I feel for the Port supporters that haven't been able to move on, must be very sad to be so bitter. You can't help negativity I suppose!
The Port Adelaide I grew up supporting was always looking to be the best, always looking for the ultimate success, was constantly striving to be the most successful senior football club in the land. To do that, we had to move to the best competition in the land. It was a natural and entirely understandable progression. Port Adelaide are playing in the AFL, so to those Magpie fans, come along to a Power game, just try it. See how you go.
Now, I have put up with a lot in this thread of late, bit of name calling and stirring up is fine as I understand that most are merely misguided and perhaps a bit naive - so I do tend to poke fun and perhaps offer a little bit of brevity.
But. For the admin of a site called "safooty" to state things like this:
raped then destroyed by a soulless franchise created solely for plastic fans.
Is beyond the pale.
1. To use sexual assault as analogous to football comings and goings is honestly pretty disgusting. Go **** yourself.
2. You are not a Port Adelaide member or supporter, you don't get to tell us where our soul is. Go **** yourself.
3. Come and stand on the hill and tell me and my mates that we're soulless fans. All of us have been supporters for decades. Go **** yourself.
4. Your meager attempts at a false and revisionist history to undermine the Port Adelaide Football Club does nothing to hide your obvious resentment. You just come across as a sad old flog. Go **** yourself.
The above is why I loathe so many SANFL people. Instead of being respectful and engaging with fellow football people, Port or not, you blatantly alienate and ostracise. I'm the perfect candidate to go to SANFL games. I'm soon to retire from local footy, I'll have spare time, I like football, maybe I would come along to more and more games, but this above just makes me want the entire league and it's clubs to wither and die.
That sort of pissant state league level bullshit is really whats hold your league back. You're specifically and actively reducing your market. People hear dudes talk like that about the clubs they love (AFL) and figure the SANFL is only for the old school die hards - so why would they bother? Forget about the AFL Reserves. I'd start focusing on this attitude and public relations as the first and easiest problem to solve.
But aside from all that, you can have your thread back. All the best.