The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

[therisingblues]

its exactly what the SANFL needs and I have been advocating for years, make the SANFL a genuine 2nd tier competition that allows for players to be semi professional and have long careers if or when they don't make the top tier.

It can still develop players for the AFL but be a genuine seperate competition at the same time.

Good idea but for that to succeed you would think it would need to be heavily funded by the AFL, the entity which so many on here despise.

Yep cant see this getting off the ground without AFL endorsement and funds.

GIven reserves footy is not a priority for them compared to the Northern states and womens footy, this will remain at best a good internet discussion point, IMO.

Agreed, it would mark a major policy swing on their behalf to provide adequate funding to this idea.
It is a change in the script having a couple of clubs outside SA requesting it though, I imagine it would be mutually beneficial to all parties involved, so it'd be great if it could be realised.
I guess in some ways it's comparable to the failed NT bid a few years back, but sounds like a more plausible proposition.

[Booney]

Internet discussion point? Yes.

Good internet discussion point? Yeah, well, dunno.

[Rising Power]

Didn't Rob Chapman and Trigg promise to "play to the line" in the SANFL Finals when their AFL season is over?

Not playing Sam Jacobs would be exactly against that philosophy

Bit hard to play him if he doesn't turn up.

He wants to play

Sauce?

[am Bays]

Internet discussion point? Yes.

Good internet discussion point? Yeah, well, dunno.

I was coming from the quantity not quality perspective....

[Wedgie]

Still don't know how but I'm stoked we won it last year with 4 other SANFL teams in the finals, we played 4 games where the other team was fair dinkum.
Would be a hollow feeling (but a much easier job) this year with 2 teams who have other agendas both having double chances.

[Spargo]

[LMA]

Still don't know how we won it last year with 4 other SANFL teams in the finals, we played 4 games where the other team was fair dinkum.
Would be a hollow feeling (but a much easier job) this year with 2 teams who have other agendas both having double chances.

19 men I would say

Port will be out to win the whole thing, make no mistake. It's been 15 years since any silverware has come through the doors at Alberton.

Still Glenelgs to lose though, a level above everyone this season.

[amber_fluid]

Still don't know how we won it last year with 4 other SANFL teams in the finals, we played 4 games where the other team was fair dinkum.
Would be a hollow feeling (but a much easier job) this year with 2 teams who have other agendas both having double chances.

19 men I would say

Port will be out to win the whole thing, make no mistake. It's been 15 years since any silverware has come through the doors at Alberton.

Still Glenelgs to lose though, a level above everyone this season.

If anyone can lose it, Glenelg can!

[therisingblues]

Still don't know how we won it last year with 4 other SANFL teams in the finals, we played 4 games where the other team was fair dinkum.
Would be a hollow feeling (but a much easier job) this year with 2 teams who have other agendas both having double chances.

19 men I would say

Port will be out to win the whole thing, make no mistake. It's been 15 years since any silverware has come through the doors at Alberton.

Still Glenelgs to lose though, a level above everyone this season.

20 years in the SANFL isn't it? 1999 the last one?

[LMA]

Still don't know how we won it last year with 4 other SANFL teams in the finals, we played 4 games where the other team was fair dinkum.
Would be a hollow feeling (but a much easier job) this year with 2 teams who have other agendas both having double chances.

19 men I would say

Port will be out to win the whole thing, make no mistake. It's been 15 years since any silverware has come through the doors at Alberton.

Still Glenelgs to lose though, a level above everyone this season.

20 years in the SANFL isn't it? 1999 the last one?

Why are you asking a question you know the answer to? ANY, meaning AFL or SANFL. See my club is represented in both, yours tried to be but failed miserably, even tried to join forces with another SANFL club to get there. Oh the treachery

[therisingblues]

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Just making discussion LMA.
It IS 20 years isn't it?

[daysofourlives]

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Just making discussion LMA.
It IS 20 years isn't it?

And they will never add to it #forever36

[LMA]

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Just making discussion LMA.
It IS 20 years isn't it?

I'll indulge you so you can respond with your pre loaded retort.
20 for mens senior SANFL and 15 for AFL. Common knowledge, now go.

[therisingblues]

Actually, we've made a mistake! I just realised now, so it's good that we're having this discussion.
It's actually 21 years since Port got their last SANFL flag. You see, we need to include THIS year.
Let's work with a much, much, much smaller number, so it's easier to understand. Let's say the number "2", which represents the number of years since Sturt won the flag.
Now that number is much, much, much smaller than the 21 which represents the number of years since Port won the flag, so it makes it easier to understand how we need to include the current year in our calculations. For example, it would be wrong to say Sturt has not won the flag for 1 year, as that would imply we are the reigning premier.
Anyway, must go now. Always nice to chat, and clear up any misconceptions in "common knowledge" hey?
BTW, 21 years is a bloody long time, isn't it?

[LMA]

Wow, what a nerd, I read that in a Sheldon Cooper voice. Can't believe I stayed up for that

[therisingblues]

Wow, what a nerd, I read that in a Sheldon Cooper voice. Can't believe I stayed up for that

I'm glad I could give you a win though, coz you won't see one this week.

[LMA]

Actually, we've made a mistake! I just realised now, so it's good that we're having this discussion.
It's actually 21 years since Port got their last SANFL flag. You see, we need to include THIS year.
Let's work with a much, much, much smaller number, so it's easier to understand. Let's say the number "2", which represents the number of years since Sturt won the flag.
Now that number is much, much, much smaller than the 21 which represents the number of years since Port won the flag, so it makes it easier to understand how we need to include the current year in our calculations. For example, it would be wrong to say Sturt has not won the flag for 1 year, as that would imply we are the reigning premier.
Anyway, must go now. Always nice to chat, and clear up any misconceptions in "common knowledge" hey?
BTW, 21 years is a bloody long time, isn't it?

So by your reasoning you are counting the year of last premiership (1999) as 1 and the current year (2019) as 21, that adds up. Wouldn't that in fact make Sturts last flag 3 years then, by your logic of course, not 2 years, the much, much, much smaller number you refer to? (2017) being 1, Sturts last flag and (2019) being 3, the current year.

Still 20 for mine.

I bet you subscribe to the Terence Howard theory that 1 x 1 = 2

[daysofourlives]

Actually, we've made a mistake! I just realised now, so it's good that we're having this discussion.
It's actually 21 years since Port got their last SANFL flag. You see, we need to include THIS year.
Let's work with a much, much, much smaller number, so it's easier to understand. Let's say the number "2", which represents the number of years since Sturt won the flag.
Now that number is much, much, much smaller than the 21 which represents the number of years since Port won the flag, so it makes it easier to understand how we need to include the current year in our calculations. For example, it would be wrong to say Sturt has not won the flag for 1 year, as that would imply we are the reigning premier.
Anyway, must go now. Always nice to chat, and clear up any misconceptions in "common knowledge" hey?
BTW, 21 years is a bloody long time, isn't it?

Not as long as 25, oops wrong thread

[Fluffbag]

Still don't know how but I'm stoked we won it last year with 4 other SANFL teams in the finals, we played 4 games where the other team was fair dinkum.
Would be a hollow feeling (but a much easier job) this year with 2 teams who have other agendas both having double chances.

The “we won” comment always remind me of this

https://youtu.be/eWf3A9KN0Ms

[therisingblues]

Actually, we've made a mistake! I just realised now, so it's good that we're having this discussion.
It's actually 21 years since Port got their last SANFL flag. You see, we need to include THIS year.
Let's work with a much, much, much smaller number, so it's easier to understand. Let's say the number "2", which represents the number of years since Sturt won the flag.
Now that number is much, much, much smaller than the 21 which represents the number of years since Port won the flag, so it makes it easier to understand how we need to include the current year in our calculations. For example, it would be wrong to say Sturt has not won the flag for 1 year, as that would imply we are the reigning premier.
Anyway, must go now. Always nice to chat, and clear up any misconceptions in "common knowledge" hey?
BTW, 21 years is a bloody long time, isn't it?

So by your reasoning you are counting the year of last premiership (1999) as 1 and the current year (2019) as 21, that adds up. Wouldn't that in fact make Sturts last flag 3 years then, by your logic of course, not 2 years, the much, much, much smaller number you refer to? (2017) being 1, Sturts last flag and (2019) being 3, the current year.

Still 20 for mine.

I bet you subscribe to the Terence Howard theory that 1 x 1 = 2

You're right!

You HAVE thought about this haven't you?