mal wrote:There are 2 conclusions
WT were weakened
If I was good enough I would have played league Football for WV, only 1 thing stopped me , ability ....
Now can anyone confirm this please
The deciding vote for a WV inclusion was given by NW ?
I still disagree that West Torrens were weakened more than other clubs by Woodville coming in. In 1959, Port Adelaide and North Adelaide certainly lost more of their traditional area than West Torrens did. You would know this yourself, Mal, because you were still in the West Torrens area until the 1970 realignment of boundaries as I was.
West Torrens did lose their heartland in 1970, but this was a dying area full of immigrants who were often likely to play soccer, and instead West Torrens were given the fast growing Tea Tree Gully area. The problem was that to have made that area an absolute success they would have had to move out there, which is what the league wanted. As I explained before, Torrens were crippled by the $2,000 rule, but would have that happened had they moved out to Tea Tree Gully?
I know that I am a North supporter but I can never understand how in the 1970 recalibration of the boundaries, North Adelaide was left with half the male under 20 population of all other clubs. It seemed totally incongruous to me, and I will always maintain that North were more damaged by the inclusion of the new teams than Torrens. This was rectified in the next boundary change which happened In 1983.
Norwood may well have voted for the inclusion of Woodville, but they certainly didn't have the casting vote. As pointed out by RB, Tony Kenny, the league President had the casting vote when it was tied 4-4. I had never seen how the clubs had voted before but RB posted that Port, Torrens, Sturt and West voted for the status quo so accordingly Norwood must have voted for the new clubs. It could be said that if they had voted the other way, we would have kept the 8 team competition but the same could have been said for any of the 4 teams who voted to increase the competition to 10 teams.
One other thing I learnt from RBs post is that Tony Kenny, the League President voted against the wishes of his club, West Adelaide.