Magpies face SANFL uncertainty
The SANFL competition’s uncertainty continues with an announcement late Tuesday night that the Port Magpies may still be in the hunt to be the reserves for Port Adelaide’s AFL team.
While players and supporters contemplated the possibility that the Magpies’ game at Alberton this Sunday will be its last, the SANFL said it was “considering a proposal which would enable the Port Adelaide Magpies to exist in the SANFL league competition as a support team for the Port Adelaide Football Club’s AFL team”.
“The proposal would ensure that both the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs would have support teams in the SANFL from the beginning of the 2014 football season,” the league’s statement said.
“Once the League Directors agreed on a model to admit a team from the Adelaide Football Club, the same invitation was extended to Port Adelaide,” SA Football Commission Chairman John Olsen said.
“The Commission then listened to feedback from the club’s executive and we have now arrived at a model which is being considered by the League Directors.”
The SANFL League Directors will meet later this week to discuss the matter further ahead of a resolution.
Port Magpies fans deserve resolution of this before their team runs out onto Alberton Oval on Sunday.
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In other SANFL news, South Adelaide Football Club axed its coach Ron Fuller on Tuesday.
Fuller coached for four seasons with the Panthers and his departure is effective immediately.
He was a premiership coach at Woodville West-Torrens in 2006 and was joined the Panthers in 2009.
South Adelaide is eighth on the SANFL ladder with five wins from 19 games.
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