Tell us what diehard SANFL supporters (of which there are not enough to justify that competition being viable) have had to put up with.
You don't think that having two teams competing for a premiership free of any salary cap restrictions would seem unfair? You haven't considered that if any of the 8 SANFL clubs break the salary cap of $350k they get fined or penalised while the two reserves teams are free to do what they want?
You consider this a fair playing field in a sporting comp?
How would you feel if Port had these concessions in the AFL and Adelaide didn't? Would you think that fair? Would you feel disgruntled?
I'm not sure what your point of the money that Adelaide pay to play in the comp has to do with anything and I disagree with your assumption that many SANFL clubs would fold without it, they survived before and will go on to do so.
From memory there hasn't been any SANFL club bail outs for a very long time yet there's half a dozen AFL club bail outs every year.
I'm primarily a Sturt supporter, Adelaide come second for me, so I can see both sides of the argument and to be honest, the increasing disdain for the SANFL coming from AFL supporters is getting pretty myopic and boring. I couldn't really care what people think of the SANFL, it's not trying to be anything it isn't, if you're not interested then fine but don't go around trying to tell people what validity the comp has or that it wouldn't survive without the gracious benefit of an AFL club that quite frankly undermines the integrity of the competition.
Some of the opinions on here are more and more of a paranoid Port Adelaide mentality.