by therisingblues » Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:33 pm
I dread to say it.
But I think we are almost at the stage where the best thing to save the SANFL's identity would be a third side in the AFL.
No way do two sides on the national stage adequately reflect the diverse culture of football in SA.
And the SANFL no longer represent what's left of it.
Port have their boat, expecting that the rest of us are going to identify with the one other option on offer is a joke.
Pre-AFL, Port's largest slice of the South Australian pie was less than a third, why they are now presented as one half of a team home option is bullshit.
I know this will not be a popular idea, but the SANFL is fast turning into a museum piece with no heart. In 20 years when the core of those that have held on for so long are old men and women, or dead, there will be nothing significant to remind people of what once was.
I think that a third side might be the best way to salvage some of it.
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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