What if Adelaide joined the VFL in 81....

[JPetro83]

How hard did the club try to get Platten at the end of 1990?

 

[jo172]

How hard did the club try to get Platten at the end of 1990?

Bit disappointed Open Mike didn't get into that, and also to Platten coming back and playing a year with Centrals after retiring from Hawthorn.

 

[JPetro83]

Bit disappointed Open Mike didn't get into that, and also to Platten coming back and playing a year with Centrals after retiring from Hawthorn.

I reckon we had a crack at the end of 92 or 93?

 

[Geoffa32]

Bit disappointed Open Mike didn't get into that, and also to Platten coming back and playing a year with Centrals after retiring from Hawthorn.

I see him at every Crows game.

Someone needs to tell him he is bald.

It is like a few cobwebs covering a bald egg.....

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[MatthewB]

How hard did the club try to get Platten at the end of 1990?

they tried but didnt get far

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...t/news-story/c4eb7d6a20576ab9eed59f8fac34a5a6

 

[MatthewB]

I see him at every Crows game.

Someone needs to tell him he is bald.

It is like a few cobwebs covering a bald egg.....

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its not the best look lol

 

[Punchy Bassett]

My Grandpa was involved in the SANFL during the 70s and early 80s and there was a definite plan to form a club based national league back then.

However the SANFL and WAFL were too conservative to push it.

The VFL could see the value in franchise fees to prop up its ailing clubs in the late 80s. SANFL and WAFL were far more financially secure in that era.

And here we are.

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Yep completely missed the boat to make it a true national competition with the likes of the big WA clubs, SA clubs etc.

 

[spenze]

81?

Could have had the great Wilbur Wilson playing for us

 

[MatthewB]

81?

Could have had the great Wilbur Wilson playing for us

possibly could have, half way through his career at the time,

 

[PrideOf]

Check out the 1983 SA State of Origin team that beat the Vics:

Coach: Bob Hammond

• Russell Ebert (Captain)
• Michael Aish
• Craig Bradley
• Tony Giles
• Stephen Kernahan
• Bruce Lindner
• Greg McAdam
• Garry McIntosh
• Peter Motley
• John Riley
• Daryl Schimmelbusch
• John Schneebichler
• Keith Thomas
• Craig Williams
• Stephen Copping
• Neil Craig
• Mark Naley
• Greg Phillips
• John Platten
• Matt Rendell
• Greg Whittlesea

That list is exactly why the VFL didn't want us in as a composite side. Nothing would have shattered this Vic footy is the best footy mythology than getting belted every week by a side like that.

 

[Giant Heart]

Sorry to intrude, but I found this thread rather interesting. In recent times I've been thinking of things other way around. I found out recently that in 1990 a NSW side defeated the Vics in a SOO match.

I do wonder, had South Melbourne not been forced to relocate, what a composite NSW side in the late '80s might have looked like. It too may have scared the hell out of the Vics!

 

[Big Crow]

he's pretty biased, but my old man could talk up the Sturt side of the back half of the 60's forever.

Do we have the same Dad?

 

[JohnZ]

I don't post often away from Geelong board, but, Anything that would've lead to the Hawthorn and Melbourne merger has my vote, so I am upset (to a degree) this never happened.