Port Adelaide is not worthy of an AFL licence

[WAguru]

Harsh, probably.

Fair absolutely.

This is a club which simply cannot get itself together, on or off the field.

It is an absolute joke that Port Adelaide enter into the dawning of a new era in Free Agency without a coach at the helm, a joke that Port Adelaide do not have a coach having any input into this years drafting.

The club is in Limbo, their draft strategy, list model and recruiting mindset are scrambled, why no coach, Ken Hinkley is likely to get the nod, but given that Ratten and Cameron were favoured to snare the gig it's not certainty.

The club's members are testament to the appalling standard with which the club operates and frankly, if the AFL have their way, after underwriting 1.25 million dollars of the clubs debt last year, Port Adelaide will not have a licence in 2017.

This club makes poor choices when choosing chief sponsors http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/my-atm-brought-to-asics-notice/story-e6frede3-1226312795005.

Makes poor errors when choosing coaches, was Primus handed the keys with a slap on the back.

The club does not have a full time list manager, has a joke of a recruiting network and virtually no development staff.

Port survive simply because the AFL needed them for the TV rights deal, if Port can't pull their finger out in the next 4 years they will cease to exist.

It is a fate which should bought forward to the present.

This competition is meant to be elite, Port Adelaide, as it currently stands, do not deserve the privilege of playing in the AFL.

 

[Bluelegs]

Get lost on your way to the bay? Why do so many flogs want to see other clubs die?

 

[Stewart2Austin Reborn]

My rebuttal is that Fremantle wear purple.

 

[WAguru]

Get lost on your way to the bay? Why do so many flogs want to see other clubs die?

It's not a right to be in the AFL, it's a privilege.

 

[Tedeski]

It's not too long ago that Freo didn't deserve a licence.

Every AFL team should be helped to survive.

The best run teams though will strike glory more often though.

 

[Doctor Feel]

It's not a right to be in the AFL, it's a privilege.

Words cant express the hypocrisy.

 

[treefingers]

Port and freo fans fighting, cute

 

[Cosmic Slop]

Swings and roundabouts.

I'm bookmarking this thread now.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

This competition is meant to be elite, Port Adelaide, as it currently stands, do not deserve the privilege of playing in the AFL.

That's an interesting comment to make. With the state of some Melbourne teams, the legitmacy of GC and GWS may be, at best 14 teams. Port are going through a trough. How they come out of it (2-8 years), I think would give a better indication of whether or not they should be in the comp. Considering Port's history in SANFL , it's fair enough they're in it. They should be left alone for a while.

 

[*PAF]

Spoken by a supporter of a club that almost went down the gurgler financially not too many years back, has only played a total of 8 finals games in 18 years and finished higher than 10th only 5 times.

EDIT: Are you the Freo supporter that comes from Adelaide and is a member of Sturt? If correct you used to have a different user name. If correct apologies about the vent to legitimate Freo supporters.

 

[Righteo]

Harsh, probably.

Does it belong in the bay? absolutely.

Just tidied that up for you OP, what trash.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

From a Freo supporter..?

 

[WAguru]

That's an interesting comment to make. With the state of some Melbourne teams, the legitmacy of GC and GWS may be, at best 14 teams. Port are going through a trough. How they come out of it (2-8 years), I think would give a better indication of whether or not they should be in the comp. Considering Port's history in SANFL , it's fair enough they're in it. They should be left alone for a while.

I'm not talking solely about onfield performance, the AFL is a money generating machine.

Each club a business in itself, the product works, AFL is THE code in Australia, yet this club continues to bumble it's way through each season draining the AFL for cash and damaging the brand.

It is simply astounding that an AFL club does not have a coach for the draft/trading and Free agency period, let alone no list manager at all.

 

[Silent]

coming from a Freo supporter? Look at your own backyard before you look at anyone elses....

 

[Freo Shark]

Bay 13 you flog!

 

[WAguru]

coming from a Freo supporter? Look at your own backyard before you look at anyone elses....

What's to look at, one of the best coaches in the league, profits galore and a level of professionalism Port would be lucky to aspire to.

Take the sentimentality out of this, put the allegiances aside, this club is a basket case and not befitting of a league spot.

 

[Silent]

What's to look at, one of the best coaches in the league, profits galore and a level of professionalism Port would be lucky to aspire to.

Take the sentimentality out of this, put the allegiances aside, this club is a basket case and not befitting of a league spot.

When Fremantle win something, anything in the AFL ......call me

 

[Watsclarkosmob]

So the most successful football club of any code in Australia does not deserve to play in the best competition in the country?

 

[WAguru]

When Fremantle win something, anything in the AFL ......call me

I'm all for being parochial, but step back, have a look at the state of your club and genuinely ask yourself if your organisation is worthy of being in the elite competition of Australia.

 

[WAguru]

So the most successful football club of any code in Australia does not deserve to play in the best competition in the country?

And this is a joke, just like Essendon and the Pies and Carlton claim their VFL flags.

It's a national code, 37 SANFL flags count for nothing in a national code.

 

[Upstart Swan]

My rebuttal is that Fremantle wear purple.

And my rebuttal would be that maybe a Freo fan should wait until his club has played more than one preliminary final in 18 years before he starts rubbishing other clubs.

 

[Dazb86]

They do seem like a basket case at the moment.

 

[King Cold]

You can blame my club for Port's downfall.

Prior to the 2007 Grand Final, they were a proud club with a rich SANFL history, had a fairly large supporter base and the club was arrogant from top to bottom with a sense of entitlement.

From 2008-present they have been woeful on and off field, and the supporters have deserted them in droves.

We destroyed their club psyche, sounds harsh but it's true.

 

[leeloo]

Oh god, some people have short memories. Or are you 10 years old? Or possibly a troll?

 

[bombermick]

Port is in a horrible spot now, but it wasn't long ago they had played in two grand finals in four years.

If they're still in this situation in three years time bump this thread, but for now this thread is a joke.