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Re: ONE Port Adelaide Football Club
This has always been the crux of it for me. It's just astonishing.
Whatever we might think of the SANFL in its current guise and its ongoing [ir?]relevance to the Port Adelaide Football Club post-1996, the attitude of its clubs and various supporter bases to any sort of Power-Magpie cavorting is nothing short of bizarre.
The very boogeyman they feared marching over the hill to steal their wimmens and premiership chances when they forced Port to send $1,100,000 up in smoke in order to merely Etheltonise the Magpies is already here.
Has been for over a decade.
Centrals have slipped into the vacuum left by an AFL-bound PAFC and an SANFL-emasculated PAMFC beautifully. 11 consecutive 2nd Semi victories, 11 consecutive Grand Finals, 9 Premierships.
Reminds me very much of the AFL hobbling the commonsense merger of North Melbourne and Fitzroy for fear of an even bigger Carey-Pagan steamroller, only to unwittingly create an even bigger, badder monster 1400 kms north.
The other maddening argument is the 'oh well, yeah it's broke, sure we made it broke, but you signed off on it 15 years ago during an entirely different climate when the ultimate consequences couldn't be seen, so you shouldn't expect us to fix it!' attitude that has been flying about ever since Haysman first looked over the books and said 'f#ck this shit!'.
The argument that we should absolutely suffer in silence the sort of ongoing zombiefied necrorape of the wider Port Adelaide nation based on decisions taken on circumstances presented as a fait accompli almost two decades ago despite the fact that funnily enough times change, the state of play changes and we want to be able to move - and ultimately survive for the benefit of all - with them.
Just like in 1990 we're considered freaks and upstarts because of our wish to combat this small-minded, backward, grudge-fuelled attitude that Adelaide has in spades - South Australia to a tee. Writ large.
One-way Expressways, unretracting retractable lights, massive hospitals referred to as reno projects no more complicated than an episode of The Block, the forbidden Le Cornu site...
Well they did nick the Grand Prix!
What I find most astounding is the SANFL has a club that has played in the past 11 grand finals, winning 9 of them and not having played in a single Prelim Final in all of those years ... and the clubs soil their nappies continually over the threat a club that can barely get off the foot of the ladder (if not for the ineptitude that is South Adelaide ...) poses to the 'evenness' of the 'second best competition outside the AFL'.
This has always been the crux of it for me. It's just astonishing.
Whatever we might think of the SANFL in its current guise and its ongoing [ir?]relevance to the Port Adelaide Football Club post-1996, the attitude of its clubs and various supporter bases to any sort of Power-Magpie cavorting is nothing short of bizarre.
The very boogeyman they feared marching over the hill to steal their wimmens and premiership chances when they forced Port to send $1,100,000 up in smoke in order to merely Etheltonise the Magpies is already here.
Has been for over a decade.
Centrals have slipped into the vacuum left by an AFL-bound PAFC and an SANFL-emasculated PAMFC beautifully. 11 consecutive 2nd Semi victories, 11 consecutive Grand Finals, 9 Premierships.
Reminds me very much of the AFL hobbling the commonsense merger of North Melbourne and Fitzroy for fear of an even bigger Carey-Pagan steamroller, only to unwittingly create an even bigger, badder monster 1400 kms north.
The other maddening argument is the 'oh well, yeah it's broke, sure we made it broke, but you signed off on it 15 years ago during an entirely different climate when the ultimate consequences couldn't be seen, so you shouldn't expect us to fix it!' attitude that has been flying about ever since Haysman first looked over the books and said 'f#ck this shit!'.
The argument that we should absolutely suffer in silence the sort of ongoing zombiefied necrorape of the wider Port Adelaide nation based on decisions taken on circumstances presented as a fait accompli almost two decades ago despite the fact that funnily enough times change, the state of play changes and we want to be able to move - and ultimately survive for the benefit of all - with them.
Just like in 1990 we're considered freaks and upstarts because of our wish to combat this small-minded, backward, grudge-fuelled attitude that Adelaide has in spades - South Australia to a tee. Writ large.
One-way Expressways, unretracting retractable lights, massive hospitals referred to as reno projects no more complicated than an episode of The Block, the forbidden Le Cornu site...
Well they did nick the Grand Prix!
