West Torrens Assistance from the SANFL

[Sojourner]

In relation to the various Port Adelaide threads that suggest the club is facing financial problems and should be assisted by the SANFL, I do wonder what assistance was ever offered to West Torrens as a football club to keep them going by the SANFL without having to seek the amalgamation that they eventually did with Woodville?

Would the SANFL really have let West Torrens fold as a football club if Woodville members had voted against the merger? If so, why would their attitude be any different now when Port Adelaide are the club at the centre of the discussions as West Torrens once were?

[csbowes]

In relation to the various Port Adelaide threads that suggest the club is facing financial problems and should be assisted by the SANFL, I do wonder what assistance was ever offered to West Torrens as a football club to keep them going by the SANFL without having to seek the amalgamation that they eventually did with Woodville?

Would the SANFL really have let West Torrens fold as a football club if Woodville members had voted against the merger? If so, why would their attitude be any different now when Port Adelaide are the club at the centre of the discussions as West Torrens once were?

Probably would have let them die... I didn't see anything but crocodile tears from the SANFL when Sturt was on the brink...

[robranosgod]

In relation to the various Port Adelaide threads that suggest the club is facing financial problems and should be assisted by the SANFL, I do wonder what assistance was ever offered to West Torrens as a football club to keep them going by the SANFL without having to seek the amalgamation that they eventually did with Woodville?

Would the SANFL really have let West Torrens fold as a football club if Woodville members had voted against the merger? If so, why would their attitude be any different now when Port Adelaide are the club at the centre of the discussions as West Torrens once were?

Probably would have let them die... I didn't see anything but crocodile tears from the SANFL when Sturt was on the brink...

When Sturt's proposed merger with North was aborted because the Arthur Anderson report said that it would not benefit North, Sturt were issued with an ultimatum to find $400,000 or fold. Phil Sanders galvanised forces, a benefactor was found and Sturt was saved. At no stage did the league offer to help Sturt once the idea of the merge was off the table.

[FOURTH ESTATE]

Let the Magpies trade out of their problems. They created their own mess by wanting to go into the AFL

LET THEM SUFFER IN THEIR JOCKS CAUSE THEY SURE MESSED THEM UP.

Besides I enjoy watching everyone kick the Cr*p out of them every week.

Alberton no longer holds the fears that it once did.

[beenreal]

Let the Magpies trade out of their problems. They created their own mess by wanting to go into the AFL

LET THEM SUFFER IN THEIR JOCKS CAUSE THEY SURE MESSED THEM UP.

Besides I enjoy watching everyone kick the Cr*p out of them every week.

Alberton no longer holds the fears that it once did.

Do you enjoy tennis mate? Because I've got a great analogy for you; straight sets!

[am Bays]

Here's another tennis analogy for you, Can't even make it past qualifying...

[Pseudo]

Let the Magpies trade out of their problems. They created their own mess by wanting to go into the AFL

LET THEM SUFFER IN THEIR JOCKS CAUSE THEY SURE MESSED THEM UP.

Besides I enjoy watching everyone kick the Cr*p out of them every week.

Alberton no longer holds the fears that it once did.

Do you enjoy tennis mate? Because I've got a great analogy for you; straight sets!

cough 1982 cough

[Grahaml]

Perhaps Port would do well on the Challenger circuit?

Anyway, the thing about the Sturt and North stories is that they got their way out of trouble. The clubs may well have been under the impression the SANFL were never going to bail them out but it never got to that stage. It might have got mightily close, but not to the point the clubs went under. Never discount the chance the SANFL might have come to the rescue if all efforts really did fail with some solution.

[robranosgod]

Perhaps Port would do well on the Challenger circuit?

Anyway, the thing about the Sturt and North stories is that they got their way out of trouble. The clubs may well have been under the impression the SANFL were never going to bail them out but it never got to that stage. It might have got mightily close, but not to the point the clubs went under. Never discount the chance the SANFL might have come to the rescue if all efforts really did fail with some solution.

Given that Sturt were given the ultimatum from the league to find $400,000 within a fortnight or die suggests that they weren't going to be bailed out.

[Ronnie]

Perhaps Port would do well on the Challenger circuit?

Anyway, the thing about the Sturt and North stories is that they got their way out of trouble. The clubs may well have been under the impression the SANFL were never going to bail them out but it never got to that stage. It might have got mightily close, but not to the point the clubs went under. Never discount the chance the SANFL might have come to the rescue if all efforts really did fail with some solution.

Given that Sturt were given the ultimatum from the league to find $400,000 within a fortnight or die suggests that they weren't going to be bailed out.

That's a pretty brutal ultimatum for the league to give one of it's icon clubs and it isn't that long ago. No wonder all clubs are watching the Magpie saga unfold very closely.