News Chad Wingard traded to Hawthorn for ... dammit who is peeling onions?

[Janey]

Regardless of your opinion of Wingard, it's not a good look for club-affiliated media personalities to be piling on like this in the public realm.

Severe lack of controlling the message at Port, for quite some time now. KT, I'm looking squarely at you.

I suspect that at least some people at the club would be quite happy with Tredders' message. Whether or not that includes KT, I really don't know.

 

[manureid]

4 goals in that accursed Showdown while Wines misses the sealer from 15m out trying to be Steve Johnson, too. And was a major part of the difference between us winning and losing against Carlton in Melbourne for a third straight time.

The whole "he didn't do this/that" is pretty funny.

Chad's floor > Randoms' best.

But he isn't in the weights room in the off season ChadBro-ing. Beach muscles>>> Football skills.

 

[raglan road]

see you later, down hill skier and the rest of you

Ha ha why would I give a shit what a sheep and a stupid one at that thinks? Sitting through PA 2008-2012 was not downhill skiing. Try again.

 

[Pedro59]

Regardless of training harder
Regardless of pay packets

Wasn’t Chad busted wanting to leave anyway?

Anyone would think we forced him out

 

[yeswecan1]

I feel bad about how much this trade period has made me despise holding on to Ollie.

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From the outside Ollie is very very good professional hard working footballer. I always thought he would be the one to leave. Can’t kick so can never be called elite.

 

[tribey]

But he isn't in the weights room in the off season ChadBro-ing. Beach muscles>>> Football skills.

"Wines is too big"

also

"Wings is too small"

#crazyfrogringtone

 

[Enviable Tradition]

One thing Tredders had were the highest of training standards.
Tredders and his team achieved our Only AFL Premiership.
I don’t think his tweet was offensive.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Chad and am devastated he has left us. Really devastated..

What got my back up a bit was that Chad was happy to say that at Hawks he will work harder and apply himself to achieve success there rather than be willing to meet the standards at the club he was drafted into and apparently loved.

Plenty on here are demanding PAFC be the Port of old aren’t they? So does Tredders.

Just because we all love Chad and hate to lose him doesn’t mean Tredders is wrong here.
Perhaps the timing is a bit off but it doesn’t bother me.
Are other former players ganging up on Chad? Which ones?

Whether The Chad continues to work hard on his game after the sting of being traded wears off will be interesting to see

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[Enviable Tradition]

Let's not forget that it was Richie Vandenburg who is widely credited for starting the Hawks turn around.

They got the culture right first. Not by promoting the most talented footballer but by promoting one who was willing to live up to the standards required to be a winning club.

The talent came later and were forced to buy into the culture established.

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[Macca19]

What got my back up a bit was that Chad was happy to say that at Hawks he will work harder and apply himself to achieve success there rather than be willing to meet the standards at the club he was drafted into and apparently loved.

Chad also said he was happy to work on everything that the club thought he needed to work on.

 

[Magus]

Wingard was earmarked for trade months ago due to the club’s obsession with getting deep inside the top 10 of this draft. Considered expendable but of high value the thought was he’d fetch at least a top 10 pick and maybe even something in the top 5.
Through absolute ineptitude on the club’s part his market value plummeted and things got past the point of no return.
Now they’re trying to spin the whole thing as “He wanted out, we’d only have lost him next year as a restricted free agent”......”his asking price is too high”.......”he’s a slack trainer who refused to deliver on some non-negotiable standards”.
This is all on the club. Yet here we are witnessing the character assasination of Chad Wingard in order to save some face.

He didn't have to leave.

I know some people are drawing clear lines between sides here but it I can see fault on both the club and Chad. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

 

[JUSTWORK]

Chad also said he was happy to work on everything that the club thought he needed to work on.

Didn’t Kane Cornes say the opposite to that ? (Not that I necessarily belive him)

Clearly someone is lying, all I know for certain is if Chad really wanted to stay he would have becouse he was contracted. Not sure we will ever know the truth, but if we was prepared to why would they force him out ? Chad improving and going to the next level and dragging the side with him could very well be the difference between Ken swing his contract out and having it terminated so surley they wouldn’t force him out unless he is creating serious problems, which goes back to why it has never been dealt with previous to trading him.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

How close are we to killing this thread with fire? as much as I hate it he's an opposition player now and both sides of the swedge are becoming nauseating.

 

[Janey]

where has his character been assassinated by the club, you are the one casting dispersion about the club, there is no way the club would let him leave if they felt there wasnt something else going on or he wasnt going next year, and all along they said chad had a contract and will stay unless he wants to leave.

Chad did have a contract and they couldn't force him out the door, but there are things that can make it very difficult to stay no matter how much you might want to.

 

[Us against the rest]

Whether The Chad continues to work hard on his game after the sting of being traded wears off will be interesting to see

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All I know is that I feel sorry for the poor Port soldier that has to stand him when we play Hawthorn.

 

[Us against the rest]

Chad did have a contract and they couldn't force him out the door, but there are things that can make it very difficult to stay no matter how much you might want to.

Pick 5 will do it.

 

[BornPort]

Here is something for the Hinkley fans. Enjoy.

 

[JUSTWORK]

Still can’t bring myself to watch Chads highlights on the AFL website, really don’t want to be further reminded how good a player we’ve just let go.

 

[wingardsmark]

All I know is that I feel sorry for the poor Port soldier that has to stand him when we play Hawthorn.

If its Burton...

 

[yeswecan1]

Let's not forget that it was Richie Vandenburg who is widely credited for starting the Hawks turn around.

They got the culture right first. Not by promoting the most talented footballer but by promoting one who was willing to live up to the standards required to be a winning club.

The talent came later and were forced to buy into the culture established.

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Oh mate, if only it was that simple. You forget all the draft picks they received from finishing bottom and good recruiting. We used the same argument you just espoused to make cassisi captain over burgoyne, we know how that turned out.

 

[PortWTF]

Still keen to see what the record is for losing games you're favourite for over a 5-year period. If we're not first I'll sell my sweet anus to one of those sheiks in a Taken auction.

I ran the numbers, although don't take this as gospel just on my own records. Sorry for the formatting, seems to ignore my spaces.


Team Fav Lost %
Sydney 97 30 30.9
Hawthorn 86 23 26.7
Geelong 85 25 29.4
Adelaide 82 24 29.3
West Coast 80 23 28.8
Port Adelaide 75 28 37.3
Richmond 72 19 26.4
GWS 66 17 25.8
Fremantle 61 18 29.5
Collingwood 57 22 38.6
North Melbourne 53 13 24.5
Bulldogs 51 15 29.4
Melbourne 46 20 43.5
Essendon 38 16 42.1
Gold Coast 27 11 40.7
St Kilda 24 5 20.8
Carlton 17 10 58.8
Brisbane 10 6 60.0

 

[Us against the rest]

If its Burton...

mmmmmm

 

[Us against the rest]

If its Burton...

Could end up like this..
or or or

 

[BornPort]

What a dumb thing for Tredrea to post while we've got the king of no-hopers on a 3 year extension.

 

[wingardsmark]

Could end up like this..
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Yeah maybe I just won't watch our games against Hawthorn next year

 

[Janus]

C. Wingard - 3 votes
C. Rioli - 2 votes
R. Burton - 1 vote

C. Wingard

8 votes in 2013
6 votes in 2014
6 votes in 2015
3 votes in 2016
4 votes in 2017
4 votes in 2018

I’m more confident that he’ll do nothing against us. He did nothing against everyone else.