AFLW Port Adelaide AFLW (Team to enter in 2022 season)

[RossFC]

Page 39 and 40 of the Port Adelaide Women's (Sawfl openers at Adelaide Oval) thread, talks about the SANFL's attitude to us having a team in the SANFL. Koch at the AGM in February said we had submitted a request to put a team into the comp 2019. This 'Tsier article I posted on page 39 of that thread in March has the SANFL boss basically saying piss off
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...t-adelaide-oval.1107881/page-39#post-54694446

Back in August 2015 on page 2 of that thread when I said why it made sense to have a women's league at AFL and state league level, I wrote;

"Unfortunately in SA the shitfight between SANFL types and Port will continue. Its why we wont be allowed a team to compete in the local league."

Ford Fairlane maybe the last few posts back to and including 1525 should be moved to the above thread.

Why did KT say this just last month?
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2018-10-02/from-the-ceo-oct-2
"Plus we are preparing to enter the SANFLW Super series in 2019 which will be the development platform for our entry into the AFLW competition in 2021 or 2022."

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Why did KT say this just last month?
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2018-10-02/from-the-ceo-oct-2
"Plus we are preparing to enter the SANFLW Super series in 2019 which will be the development platform for our entry into the AFLW competition in 2021 or 2022."

Shit if I read that I completely forgot it. I know I read the club's statement on the new SANFL rules. I must have read it because I started that thread about the new rules and quoted KT.

Only thing I can think of, is that KT said we are preparing because the SANFL hadn't made a ruling yet

 

[Onward To Victory]

Why did KT say this just last month?
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2018-10-02/from-the-ceo-oct-2
"Plus we are preparing to enter the SANFLW Super series in 2019 which will be the development platform for our entry into the AFLW competition in 2021 or 2022."

This is a different competition - SANFLW is the summer season, SANFLW "Super Series" is a winter season. We may get a gig for the winter comp, but we have been ruled out for the main summer comp.

 

[Onward To Victory]

Here's the press release:

http://sanfl.com.au/news/2018/06/26/sanfl-womens-league-to-expand-in-2019/V

The SA Football Commission has announced Central District and Woodville-West Torrens will join the SANFL Statewide Super Women’s League in 2019.

In addition, the Commission has given the green light for SANFL to explore the introduction of a women’s Super Series competition in 2019. The Super Series would be played in winter to provide a further elite pathway to AFLW for South Australia’s most talented female players.

http://sanfl.com.au/news/2018/06/26/sanfl-womens-league-to-expand-in-2019/

 

[Onward To Victory]

Basically the SANFL want to replace the South Australian Women's Football League (the existing winter comp, where the Port Adelaide Women's Football Club plays) with their own competition.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Bit surprised that nobody mentioned it but Saturday's Tsier was a full page story 2 or 3 in from the back page and it says we are now going full on to get an AFLW licence.

Port Adelaide keen to field a team in the AFLW — and the sooner it happens the better

Port Adelaide has had enough of the Crows’ monopoly over the AFLW in South Australia and has revealed that as soon as the AFL begins discussions about issuing the next round of team licences, the Power will be at the ready to bid for one. Port Adelaide’s general manager of football Chris Davies told The Advertiser that during top-level discussions with the AFL in November, the league reiterated to him its intention to have an 18-club AFLW competition. The only question remaining is: when?

For the 2019 season, two new expansion clubs — Geelong and North Melbourne — will join the league, followed by Richmond, West Coast, St Kilda and Gold Coast in 2020. That leaves Port Adelaide, Sydney, Essendon and Hawthorn as the only clubs without an AFLW side. “We’re waiting for the AFL to open up their bid process for the next time that they’re allowing teams into the AFLW and the next time that happens, we’ll be involved in that,” Davies said. “Our expectation is that the four clubs that still don’t have a team … the AFL does want those clubs in the AFLW and I’ve had meetings where the AFL have confirmed that that’s what they want ultimately. And whenever that is, we will absolutely be involved.

“The club made a decision in 2015 to focus initially on the China strategy, and instead to get involved in women’s football at a junior level. “Are we being left out? Our preference is to have a side in that competition and the sooner the better.”

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...r/news-story/8fa793999d28f5a8549aa95a1d545e25


Crows footy manager Phil Harper gets interviewed talks about the number of girls picking up game and says

Harper, however, surmised that 2021 might be too soon for Port to enter the AFLW. “To be honest, the two teams coming in this year will be fine; the four teams the year after will really stretch the resources coming through,” he said. “But if you fast track to 2023, that wave of participants who started playing a couple of years ago will be 18, 19, 20-year olds and I’m very confident that we’ll be able to have the whole 18 teams in, at the latest by the mid-2020s, and of course Port will be one of those.

One of the girls that went away with our Woman's Aboriginal Academy to NZ has her say about why she is playing 2 sports with the hope of cracking it in one of them as a professional

And as the AFLW continues to expand — and pay its players more (a pay rise was confirmed for AFLW player last month) — football becomes a serious sporting option for young elite athletes. And it’s why more SA girls, like Adelaide United training squad member Evelyn Goldsmith, are juggling two or more sports. At 18, Goldsmith has been playing soccer at a state-representative level since she was 11 and last season had a Reds contract as a back-up goal keeper. But as a member of Port Adelaide’s inaugural Women’s Aboriginal AFL Academy she has developed the skills and confidence on the footy field and will pull on the boots for SMOSH West Lakes this season. (She’s also just become a member of the Crows new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Female Football Academy). Next year, she will juggle SMOSH weekend games with her Friday night soccer matches for Adelaide Uni.

And NZ want a team in the league. Their junior team knocked off our girls.

AFL New Zealand has told The Advertiser that one of their key goals in the expansion of Aussie Rules in their country is to have a team in Australia’s women’s league within five years. AFLNZ community and communications manager Tom O’Keeffe said there were numerous NZ teams playing in Australian leagues including the newly announced Auckland Tuatara which has joined the Australian Baseball League as an international expansion club. “We want a women’s team in the AFLW,” he said.......

 

[OneGreatClub]

Bit surprised that nobody mentioned it but Saturday's Tsier was a full page story 2 or 3 in from the back page and it says we are now going full on to get an AFLW licence.

Port Adelaide keen to field a team in the AFLW — and the sooner it happens the better

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...r/news-story/8fa793999d28f5a8549aa95a1d545e25


Crows footy manager Phil Harper gets interviewed talks about the number of girls picking up game and says


One of the girls that went away with our Woman's Aboriginal Academy to NZ has her say about why she is playing 2 sports with the hope of cracking it in one of them as a professional


And NZ want a team in the league. Their junior team knocked off our girls.

So, Port Adelaide Sydney Essendon and Hawks only teams to not have a licence.
One of these things is not like the others.

Big clubs like Hawks Essendon and Sydney will do fine no matter how long it takes to get a team.
Port have missed the boat. The smaller club in this Crows owned town. Ugh.
I am getting pretty pissed off with our off field (mis) management and this Board.
Of course, if we ever get a team the free admittance that the clubs already in play are getting will be long long gone . Will be tough.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Women's AFL is rubbish. Players throw the ball or drop it = the umps call play on.

I'll have some interest when they play the rules.

 

[Rendaw]

Women's AFL is rubbish. Players throw the ball or drop it = the umps call play on.

I'll have some interest when they play the rules.

Woah you watched a game?

 

[StrappingTape]

So, Port Adelaide Sydney Essendon and Hawks only teams to not have a licence.
One of these things is not like the others.

Big clubs like Hawks Essendon and Sydney will do fine no matter how long it takes to get a team.
Port have missed the boat. The smaller club in this Crows owned town. Ugh.
I am getting pretty pissed off with our off field (mis) management and this Board.
Of course, if we ever get a team the free admittance that the clubs already in play are getting will be long long gone . Will be tough.

I am not sure missing out on a team in a league no one watches and will cost us money is a bad thing. Better to wait and see.

 

[TeeKray]

Women's AFL is rubbish. Players throw the ball or drop it = the umps call play on.

I'll have some interest when they play the rules.

That in no way differentiates it from the actual AFL.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

That in no way differentiates it from the actual AFL.

Bulldogs won a flag throwing the ball.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Can't get a team in the SANFL, but we will get SANFL players represent us in 2 showdown games.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...r/news-story/18073593781e38115a8b6cfadf6ea15c
Port Adelaide will finally have a women’s team wear the Power jumper with two historic SANFL Showdown battles against Adelaide next season. The exhibition games will follow the SANFLW season when the eight clubs will be split into two teams based on the same alignment as the Next Generation Academies. Players from Sturt, North Adelaide, Glenelg and Central District will represent the Crows, while West Adelaide, South Adelaide, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens will form a team to wear the Power colours.

The first game will be a curtain raiser to the men’s state league clash between the Bloods and Crows at Richmond Oval on June 8 with the second at Alberton Oval on July 21 before Port hosts the Tigers......
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...r/news-story/18073593781e38115a8b6cfadf6ea15c

SANFL women’s players Rhiannon Busch of Norwood, with a Power jumper, and Caitlyn Swanson of Sturt, with a Crows jumper, at Adelaide Oval. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

 

[ozph1870]

Has nothing to do with port adelaide.

 

[chiwigi]

Can't get a team in the SANFL, but we will get SANFL players represent us in 2 showdown games.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...r/news-story/18073593781e38115a8b6cfadf6ea15c
Port Adelaide will finally have a women’s team wear the Power jumper with two historic SANFL Showdown battles against Adelaide next season. The exhibition games will follow the SANFLW season when the eight clubs will be split into two teams based on the same alignment as the Next Generation Academies. Players from Sturt, North Adelaide, Glenelg and Central District will represent the Crows, while West Adelaide, South Adelaide, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens will form a team to wear the Power colours.

The first game will be a curtain raiser to the men’s state league clash between the Bloods and Crows at Richmond Oval on June 8 with the second at Alberton Oval on July 21 before Port hosts the Tigers......
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...r/news-story/18073593781e38115a8b6cfadf6ea15c

SANFL women’s players Rhiannon Busch of Norwood, with a Power jumper, and Caitlyn Swanson of Sturt, with a Crows jumper, at Adelaide Oval. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

What the actual!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

What the actual!

Just part of the sucking up we have to do, to maybe get a team in the SANFLW for a couple of years, maybe more, before we get an AFLW licence.

 

[chiwigi]

Just part of the sucking up we have to do, to maybe get a team in the SANFLW for a couple of years, maybe more, before we get an AFLW licence.

It’s bullshit and if anything dilutes it.

 

[ozph1870]

Just part of the sucking up we have to do, to maybe get a team in the SANFLW for a couple of years, maybe more, before we get an AFLW licence.

We should not let them wear our guernsey.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

lol who cares

 

[ozph1870]

lol who cares

It's just another reflection on where the club is and what it is right now. Yeah we are vastly different in our past our history and our culture, but right now, as of the club in 2018/19 we are exactly the same as the other mob, no difference at all. Crows light, that's the reality of what we are as a club now, we are set up exactly the same now.
I couldn't care less about this match, but the fact that our club is allowing players from a shitty sanfl clubs to be representing ports, when the reality is they've got nothing to do with us, to me, highlights exactly where the club is at. It's everything, no juniors, no heartland, nothing that separates what a real club is and what a shitty soulless mob the other mob have always been.
We have lost what separates us. This is just another reflection of it. It's not just about this game, it's the whole lot at the moment.

 

[Prison bar Pete]

What a strange concept. If the women were genuine Port supporters fair enough, but that won't be the case. They'd be better off just being representative teams A & B quite frankly.

 

[ozph1870]

Team cartel... Haha..

 

[Portmagpies36]

It's just another reflection on where the club is and what it is right now. Yeah we are vastly different in our past our history and our culture, but right now, as of the club in 2018/19 we are exactly the same as the other mob, no difference at all. Crows light, that's the reality of what we are as a club now, we are set up exactly the same now.
I couldn't care less about this match, but the fact that our club is allowing players from a shitty sanfl clubs to be representing ports, when the reality is they've got nothing to do with us, to me, highlights exactly where the club is at. It's everything, no juniors, no heartland, nothing that separates what a real club is and what a shitty soulless mob the other mob have always been.
We have lost what separates us. This is just another reflection of it. It's not just about this game, it's the whole lot at the moment.

Agree 100% what makes it worse is we allow these SANFLW players wear our guernsey but the SANFL scum won't allow us to have a team in their womens comp.
If we had any balls we would tell them **** off.

 

[GremioPower]

Just part of the sucking up we have to do, to maybe get a team in the SANFLW for a couple of years, maybe more, before we get an AFLW licence.

Unless we got something for it, I don't see a reason for accepting this. A promise or an expectation is not enough.

At least, do we get paid for this All-Star Game?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Unless we got something for it, I don't see a reason for accepting this. A promise or an expectation is not enough.

At least, do we get paid for this All-Star Game?

I doubt we get anything for it. They dont charge an entrance fee for women's games.