What would you do in 2014?

[Jim05]

Might go to the Cows and Puffs game to give them shit !

That would be the only reason I would attend but Ive been kicked out of AAMI numerous times when the Bombers play here so id say my chances of seeing out a game involving a AFL reserves team would be minimal.
Still would be nice to hurl abuse at the players and supporters though

[CUTTERMAN]

Im gonna shoot straight from the hip and say exactly what I really think. I support a club, not a competition. I go to the football and pay my membership to watch my club play football. The club happens to play in the SANFL. I like the SANFL and have an affinity towards it, I grew up watching it, im been to probably 400 SANFL games in my life. But, if Port started playing in the Div 6 amateurs tomorrow, that's where ill be. Because I support a club. Not a competition.

People prepared to throw away decades of support because their club may have to play the Adelaide Crows twice a year is baffling to me.

People saying that the SANFL will just become exhibition games and mean nothing are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation.

People saying that the two AFL clubs wouldn't care about winning matches or wouldn't care about challenging for the premiership are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation. In my opinion, not much would change at all. I don't see how Adelaide or Port playing AFL reserves in the SANFL will effect peoples enjoyment of a North v West match, or a Sturt v Norwood match, or why they would want to throw away their support, membership and memories of their club.

I can understand people that may boycott games against the two AFL sides and that line of thinking. That makes sense to me. They don't want them in the competition, fine, boycott the games, don't watch them play. But to throw away decades of support and loyalty to their club at the click of the fingers just because for 4 games a year they will have to play an AFL reserves side. I don't understand this at all.

Macca, let's say for example the Norwood/Sturt bid got in and not the Port bid. If this was happening and Port was on the other end of it just like the other 8 clubs are now do you really think that Port supporters would be happy for these reserves, zones and all the other bullshit to come into the league? The hypocracy is sickening.

[Macca19]

Macca, let's say for example the Norwood/Sturt bid got in and not the Port bid. If this was happening and Port was on the other end of it just like the other 8 clubs are now do you really think that Port supporters would be happy for these reserves, zones and all the other bullshit to come into the league? The hypocracy is sickening.

My club in its current form may not exist in a couple months time and I may never get the chance to watch the Magpies play at Alberton ever again, so I don't know how hypocrisy can come into it. I know I certainly wouldn't drop them never to return. I struggle with this because nothing at all is happening to the other SANFL clubs. Nothing. All that will happen is they lose a couple of players and probably make a lot more money. Its still the same club. People will still be able to buy a membership, go to their home ground, watch the same players play, watch the reserves before hand, buy a sausage from Gus the bbq man and a west end from the bar.

Ive kept quiet about this because I have no right to tell other people how to support their club. When all this reserves talk started up, I expected it would go the other way - it would improve peoples support of their club, they'd get around them in numbers and stick it to the 2 AFL clubs, boycott their matches but make up for it at the other games. I have been very shocked by the flippant nature that 90% of the people here have talked it up how quickly they will drop their support never to return. Im happy to call everyones bluff on that. It will be a lot harder to say goodbye than everybody thinks.

[UK Fan]

Im gonna shoot straight from the hip and say exactly what I really think. I support a club, not a competition. I go to the football and pay my membership to watch my club play football. The club happens to play in the SANFL. I like the SANFL and have an affinity towards it, I grew up watching it, im been to probably 400 SANFL games in my life. But, if Port started playing in the Div 6 amateurs tomorrow, that's where ill be. Because I support a club. Not a competition.

People prepared to throw away decades of support because their club may have to play the Adelaide Crows twice a year is baffling to me.

People saying that the SANFL will just become exhibition games and mean nothing are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation.

People saying that the two AFL clubs wouldn't care about winning matches or wouldn't care about challenging for the premiership are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation. In my opinion, not much would change at all. I don't see how Adelaide or Port playing AFL reserves in the SANFL will effect peoples enjoyment of a North v West match, or a Sturt v Norwood match, or why they would want to throw away their support, membership and memories of their club.

I can understand people that may boycott games against the two AFL sides and that line of thinking. That makes sense to me. They don't want them in the competition, fine, boycott the games, don't watch them play. But to throw away decades of support and loyalty to their club at the click of the fingers just because for 4 games a year they will have to play an AFL reserves side. I don't understand this at all.

Ever wonder why anyone associated with port has no say on the future on sa football ?????? Read the above garbage.

This from a club that the main cancer on SANFL for the last 5 years has been the utter refusal from fans refusal to have anything to do with port Adelaide. And you want to lay the above tripe on us.

No wonder I will never attend a game again !!

Meh. If you want to be a turn coat, that's on your head, not anyone

[CUTTERMAN]

Didn't answer the main point of my question. Why is this a common occurrance with Port supporters. Don't they like the idea of putting themselves in others shoes?

[UK Fan]

Im gonna shoot straight from the hip and say exactly what I really think. I support a club, not a competition. I go to the football and pay my membership to watch my club play football. The club happens to play in the SANFL. I like the SANFL and have an affinity towards it, I grew up watching it, im been to probably 400 SANFL games in my life. But, if Port started playing in the Div 6 amateurs tomorrow, that's where ill be. Because I support a club. Not a competition.

People prepared to throw away decades of support because their club may have to play the Adelaide Crows twice a year is baffling to me.

People saying that the SANFL will just become exhibition games and mean nothing are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation.

People saying that the two AFL clubs wouldn't care about winning matches or wouldn't care about challenging for the premiership are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation. In my opinion, not much would change at all. I don't see how Adelaide or Port playing AFL reserves in the SANFL will effect peoples enjoyment of a North v West match, or a Sturt v Norwood match, or why they would want to throw away their support, membership and memories of their club.

I can understand people that may boycott games against the two AFL sides and that line of thinking. That makes sense to me. They don't want them in the competition, fine, boycott the games, don't watch them play. But to throw away decades of support and loyalty to their club at the click of the fingers just because for 4 games a year they will have to play an AFL reserves side. I don't understand this at all.

Ever wonder why anyone associated with port has no say on the future on sa football ?????? Read the above garbage.

This from a club that the main cancer on SANFL for the last 5 years has been the utter refusal from fans refusal to have anything to do with port Adelaide. And you want to lay the above tripe on us.

No wonder I will never attend a game again !!

Meh. If you want to be a turn coat, that's on your head, not anyone elses

Meh yet again just priving why u and Your clubs opinion counts for nothing.

Your pigheaded attitude has already driven 15000 powder fans running from your club. And now you are going to do the same with SANFL comp.

I'm assuming traditional supporters of vfl and wafl were turncoats all along aswell ????????

Yet again its the above attitude of self appointed greatest supporters in the world that will gladly send me away from this league . The more th fans that only rock up when their team is 5-0 even attempting to look down their nose at a decade long club sanfl sponsor the more determined I am to never return to this LEAGUE!!

[Macca19]

Didn't answer the main point of my question. Why is this a common occurrance with Port supporters. Don't they like the idea of putting themselves in others shoes?

Putting forth a hypothetical that's never going to happen. How do you want me to answer that?

In any case, I answered it already in my first post in this thread. I support a club. My support for that club does not waiver because of its opponent, nor the competition it is in. If Norwood/Sturt got in, and now decided they wanted a reserves team in the SANFL....why should that change how I feel about the club I support?

[saintal]

Would most likely continue to be a member/season ticketholder with South. Hard to say for certain though until all this is sorted out properly..

Not sure if I'd attend the first South v AFL Reserves Team at Noarlunga. Maybe just for the sheer novelty value, to see how many Crows supporters make the journey (3000 you reckon Chapman?! ) and to hurl some verbal at the opposition. Mature yep

Would never attend South v AFL Reserves Team game away from Noarlunga.

If South sold out and became aligned to the Crows, the club as I know it today would cease to exist. South Crows/South Mark II, call it what you like, but I'd be done.

[whufc]

Im gonna shoot straight from the hip and say exactly what I really think. I support a club, not a competition. I go to the football and pay my membership to watch my club play football. The club happens to play in the SANFL. I like the SANFL and have an affinity towards it, I grew up watching it, im been to probably 400 SANFL games in my life. But, if Port started playing in the Div 6 amateurs tomorrow, that's where ill be. Because I support a club. Not a competition.

People prepared to throw away decades of support because their club may have to play the Adelaide Crows twice a year is baffling to me.

People saying that the SANFL will just become exhibition games and mean nothing are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation.

People saying that the two AFL clubs wouldn't care about winning matches or wouldn't care about challenging for the premiership are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation. In my opinion, not much would change at all. I don't see how Adelaide or Port playing AFL reserves in the SANFL will effect peoples enjoyment of a North v West match, or a Sturt v Norwood match, or why they would want to throw away their support, membership and memories of their club.

I can understand people that may boycott games against the two AFL sides and that line of thinking. That makes sense to me. They don't want them in the competition, fine, boycott the games, don't watch them play. But to throw away decades of support and loyalty to their club at the click of the fingers just because for 4 games a year they will have to play an AFL reserves side. I don't understand this at all.

Meh, if I found out my wife bent over and copped it up the bum by two rich businessmen all for abit of coin I would lose all respect for her and tell her to piss of as well.

[dedja]

[Big Phil]

Out of curiosity UK Fan, what will you do on a Saturday if you walk away from the SANFL?

Also, will you put your decade long sponsorship into something else? If so, what?

[on the rails]

I have been very shocked by the flippant nature that 90% of the people here have talked it up how quickly they will drop their support never to return. Im happy to call everyones bluff on that. It will be a lot harder to say goodbye than everybody thinks.

Are you serious??? Your ONE CLUB, the PAFC got "promoted" into the big league in 1997 after years of you lot bragging about how big a fish you were in our pond and that you should be in the top league mixing it with bigger and better opponents! Well guess what, you got it in 1997!

We have had to put up with forced changes to our comp from 1991 (which was the result of treachery from the PAFC) and the effects on our clubs through no fault of our own yet you lot at Alberton are still not happy! You forced the Crows on us, then you whinged for 6 years it should have been you lot and when you did get in you still complain, cry poor, bleed us dry and f..k us over year after year! When will you be happy, when the SANFL disappears? FFS - the SANFL is where your club came from (as is the case with the Crows) but like the mentally deranged kid who thinks he is hard done by grwoing up, he kills the parents to prove he can do it better himself!!!

[Tassie Blues]

Im gonna shoot straight from the hip and say exactly what I really think. I support a club, not a competition. I go to the football and pay my membership to watch my club play football. The club happens to play in the SANFL. I like the SANFL and have an affinity towards it, I grew up watching it, im been to probably 400 SANFL games in my life. But, if Port started playing in the Div 6 amateurs tomorrow, that's where ill be. Because I support a club. Not a competition.

People prepared to throw away decades of support because their club may have to play the Adelaide Crows twice a year is baffling to me.

People saying that the SANFL will just become exhibition games and mean nothing are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation.

People saying that the two AFL clubs wouldn't care about winning matches or wouldn't care about challenging for the premiership are ridiculously over-dramatizing the situation. In my opinion, not much would change at all. I don't see how Adelaide or Port playing AFL reserves in the SANFL will effect peoples enjoyment of a North v West match, or a Sturt v Norwood match, or why they would want to throw away their support, membership and memories of their club.

I can understand people that may boycott games against the two AFL sides and that line of thinking. That makes sense to me. They don't want them in the competition, fine, boycott the games, don't watch them play. But to throw away decades of support and loyalty to their club at the click of the fingers just because for 4 games a year they will have to play an AFL reserves side. I don't understand this at all.

Well said Macca! I have been thinking the same thing myself. Far too many Chicken Little – the sky is falling the sky is falling types getting around at the moment. I wonder if in other parts of their lives when things change and get a bit tough the first reaction is to just throw their arms up in the air and walk away.

If the internet and forums like this had been around in the 60’s when 2 new teams started would the supporters have felt the same way? New clubs taking players and recruiting zones I am giving the game away.

As a Sturt supporter I will still support and be a member of Sturt with or without AFL clubs in the SANFL. As a Crows supporter and member living in Victoria my preferred place for a reserves team to play would be the VFL so I can get to a few games.

[CUTTERMAN]

Didn't answer the main point of my question. Why is this a common occurrance with Port supporters. Don't they like the idea of putting themselves in others shoes?

Putting forth a hypothetical that's never going to happen. How do you want me to answer that?

In any case, I answered it already in my first post in this thread. I support a club. My support for that club does not waiver because of its opponent, nor the competition it is in. If Norwood/Sturt got in, and now decided they wanted a reserves team in the SANFL....why should that change how I feel about the club I support?

Yeh right. Because hypotheticals never shed a different light on topics do they. Best ignore any other point of view.

[CUTTERMAN]

I have been very shocked by the flippant nature that 90% of the people here have talked it up how quickly they will drop their support never to return. Im happy to call everyones bluff on that. It will be a lot harder to say goodbye than everybody thinks.

Are you serious??? Your ONE CLUB, the PAFC got "promoted" into the big league in 1997 after years of you lot bragging about how big a fish you were in our pond and that you should be in the top league mixing it with bigger and better opponents! Well guess what, you got it in 1997!

We have had to put up with forced changes to our comp from 1991 (which was the result of treachery from the PAFC) and the effects on our clubs through no fault of our own yet you lot at Alberton are still not happy! You forced the Crows on us, then you whinged for 6 years it should have been you lot and when you did get in you still complain, cry poor, bleed us dry and f..k us over year after year! When will you be happy, when the SANFL disappears? FFS - the SANFL is where your club came from (as is the case with the Crows) but like the mentally deranged kid who thinks he is hard done by grwoing up, he kills the parents to prove he can do it better himself!!!

THIS.
ONR, have a look at the Port board on Big Footy. The same dickhead, anti SANFL mentality is there in droves. Yet they still demand to be playing in the same comp they want to demolish. Go figure.
Dog chasing tail. Snake eating its own.

[Macca19]

I have been very shocked by the flippant nature that 90% of the people here have talked it up how quickly they will drop their support never to return. Im happy to call everyones bluff on that. It will be a lot harder to say goodbye than everybody thinks.

Are you serious???

Your ONE CLUB, the PAFC got "promoted" into the big league in 1997 after years of you lot bragging about how big a fish you were in our pond and that you should be in the top league mixing it with bigger and better opponents! Well guess what, you got it in 1997! We have had to put up with forced changes to our comp from 1991 (which was the result of treachery from the PAFC) and the effects on our clubs through no fault of our own yet you lot at Alberton are still not happy! You forced the Crows on us, then you whinged for 6 years it should have been you lot and when you did get in you still complain, cry poor, bleed us dry and f..k us over year after year! When will you be happy, when the SANFL disappears? FFS - the SANFL is where your club came from (as is the case with the Crows) but like the mentally deranged kid who thinks he is hard done by grwoing up, he kills the parents to prove he can do it better himself!!!

Your post has merit but has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote at all. Nothing.

[Macca19]

I'm assuming traditional supporters of vfl and wafl were turncoats all along aswell ????????

And yet despite the sky falling in in WA, the wafl attendances have slightly increased this year, with the AFL alignments.

[Jimmy]

I love the double blues thru and thru but the league would be a joke if they came into the league comp

[CUTTERMAN]

I'm assuming traditional supporters of vfl and wafl were turncoats all along aswell ????????

And yet despite the sky falling in in WA, the wafl attendances have slightly increased this year, with the AFL alignments.

Look at the figures after next year when ALL players are aligned and then the year after when the crap reality has set in.

[mighty_tiger_79]

I'm assuming traditional supporters of vfl and wafl were turncoats all along aswell ????????

And yet despite the sky falling in in WA, the wafl attendances have slightly increased this year, with the AFL alignments.

Incorrect - the crowd figures this year so far for the WAFL are down on last year, with the AFL alignments