Invite Port Melbourne and Williamstown to join
Expansion of the SANFL post Port & Crows
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Invite all the standalone VFL and WAFL clubs, plus an NT, Canberra and Fitzroy, and have an NFL or AFA competition. 24-26 clubs, two divisions. Selling point/point of difference from the AFL being sporting fairness and community. Local clubs, local grounds on a national stage would be more interesting to me than the sterile AFL.
Where is the money coming from to fund flights and accommodation for travelling clubs?
The sugar daddy will need big pockets.
The sugar daddy will need big pockets.
That would be the million dollar question. Wolf Blass wants Norwood on the national stage. I’m sure other financiers can be sourced.
I think something like this would easily get funded... Channel 9 would buy the TV rights (not only would they then put a lot of money in to compete with the AFL in terms of quality, but the $$$ from the AFL TV rights would drop with no interest from 9), Qantas/Jetstar for flights.
Initially the salary cap would not be as big as the AFL, so sponsors could easily be top tier sponsors with a million $. As interst grows, the game grows, the money gets larger, the salary cap increases and within 20yrs could have a serious competitor to the AFL.
Would never happen because no one in a position to take the gamble would do it for fear of failure... gone are the days of Kerry Packer type people in this country.
Wouldn’t need to be a Kerry Packer World Series type risk. Work with the AFL (while maintaining independence) and it could solve problems for them, ie reserves, development pathways, expansion sides.
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The AFL will divert all of the funding that is currently allocated to the VFL over to the AFL reserves instead and the VFL will be dismantled and the stand alone clubs sent to local leagues (if they survive that is). Their U18 comp will continue and flow into the AFL reserves.
Don't count on extra money of any significance being given to the WAFL or SANFL - the AFL would rather those competitions consist of an Under 18 grade (and maybe an Under 25s if your are lucky) as a feeder to the AFL reserves.
EDIT: At best, the AFL would expand the Vic U18 comp to have two grades - U25s and U18s. They have no interest in the stand alone VFL clubs and that has been shown since they dismantled the VFA nearly 30 years ago.
Don't count on extra money of any significance being given to the WAFL or SANFL - the AFL would rather those competitions consist of an Under 18 grade (and maybe an Under 25s if your are lucky) as a feeder to the AFL reserves.
EDIT: At best, the AFL would expand the Vic U18 comp to have two grades - U25s and U18s. They have no interest in the stand alone VFL clubs and that has been shown since they dismantled the VFA nearly 30 years ago.
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There’s too many good mature age footballers that want to play in a good competition for the state leagues to just become an under 18’s comp.
More likely I see the AFL taking development funding away from the SANFL and giving AFL clubs development and drafting zones….how clubs like Port afford this is another thing.
Personally I’d love for stand alone state league clubs to play together in a national comp but as has been pointed out, funding is the major hurdle and I can’t see the self imposed custodians of the game aka the AFL, bank rolling a comp that will compete with their Victorian cabal.
If anything like this happens I think it’s more likely that state stand alone clubs play off in their own comp/conference then the top 4/5 from each comp/conference play each other in a major round play off series limiting travel costs as much as possible.
Still, huge costs involved and it will only survive if it’s bank rolled over the long term not like the poor excuses for stand alone comps we’ve had in the past.
More likely I see the AFL taking development funding away from the SANFL and giving AFL clubs development and drafting zones….how clubs like Port afford this is another thing.
Personally I’d love for stand alone state league clubs to play together in a national comp but as has been pointed out, funding is the major hurdle and I can’t see the self imposed custodians of the game aka the AFL, bank rolling a comp that will compete with their Victorian cabal.
If anything like this happens I think it’s more likely that state stand alone clubs play off in their own comp/conference then the top 4/5 from each comp/conference play each other in a major round play off series limiting travel costs as much as possible.
Still, huge costs involved and it will only survive if it’s bank rolled over the long term not like the poor excuses for stand alone comps we’ve had in the past.
The fact that leagues are already having to pay Channel 7 to show their matches probably suggests otherwise.
Channel 7 holds the WAFL ransom to the tune of $1m per year to screen matches (not every week) and even then they are at all sorts of days and times. Saturday at 1pm one week, Sunday 10am the next and then the following week on Saturday at midday.
True, but they are state leagues... not a secondary national competition to go head to head with the AFL.
I can assure you that there is no appetite for such a plan in WA.
It is in the same basket as a third AFL team and the Foxtel Cup.
It is in the same basket as a third AFL team and the Foxtel Cup.
Will the SANFL create a new Port Adelaide Magpies with prison bar jumpers in hope the Port supporters who rather stay in the SANFL?
Please no!
I don’t want to go through another decade of PAFC whining, whinging, finger pointing and victim hood.
They’ve made their bed, want to leave, just go.
I don't know anything about Adelaide, but from outside Mount Barker and Gawler look the more obvious options. get out of the city itself, but not a lot.
If it was financially possible (and it absolutely isn't) a few sides in Tassie would be looking for a proper comp with the AFL yet again axing their state league next year.
If it was financially possible (and it absolutely isn't) a few sides in Tassie would be looking for a proper comp with the AFL yet again axing their state league next year.
