2013 B&F Predictions

[raman]

Yeah, Boaky only has one year till he's a free agent, give him a B&F, ffs...

 

[Forzaport]

I'm expecting Brad to come home with a wet sail.

 

[It Just Is]

Monfries had a good finish to the year, big chance for a top 5 placing. O'Shea too.

 

[Macca19]

Wow, Wingard blitzing the field to round 15.

Leaderboard after Round 15
203 – Wingard (-)
158 – Boak (-)
129 – Cornes (+1)
127 – Westhoff (-1)
125 – Brad Ebert (+4)
114 – Hartlett (-1)
103 – Monfries (Into 10)
101 – Broadbent (into 10)
96 – O’Shea (-3)
93 – Schulz (into 10)

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2013-09-21/2013-john-cahill-medal-roundbyround-voting[/quote]

For comparison sake, Wingard leads by more than this at Round 15 in our POTY voting

 

[Canoogs]

Trevor picks up the Fos Williams medal.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2013-09-21/skipper-wins-williams-medal

 

[Dylan8]

Boak is due for a lot of votes in the back end, Wingard not so much except for a 25 in the showdown, likely.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Hombsch won the first John McCarthy Award. Cornes third in the B&F, Boak second, Wingard first.

 

[PepeSilvia]

2013 John Cahill Medal – final voting
Winner: 284 votes – Chad Wingard
2nd place: 266 – Travis Boak
3rd place: 221 – Kane Cornes
4th place: 210 – Bradley Ebert
5th place: 199 – Justin Westhoff
6th place: 186 – Angus Monfries
7th place: 171 – Jay Schulz
8th place: 166 – Cameron O’Shea
9th place: 164 – Hamish Hartlett
10th place: 156 - Matthew Lobbe
11th place: 155 – Matthew Broadbent
12th place: 140 – Robert Gray
13th place: 118 – Alipate Carlile and Thomas Jonas
15th place: 117 – Oliver Wines
16th place: 116 – Jackson Trengove
17th place: 80 – Domenic Cassisi
18th place: 77 – Jake Neade
19th place: 63 – Tom Logan
20th place: 59 – Andrew Moore
21st place: 57 – Jasper Pittard
22nd place: 54 – Paul Stewart
23rd place: 53 – Kane Mitchell
24th place: 49 – Campbell Heath
25th place: 31 – Jack Hombsch and Lewis Stevenson
27th place: 25 – Aaron Young and Sam Colquhoun
29th place: 23 – Jarrad Redden
30th place: 17 – John Butcher
31st place: 10 – Matt Thomas
32nd place: 7 – Brent Renouf
33rd place: 6 – Cameron Hitchcock
34th place: 3 – Nathan Blee

 

[It Just Is]

Congrats Chad. The first of many.

 

[Power Raid]

that list is a pretty good reflection of this years performances.

 

[Portia]

8th place: 166 – Cameron O’Shea

O'SHIZZY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

All but Neade who finished in the top 22 played in the finals.

 

[Macca19]

Well done Chad! Such a brilliant season.

Not many bolters or sliders in the leaderboard. It all looks pretty well how we all thought it would go

 

[Dylan8]

Butcher outdone by Stevenson

woweeeeeeeeeee


Congratz Chad, would've been Boak for me but Chad was fantastic. Deserves it.

 

[Canoogs]

I can't argue with that top 3. Congrats Chad.

 

[kierez4ever]

So good to see our b&f rankings and winners make sense. I mean I love kornes but brad was robbed last year. Congrats chad and other winners!!

 

[bomberclifford]

Dat Top Ten. Oh my Lordy lord.

Good times ahead.

 

[Jim Dixon]

BNF
1. Wingard
2. Boak
3. Ebert
4. OShea
5. Monfries

Wanganeen:
Wines

Best Team Man:
Jonas

Most Improved:
Wingard

Good call!

 

[Phhht]

Well done to Chad, Boaky, Kornes.

Just thought i'd mention Action Jackson. Missed about 1/3rd of the year and polled quite well. Loved his improvement this year. Showed heaps IMO, especially during the big games/big moments. I expect him to take another step up next year and barring injury would hope he'd be well on the way to establishing a reputation as a premier tall defender.

 

[Phhht]

Oh and of course Westhoff was robbed. Best player in the entire AFL.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

8th place: 166 – Cameron O’Shea

O'SHIZZY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!

+1 - glad to see O'Shea recognised.

 

[*PAF]

+1 - glad to see O'Shea recognised.

Is it time to bump a couple of O'Shea to Baghdad threads so that people stfu about Butcher and Pittard?

 

[kaysee]

Hi all,

Here is my hazy wrap-up from the B&F last night... or should we just call it the night of The Chad!!!

Walked in to the main room, saw a hot looking female singer with short blond hair and thought "Gee the club landed Milley Cyrus for this event... wonder went her tongue will drop out"... but no it was Danielle Smarrelli on the wonderful vocals welcoming everyone into the room.

She gave way to Mark Soderstrom ("is he a Port supporter?" seemed to be a common question among the crowd) who was MC for the night, who in turn prepped the stage for casual Kieth to do what he does best. A TV cameras (either commercial or club operated) were about the place, so no doubt his speech will find it's way on to the club homepage at some point.

KT spoke and I can't recall specifics, but it was a typical great speech punctuated by applause for the team, the supporter staff, the volunteers, the families (of all those), the sponsors, the supporters etc etc. He delivered a laughs and some important information:

- spent a bit of time RIGHTLY speaking about some past people and decisions they made before talking about the present:

PRIMUS... gave him huge credit for making the list decisions that needed to be made. For playing the youngsters and giving them games. How it cost him his job in the end, but we're now seeing the results of his work. Also he was the one who contact Burgess back in 2011 and try to convince him to come back to PAFC. Without him we wouldn't have Burgess.

HAYSMAN... KT said he watched one of MH's 1st media interviews back in 2009 (?) and he mentioned that PAFC can't be sustained on the current stadium model. It had to change... and now we're heading to AO etc. (AO won't solve all our financial issues based on AFL modelling... still about $1 million short so need to make that up via sponors: more numbers and better rates).

- came back from 43 points and won over WC, we won both showdowns, we won our 1st final... but we couldn't win a free kick in that last quarter against Geelong LOLS throughout

- We finished 5th for the year (with the 3rd youngest list)!!! We had record membership. We had record merchandise sales. We had record TV ratings. We record web/social growth. Andy D said it has been the best turn around off field (across all those measures) by a club they have ever seen. But most importantly... it was done with the either lowest or 3rd lowest football department spend and staff numbers in the AFL.

- Renault are ABSOLUTELY wrapped with their sponsorship... so much so they will be extending it another 2 years. Renault spokesperson spoke later on, but basically they were unsure on entering the AFL sponsorship market, but Port's approach and strategies were the best partnership strategy they had ever seen. They had a plan, knew what they wanted to do and how they wanted to do it. But then the AFL Drugs crisis hit. Renault's Australian division (and their sponsorship $) were being heavily scrutinised by the HQ in Europe as "Drugs in Australian Football" headlines spread overseas. However, they backed themselves with Port's strategy and were wrapped and proud every time they saw their logo on our guernseys as our season improved and we hit the finals. BTW Renault have also had record growth (~41%) in Australia.

Ken spoke next... spoke for ages... he just loves the club. He is HUGE on family, and community, as well always wanting to win everything, he hates losing and he hates giving up... so to come to a club like PAFC were those things are at our core, as he often says "he was born for a club like this". He loved seeing us in the prison bars even though we didn't win. Mentioned how he wanted to make sure he got one of these guernseys because it means so much (reference to this later).

- Typical praises for all the coaches, players, families, support staff etc etc... gave huge mentions to Rehn and spoke a bit about his integrity (Rehn will probably do more radio work and wants to ensure Port is spoken about in the right manner). Rehn mentioned that Port are on the right track, because they make the hard tough decisions required to improve, which meant letting him go to get Walsh.

- Spoke hugely of Matt Thomas, his weekly chats with BMT were the most difficult of the year, because he was doing everything that was asked. He was delisted earlier in the week, but he was still there at the B&F. Huge round of applause for BMT and his Magarey Medal.

- Spoke hugely of Burgess and his team... important to note he also has his own team helping him but he gets all the credit. That in the finals we basically had every player except 1 to choose from was amazing. That last pre-season they pushed players to about 70%, but this preseason they'll aim at 100%.

Gav (or SuperGav has he is referred to in the KC household) then presented his medal to Ollie Wines. He just loves it here and mentioned how Wingard said he won it last year and made AA in his 2nd year... has set a new standard and blew away 2nd year blues theories.

Coaches award was given for players who sacrifice their own game for the team. Jonas, O'Shea and few other nonimees... but Westy won. Throughout the season a new term within the box was coined... the "Westy Role"... to define someone who was needed to play a role at a specific point in the game. Ie if the opposition kicked a few goals, or if someone needed to be moved somewhere. Most times it was Westy who was needed to play "the Westy Role", but not always.

Kochie than spoke... I forget a bulk of this as I was eating/mingling etc... repeated much of the thankyous throughout the club. Did spend a bit of time talking about AO and wanting to make it a fun place for ALL football supporters. Challenged our supporters to love our team, but respect the opposition, to check all hate/anger at the gate. IMO he wants to remove any excuses for opposition to see us as "ferals" etc to improve our branding and bring in opposition/neutral supporters to our games. Mentioned something about using volunteer supporter groups as ... forget the words... but made it sound like a version of "neighbour watch" for footy games where they would help diffuse unruly behaviour. Yeah, I zoned out a bit for that section... and started eyeing off which wheels to steal of the cars parked outside (the bemmas, the mercs... nahh rowdy audis are in fashion).

God old Jenny Williams then jumped up to present her Dad's medal... ahh Jenny you're a trooper... straight as an arrow, straight down the line... she made a promise to Ken. "Ken if you take our team to a flag I will get one of Dad's old prison bar guernseys out, have it framed and give it to you". Then the winner was announced... Travis come and claim your prize.

Renault then presented the Supporters award to The Chad... can't recall much of the speech that hasn't sort of been covered above.

Danielle and Brad Ebert then presented the JMac award (a guitar) to Hombsch for his community service... would have liked hearing what work he had done, but most of the talk was in honouring Mac.

Brett Ebert... you little megahead. Dom got up to give us a little insight to Ebo on and off field. One of the biggest jokers around the club. Then Ebo got up and spoke rather well. Ebo is taking some time off, but will then be PLAYING FOR THE MAGPIES... the Goolwa Magpies that is with some old school friends. LOL

The mighty John Cahill and Ken then took the stage to present the JC medal... Kane was 3rd and spoke. Cornes revisited his forgotten speech from 2012, the one where he had a rather blunt crack at our players not working hard enough to get better. He said how pleasing it was to see it click in most of them that of they push themselves, and work that hard, then we can see the benefits. Boaky was 2nd and spoke accordingly for his position. Chad was then presented as the winner.

Chad thanked the typical people. Coaches for pushing him, his running was a weakness during the preseason, Ken took him aside and told him how important he was to the side (even though he didn't feel like that as a youngster), to motivate him etc. Thanked his parents... Dad forcing him to choose between Basketball and Footy. Also importantly he had close friend die before the season, out of respect he had his initials "AA" written on his boots, but some opposition players took that as him being cocky and predicting he will make the All Australian team. Anyway, charge the glasses and raise a toast to young man. Amazing season... absolutely amazing.

BTW poor Nathan Blee got the B&F wooden spoon with 3 points.

Formal events wrapped up quickly there after. A bit more mingling, hard to get near the players who were in a big group with eye candy galore orbiting about them. They had HH's sister down stairs as the DJ... DJ Tonk (?)... to party on into the night, but I was rather spent and called it a night.

All in all a top night. If you haven't been to a B&F before I recommend everyone saving up for one... yes, it is pricey, but the $ goes to the club and you get an experience on top of a 5-star 3 course meal and all your drinks.

Ok... done for now... I think I need a burger.

PS - btw in true personal fashion i simply typed and fired the above... no proof-reading.

 

[raman]

BTW Renault have also had record growth (~41%) in Australia.

not a bad stat to shop around to other prospective sponsors.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Thanks for the fantastic write up kaysee.

What a club!

Just as an aside I'd rather have Soderstrom MC'ing our events as a TV personality who comes across as genuinely neutral than pretend-swampie Dittmar who never defends Port when the shit stirrers take pot shots.