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Don't know why the hate for SANFL in this thread (there are plenty of others to do that) however I'll bite.South Australians have always cared about the main competition played in the state as well. It was the SANFL. It is now the AFL. In addition, the SANFL had always been very healthy financially.History shows that the VFL was going bankrupt because of precisely the opposite of your statement. History shows that a number of VFL clubs survived (but not all) only because the competition generated interest by bringing in clubs from other states (currently 8 in number). In essence, they swapped a state competition for a national one.Clearly this sits uneasily with some Victorians because they keep trying to rewrite history and pretend that it has been like this for 150 years. Yawn.
Don't know why the hate for SANFL in this thread (there are plenty of others to do that) however I'll bite.
South Australians have always cared about the main competition played in the state as well. It was the SANFL. It is now the AFL. In addition, the SANFL had always been very healthy financially.
History shows that the VFL was going bankrupt because of precisely the opposite of your statement. History shows that a number of VFL clubs survived (but not all) only because the competition generated interest by bringing in clubs from other states (currently 8 in number). In essence, they swapped a state competition for a national one.
Clearly this sits uneasily with some Victorians because they keep trying to rewrite history and pretend that it has been like this for 150 years. Yawn.
