VFL Future direction - SANFL / AFL Reserves / PBs

The future of the Port Adelaide AFL reserves

  • Remain in SANFL as is - tradition is important

    Votes: 18 7.5%

  • Play in an AFL reserves comp against AFL teams - games at Alberton, wear PB's and be called magpies

    Votes: 85 35.3%

  • Play in an AFL reserves comp - no games at Alberton, still wear the PB's and be called the Magpies

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Play in an AFL reserves comp - games at Alberton but nicknamed the Power and wearing the BiB strip

    Votes: 30 12.4%

  • Play in an AFL reserves comp - not fussed about where we play - nicknamed Power with BiB guernsey

    Votes: 23 9.5%

  • Play in an AFL reserves comp against AFL teams - games at Alberton, PB's at home, BiB away, Power

    Votes: 84 34.9%
  • Total voters
    241

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Enviable Tradition said:
I disagree. Both can (and are) true.

There is no doubt the SANFL has actively tried to hobble us.

The old farts still think beating Port in the SAFL is relevant.
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It’s just a case of Koch being wrong even when he’s right.

Ultimately, he is just deflecting accountability. The issues are real, but we have nonetheless underachieved.

This year, the Crows have the right to complain about the SANFL’s restrictions. They finished 6th. We were last. We don’t.

—

Crows v Magpies 2024

Pos.: C, +4
Wins: C, +4
PF: C, +212
PA: C, -283
%: C, +9.24%

That’s all on us.

This exercise can be done to every single season since 2014 (or would it be 2015?).

We may not be able to compete against the 8 SANFL clubs, but we are on equal footing with the Crows. Before worrying with the SANFL clubs, we must beat the Crows.

We are in league with them. We cannot ignore it. In this regard, whenever we went worse than them in the SANFL, we have failed.
 
GremioPower said:
Before worrying with the SANFL clubs, we must beat the Crows.

We are in league with them. We cannot ignore it. In this regard, whenever we went worse than them in the SANFL, we have failed.
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2014-2021: Port 6-1 Crows
2022-2024: Crows 3-0 Port

The SANFL isn't the issue.

scotty13 said:
Should we try get a decent coach to coach the Maggies? Might be worth a try?
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Since 2021, Port has finished: 7th, 8th, 5th, 10th.
While the Crows have finished: 8th, 2nd, 3rd, 6th.

Whoever says that we cannot do better is very wrong (and might be deliberately lying as well).
 

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First Port Adelaide bags the SANFL.

Now it is trying to bag some of its state league rivals’ best players.
Just days after Port chairman David Koch went rogue on radio, accusing the SANFL of getting “what they wanted’’ when his club finished with the wooden spoon for the first time since 1900 and declaring “we can’t wait to be out of there’’, the eight stand-alone clubs’ greatest fears are being realised.
They are having to fend off attractive approaches from SA’s two AFL clubs to their star players.
Glenelg ace Matthew Allen is understood to be the latest big-name SANFL player that Port has targeted for its state league side as the new concessions that both it and Adelaide appear poised to be granted to stay in the local league become clearer.
While there is some more wheeling and dealing to be done, they will be handed some generous concessions after threatening to jump ship to the VFL or a potential AFL reserves competition.
They include access to up to six under 21 and four over-age listed players from SANFL rivals, along with the potential to sign delisted AFL players, either from their own clubs or from interstate.
A decision is expected to be announced in the next month.
 
Holden Hillbilly said:
First Port Adelaide bags the SANFL.

Now it is trying to bag some of its state league rivals’ best players.
Just days after Port chairman David Koch went rogue on radio, accusing the SANFL of getting “what they wanted’’ when his club finished with the wooden spoon for the first time since 1900 and declaring “we can’t wait to be out of there’’, the eight stand-alone clubs’ greatest fears are being realised.
They are having to fend off attractive approaches from SA’s two AFL clubs to their star players.
Glenelg ace Matthew Allen is understood to be the latest big-name SANFL player that Port has targeted for its state league side as the new concessions that both it and Adelaide appear poised to be granted to stay in the local league become clearer.
While there is some more wheeling and dealing to be done, they will be handed some generous concessions after threatening to jump ship to the VFL or a potential AFL reserves competition.
They include access to up to six under 21 and four over-age listed players from SANFL rivals, along with the potential to sign delisted AFL players, either from their own clubs or from interstate.
A decision is expected to be announced in the next month.
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We'll let you have access to more players, just let us lock away anyone of value first.
 
Holden Hillbilly said:
First Port Adelaide bags the SANFL.

Now it is trying to bag some of its state league rivals’ best players.
Just days after Port chairman David Koch went rogue on radio, accusing the SANFL of getting “what they wanted’’ when his club finished with the wooden spoon for the first time since 1900 and declaring “we can’t wait to be out of there’’, the eight stand-alone clubs’ greatest fears are being realised.
They are having to fend off attractive approaches from SA’s two AFL clubs to their star players.
Glenelg ace Matthew Allen is understood to be the latest big-name SANFL player that Port has targeted for its state league side as the new concessions that both it and Adelaide appear poised to be granted to stay in the local league become clearer.
While there is some more wheeling and dealing to be done, they will be handed some generous concessions after threatening to jump ship to the VFL or a potential AFL reserves competition.
They include access to up to six under 21 and four over-age listed players from SANFL rivals, along with the potential to sign delisted AFL players, either from their own clubs or from interstate.
A decision is expected to be announced in the next month.
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Over age:
Boyd. Hosie. Grant.
Plus Allen.
 

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Port Adelaide and the Crows’ push for better concessions in the SANFL has been granted after receiving access to more top-up talent.
The South Australian Football Commission on Thursday ratified changes to allow the two AFL clubs to have up to six players under 21 from other SANFL teams, as well as up to four who are 21 or older, but no more from one from the same state-league side.
Those tweaks were made after a six-month review into the competition’s structure.
South Australia’s two AFL clubs had long threatened to withdraw their reserves sides out of the SANFL and play in either a national reserves competition or the VFL if they could not improve their top-up lists.
 
PA88 said:
"Open Age List (up to 4 players) introduced for both AFL clubs:

1 per SANFL club at any time across both AFL clubs"

What does this mean?
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I expect we can recruit 4 players over 21 (or whatever the age was) from other SANFL clubs or interstate (but not from AFL clubs)
 
The difference is that for it to be worth our while being in this stupid league, those 4 open age players (over 21 years old) must be of the calibre of afl delistees and the salary cap needs to be able to fit them in, and not squeeze them in either.

All these convoluted conditions is so sanfl ... so city of Adelaide.
 
These changes would improve our list-if we can convince people to come. The issue is, why play for Port and get $400 per game when you could play for Glenelg and get $1000 per game.
PA88 said:
"Open Age List (up to 4 players) introduced for both AFL clubs:

1 per SANFL club at any time across both AFL clubs"

What does this mean?
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I think it means we can recruit 4 players 21 or over from anywhere (SANFL, WAFL, VFL or delisted AFL players) but only one from any given SANFL club and if the Cows have already taken one from , say Glenelg, we can’t touch any glenelg over 21 year olds.
 

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