proman_x
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The viewpoint of the SANFL, and the other clubs, whether right or wrong, is that we can't be both an AFL club and an SANFL club. They have taken the position that we no longer have a right to field teams in any SANFL competition as per other SANFL clubs, only an AFL reserves team. We have no right to women's teams, juniors, men's reserves, and even the local primary schools that would come down and represent the club in the mini league at half-time was pulled from us. We are an AFL club that plays its reserves in the SANFL competition, that's it. Being a foundation club of the SANFL is no longer a care-factor of the SANFL and its clubs. Let's not forget that they voiced their viewpoint of Port during our dark years struggling for money where the papers described the SANFL bailing us out with their money. Bohdan Jaworskyj opposed the bail-out having written to North's members to remember that upon joining the AFL "we (Port) danced on their graves". These clubs don't believe we have a right to succeed in the SANFL and be the strong club that we once were. The current president of Centrals said to me years before 2014, "You know what will happen when the Magpies become the Power reserves. We will take away all your juniors. We will destroy your culture". Note how he used 'we', that doesn't mean Centrals alone, all the clubs had this planned for some time. They are bitter and it will never change. They view Port as the club that left them to die and they don't want any further traces of Port Adelaide success in their league.
We are talking about a group of wanna be muppets who changed their name to include “National football league” while doing sweet * all to actually achieve that. The longer term will see most of these clubs evaporate.
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