GremioPower
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- May 26, 2017
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WAFL and SANFL really missed the signs in the 70's. A joint competition could have lead to an actual Federal competition, instead of the current expanded Victorian league. Moreover, in hindsight, SANFL and WAFL shouldn't have accepted local franchises into VFL - at least, not at the beginning. For instance, Norwood and Port should have gone into the VFL/AFL, with either the Crows (lead by Glenelg and Sturt) following them soon after. WAFL should have done something similar.I watched Melbourne sing their club song after the semi final win tonight and sarcastically thought, hey they have stolen Norwood's song.
Then for the first time ever, I though if they ever joined the AFL they would have to change song and colours etc like we did. Many moons ago in the 1870's Melbourne's nickname was the Redlegs after an official returned from England with a set of red socks. They changed their nickname to Fuchsias a few years later and remained that way until the 1930's when their coach famously said at half time one game - stop playing like flowers and play like demons. That stuck. So maybe Norwood could stay the Redlegs.
GremioPower if Norwood had of tried to enter the AFL in 1990 either like Port tried to get in, or had the guts to say to Port and the AFL we should go in together, I'd bet just about everything I own that they would have added yellow to their red and blue and adopted the SA state footy/sporting colours.
The last 6 weeks I have been working with a guy who served 2 stints as a director of Norwood in the 1980's, got transferred to Queensland for about 6 years and then again in the 1990's and then was on a couple of committees, is a good mate of KT, lives in the same street, we have been talking footy, so maybe that's why Norwood is in my head.
Currently, I don't understand why people say there is no space for a third SA club and a third and forth WA clubs. SANFL should insist in the Norwood-Sturt joint bid. It would be a sky-blue/navy/red club (not clashing with West Lakes nor Melbourne). Maybe financially such expansions do not make sense in the short term, but politically it would help de-Melbournize the AFL - which is a necessity.
The game of footy may be alive and well, but the league seems to be in an early stage of a self-inflicted crisis. It is not much different than the Europe-centered corrupt FIFA, or the Rio/SãoPaulo-centered CBF. There is such a thing as "too much corruption." When the line is crossed, the building comes down.
Brazilian soccer has passed through painful processes of decay, crisis, and reorganization - I am only 37 and have lived three of those (a big one in the 80's, and two minor ones in the 2000's and in the 2010's). I believe we are going to be there again soon enough. Those minor reorganizations have concentrated power into the big clubs, and within those, the big-5 clubs of Rio and São Paulo. That's not good.