Port Adelaide Licence to Go to Hobart

[cust22]

Rumour has it the AFL will sieze control of the Port Adelaide licence and transfer it to a franchise based out of Hobart.

 

[Lensen]

Your overwhelming use of sources and hard facts has convinced me.

Go the Hobart Hurricanes!

 

[Abaddon]

the AFL wants/needs at least 2 teams in Adelaide.
Move this troll to the bay.

 

[kwame]

stupid thread

 

[Funkalicous]

It's not even a rumour, just public innuendo. If it were North Melbourne, the AFL would be packing their bags, but a South Australian club will be handled differently.

 

[SirJimi05]

Would like it to happen but it never will.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

the AFL wants/needs at least 2 teams in Adelaide.
Move this troll to the bay.

Relocate North Melbourne to SA.

Perfect solution. SA loses a "parochial" club that 90% of the state hate and gain a team that they feel a bit more neutral about......Tassie gets a team......and Port and North survive when in ordinary circumstances they wouldnt.

 

[BABYBOMBERS2007]

Where's the source?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Yeah and South Australians would be all over North Melbourne

Bay 13 please boss man.

 

[jackess]

This rumour forum has turned into the 'make something up' forum.

 

[SA1NTER]

Source or GTFO

/thread.

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

s**t thread.

 

[Hollow Knight]

It's not even a rumour, just public innuendo. If it were North Melbourne, the AFL would be packing their bags, but a South Australian club will be handled differently.

100 percent correct.

North still remain a factor in how it will all be handled though. The AFL don't want to establish a precedent that all struggling clubs will be bailed out. If they just explicitly bail Port out, it will create expectations if North succumb to financial distress.

 

[krusden]

i've always thought the SANFL wanted a team based out of Southern adelaide.

Thus, the Victor Harbor stadium and the Harbor Victor Power in a few years (noting the population predicitions for Victor harbor)

Or even better the Harbor Victa Power with in-built sponsors

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Not going to happen

 

[doug85]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...-hits-flashpoint/story-e6frf9jf-1226066011719

So there you go.

 

[captainMyCaptain]

The AFL clearly wants two teams from South Australia and will do whatever is needed to keep Port Adelaide going:

AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou has moved to assure Port Adelaide supporters that their club's long-term future is safe, saying the League remains fully committed to sustaining two teams in South Australia.

The AFL released a statement on Tuesday following reports of the club's board level turmoil stemming from its parlous financial position.

"It is the AFL's clear position that the best model for our national competition, and for football in South Australia, is to have two strong, well-run clubs in the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide, delivering 22 matches per season for football fans in the state," Demetriou said in the statement.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/115140/default.aspx

 

[Byron_Clanger]

The Tassie Power, sounds catchy

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

The Tassie Power, sounds catchy

Port Hobart Power

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Relocate North Melbourne to SA.

Perfect solution. SA loses a "parochial" club that 90% of the state hate and gain a team that they feel a bit more neutral about......Tassie gets a team......and Port and North survive when in ordinary circumstances they wouldnt.

Can you provide a Google Map link to the North Melbourne in SA?

I think a better plan would be to merge Port and Collingwood. Just call them The Magpies. Wearing black and white stripes.

Collingwood could 6 home games in Melbourne and 6 in Adelaide.

Perfect.

 

[NTRabbit]

The AFL can't seize control of the licence anyway, the SANFL owns it.

 

[jimmy_b]

The AFL won't take any teams away from interstate.

 

[Asgardian]

Absolute rubbish