Anyone else following the Advertiser's countdown of SA's most influential identities?
It's every bit as comical as Rucci's old SA footy powerbrokers lists.
• 3. Gary Metcalfe. 'The Kingmaker' presided over another failed season at the Bay, and ticked off zillion-dollar upgrades to their White Elephant Bistro which has the potential to bankrupt the club and the City of Holdfast Bay council. In a few years time their stand will blow away, leaving opposition players to change in the carpark.
• 37. Mark Haysman. Despite being a CEO of a multimillion-dollar concern in a billion-dollar industry, the Port supremo has his hands tied by a comical agreement that may as well have been signed in the Middle Ages as West Lakes HQ pilots the South Australian game into the ground. This supposed lack of influence won't stop him from triggering the revolution that sees footy return to Adelaide Oval and the sublicences pry from John Olsen's clutches. Port tho.