SANFLnut wrote:beenreal wrote:Sanflfirst wrote:Having re-read the statement made by the Port Adelaide Football Club when accepting the invitation to join the SANFL which read that all Port Adelaide AFL listed players who do not make their AFL team must play in their SANFL League side I'm somewhat surprised that Motlop and Co. have decided to return. The Port Power have forty listed players which means that if all are fit then only two positions remain available. Surely their must be 8 - 10 players on their list better prospects than these two or have the conditions for the Powers entry been changed?
Really? I'm sure we'll appreciate a link to this informative statement.
Anyone got a definitive answer with some evidence?
Don't know whether the following link will work so have cut and pasted an abridged article underneath.
http://www.portmagpies.com.au/news.php?news_id=1067Port Adelaide accepts SANFL invitation
10th Sep 2013
Statement: Port Adelaide accepts SANFL invitation
Tuesday 10 September 2013
The Port Adelaide Football Club Board of Directors has today unanimously voted to accept a formal invitation from the South Australian Football Commission to allow the club’s AFL-listed players to play under its Magpies banner in the SANFL League competition from 2014 onwards.
The Club has agreed to a model which allows all of its AFL-listed players who are not selected to play in the AFL competition on any given match weekend to play for the Magpies in the SANFL League competition.
A pool of 15 contracted SANFL players will also be eligible to play in either the club’s SANFL League or Academy team in the Reserves competition.
There is to be no age limit on the players selected for the contracted SANFL player list.
The remainder of the club’s SANFL Academy team will be comprised of a list of players aged between 18 and 22 years.
The key points of the agreement between the SANFL and the Port Adelaide Football Club are:
- From 2014, all of Port Adelaide’s AFL-listed players will play for the club’s SANFL League team when not selected to play for the Power
- The SANFL League team will be supported by a pool of 15 contracted SANFL-only players
- Port Adelaide will operate an Academy team in the SANFL Reserves competition with a list of players aged 18-22.
- All Port Adelaide teams participating in the SANFL will continue to use the Magpies nickname and wear the club’s traditional black and white guernsey
- Port Adelaide is required to operate a conventional junior structure in 2014 including teams in the U18, U16 and talent squad competitions
- Port Adelaide must disband its conventional junior structure and recruiting zonesfrom 2015
- Port Adelaide is permitted to attract sponsors for its SANFL team, providing these are not competing partners of the SANFL competition
- Port Adelaide SANFL memberships are permitted to be sold independently and in conjunction with Port Adelaide AFL memberships
- Port Adelaide will continue to play home matches at its traditional home ground Alberton Oval
- All Port Adelaide players are eligible to win the Magarey Medal
- Contracted pool of SANFL-only players are eligible to represent the state; AFL-listed players are ineligible to represent the state.
- Port Adelaide commits to ‘playing the line’ including:
o Not resting players and taking up elective surgery options
o SANFL doctor to provide second opinion on surgeries prior to end of season.