It’s sad when ‘hate’ and ‘respect’ are so closely aligned……but, that’s Eddie and that’s Collingwood.

This was one occasion were I agreed with Collingwood as the existing club they had first dibs. If the SANFL has become the AFL then Port Adelaide would have.

Redb

Sure they didnt need to be called the Magpies but the colours should have stayed.

I think Eddie Macguire was the most outspoken about it, God forbid two teams in a competition could have the same colour jersey.

As if i needed another reason to hate Collingwood. .

will it be the difference between a fan buying a membership or not? i dont think so.
look at the dockers for example, sh*t colour, sh*t gurnsey, sh*t emblem, sh*t song, sh*t team, sh*t management, sh*t everything and they still pull members. its because people support Fremantle regardless of the other factors.

the only thing it does for port is sell a few hundred extra gurnseys at the start of the season.

I dont know what North where thinking when they went to Sydney. never understood it.

Redb

How good SHOULD that’ve been – - NOrth Melbounre almost ‘owning’ the Wagga/Canberra/Albury triangle.

Then for whatever reason, they jump into the Sydney market…..and into the Gold Coast market……and then withdraw entirely.

North SHOULD’ve been going that ‘golden triangle’ with Longmire (Corowa), Allison (ACT) and Carey (Wagga) leading the PR focus……perhaps they got greedy and thought the same folk might ‘crack’ the Sydney market??

So who then should replace them,PNG or NZ perhaps?

is a new strip really gonna help?

North have obviously seen the light and are on their way to recovery. It always takes longer to recover and build tradition than destroy it though.

GCU would have to act like a proper football team for at least 10 years to make up for their first 6 months.

too true.

I think that everyone involved has perhaps realised you can’t stand for nothing in particular.

And, with the new facilities opening……and the last of the old buildings being demolished on Saturday week…..it’s a bright new era!!!

just gotta stop people walking their dogs across the oval when the lads are out there training!!!

(ruddy community based facilities!!!)

“This is the jumper we envisage wearing forever.”

Great stuff!

Amazing how a jumper that hasn’t been worn yet can feel traditional. This embodies what all jumpers/jerseys should be – simple but effective.

pretty much as Redb said, Southport for a while had been speculated as being capable of going it alone,

but, instead, it’s a broader Gold Coast AFL community club and that’s one reason that ‘Sharks’ won’t be the nickname as they don’t want it too heavily identified with any single existing club.

The Southport Sharks though are still pumping in about $11 million over 10 years I think it was announced about a month ago.

Don’t try and trick me, I know Nth Melb are still franchise sluts who sold themselves to Sydney, the Gold Coast and Canberra
Your team has a few more years of being good boys and actually looking after your fan base before they are to be forgiven.

Pretty sure both GC and WS will be member based clubs with profit distributions going back to the club not to outside ownership ala Clive Palmer and GCU.

GC17 is a bid group which won the right to get a licence with the backing of Southport, the only reason they didnt run full stream with Southport was to not alienate other GC footy clubs.

WS’s framework is being initially established by the AFL – it will definitely not be sold to private interests though.

Redb

Instead the people of teh Gold Coast get a franchise.

No doubt one of the best jumpers going around now. Well done.

in Melbourne – the stark contrast is that in Melbourne we now have reflected the Simpons “billionaires using public funds to construct a private playground for the rich and powerful.”, with the only publicly funded stadium being used ONLY by privately owned ‘franchise’ teams.

That’s a government vote of no confidence in member based/community based clubs.

That’s sick.

(btw AndyRoo – thankfully end of 2007, North Melbourne re-claimed ‘North Melbourne’,…just need Pip’s doggies to go back to ‘Footscray’!!)

re the Port jumper – - it fit’s the most important criteria of a footy jumper – - – that nanna can knit it!!