Compromised

[Ronnie]

Is the AFL reserves push into the SANFL now dead in the water?

[Dogwatcher]

Another quality contribution.

Don't be bitter sweetheart.

When a poster writes merde like that it gets what it deserves, naked derision.

Which is all you offer.
How about..."well, that's a pretty poor comment, here's why that's BS and I think", rather than your regular smart arse response that provides nothing to the topic other than further evidence your outright smugness?

[Hazydog]

Settle down ladies. I was merely pointing out the potentially unfair advantage one side may get over the other from circumstances beyond both of their control. Yes it may work out to the favour of different clubs at different times but in the ideal world it would be better if the problem wasnt their at all wouldnt it? Is not the title of the thread compromised? For what is worth North probably would have been too good without the AFL listed players- they are developing well under Francou. Who knows, they may be on the verge of a sustained period of success. (Maybe 12 GF's on the trot or something like that?)

[topsywaldron]

To Rucc's credit, that hurt, he wrote about as sensible an article as anyone in the mainstream media's written about the whole issue.

[Dogwatcher]

Agreed. He had some fair points on 5AA on Saturday morning as well.

[kickinit]

Speaking of compromised - and to highlight how the current set up compromises the League - Centrals had no AFL aligned players in either League or Reserves on Saturday night. Take Stewart & Johnston out of North's attack for starters and it looks a bit less imposing. Just another reason to remove all AFL aligned players from the SANFL all together.

yep then the afl can state no player aligned with a sanfl club can ever play in the afl and see how long the comp last.

[JK]

Speaking of compromised - and to highlight how the current set up compromises the League - Centrals had no AFL aligned players in either League or Reserves on Saturday night. Take Stewart & Johnston out of North's attack for starters and it looks a bit less imposing. Just another reason to remove all AFL aligned players from the SANFL all together.

yep then the afl can state no player aligned with a sanfl club can ever play in the afl and see how long the comp last.

Yes, because the AFL would benefit by removing South Australia's pool of players from their competition

[wild dog]

I think the current situation with AFL players is fine if we disregard this backdoor manoeuvring to get Power listed players to the Magpies. Crouch's development is an excellent example of the fast tracking that the SANFL can provide, and a guy like Jonathon Giles benefitted by a longer development utilising the SANFL reserves and then league.

The problem IMO is the posturing to ruin this current status quo by adding a discreet AFL reserves team. We could keep the Power at bay, but when Sanderson came over and publically stated his desire for his own reserves team it tipped the balance. Now we have the situation exemplified in this thread where passionate SANFL fans don't want AFL players at all in the SANFL. Why would the SA AFL teams risk ruining a model which while not perfect, is very close to it.