Let's talk Ports! Part 3

[Ford Fairlane]

Randall Gerlach - Port Adelaide legend and hero

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Port Adelaide and the Crows are coming back to the SANFL. When that happens depends on an end to the COVID crisis that prevents AFL players leaving their “biosphere bubbles” to play in second-tier competitions, such as the SANFL.

How that happens is a debate on hold until the AFL decides player list sizes for next season and beyond. These lists certainly will be cut, most probably from 44 to 38, leaving Port Adelaide and the Crows to enter challenging negotiations on where it finds the “top-up” players to be competitive in the SANFL.

Kerin is the man caught between the two “independent” SA-based AFL clubs and his eight SANFL constituents, who grimace upon losing local talent to the nationally driven Power and Crows – and then facing them as rivals in state league games in Adelaide’s suburbia.

“The AFL clubs,” Kerin says of Port Adelaide and Adelaide, “are good about staying in the SANFL.”

SANFL boss on the league's survival, recovery and rebuild - InDaily

<span class="s1">SANFL this weekend takes centre stage - free of any AFL distractions - to close a home-and-away season many thought would not happen due to the pandemic. <strong>Michelangelo Rucci</strong> talks to new league boss Rob Kerin about the SANFL's future, including the key challenge...

indaily.com.au

 

[malcheski]

Port Adelaide and the Crows are coming back to the SANFL. When that happens depends on an end to the COVID crisis that prevents AFL players leaving their “biosphere bubbles” to play in second-tier competitions, such as the SANFL.

How that happens is a debate on hold until the AFL decides player list sizes for next season and beyond. These lists certainly will be cut, most probably from 44 to 38, leaving Port Adelaide and the Crows to enter challenging negotiations on where it finds the “top-up” players to be competitive in the SANFL.

Kerin is the man caught between the two “independent” SA-based AFL clubs and his eight SANFL constituents, who grimace upon losing local talent to the nationally driven Power and Crows – and then facing them as rivals in state league games in Adelaide’s suburbia.

“The AFL clubs,” Kerin says of Port Adelaide and Adelaide, “are good about staying in the SANFL.”

SANFL boss on the league's survival, recovery and rebuild - InDaily

<span class="s1">SANFL this weekend takes centre stage - free of any AFL distractions - to close a home-and-away season many thought would not happen due to the pandemic. <strong>Michelangelo Rucci</strong> talks to new league boss Rob Kerin about the SANFL's future, including the key challenge...

indaily.com.au

I can hand on heart say that I didn't know the SANFL played a season this year. Thought it all got canned.

 

[Grave Danger]

Port Adelaide and the Crows are coming back to the SANFL. When that happens depends on an end to the COVID crisis that prevents AFL players leaving their “biosphere bubbles” to play in second-tier competitions, such as the SANFL.

How that happens is a debate on hold until the AFL decides player list sizes for next season and beyond. These lists certainly will be cut, most probably from 44 to 38, leaving Port Adelaide and the Crows to enter challenging negotiations on where it finds the “top-up” players to be competitive in the SANFL.

Kerin is the man caught between the two “independent” SA-based AFL clubs and his eight SANFL constituents, who grimace upon losing local talent to the nationally driven Power and Crows – and then facing them as rivals in state league games in Adelaide’s suburbia.

“The AFL clubs,” Kerin says of Port Adelaide and Adelaide, “are good about staying in the SANFL.”

SANFL boss on the league's survival, recovery and rebuild - InDaily

<span class="s1">SANFL this weekend takes centre stage - free of any AFL distractions - to close a home-and-away season many thought would not happen due to the pandemic. <strong>Michelangelo Rucci</strong> talks to new league boss Rob Kerin about the SANFL's future, including the key challenge...

indaily.com.au

From the link:

"The SANFL, even under the financial pressure posed by the COVID pandemic, has survived without the biggest of its traditional drawcards, Port Adelaide. There are many who will say the SANFL is better to watch this year than the low-scoring, defensive-minded pros in the big league.

Enjoy it while it lasts."

Haha - can't speak for Calves games, but it's usually the Maggies that have been stifled by ultra defensive tactics from the suburban teams, especially in the GFs we've lost - is that what the author is referring to? I'm sure they're happy not to have to head down Port Road past the Cheltenham cemetery for a flogging. Pissants!

 

[70sDinosaur]

Port Adelaide and the Crows are coming back to the SANFL. When that happens depends on an end to the COVID crisis that prevents AFL players leaving their “biosphere bubbles” to play in second-tier competitions, such as the SANFL.

How that happens is a debate on hold until the AFL decides player list sizes for next season and beyond. These lists certainly will be cut, most probably from 44 to 38, leaving Port Adelaide and the Crows to enter challenging negotiations on where it finds the “top-up” players to be competitive in the SANFL.

Kerin is the man caught between the two “independent” SA-based AFL clubs and his eight SANFL constituents, who grimace upon losing local talent to the nationally driven Power and Crows – and then facing them as rivals in state league games in Adelaide’s suburbia.

“The AFL clubs,” Kerin says of Port Adelaide and Adelaide, “are good about staying in the SANFL.”

SANFL boss on the league's survival, recovery and rebuild - InDaily

<span class="s1">SANFL this weekend takes centre stage - free of any AFL distractions - to close a home-and-away season many thought would not happen due to the pandemic. <strong>Michelangelo Rucci</strong> talks to new league boss Rob Kerin about the SANFL's future, including the key challenge...

indaily.com.au

******* hell.

John Olsen, Rob Kerin.

So the CV for SANFL president is to be a retired/failed/disgraced Liberal premier.

Dean Brown and David Tonkin must be pissed off they never got a go.

 

[backtozero]

From the link:

There are many who will say the SANFL is better to watch this year...

This is objectively false.

 

[Waspy79]

Wow what a sh*t post

Posing a question is deemed s**t. Harsh post moderation standards. Has got some discussion and retrospective thought happening, more than your pointless contributions.

 

[Powerade 08]

"The SANFL, even under the financial pressure posed by the COVID pandemic, has survived without the biggest of its traditional drawcards, Port Adelaide.

Everyone involved in the SANFL is on jobkeeper payments, lol

 

[OneGreatClub]

I'd add Howard to that list of outs, and it's still absolutely the current lot. Duursma is building nicely in time for finals. Rozee is clearly playing a bit injured IMO but he is still dangerous.

Whatever happened to Wingard to ruin his career is regretable and there were certainly failings on the part of the club there, but making a big difficult decision on him was wildly ballsy on the part of the list management team and they should be commended for that.

Polec just wanted too much money for a player of his calibre and we didn't flinch. He made it very easy to avoid flinching with his demands but still we held our nerve well.

Howard was one I was worried about given our lack of height in defence. What has rescued us there is that McKenzie found some form that nobody could have predicted. Arguably Lienert as well.

Perhaps the club had predicted about McKenzie.. they would have so much more info on him than we do.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Everyone involved in the SANFL is on jobkeeper payments, lol

Not to mention the Crows nufties have probably returned to their clubs of origin to support in the SNAFL in order to ignore their woes. They’ll ditch them when normal
Programming resumes.

 

[_VXV]

Perhaps the club had predicted about McKenzie.. they would have so much more info on him than we do.

I like a possibility where ken moves McKenzie forward in a gf ala Toby.

 

[Harlott]

Randall Gerlach - Port Adelaide legend and hero

”Glenelg’s dinner was a closely guarded secret. It was revealed to be Footy Pk”
Of course it was.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Port Adelaide and the Crows are coming back to the SANFL. When that happens depends on an end to the COVID crisis that prevents AFL players leaving their “biosphere bubbles” to play in second-tier competitions, such as the SANFL.

How that happens is a debate on hold until the AFL decides player list sizes for next season and beyond. These lists certainly will be cut, most probably from 44 to 38, leaving Port Adelaide and the Crows to enter challenging negotiations on where it finds the “top-up” players to be competitive in the SANFL.

Kerin is the man caught between the two “independent” SA-based AFL clubs and his eight SANFL constituents, who grimace upon losing local talent to the nationally driven Power and Crows – and then facing them as rivals in state league games in Adelaide’s suburbia.

“The AFL clubs,” Kerin says of Port Adelaide and Adelaide, “are good about staying in the SANFL.”

SANFL boss on the league's survival, recovery and rebuild - InDaily

<span class="s1">SANFL this weekend takes centre stage - free of any AFL distractions - to close a home-and-away season many thought would not happen due to the pandemic. <strong>Michelangelo Rucci</strong> talks to new league boss Rob Kerin about the SANFL's future, including the key challenge...

indaily.com.au

Its an ideal situation for them.

Fob off the AFL clubs as long as they can so they can't join an AFL reserves then say they can't join the SANFL for another year

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[Enviable Tradition]

I like a possibility where ken moves McKenzie forward in a gf ala Toby.

No need to move him forward.

He can kick 4 from there.

On SM-G960F using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Marmozet]

According to a Crows poster on the main board, we've had no injuries to key players this year...

 

[70sDinosaur]

”Glenelg’s dinner was a closely guarded secret. It was revealed to be Footy Pk”
Of course it was.

I wonder how much they paid for the venue hire...

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Tibbs]

Just had a read. Ripping article!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Just had a read. Ripping article!

Seconded. Interesting read, he is quite open on various topics.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Just had a read. Ripping article!

Yes will put some snippets here. Great article and covers a lot.

ABOUT CULTURE etc...also he his pretty pissed at how the SANFL have kept our women’s team out.

 

[raman]

Damn, I was hoping his “one regret” would be the INXS thing.

 

[Nuclear]

Great article. Homfray has been pretty good as the Tiser's Chief Football Writer.

I particularly liked this part: “Boaky can’t go overseas this off-season but he’s already organising a private pre-season camp with a few of the players and I don’t think he can find a house big enough. I think he’s organising a Red Bull surfing coach. which just changes the routine for them."

We owe a lot of our success to Travis. Champion.

 

[Mr39]

Definitely reads as though any future games in China are off the the table.

 

[Doctor Feel]

His one regret was a bit of a feign. He meant it then, he meant it now. I wouldn't back down from that.