it could well be the end of an era for the port Adelaide football club after 140 years and 36 premierships, apparently it is because of finances or lack thereof

Welcome to the world of corporate sport..... I couldn't care less about any football code any more... with overpaid immature f-wits grossly overrepresented in all of them

yep you are right of course but it's just a shame is all!, I'm not a great follower but would rather see Aussie rules rather than that stuff the yanks play! I dont understand that!

Not to mention their appalling attitudes to and treatment of women!

I couldn't care less about gladiatorial scale sports...they are largely ghastly inflated people playing them and dont seem to have many positive outcomes! I think the local,village hit n giggle games are much better value and fun...go local community clubs

port?? I thought you meant the drinking kind.

^5s Pam

I get the impression Port Power of the AFL variety is under the financial pressure. The Port Adelaide Football Club I believe is not in too much trouble in its own right. They are managed as separate entities, not dependent on each other. Since Alan Scott withdrew the sponsorship of Port Power it's been in a spot of financial bother. The answer is not in membership alone. It's all about sponsorship and corporate support. Travel is the biggest expense to these sporting organisations. Then there's the player pay rates, coach and other staff payments etc. Sport at this level is not cheap.

yes Granny as I said they have gone broke!

Jimricho must be talking about the Rugby League, they are over represented by the type of people he mentions. It really is sad about the smaller teams, might have a good fan base but no money, happened to some soccer and basketball teams as well. I don't basketball much, seems like another step toward the americanisation of Oz. Hope there's no yankee types reading this

I think grass roots sport (of which port is one of course) is finished, unless the team, or co-operation, as it should be called is making mobs of dough then it is finished! the day of small independent teams are nigh

Cruising Granny wrote:

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I get the impression Port Power of the AFL variety is under the financial pressure.
The Port Adelaide Football Club I believe is not in too much trouble in its own right.

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Other way around, I think.

Cheers,
Peter

 

What a shame either way. I became a Port Power supporter when my nephew Don Dickie played for them. I wouldn't barrack for Port Adelaide on my death bed. Just goes to show how somethings can change our thinking. There's such a long, solid community tradition in the Port Adelaide district, it's hard to even comprehend how this could happen. I hope they get bailed out and can carry on in the name of THE sport in SA.

Gosh!!
Dont scare me, I thought you were talking about something important like the port that comes in bottles and is revered by all.

Yaaaaaaaaaaawn!....Sorry peoples, living most of my life in NSW I've never been able to sit through a full game of Airial ping po.......oops! sorry,  VFL, sorry, AFL, sorry Australian rules. Don't mind the odd Rugby Leage or Rugby Union game & could even like Soccer... oops again, thats right, now they have hijacked the name football from all the other codes. If only they had a way to have more points scored in a game then I would get more interested, & maybe the tension would be eased in some of those more emotionally volitale countries so less soccer brawls would ensue.

To each his/her own. There's a ball involved, there's a foot which connects to the involved ball to score. FOOTBALL! Whether it be points or goals, they score. LOL Just like a young bloke who goes to the disco alone but doesn't go home alone. SCORE! I'm a bit over the commercialism of all the codes. All that money paid to young men to further inflate egos. Unlike Netball where the players who represent this country have to have jobs outside the game, or within the business of Netball as coaches, administrators and development officers to cover their costs, with some help from the club, association, region and states they represent. What's wrong with this picture?

it doesn't matter whether you like the sport or not nor whether it is basketball or badminton when a team goes down it is a loss of great significance and to all it's like the antarctic, i will never get to go there but to know it is a protected wilderness is a comfort, once gone, never replaced, the heritage of a team such as port can not be rebuilt!