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Port baulks at GWS clash: Caroline Wilson
THE strange decision by the AFL to field an underdone, unprepared under-19 team against grown men - the best footballers in the land - just weeks before the home-and-away season has come back to haunt it.
Port Adelaide has protested to the AFL, requesting it shelve next week's NAB Challenge game against Greater Western Sydney scheduled for Willaston near Gawler in South Australia, and the AFL has agreed to consider it.
While it would seem rare for a club to complain about a pre-season fixture so close to home in its last official pre-season hitout, Port's football boss Peter Rohde reportedly told the AFL's Adrian Anderson two days ago that neither side wanted to go ahead and that the Power - keen to field a near full-strength side - would be better served against an SANFL side.
''Peter Rohde has contacted us about the issue and we'll look at it over the next few days,'' Anderson told The Saturday Age, pointing out that all clubs had been aware of the GWS scenario late last year and not one had voiced a complaint.
Giants chief executive Dale Holmes, whose young team lost by 26 goals against Carlton last week and faces North Melbourne in Lavington tonight, said the club would defer any decision until seeing how it ''pulled up'' after tonight but added ''at this stage we're expecting to go to play Port Adelaide''.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/port-baulks-at-gws-clash-20110304-1bi7a.html
THE strange decision by the AFL to field an underdone, unprepared under-19 team against grown men - the best footballers in the land - just weeks before the home-and-away season has come back to haunt it.
Port Adelaide has protested to the AFL, requesting it shelve next week's NAB Challenge game against Greater Western Sydney scheduled for Willaston near Gawler in South Australia, and the AFL has agreed to consider it.
While it would seem rare for a club to complain about a pre-season fixture so close to home in its last official pre-season hitout, Port's football boss Peter Rohde reportedly told the AFL's Adrian Anderson two days ago that neither side wanted to go ahead and that the Power - keen to field a near full-strength side - would be better served against an SANFL side.
''Peter Rohde has contacted us about the issue and we'll look at it over the next few days,'' Anderson told The Saturday Age, pointing out that all clubs had been aware of the GWS scenario late last year and not one had voiced a complaint.
Giants chief executive Dale Holmes, whose young team lost by 26 goals against Carlton last week and faces North Melbourne in Lavington tonight, said the club would defer any decision until seeing how it ''pulled up'' after tonight but added ''at this stage we're expecting to go to play Port Adelaide''.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/port-baulks-at-gws-clash-20110304-1bi7a.html

