Windy Cindy
Premiership Player
- May 16, 2019
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- Port Adelaide
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finbarr will comfort her. He's now got a new dog(ging) park to suggest.
Thank goodness they lost. The media were beginning to nauseate me this week. Do the AFC actually promote that they've won 4 senior flags? A couple of their supporters at work were saying that they are going for 'their' 5th flag. I remember after the first women's GF, Abbey Holmes on Marngrook claiming "we've now got 3 flags". Seriously?
Heck, if they want to count those premierships, then in comparing standards, Port and other old clubs should count every one of their reserves, u19s, u18s, u17s, u15s premierships as well.
Thank goodness they lost. The media were beginning to nauseate me this week. Do the AFC actually promote that they've won 4 senior flags? A couple of their supporters at work were saying that they are going for 'their' 5th flag. I remember after the first women's GF, Abbey Holmes on Marngrook claiming "we've now got 3 flags". Seriously?
Heck, if they want to count those premierships, then in comparing standards, Port and other old clubs should count every one of their reserves, u19s, u18s, u17s, u15s premierships as well.
I count 88 (see avatar). Still, I think we would reach 200, maybe 250 even, if including all of those.Thank goodness they lost. The media were beginning to nauseate me this week. Do the AFC actually promote that they've won 4 senior flags? A couple of their supporters at work were saying that they are going for 'their' 5th flag. I remember after the first women's GF, Abbey Holmes on Marngrook claiming "we've now got 3 flags". Seriously?
Heck, if they want to count those premierships, then in comparing standards, Port and other old clubs should count every one of their reserves, u19s, u18s, u17s, u15s premierships as well.
Plus Champs of Aust.I count 88 (see avatar). Still, I think we would reach 200, maybe 250 even, if including all of those.
Only 8 of Brisbane's original squad are still there, think all 8 played in the GF. I didn't realise they lost 16 players after their 2nd GF in year 2 to the new expansion teams. Thought it was about half that.Missed the final, lost a lot of interest in this season once the Docks went out to be fair, but happy Brisbane won.
They've had player after player desert them, continually been undersold in the media compared to other sides, yet have made three grand finals and now finally have a flag to go with it.
Wow, that sounds so familiar, Port 1997.It is not a full time league so the majority of players come from the state the side they play for is based in.
You can't expect players in huge numbers to go and play and train interstate for 3 or 4 months, resign from their job and then expect their employer to re-employ them or leave study behind and continually fall behind.
So yeah, most players who nominate for the national draft, even though they can nominate whichever region/state they want, are going to nominate a state or metropolitan region where they live and has a club. So obviously the talent pool outside the state the player lives and the club is based will have minimal impact on them, but it will if expansion concessions are granted.
A few players, (that aren't a marquee signing or pre-list signing), are drafted by a side in a different state to the one where the player, plays in but it tends to be the bottom of the pile players or delisted players.
The talent pool was shallow in SA because no real money was poured into development of female football, compared to WA, where the WAFC took women's footy seriously 15 years before the SANFL did, and when the AFL took over other state leagues/associations, those associations poured more resources into the female game than the SANFL did.
It's why SA played in Div 2 of the national champs with NT, ACT and Tassie and didn't win every year.
But there has been a massive expansion in SA since 2017 and whilst there is good grass roots infrastructure of clubs close by the girls in Adelaide say compared to Brisbane or GC, they have issues re physical infrastructure in particular changing rooms and access to ovals.
The crows lucked out in partnering up with NT females for a third of their side the first 3 years. They "pinched" the best female footballer Erin Phillips from Port and basketball, because we didn't have a side. Signing WA star Chelsea Randall as their first marquee player was a massive coup. She had played for Swan Districts for a decade, won premierships there, won the WAWFL B&F player twice and was a 3 or 4 time All Australian at national championships.
Other thing the crows did right was sign and draft 8 or 9 players from Morphettville Park, who were the dominant side in SA Women's Football League for 6 or 7 years before AFLW started, and those players had played footy together, some for many years. Yes the crows have spent the resources developing players, but most were local girls.
Port will have to spend resources and hide talent to be more than just competitive from day 1. The local talent pool will be better than it was at the end of 2016, but who knows what the bloody zone, pre-signing, marquee, concession and draft rules will be available to Port around 2023/24 when we get a licence.
Koch remains frustrated by the SANFL repeatedly not endorsing Port Adelaide’s wish to set up its AFLW program through the State league SANFLW.
“They refuse to invite us to that competition when we want to be a part of it,” Koch said. “We push on with our own plans, like the redevelopment of the Alberton Oval precinct, which is to be a focal point of our development programs for young women wanting to play Australian football.”
A look at the VFLW ladder shows the 2 Vic clubs not in the AFL, have a team, as does the other 8 and Port Melbourne and Darebin, who was the dominate team in the VWFL - Daisey Pearce's old team. No fear there from the local league that Essendon and the Hawthorn wil dominate the league.The sanfl really does get up every morning and think of new ways to stuff Port Adelaide around doesn't it?
https://indaily.com.au/sport/football/2021/04/16/did-port-adelaide-miss-aflw-boat-while-on-the-road-to-china/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=InDaily Lunchtime 16 April 2021&utm_content=InDaily Lunchtime 16 April 2021+CID_e93b362f2eb09e74d7573a479929ee7f&utm_source=EDM&utm_term=Did Port Adelaide miss AFLW boat while on the road to China
On the general theme of the article, Koch is right in that we can have both. The China push has seen us expand and stabilise our sponsorship base, and getting into AFLW will broaden our community appeal.
No AFL in the SNAFL(W)... As for the SANFLW, how do they justify not allowing a foundation club into the women’s league? What’s their reasoning?
No AFL in the SNAFL(W)
They don't need to justify it and can't because they won't come out and say that it is purely to spite us.
No, they already have a AFLW team. They don't need a pathway to develop new players outside of the AFLW system.Do the crows have a development team in the SANFLW?
No, they already have a AFLW team. They don't need a pathway to develop new players outside of the AFLW system.
Whatever happened to the Port Adelaide women's team that the club formed a partnership with a few years ago? Wound up? I just went through the Adelaide Footy League tables, 40+ clubs/teams over 7 divisions (+ div 1 reserves comp) but no Ports.
We had a team in the SAWFL until about 2015 from memory.Whatever happened to the Port Adelaide women's team that the club formed a partnership with a few years ago? Wound up? I just went through the Adelaide Footy League tables, 40+ clubs/teams over 7 divisions (+ div 1 reserves comp) but no Ports.
Yeah it was sort of meant to be part of the whole one club thing.We had a team in the SAWFL until about 2015 from memory.
Zones. They don’t want to have two distinct zoning maps.I’m actually ok with us coming in once the AFLW is better established. We’ve got other ducks to line up before we can do it justice.
As for the SANFLW, how do they justify not allowing a foundation club into the women’s league? What’s their reasoning?