Preview 2023 Goodbye (To 2024) New; Preseason Discussion

[gbear]

Which of Soldo, Sweet, Esava or BZT is going to be our senior coach this year?

Anyone if those would be better than Hinkley.

 

[jac147]

Family Day is Saturday 10 February, 4pm, but not sure if that has a trial game.

Internal Trial
Friday, 16 February 5.30pm
Alberton Oval
Free entry, no ticket required, subject to capacity
Grandstand seating available - first come, first served
Kick and catch post-game

Thanks Ford for posting - from the Port site Family Day includes Full player signing,- rotating groups throughout, junior skills session, facility tours, guernsey presentation, media room experience, partner giveaways, live entertainment and food trucks & bar and importantly not shown on the web site, THE ATTENDANCE OF TREDDERS THERE, PRESSING THE FLESH TO START HIS PROCESS OF GETTING THIS CLUB BACK TO WHERE IT SHOULD BE.
That would read as no trial game In answer to you querie.
No problem with that as the 16th appears to be the internal trial, before the match simulation with the crows on the 23rd and the Community Series match vs Fremantle on the 1st March.

 

[portly]

Yea there’s a new addiction in town find more ways to attack the club . Must be exhausting.
Id be happy to have a new coach too but for a quite possible reason that I’m not privy to the coach hasn’t changed
We have a poncey chairman .O.K. Not ideal but he’s been successful in his own way , maybe not ruthless enough , sure I’d rather someone else but that stuff doesn’t turn me off the footy gawd no , it’s one of my main forms of entertainment, gives me feel good chemicals when we win , sure get down when we lose but I don’t blame anyone, it’s my own stupid fault if I get down about my team losing , it’s a game , I should be better than that .
The old school stuff that runs through our veins just hasn’t quite translated on a national level Yet . We’ve got the aura in Adelaide but not really nationally , young players coming in unless they were from a Port family wouldn’t have that bulletproof feeling when they put the guernsey on like the old days .
We just have to keep striving , keep pursuing excellence and develop that thing a young player would feel walking into Collingwood or Geelong , once we achieve that I reckon the players will be forced to become mentally stronger .
Im frustrated too but not enough to make me turn on the club

Um, and this has been said before, no-one here is pissing on the club, but specifically Koch and Hinkley, because we want to win premierships.

"Scared" Hinkley, after a decade of proof, is most unlikely to win a premiership.

So I voted for Tredrea to IMPROVE the club, not piss on it.

If you always do what you always did, then you will always get what you always got!

How you can not see that is beyond me.

 

[tribey]

And pray tell, what was the 'last one' of those clubs?

St Kilda - 1997 - 2009 (12 years) - another GF appearance in 2010
Western Bulldogs - 1961 - 2016 (55 years) - another GF appearance in 2021
Fremantle - N/A - 2013 (joined the AFL in 1995) (18 years)
Adelaide - 1998 - 2017 (19 years)
Melbourne - 2000 - 2021 (21 years)



West Coast - 2006 - 2015 (9 years) - another GF appearance in 2018
Sydney - 2006 - 2012 (6 years) - GF appearances in 2014, 2016 and 2022
Geelong - 2008 (1 year) - GF appearances in 2009, 2011 and then 2020 (9 years) and 2022
Collingwood - 2003-2010 (7 years) - GF appearances in 2011, 2018 and 2023

Hawthorn - 1991- 2008 (17 years) - GF appearances in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Richmond - 1982 - 2017 (35 years) - GF appearances in 2019 and 2020
GWS - N/A - 2019 (8 years)
Brisbane - 2004 - 2023 (19 years)

Port Adelaide - 2007 - present (16 years)

So in reality, you're annoyed that Port Adelaide isn't:

1. The biggest club in the country (Collingwood)
2. The wealthiest club in the country (West Coast)
3. In the biggest market in the country (receiving the concessions that go along with that) (Sydney)
4. The best run club in the country (Geelong)

Because every other club as taken as long as we have, if not longer, to make another GF at some point.

Jesus.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Jesus.

2023 years and still waiting

We're doing better than him as well!!

 

[just_kick_it]

Anyone if those would be better than Hinkley.

Rod for PA Senior Coach

 

[Phar Ted]

Pre-season thread heh.

 

[Scodges]

And you lot wonder why the club doesn't listen to you. They just went out and addressed our two biggest deficiencies in the off-season for a team that still managed to finish top four and you're already writing them off as if it doesn't matter.

Our biggest deficiency wasn’t addressed, Hinks is still coach.


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[longdonkey]

And you lot wonder why the club doesn't listen to you. They just went out and addressed our two biggest deficiencies in the off-season for a team that still managed to finish top four and you're already writing them off as if it doesn't matter.

Do you think it might be an issue that a lot of the Big Footy Rabble Rousers have been calling for these deficiencies to be fixed for maybe anywhere up to 5 seasons and in that time they let Howard move on which arguably made things worse. This year we destroy our draft hand on what I would call very risky player acquisitions.

 

[Granny Duurs is Lovely]

Every other club has training reports, hype about new players and excitement about individual aspects of the club (e.g. draftees, breakout stars) and yet apparently all our board does is whinge about the same shit over and over again.

We get it. No success under Hinkley. Kay, you've said your bit, lets move on and get some excitement for Butters to win his first Brownlow, Aliir to return to AA form now that he has help, and our new main key forward to announce themself this year.

 

[davo999]

Um, and this has been said before, no-one here is pissing on the club, but specifically Koch and Hinkley, because we want to win premierships.

"Scared" Hinkley, after a decade of proof, is most unlikely to win a premiership.

So I voted for Tredrea to IMPROVE the club, not piss on it.

If you always do what you always did, then you will always get what you always got!

How you can not see that is beyond me.

I haven’t got a problem with Tredrea , voted for him myself .
If Ken was gone I’d think excellent, if Koch was gone I’d think excellent but they’re still there so I’m focusing on the football , we’ve got as good a chance as any recent year , a changing of the guard in the team , new captain , new vice captain , new ruck , new full back I mean enjoy it , get into it I reckon . I love football, always have . I’m not going to spit chips every time I think about football , I wouldn’t enjoy that

 

[Schulzenfest]

Every other club has training reports, hype about new players and excitement about individual aspects of the club (e.g. draftees, breakout stars) and yet apparently all our board does is whinge about the same s**t over and over again.

We get it. No success under Hinkley. Kay, you've said your bit, lets move on and get some excitement for Butters to win his first Brownlow, Aliir to return to AA form now that he has help, and our new main key forward to announce themself this year.

Because no other club, either now or ever before, has ever been coached by an 11 time failure with zero grand final appearances and two years left to run on his contract. No other club, either now or ever before, has ever been coached by a coach who in his last four finals series has lost, at home, to a team that we finished ahead of on the ladder and beat in our most recent match.

Butters might win the Brownlow, Aliir might return to AA form, and a new main key forward may announce themselves this year. But what difference will it make? We'll still (at best) crash out in another prelim because we'll still be coached by a loser with a losing mentality.

 

[Duck Farmer]

We get it. No success under Hinkley. Kay, you've said your bit, lets move on and get some excitement for Butters to win his first Brownlow, Aliir to return to AA form now that he has help, and our new main key forward to announce themself this year.

Butters winning the Brownlow, Aliir getting another AA, Lord winning the Coleman, and no success under Hinkley are not mutually exclusive propositions.

That's why people are pissed.

 

[El_Scorcho]

And you lot wonder why the club doesn't listen to you. They just went out and addressed our two biggest deficiencies in the off-season for a team that still managed to finish top four and you're already writing them off as if it doesn't matter.

lmao it's year 11 dude.

Remember when we lost the 2020 prelim by a kick and then added Aliir and Fantasia? Remember when we added Dixon and Ryder in consecutive seasons? Remember adding Motlop, Rockliff and Watts?

 

[El_Scorcho]

Every other club has training reports, hype about new players and excitement about individual aspects of the club (e.g. draftees, breakout stars) and yet apparently all our board does is whinge about the same s**t over and over again.

We get it. No success under Hinkley. Kay, you've said your bit, lets move on and get some excitement for Butters to win his first Brownlow, Aliir to return to AA form now that he has help, and our new main key forward to announce themself this year.

Supporter bases don't get disenchanted by themselves mate.

 

[El_Scorcho]

And pray tell, what was the 'last one' of those clubs?

St Kilda - 1997 - 2009 (12 years) - another GF appearance in 2010
Western Bulldogs - 1961 - 2016 (55 years) - another GF appearance in 2021
Fremantle - N/A - 2013 (joined the AFL in 1995) (18 years)
Adelaide - 1998 - 2017 (19 years)
Melbourne - 2000 - 2021 (21 years)



West Coast - 2006 - 2015 (9 years) - another GF appearance in 2018
Sydney - 2006 - 2012 (6 years) - GF appearances in 2014, 2016 and 2022
Geelong - 2008 (1 year) - GF appearances in 2009, 2011 and then 2020 (9 years) and 2022
Collingwood - 2003-2010 (7 years) - GF appearances in 2011, 2018 and 2023

Hawthorn - 1991- 2008 (17 years) - GF appearances in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Richmond - 1982 - 2017 (35 years) - GF appearances in 2019 and 2020
GWS - N/A - 2019 (8 years)
Brisbane - 2004 - 2023 (19 years)

Port Adelaide - 2007 - present (16 years)

So in reality, you're annoyed that Port Adelaide isn't:

1. The biggest club in the country (Collingwood)
2. The wealthiest club in the country (West Coast)
3. In the biggest market in the country (receiving the concessions that go along with that) (Sydney)
4. The best run club in the country (Geelong)

Because every other club as taken as long as we have, if not longer, to make another GF at some point.

If a bar is going to be set this low I expect to see Barbados Slim and Hermes Conrad giving us the contest of a lifetime.

 

[thundercloud]

Because no other club, either now or ever before, has ever been coached by an 11 time failure with zero grand final appearances and two years left to run on his contract. No other club, either now or ever before, has ever been coached by a coach who in his last four finals series has lost, at home, to a team that we finished ahead of on the ladder and beat in our most recent match.

Butters might win the Brownlow, Aliir might return to AA form, and a new main key forward may announce themselves this year. But what difference will it make? We'll still (at best) crash out in another prelim because we'll still be coached by a loser with a losing mentality.

60000 members and will build with success.
The numbers are the vote
Move on and enjoy the season
Try having a more positive mentality

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Pre-season thread heh.

Pre-sacking thread

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I haven’t got a problem with Tredrea , voted for him myself .
If Ken was gone I’d think excellent, if Koch was gone I’d think excellent but they’re still there so I’m focusing on the football , we’ve got as good a chance as any recent year , a changing of the guard in the team , new captain , new vice captain , new ruck , new full back I mean enjoy it , get into it I reckon . I love football, always have . I’m not going to spit chips every time I think about football , I wouldn’t enjoy that

We're as good a chance as any recent year..

So none?

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[tribey]

60000 members and will build with success.
The numbers are the vote
Move on and enjoy the season
Try having a more positive mentality

You gleefully spiked the football on those of us who wanted a new coach while celebrating Hinkley’s extension after the 2017 Elimination Final.

Six completed seasons have passed since then, with nothing vindicating your stance.

But sure dude, keep wagging the finger at us for being ‘wrong’.

 

[VineValerian]

So I voted for Tredrea to IMPROVE the club, not piss on it.

If you always do what you always did, then you will always get what you always got!

 

[tribey]

If a bar is going to be set this low I expect to see Barbados Slim and Hermes Conrad giving us the contest of a lifetime.

Never thought I’d live to see the day where one set of Port Adelaide fans would be effectively telling another set of Port Adelaide fans, ‘there are starving kids in Africa, now shut up and eat your offal’, in regards to expecting better from a regime and coach that has been around for 11 seasons without so much as a Grand Final appearance to show for it.

 

[PAFC27]

Umpires warmed up. Drones out. 24 minute countdown clock on the big screen. Looks like some match sim this morning

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Every other club has training reports, hype about new players and excitement about individual aspects of the club (e.g. draftees, breakout stars) and yet apparently all our board does is whinge about the same s**t over and over again.

We get it. No success under Hinkley. Kay, you've said your bit, lets move on and get some excitement for Butters to win his first Brownlow, Aliir to return to AA form now that he has help, and our new main key forward to announce themself this year.

Is this post not just whinging though?

If you want that stuff why not just post about it, rather than whinging about other posters in here. I'd be happy to talk about the development of Butters, AA, and the other players on the list, but its absolutely going to be with the caveat that realistically it only matters in 2026 and onwards at the earliest.

 

[TazD]

Umpires warmed up. Drones out. 24 minute countdown clock on the big screen. Looks like some match sim this morning

"Scenario time sons! We've just won the grandfinal and you're rushing up to dump the Gatorade on me. Break into groups of four to work on your keg skills"