Awesome post!
Im in complete agreement. The AFL clubs should now no longer be cash cows. I think its been difficult for you Port boys to accept that, at the end of the day, you werent any different to the Crows - a composite team established as a subsidiary to the SANFL. That you came from a single club entity, that simple fact would have been very difficult to understand for many down at Alberton. Now that the licenses have been sold back, the Power and the Crows have every right to fight for a fair share of the pie.
The SANFL will bend, there's no doubt in my mind. But if you're selling a car for $10k, you dont immediately accept $8k. The SANFL hold most of the cards, the clubs hold public sympathy. In the end, the SANFL wont want to be seen as the bad guy and will budge further. This is all part of normal commercial negotiation.
And as Ive said before, if the result of the SANFL cashing in its chips is anything other than reform and strengthening of footy at a local level, I'll be just as pissed off as the rest of you.
I WANT MY FENCE!!
Im in complete agreement. The AFL clubs should now no longer be cash cows. I think its been difficult for you Port boys to accept that, at the end of the day, you werent any different to the Crows - a composite team established as a subsidiary to the SANFL. That you came from a single club entity, that simple fact would have been very difficult to understand for many down at Alberton. Now that the licenses have been sold back, the Power and the Crows have every right to fight for a fair share of the pie.
The SANFL will bend, there's no doubt in my mind. But if you're selling a car for $10k, you dont immediately accept $8k. The SANFL hold most of the cards, the clubs hold public sympathy. In the end, the SANFL wont want to be seen as the bad guy and will budge further. This is all part of normal commercial negotiation.
And as Ive said before, if the result of the SANFL cashing in its chips is anything other than reform and strengthening of footy at a local level, I'll be just as pissed off as the rest of you.
I WANT MY FENCE!!
I actually agree with you Feenix. Except the part not being any different to the Crows, on that we have something all the money in the world can not buy.


but you could drive a truck through the holes in the SANFL's arguments here.