- Jan 14, 2008
- 11,631
- 6,989
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Boston Celtics, Man City, NY Jets
Cause we had Port People like Bolton and Cunningham who knew our value, didn’t create a gimmick to market us, we were a driven business with a simple business model which executed our core Business Objective - Winning games of Football. We had strong willed Coaches and Players engaged with their community, the community in turn trusted the leaders with their funds, which made us one of the biggest clubs in Australia at the Turn of the Centruy.How did we actually land Nike back then? The more time goes on, the more I'm baffled at it.
Other clubs turned to Gimmicks and flew past us, we achieved what Bucky and Boults set out to do and they then passed the torch on, we lost sight of what Port Adelaide was, what we stood for and looked to other teams success and tried to replicate. We continued this trend until Casual Keith Thomas came in and corrected the ship, a Football Person to get Football right. However he knew where he had deficiencies and in came Koch, over time Koch influenced the Board and more and more decisions which moved us away from ‘Football’ again and then with Keith’s departure we have again turned to a Business man to oversee football…
Long will this cycle rule…