This.
Cut on catering would potentially disadvantage the crows as port supporters generally spend more at games. Actually it probably wouldn’t disadvantage the crows but it would be more advantageous to Port.
Any arrangement that would advantage port over the crows would never be entertained by the SMA or the state in general.
See the model of the sanfl reserves for port and crows- gradually our preferred model of having a community/club structure was eroded until it is a mirror image of the basic crows structure.
Bear with me, I'm viewing from afar, how has the club structure at Port been changed?