To Dols, booney. kikinit
This is a serious question, so don’t take it as a dig but with the following, do you see the advantage gifted to you or would you consider having the below all part and parcel
Full Time Coaches, Fitness coach touted as one of the best in the world, Dieticians, Sports Physiologists, Fitness personnel, Doctors and Physios, Massage therapist , player e welfare managers, Million dollar facilities, Million dollar Fitness Facilities, recovery facilities, Million dollar Medical Facilities.
Full Time Professional AFL players averaging around 15 players per game with a combined salary of $2-$3 million dollars
Yes the crows have all of the above and I don’t give a shit as my club doesn’t nor does 7 other SANFL clubs.
I am not whinging because The Power is on Top I dislike the crows with a passion as well for playing in a comp and having these benefits and advantages.
And the thing that pisses every one of the most is you will not acknowledge the advantage given to your team.
You were granted an AFL licence, and good onya, but don’t use the resources of being given that and think you have no advantage or been given any advantage over your opposition. Most of the other items apart from the Salary cap could be taken that the club has worked to get those advantages. But unfortunately the Salary Cap can’t be.
Even Collingwood in the AFL have advantages over the comp in terms of $, but funnily enough a new word has entered the equation Equalisation, where the AFL has said we can’t have a team with that much financial clout and off field advantages although they have the same salary cap as the rest of the comp.
So the Brains trust at the AFL has seen how having a team with more resources will destroy their comp but for some reason you can’t see how it will destroy the SANFL
And don't forget the disadvantages the SANFL clubs have, chiefly the possibility of losing their best players (young or mature) in the draft, including having these players being chosen by the Crows or Power to play against them.
It is a credit that the SANFL clubs can and do compete and a disgrace that the Port Magpies have been able to add to their SANFL list with experienced top up players from outside their recruiting zone. Biemans, Bruggemann, Gordon, Krakouer, Slattery and Venter should all be told to find another club immediately and replaced with Under 21's from the Port Magpies zone. I would be willing to make an exception for Summerton - just because he is the only fair dinkum mature player for the Magpies who bleeds black and white, even though his club has been kicked out in favour of big brother. He shows the qualities you want to see in an SANFL player.
You would find Port Reserves would come back to the pack somewhat if they had to replace 3 genuine SANFL standard players (Bruggemann, Slattery, Biemans) with developing players from within their zone. The SANFL should have the balls to enforce this at the end of Round 9 before this season turns in to an absolute farce.
