Toast #BringBackTheBars - Our Heritage, Our History, Our Right! Part 2

[Dont_be_a_Plonka]

Nothing official but I think the intention is the PB's will be allowed full time in the reserves competition as it is not televised. Unless the AFL has other plans in regards to television and marketing on a reserves competition.

VFL is definitely televised in VIC
Free to air.

 

[ibd77]

VFL is definitely televised in VIC
Free to air.

Not sure if that will have an impact on the PB debate as it doesn't really affect the Wobbles brand in a lower league.

 

[TeeKray]

Why would we care about wearing the PBs in the VFL or AFL reserves comp? It actually diminishes the status of the guernsey to relegate it to reserves guernsey. At least in the SANFL there is the associated history albeit it's now effectively a reserves team. In the VFL or AFL reserves comp, who cares.

 

[Interstater]

Nothing official but I think the intention is the PB's will be allowed full time in the reserves competition as it is not televised. Unless the AFL has other plans in regards to television and marketing on a reserves competition.

Let me tell you what is going to happen.

- a) The VFL will allow Port to wear the prison bars in the VFL competition, as a way to get Port and Adelaide away from the SANFL and into their monopoly

- b) The AFL will then refuse to let Port wear the prison bars in the AFL reserves competition once they split the VFL into AFL Reserves and a revamped VFL

If you can't see that coming you are wearing a blindfold.

I refuse to accept that joining a VFL/AFL reserves is a good idea.
Renegotiate with the SANFL until it resembles the 1970's structure or be the AFL's bitches in perpetuity.
At least, don't agree to being duped until the Crows do their Pinocchio in 2028.

Unfortunately though, the current board work in the interests of the AFL first, and the club second.
So lube up boys.

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice ...

 

[Cheesey Mac]

Nothing official but I think the intention is the PB's will be allowed full time in the reserves competition as it is not televised. Unless the AFL has other plans in regards to television and marketing on a reserves competition.

IIRC the topic was briefly discussed at the AGM, I think their expectation is home games at Alberton will be with us wearing the PBs, but the scenario Interstater described above would not surprise me in the slightest.

 

[JimmyBC]

Why would we care about wearing the PBs in the VFL or AFL reserves comp? It actually diminishes the status of the guernsey to relegate it to reserves guernsey. At least in the SANFL there is the associated history albeit it's now effectively a reserves team. In the VFL or AFL reserves comp, who cares.

Yea this and the magpies nick should be mothballed completely when we join.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Collingwood already don't own black and white in the VFL, Southport wear it as well. Southport have even worn a heritage guernsey that featured stripes. We should just wear the Prison Bars at home whether we're "allowed to" or not.

 

[GremioPower]

It’s a good looking jumper. You’re never getting the one you want so might as well embrace the elite teal

BLOODY WELL SAID

 

[dirty2]

Amateur football league.

Every team home and away Guernsey easy done.. but nah got to look after the Vic clubs.

 

[DaTBird187]

VFL is definitely televised in VIC
Free to air.

And there are two black and white teams co-existing without twats losing their collective marbles.

 

[GremioPower]

And there are two black and white teams co-existing without twats losing their collective marbles.

THREE yellow&black teams

 

[Willsy10]

It’s a good looking jumper. You’re never getting the one you want so might as well embrace the elite teal

i actually agree with you. I would give it the iconic white number panel with black numbers though. Silver bars on black, would probably be even better. As long as we get to wear the traditional strip a couple times a year in showdowns, i'd be all for it.

But I think the board is probably just fed up with this same proposal coming up every few weeks from an oppo fan like it's the first time it's ever crossed anyone's mind. I'm not saying it is the case this time, as i have no idea if you are being genuine or not but it can come across as trolling when the same thing gets repeated over and over. But i don't really understanding why we aren't embracing this as a genuine option, it's really how we should've entered the comp in the first place.

 

[Lagooner]

THREE yellow&black teams

And two of them are called the Tigers.

 

[Interstater]

Lookie here.

 

[Interstater]

Oh studley

 

[Port2Power]

Lookie here.

We should not be wearing the PBs ONCE a year thats a JOKE anytime we choose in SA or interstate except against Collingwood we wear an alternative.

"Port would retain its club name, jumper and colours, but a separate strip would be developed for those matches it played against Melbourne club Collingwood, which also wears black and white and also is known as the Magpies.

Mr Weber said Port would develop a new club emblem and would not use the Magpie in the AFL competition."

 

[Lagooner]

Oh studley

That one time a Cornsey article read like an El_Scorcho post.

 

[Interstater]

1993

 

[Ljc_86]

Lookie here.

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Maybe we slowly, slowly ticking these things off

 

[El_Scorcho]

That one time a Cornsey article read like an El_Scorcho post.

Cornesy nails it, but it's stopped clock syndrome. If we changed to Pirates he'd write an article in support of Power despite all his 1996 predictions being spot on in 2024.

 

[Interstater]

Maybe we slowly, slowly ticking these things off

I respectfully disagree.
All I see is us slowly watching the people that care about the bars die off while the filibustering continues.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I respectfully disagree.
All I see is us slowly watching the people that care about the bars die off while the filibustering continues.

If you go to games, you'll see plenty of people wearing the bars who weren't alive in 1996. They didn't need to be there to know what the guernsey means to this club.

People embrace the history and heritage of their football clubs. It's a huge part of being a supporter. It's because of this that the bars will live on when we're all dead.

 

[chiwigi]

I respectfully disagree.
All I see is us slowly watching the people that care about the bars die off while the filibustering continues.

There are thousands at every game, with the numbers growing as it becomes available to buy,

 

[Interstater]

There are thousands at every game, with the numbers growing as it becomes available to buy,

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Tredrea_Wanganeen_Gray]

So obviously we are wearing them on Thursday night, right?