I understand but it is different. Collingwood's VFL team is 100% controlled by and run to serve Collingwood's AFL objectives. It is and operated by people appointed by and employed by the club. Port Power operate under a SANFL licence and cannot even play it's "reserves" players in a SANFL magpies under its control. None of that has anything to do with my post though.You do understand that the Port Adelaide Magpies (as of today) are a part of the Port Adelaide Football Club? No different to the multiple teams that the Collingwood Football Club has.
How is there any irony? The Foxtel Cup is a separate competition to the AFL and the competitors come from competitions the AFL has no control over. The AFL have no care over what jumpers any club wears in that competition. You sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist.The irony is that the "second level" Port Adelaide team is allowed to play in an AFL sanctioned competition, called the Magpies, in the Prison Bar guernsey whenever it wants, but the "first level" Port Adelaide team is not. Both the same club (but not for much longer thanks to the SANFL)