hollywood7477 wrote:
PAFC told PAWFC they could only play 3 home games at Alberton. As the club trained at Alberton last year they said they couldbt train there either due to tooo much traffic on Alberton Oval.
PAWFC trained the whole preseason at Swan Tce using the Ethelton Ground but due to issues with the change rooms (according to Port) they had to find a new ground to use. PAWFC looking to either stay as PAWFC or merge with a club and either try and stay in Div 1 or go to Div 2. A few clubs have shown interest to merge with the club so will see what happens from here.
Because PAFC told them they had to use their sponsors they were never allowed to get their own majopr sponsor. Now that PAFC have pulled their sponsorship to basically give them a ham sandwhich and a bag of chips the club doesnt have the money to continue unless they find sponsors willing to put money in and find a ground to play on.
It does make sense given the legs that womens footy is growing.
Not long ago the SAWFL was made up of Greenacres, Morphies, Christies Beach, Adel. Uni, Salisbury, Ingle Farm and possibly a few others, Port Adelaide and Central District had teams, neither played at their men's namesake oval and infact, Central District had nothing to do with the CDFC whatsoever, they were basically aligned with Elizabeth Football Club and then approached other clubs to see who wanted to take them over, it ended up being Angle Vale.
West Adelaide womens team was the only league named club to use their league oval.
With the SANFL now having a womens comp it has thrown a real spanner in the works to the existing clubs, with Westies changing their name and alliance to Fitzroy, Port doing the same it will pave the way for the league clubs to develop their own teams now.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 6:31 pm
