2010 8 Teams

[Barto]

If a team is to be scrapped or forced to merge, on what criteria should this decision be made? Should it be poor performance or a continuously poor balance sheet?

Only good question on this thread. I guess you would have to say balance sheet which puts my club at risk. Can't see it being allowed to happen by any club though.
All supporters come to the party when the cash is needed.

In a recession it should be based on who has the most supporters on welfare.

[Voice]

If a team is to be scrapped or forced to merge, on what criteria should this decision be made? Should it be poor performance or a continuously poor balance sheet?

Only good question on this thread. I guess you would have to say balance sheet which puts my club at risk. Can't see it being allowed to happen by any club though.
All supporters come to the party when the cash is needed.

In a recession it should be based on who has the most supporters on welfare.

So that would be........ Centrals. Woohoo

[am Bays]

Are you talking about an 8th team in the Adelaide Plains League Dogger???

[leftlegger]

Sturt & South should merge to be come the Southern Blues
Adjoining zones, similar colours, sturt need a decent home ground, south have a good one.
Theyd probably go alright

[Sojourner]

South had their opportunity to merge in the 1980's and the members voted against it and instead set the club on its current course where along with Central District they are one of the most financially viable clubs in the SANFL. Clubs merge because usually both of them have significant financial problems which at the current stage is Sturt and West to the worst case. Westies however have significant assetts which with the current restructure at the club should see them trade out of it.

Maybe Sturt should merge with the Eagles and make the home base of the club Thebarton.....

[Voice]

Well this is just going to go round in circles. No one wants to see their club merge so what are the other options. I can't think of any myself other than bringing a tenth team in from the south-east, murray or the ports (lincoln, pirie etc.).
If it came down to supporters bailing their club out of financial trouble, i can't see which club wouldn't manage it as has been done in the past.
This tit for tat stuff(you said my team should merge so i'm going to say your team should merge) is pretty pointless.

[Barto]

Sturt & South should merge to be come the Southern Blues
Adjoining zones, similar colours, sturt need a decent home ground, south have a good one.
Theyd probably go alright

Wouldn't Westies have more of a common border now?

[TroyGFC]

It must be the Glenelg / West merger, now the Chandler is in charge of SANFL. (both teams have the sash, now just to work out what colour- please no red and yellow sash it will look to Cows)

[Psyber]

It must be the Glenelg / West merger, now the Chandler is in charge of SANFL. (both teams have the sash, now just to work out what colour- please no red and yellow sash it will look to Cows)

Black jumper, red sash, and a yellow belly...

[am Bays]

It must be the Glenelg / West merger, now the Chandler is in charge of SANFL. (both teams have the sash, now just to work out what colour- please no red and yellow sash it will look to Cows)

Heretic!!

Look it just ain't going to happen (a merger or a club folding) - not in the short term anyways.

Dogger has just been into Mrs Doggers cooking sherry....

[Dog_ger]

Round 1 2009

Friday 27th March
Norwood v Port - Norwood

Saturday 28th March
South v West - Noarlunga
Glenelg v Sturt - Glenelg
Centrals v Eagles - Elizabeth
Bye – North

[johntheclaret]

That youtube link was inspiring stuff. The players would really have worked themselves into a lather after such an overflow of emotion from the crowd

I thought it was the Spion Kop at Anfield for a moment

Pity the poor sod sat behind him though

[Mic]

There would be no rivalry though, there would be no worthwhile debate on the AFL board on here, and every week the crowd at AAMI, despite being a sell out, would look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQVW3oIXZE

That's the most noise and emotion I've heard/seen from Crows supporters in years.

[JK]

I thought it was the Spion Kop at Anfield for a moment

Saving the money for Punk to visit you as we speak

[Jimmy_041]

so south and glenelg ar going to merge thats great news

The honour board would be just a mass of honour and pride when they read that between them they have a massive 7 premierships and 38 wooden spoons between them in the last 89 years.

It looks even better if you go back to 1900 with a total of 7 premierships and 43 spoons but we wouldn't want the proud, proud club of the merged Glenelg clubs history to look even more tarnished by including pre 1920.

just stirring south and bays fans

I wouldn't lower myself if I was a Panther supporter

[Jimmy_041]

That youtube link was inspiring stuff. The players would really have worked themselves into a lather after such an overflow of emotion from the crowd

I thought it was the Spion Kop at Anfield for a moment

Pity the poor sod sat behind him though

Sorry - not a Liverpool fan so i dont know what Spion Kop is there. But I have been to Ladysmith in Seth Efrica and seen this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spion_Kop

[Psyber]

Why would fans of an existing composite team leave that club to go to another composite club? Putting in 2 SA clubs with a similar background would make no sense. I guess we could call them Crows A and Crows B.

I said "was".
At the time Port were given the second licence I was still in Adelaide and I think there were enough football supporters around, who had not committed themselves to the Crows, to support another independent AFL team. Giving Port the second licence left those supporters nowhere to go unless they lined up with the Crows, because no one but a Port Adelaide supporter was going to line up with Port as their primary AFL team...

[Jimmy]

There would be no rivalry though, there would be no worthwhile debate on the AFL board on here, and every week the crowd at AAMI, despite being a sell out, would look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQVW3oIXZE

That's the most noise and emotion I've heard/seen from Crows supporters in years.

that seriously was awful and i felt embarrassed for the poor bloke, and actually the whole lot around him too...hahahhaa

[bobster]

Another composite AFL team was always going to be a better bet as only a minority of non-Port Adelaide supporters were ever going to get on board with the Power.
Once they started talking up their "long history of success" and re-identiying with the SANFL Magpies of the past they, predictably, lost some of those.

I don't think more than 8 SANFL teams is sustainable in the present market, and I think a merger should be encouraged - and if Norwood were one of the teams to do so I'd live with it.

i couldnt aggree with you more...

[bobster]

i dont think there will be 8 teams in 2010, but if i had to bet on it i would say that sturt and south might have merge...