Power players leaving SANFL clubs to Magpies

[Booney]

It really seems to be quite trivial that a player who is not assured a league game at his current club creates so much debate when moving clubs. Are Westies shitty they lost him?

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Nice signature whufc.

St George won 11 premierships in a row, by the way.

[whufc]

It really seems to be quite trivial that a player who is not assured a league game at his current club creates so much debate when moving clubs. Are Westies shitty they lost him?

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Nice signature whufc.

St George won 11 premierships in a row, by the way.

You noticed the use of the words one of, not the

[Brodlach]

It really seems to be quite trivial that a player who is not assured a league game at his current club creates so much debate when moving clubs. Are Westies shitty they lost him?

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Nice signature whufc.

St George won 11 premierships in a row, by the way.

Not shitty they lost him, just the way and timing it was done. He is certainly no Brad Crouch

[topsywaldron]

It really seems to be quite trivial that a player who is not assured a league game at his current club creates so much debate when moving clubs. Are Westies shitty they lost him?

The irony in all of this is that the two AFL clubs have nothing but naked contempt for the current SANFL set up yet are desperate for their reserves teams to play in it.

Weird.

[whufc]

It really seems to be quite trivial that a player who is not assured a league game at his current club creates so much debate when moving clubs. Are Westies shitty they lost him?

The irony in all of this is that the two AFL clubs have nothing but naked contempt for the current SANFL set up yet are desperate for their reserves teams to play in it.

Weird.

Its only the control or lack of with their own players which is the issue isnt it, not the competition itself.

The sooner the AFL creates its own reserves comp and the SANFL is its own comp the better.......................................................................................................though Ian Callinan will be a very handy in for the Dogs this year!!!

[topsywaldron]

The other irony is the AFL flogs who post here, they know who they are, bleat on endlessly about 'protecting their club' yet when a supporter of the SANFL does the same thing or dares to defend their competition they get accused of being 'living in the past' or worse.

Sometimes you don't get exactly what you want and maybe the two AFL clubs here, who've been given advantages clubs like Melbourne or Footscray can only dream of, need to suck it up a bit more.

[whufc]

The other irony is the AFL flogs who post here, they know who they are, bleat on endlessly about 'protecting their club' yet when a supporter of the SANFL does the same thing or dares to defend their competition they get accused of being 'living in the past' or worse.

Sometimes you don't get exactly what you want and maybe the two AFL clubs here, who've been given advantages clubs like Melbourne or Footscray can only dream of, need to suck it up a bit more.

x2 great post!!!

[topsywaldron]

Its only the control or lack of with their own players

Which constitutes a massive failure of the AFL coaches, if they can't develop a player when given total control of a player for 166 hours a week out of 168 then they're obviously not worth the obscene amounts they get paid.

[Booney]

Its only the control or lack of with their own players

Which constitutes a massive failure of the AFL coaches, if they can't develop a player when given total control of a player for 166 hours a week out of 168 then they're obviously not worth the obscene amounts they get paid.

The 2 hours that they dont have them for, actually playing the game, would be the most critical, would it not?

[Booney]

The other irony is the AFL flogs who post here, they know who they are, bleat on endlessly about 'protecting their club' yet when a supporter of the SANFL does the same thing or dares to defend their competition they get accused of being 'living in the past' or worse.

Sometimes you don't get exactly what you want and maybe the two AFL clubs here, who've been given advantages clubs like Melbourne or Footscray can only dream of, need to suck it up a bit more.

Geez, feel sorry for them now you've singled them out mate.....poor buggers.

Must be hard to fathom people being interested in both AFL and SANFL football. Many on here seem to think it is simply one or the other and that's fine if that's your choice but many people have a significant interest in both leagues.

[topsywaldron]

And they're not the issue, it's the ones who think that AFL is the Only True Football and who'd be happy to see the game die elsewhere as long as their AFL club prospered.

The lack or foresight and logic inherent in this shouldn't be lost on anyone with half a brain.

[Mr Beefy]

Booney, I think he is talking about Crows supporters

[Hazydog]

I can only assume that this flagrant (is that a word?) violation of the "One Club" arrangement, along with the apparent lack of protest from either the SANFL or the other 8 clubs, points to the fact that it has already been decided behind closed doors that the Magpies will become the Power's reserve team - and that they are allowing them to get a head start in integrating the Power listed players to the Magpie list.

I hope I'm proved wrong and that a "please explain" notice is sent to the "One Club" from the SANFL.

[SANFLnut]

Will the Magpies have paid their salary cap fine in full to the league before they cough up $10K for a player from another SANFL club?
Did they not also get slapped with a recruiting ban or was that just Westies? If so, this would breach that?
If players returning from an AFL game were not played in league side they could be moved straight away to other clubs, but surely this case doesn't qualify as a long standing impasse between the clubs?

Smart SANFL clubs should be selling their players to Port Magpies at $10K a pop as quick as they can before they are all reassigned there next year when Crows team comes into SANFL and Power takes over Magpies. Shrewd financial move by West (for once!)

[dedja]

Only West have a recruiting ban ...

[smac]

Only West have a recruiting ban ...

Not allowed to recruit forwards in the last 5 years?

[Psyber]

Anyone know what compensation West will get?

A choice of either 10,000 shares in My ATM or a 1980 Renault Feugo.

I'd take the Fuego, they handled reasonably well.
(I drove one occasionally as a loan car in the mid 1980s, while my car was being serviced.)

[StrayDog]

The other irony is the AFL flogs who post here, they know who they are, bleat on endlessly about 'protecting their club' yet when a supporter of the SANFL does the same thing or dares to defend their competition they get accused of being 'living in the past' or worse.

Such as being accused of supposedly having no empathy for those that have "significant" interest in more than one level of the game, perhaps?

[Booney]

The other irony is the AFL flogs who post here, they know who they are, bleat on endlessly about 'protecting their club' yet when a supporter of the SANFL does the same thing or dares to defend their competition they get accused of being 'living in the past' or worse.

Such as being accused of supposedly having no empathy for those that have "significant" interest in more than one level of the game, perhaps?

Accused?

I think it is a valid point made for those of us that dont endlessly bag the AFL for what it is or has done.

What the AFL is / has done ( ie expanding in Western Sydney ) I dont always agree with and the impact it has had on state leagues cant be reversed but the fact remains that my club plays in the AFL and I cant control what the AFL choose to do.The fact is my club also plays in the SANFL and I will defend it to the end, as I would expect any other loyal football follower to do.

So as with most debates, people who sit on both sides of the fence should perhaps abstain from joining the debate, I will however continue to defend my club.

[CENTURION]

cheat all you like, Port, you're still crap & will NEVER win a SANFL premiership EVER again.