financially at the moment. it's not great times for AFL football in this state.

I didn't take up Crows membership because I was opposed to them having been formed.
I'd believed the SANFL should have chucked Port out and said, "You want to join the VFL, go it alone!", then reshuffled the SANFL areas along the western side of town to the benefit of the remaining faithful clubs.

By the time the second licence came up the whole thing was a fait accompli, and I was already following the one SA team in the "Alternative Football League" to some extent.
So, I would have been prepared to consider taking out a membership of a new composite team.
[Especially so if it had been a Norwood-Sturt coalition. ]

The second licence being given to Port pushed me to embrace the Crows.
My attitude to the Power, bastard child of the Magpies, was softened in later years by my being stuck in Victoria, and my wife's developing support for them.

[Rik E Boy]

Lots of folk on here bleat on about the Power not being the real Port Adelaide so why not support them? Cant have it both ways my friends.

Good point, but where does Port go from here? Something really radical is required IMO.

regards,

REB

[Wedgie]

Lots of folk on here bleat on about the Power not being the real Port Adelaide so why not support them? Cant have it both ways my friends.

Can havep it both ways, one of the reasons I have no respect for nor like the Power is because they're not the real Port. I respect the real Port and have even supported them on occasions. (there's even a photo floating around here somewhere from 1990)
The other main reason I dislike the Power is because of the amount of tools that left the real Port behind to support the Power.
Dislike aside the Power were a huge mistake and the entire state's football community is suffering because of it IMHO but stubbornness and lack of competence will probably never see the mistake fixed.

[Barto]

If the second AFL licence had gone to a composite club, not Magpies derived, I may have actually taken up membership.

Same for me as well. Went to the Crows games for the first season but lost interest pretty quickly, just never felt a real connection for them.

Supported them against a few Vic teams and in the 97/98 finals but they never felt like "my" team.

Lots of folk on here bleat on about the Power not being the real Port Adelaide so why not support them? Cant have it both ways my friends.

Even though I dont see them as the 'original' Port, I could less see myself being referred to as a "Port supporter" than a Crows supporter.

It'd like being a Christian-Muslim.

[Booney]

Lots of folk on here bleat on about the Power not being the real Port Adelaide so why not support them? Cant have it both ways my friends.

Can havep it both ways, one of the reasons I have no respect for nor like the Power is because they're not the real Port. I respect the real Port and have even supported them on occasions. (there's even a photo floating around here somewhere from 1990)
The other main reason I dislike the Power is because of the amount of tools that left the real Port behind to support the Power.
Dislike aside the Power were a huge mistake and the entire state's football community is suffering because of it IMHO but stubbornness and lack of competence will probably never see the mistake fixed.

What would make them the 'real' Port? A Black and white guernsey....a Magpie as the emblem. I dont see why they are not the 'real' Port and what, in your opinion, would make them just that.

Interesting.