Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 25

[NoddyHolder]

Our avgs for 2023 are even more impressive considering this "very scientific" and "statistically accurate" split of the AO members.

Probably time for a proper audit on this bullshit metric.

'72/28' for extra piss-take

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[bomberclifford]

'72/28' for extra piss-take

Let's suspend our disbelief for a brief second and assume that's accurate.

We're averaging crowds, more or less the same as a club that has almost three times the support we have within SA.

 

[gbear]

See Suzi continues to be an absolute moron many years on from her shit posting here. A special individual.

 

[backtozero]

 

[Byrons Firen]

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“I don’t understand the Internet”

Whadda dweeb and to think he gargles Donuts' cajones. hahaha

 

[DaTBird187]

West coast still pulling 40k despite being warmed up piss is kind of amazing.

If they don’t turn up their membership is revoked and they are exiled to Rotness Island to be replaced by someone on the waiting list.

 

[El_Scorcho]

West coast still pulling 40k despite being warmed up piss is kind of amazing.

WA needs a 3rd team when Tassie comes in. West Coast are an unstoppable financial juggernaut.

Part of the reason they're so awful is because unlike every other club, they can afford to properly bottom out and they'll still make a comfortable profit on the year.

 

[gtrxuone]

WA needs a 3rd team when Tassie comes in. West Coast are an unstoppable financial juggernaut.

Part of the reason they're so awful is because unlike every other club, they can afford to properly bottom out and they'll still make a comfortable profit on the year.

Was recently reading that the Eagles have given 25% of there profit.To the Wafc since 1987.
That amount over 35 years is supposed to be around $140,000,000
One hundred and forty million dollars.

 

[Grave Danger]

lol Carlton, lol Crows

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Port v Collingwood and Carlton v Collingwood the following week sold out.

 

[OneGreatClub]

See Suzi continues to be an absolute moron many years on from her s**t posting here. A special individual.

Is she Lindy under a different pseudonym?

 

[Grave Danger]

There's a first...

 

[OneGreatClub]

There's a first...

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Sounds like the young fella needs to be brought down a peg or two.
Hopefully this will be a painful but worthwhile lesson.
Obviously it’s hard being humble in SA as a Crows player with the incessant amount you are pumped up.

 

[Grave Danger]

Is she Lindy under a different pseudonym?

No, Snake Baker

 

[tribey]

Is she Lindy under a different pseudonym?

It’s too early/late in the day to present this philosophical conundrum

 

[edgie]

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“I don’t understand the Internet”

How much porno did he have to close before the photographer arrived?

Sent from my Nokia 7.2 using Tapatalk

 

[OneGreatClub]

Sheesh it doesn’t take much to get them up and about, does it.

 

[Del165198]

Voss had them up and about at the start of last year as well. Then he was all but sacked earlier this season. History suggests they'll collapse in the very near future.

 

[Del165198]

AFL media: port are pretenders and no good.

Also AFL media: Carlton best win eva they destroyed the all conquering port powa

 

[Fizzler]

WA needs a 3rd team when Tassie comes in. West Coast are an unstoppable financial juggernaut.

Part of the reason they're so awful is because unlike every other club, they can afford to properly bottom out and they'll still make a comfortable profit on the year.

In theory I agree, and I think WA is the most deserving of a 3rd side out of every state, but in actuality I don’t see a 3rd WA team having the desired effect. A 3rd side needs some point of difference and the obvious one is location - a South-West WA side in the Peel/Mandurah/Bunbury areas (I think, I don’t live there though). The problem is though they tried the location specific thing with Freo and I don’t think it broadened their support how they would’ve liked.

GWS make Western Sydney and especially Canberra work because they represent different things than what Sydney as a whole does. Gold Coast and Brisbane are two distinct cities as a whole so you can see why they went to add a team there. We also thrive off being the only pre-existing SANFL side in the AFL, the strongest one at that, and our opponent’s support base is an amalgamation of the rest of that league. We’d struggle if it was made up of 9 Norwoods, but it’s Norwood and other semi-decent sized clubs along with the shit of the league so it evens out.

The other problem Freo faced when entering the league was trying to convert the footy public of WA on to their side when West Coast had 3 major things in their favour which I’ll contrast to our situation vs Adelaide.
1. West Coast’s identity is generic enough as a pseudo state team. It’s not Perth Swans wearing Yellow and Black but it’s probably as close as they could get without infringing on another club (unlike Adelaide). Easy choice for a WA fan to pick.
2. With their generic name compared to Fremantle going for a location name, what incentive is there for someone to go for Freo if they weren’t from Freo? On top of that, yeah we had to change to the Power, but it’s still clear that Port Adelaide = Port Adelaide no matter the competition. The Dockers fill the spot East and South had in the WAFL but they also aren’t a successor to either club, meaning there’s probably a good chunk of Easts and Souths fans who didn’t feel properly represented by the Dockers and might have just stuck with the Eagles upon Freo’s entry.
3. The 8 year head start West Coast had came with 2 flags, including one directly before Freo came in. Good luck convincing someone to ditch a successful side in favour of a complete unknown. Adelaide won their two flags but that was after we’d already joined, and it wasn’t like our SANFL existence was success starved.

This then begs the question, how does a 3rd WA team avoid the hurdles Fremantle faced and not get stuck being the even smaller brother in the equation? To me it doesn’t seem possible. Sure West Coast suck, but they’ll probably get out of this situation quicker than any other club could, and even though they wouldn’t be competing with a successful West Coast right out the gate, they instead have to compete with the fact that third-generation Eagles fans exist now, could you get them to switch if they didn’t live in the immediate area this team was representing? I’m not so sure.

 

[Fizzler]

Sheesh it doesn’t take much to get them up and about, does it.

If there’s any solace I can find in losing that game, it’s that the hope it gave their fans, hope that’ll inevitably kill them come the end of the year. One of my mates who goes for Carlton quite literally mentioned the word premiership, but there’s a reason they haven’t won one since 1995, they’re not easy to win by any means.

 

[WillemDaDrew]

Flog Rachele out for the Showdown.

There's a first...

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[afl2004]

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Don't think the leaders at the crows were impressed by his behaviour, Dawson on the boundary line was giving him a talking too

 

[Capital Power]

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I'm guessing they felt he got off lightly given he had also two fines from the same game. Then there's what would likely hapopen if Zak got under his skin in Showdown...