goddy11 wrote:FIVEaa’s Stephen Rowe is calling for the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide to be left out of the SANFL 2021 season in what he says will be “another COVID affected year”.
Rowey told FIVEaa Breakfast’s David & Will on Wednesday:
“The SANFL have all but halved their salary cap to $210,000 from $400,000 due to COVID… SANFL earnings are down 45%, AFL grants have been cut by 30%. Clubs and the SANFL simply can’t afford it… the ramifications on this I reckon are going to be far reaching. What players are they going to lose… and what will the standard be? I’m really worried… you’ve got to be able to keep and retain players and you’ve got to remunerate them.
“Here’s the thing: I wouldn’t have the Crows and Port in the SANFL next year. Port and Crows players should go back to a SANFL club like they used to. The top up players they’ll be able to attract and the fact they’ve got AFL standard players fulltime… they’ll flog the SANFL teams. Crows and Port will be on top by the length of the straight.
“And here’s the other thing: I’ve heard the Crows are refusing to pay the $400,000 license fee to join the SANFL and in some respects fair enough. Port don’t pay one because they’ve given up their game development grant. So what do they add to the competition? If they don’t pay, what do they add? They certainly don’t add fairness, so you know what, go back to your SANFL clubs… for one year it’s the better of the two evils.”
Hope he checked with his mates at the crows before saying that.