Australian Football League side Port Adelaide "remains bullish that it will play a game for premiership points in China in 2017, despite concerns from within the AFL about feasibility and logistics," according to Sam McClure of THE AGE. The club believes Jiangwan Stadium "looms as a better place to host such a game, rather than the previously considered Shanghai Stadium." Jiangwan Stadium, which is where Melbourne hosted an exhibition game against Brisbane in '10, "is more run-down than Shanghai Stadium, but would be far more feasible." The stadium "is owned by the local council, who Port believes is willing to negotiate a lucrative deal which the club hopes would make the ground the home of AFL football in China." The concerns within AFL house "surround two things; finding a venue that would allow the AFL to control it weeks in advance of the game, and finding an opponent who is willing and able to sell a home game." Despite that, Port Adelaide Chair David Koch "is adamant the match will go ahead in 2017." He said, "As far as we're concerned, we're playing next year. It will be an historic event. If we didn't play next year it would be an incredible opportunity lost and would show a lack of vision" (THE AGE, 7/5).
