- Feb 21, 2006
- 20,652
- 19,473
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
- Other Teams
- Turtles, NYJets, Celtics, Tottenham
Propping up SA football for a 150 years has that effect.
If you think the stadium deal at Etihad was bad, the deal at AAMI was criminal.
The debt was run up when the club were SANFL owned and drained by, an equally valid question (that will give the same answer) would be why aren't the Crows filthy rich?
Both clubs have recently bought their way out of the SANFL (at a great cost considering the money both clubs had already contributed), but they still have their mucky fingers in the Adelaide Oval pie via the SMA (seriously the SANFL get a huge chunk of Adelaide Oval cash...for doing squat).
TLDR: SANFL
This is a good starting point:
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...the-sa-footy-paradigm-shift-happening.554729/
Crows have had sellouts since day dot though, Port has only recently tapped into that support since the move to Adelaide Oval.