Port Adelaide footy club offers Spring Gully help to get out of a pickle Power players Kane Mitchell and Tom Jonas with Spring Gully's Tegan Webb in the kitchen at Alberton yesterday. Picture: SARAH REED Source: adelaidenow PORT Adelaide Football Club chief executive Keith Thomas knows exactly what debt-ridden SA family business Spring Gully is going through during its crisis. A year after the Power needed special financing from the AFL and SANFL to overcome its debt crisis, the AFL club next week will set about promoting the SA food producer before its critical meetings with creditors. Port Adelaide will give Spring Gully free advertising exposure on the two video screens and the boundary screens at AAMI Stadium during its next home game - against Richmond on Saturday week. Spring Gully, which is laden with $10 million of debt, also will be invited to load up a truck with company products to display at the West Lakes venue. The game will be played six days before an administrator decides if Spring Gully can continue. "We have a lot of empathy for Spring Gully," Thomas said yesterday. We have relied on support from others during difficult times - now we want to help an iconic South Australian company that has been a fantastic supporter of local sport. Power players Kane Mitchell and Tom Jonas enjoy sampling pickles with Spring Gully's Tegan Webb in the kitchen at Alberton. Spring Gully has for a long time held up good values; it has made good products and we want to back them to continue doing such. Thomas last month decided to have the AFL club back Spring Gully while meeting with SA Premier Jay Weatherill shortly after the company put itself under voluntary administration. "I said to Jay we don't want South Australian companies going under," Thomas said. We have to do whatever we can to make sure Spring Gully doesn't fail. "They are thrilled and they are overwhelmed," he said of the company's reaction. Spring Gully family members Tegan and Russell Webb have described Port's offer as another sign of "fantastic support" from the community. Port is also dedicating its clash with Richmond to its charity arm, Foodbank, which will promote its End Hunger campaign during the match. Thomas hopes he can link Spring Gully and Foodbank together by the end of the year. That would be a great result if we can keep Spring Gully in business and then contributing food to the hungry through Foodbank.