How so? I thought the supporters of a true footy club, like the glorious PAFC, would be the types who stick around until the end, even if they are getting pumped.
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How so? I thought the supporters of a true footy club, like the glorious PAFC, would be the types who stick around until the end, even if they are getting pumped.
Semantics but 14 points down with 2:15 left is against momentum is pretty much game over. 9 points with 3 and a half minutes left it is still game on.
Why do you care? No, seriously, why? What possible difference could it make to you?
Outside of the absurd notion that one supporter base does it and another doesn't (newsflash: they all do), it just seems such an arbitrary thing to latch onto. Somehow you're a better person because you stay that extra 2:15? People can come and go whenever they like, there's no requirement to stay until the end. The fact that you have chosen this as indication that Port are better supporters than the Crows only serves to highlight how juvenile your attitude really is.
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All supporters leave early, there were plenty of Collingwood supporters leaving the Eastern stand last week with 5 minutes to go when they were only 22 points down.
Don't forget Port supporters have to actually be at the stadium to leave early, its pretty easy to miss people leaving early when there is only 15,000 at the game to start with, such as during the primus years in 2011/2012.
Don't forget Port supporters have to actually be at the stadium to leave early, its pretty easy to miss people leaving early when there is only 15,000 at the game to start with, such as during the primus years in 2011/2012.
Suck it up - it's evidence.
Evidence that your mob are full of sh...t - the only difference is that our supporter base keeps turning up, whereas you lot just desert your glorious club when the going gets tough.
Pathetic
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Over 57000 members now. Crows are flying.
To be fair I'm pretty sure it was around the 28 minute mark during the last quarter against the dees when all of them started pouring out. Anyway if I was one to leave early I would have in that game because it was the most pathetic display of football I have seen my team put up, regardless of whether we were a chance to win.
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Numbers have broken through 57,000 barrier tonight, we are now at 57,063!
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Could we give out smoker's memberships?
They get a season ticket for each quarter so they can nip out during the breaks, then come back in.
Count as four members, same price.
We save on printing pass outs too
They get a season ticket for each quarter so they can nip out during the breaks, then come back in.
Count as four members, same price.
We save on printing pass outs too
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Crows were down by 12 points against North Melbourne at Etihad last year with 2 minutes and 15 seconds to go? So according to your theory if we were down by 2 extra points. Btw 12 plus 2 is 14. Our fans at Etihad Stadium would of had the right to leave early and not be scrutinised for leaving early?
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And don't give me that momentum rubbish everyone knows momentum can change any second in footy
Rucci pretty much a lying on Fiveaa. Talking about Port apparently overselling areas for tonights game to boost the crowd and asked "but aren't no shows usually in the members stand?" to which he replied "yes but you will find that uh certain parts get re-classified", no general public tickets have ever been made available there right?
Then he and Daniel Norton went on to justify Port setting up a members stand outside the game near the gates to sell 3 game memberships (into their general admission areas) to people wanting to go to tonight's game, when general admission single tickets have "sold out".
So now what's the difference between doing that and giving free access to our Gold Coast game, they are pretty much promoting it as buy a ticket to tonights game and get access to 2 more. Hopefully the do fill the stadium and a heap of their supporters are turned away.
Then he and Daniel Norton went on to justify Port setting up a members stand outside the game near the gates to sell 3 game memberships (into their general admission areas) to people wanting to go to tonight's game, when general admission single tickets have "sold out".
So now what's the difference between doing that and giving free access to our Gold Coast game, they are pretty much promoting it as buy a ticket to tonights game and get access to 2 more. Hopefully the do fill the stadium and a heap of their supporters are turned away.
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I bought a general admin ticket.
No way I'm contributing to their interspecies members numbers.
No way I'm contributing to their interspecies members numbers.
I got the three game membership for the Showdown and this game. Undecided on the third game. Should be a good night a great game IMO and no excuses for not smashing our nonshowdown crowd record.
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Could we give out smoker's memberships?
They get a season ticket for each quarter so they can nip out during the breaks, then come back in.
Count as four members, same price.
We save on printing pass outs too
It's time we reached out to the schizophrenic community. Imagine how many memberships we could sell if we gave every personality in someone a membership!
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How are we ever going to sell another membership........ever!!
I really had to cringe when I read that Powa troll's effort in the Hun today, I reckon he shot his bolt all over his screen after reading what he'd written!! Like a lot of their supporters he's setting himself up for a massive fall when everything doesn't go to script!!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...ed-port-adelaide/story-fni5f4l8-1226932080315
HERE is a question asked in all seriousness: How many Crows fans wish their club was like Port Adelaide?
As deep — and bitter — as the rivalry is between the two SA-based AFL clubs, how many Crows supporters are surveying the landscape today and concluding things are being done better at Alberton?
On the field, the Power has:
A TEAM that ranks as the competition pacesetter with an 8-1 record. Adelaide has not known such a status since 2005 when Neil Craig introduced “zones” to make the Crows the toughest team to play against.
BETTER players. There would be more Power players today up for All-Australian nomination than at Adelaide.
A MORE entertaining game plan that has stood up in every Showdown against the Crows since Ken Hinkley arrived as senior coach last year. Hinkley has built his game on defence, but it also demands exciting, hard-running plays through the centre corridor to make the Power a high-scoring team.
A SOUNDER football program — with a proven fitness coach in Darren Burgess and a genuine development system in the SANFL with the Magpies.
SMARTER recruiting system with Geoff Parker and list manager Jason Cripps having delivered in the off-season with Jared Polec, Matt White and Jarman Impey.
Off the field, Port has:
A SAVVY events team that is constantly developing a far better pre-game build-up at Adelaide Oval than the Crows who should question how giving the “19th Man” flag a lap of honour before a match can be considered entertaining.
Flag raising — and folksy chants — simply cannot compare with the “Never Tear Us Apart” theme that accompanies the Power team in the 60 seconds before the opening bounce.
MORE appeal to the “neutral” fan wanting to experience the Oval as an event rather than just a football game.
A YOUNGER supporter group that is giving the Oval a feel that is the talk of the nation — and inspired Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy to dub the venue as “The Portress”.
GREATER national media appeal, as evidenced by AFL360 crew on the Fox Footy Channel “adopting” the Power as their team.
STRONGER voices — particularly from president David Koch who has given up seeking any friends in the old guard at SANFL House. This is strange considering Koch is based in Sydney and his Adelaide counterpart Rob Chapman is in town.
As the most-powerful man in SA football, Chapman is well connected in business. He can call up any of the many Crows ambassadors in the media to take up a club cause — or to set the agenda — in a 10-minute radio spot.
The Crows are now independent of SANFL control, so there is no risk of Chapman or his chief executive Steven Trigg being asked to hand back their club tie should they say anything out of line with the SANFL script.
So, as much as it hurts to think it, would Crows fans prefer the Adelaide Football Club to resemble Port Adelaide today?
I really had to cringe when I read that Powa troll's effort in the Hun today, I reckon he shot his bolt all over his screen after reading what he'd written!! Like a lot of their supporters he's setting himself up for a massive fall when everything doesn't go to script!!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...ed-port-adelaide/story-fni5f4l8-1226932080315
HERE is a question asked in all seriousness: How many Crows fans wish their club was like Port Adelaide?
As deep — and bitter — as the rivalry is between the two SA-based AFL clubs, how many Crows supporters are surveying the landscape today and concluding things are being done better at Alberton?
On the field, the Power has:
A TEAM that ranks as the competition pacesetter with an 8-1 record. Adelaide has not known such a status since 2005 when Neil Craig introduced “zones” to make the Crows the toughest team to play against.
BETTER players. There would be more Power players today up for All-Australian nomination than at Adelaide.
A MORE entertaining game plan that has stood up in every Showdown against the Crows since Ken Hinkley arrived as senior coach last year. Hinkley has built his game on defence, but it also demands exciting, hard-running plays through the centre corridor to make the Power a high-scoring team.
A SOUNDER football program — with a proven fitness coach in Darren Burgess and a genuine development system in the SANFL with the Magpies.
SMARTER recruiting system with Geoff Parker and list manager Jason Cripps having delivered in the off-season with Jared Polec, Matt White and Jarman Impey.
Off the field, Port has:
A SAVVY events team that is constantly developing a far better pre-game build-up at Adelaide Oval than the Crows who should question how giving the “19th Man” flag a lap of honour before a match can be considered entertaining.
Flag raising — and folksy chants — simply cannot compare with the “Never Tear Us Apart” theme that accompanies the Power team in the 60 seconds before the opening bounce.
MORE appeal to the “neutral” fan wanting to experience the Oval as an event rather than just a football game.
A YOUNGER supporter group that is giving the Oval a feel that is the talk of the nation — and inspired Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy to dub the venue as “The Portress”.
GREATER national media appeal, as evidenced by AFL360 crew on the Fox Footy Channel “adopting” the Power as their team.
STRONGER voices — particularly from president David Koch who has given up seeking any friends in the old guard at SANFL House. This is strange considering Koch is based in Sydney and his Adelaide counterpart Rob Chapman is in town.
As the most-powerful man in SA football, Chapman is well connected in business. He can call up any of the many Crows ambassadors in the media to take up a club cause — or to set the agenda — in a 10-minute radio spot.
The Crows are now independent of SANFL control, so there is no risk of Chapman or his chief executive Steven Trigg being asked to hand back their club tie should they say anything out of line with the SANFL script.
So, as much as it hurts to think it, would Crows fans prefer the Adelaide Football Club to resemble Port Adelaide today?
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Why didn't he write that article 3 or 4 years ago?
He is a jellyfish flog.
He is a jellyfish flog.
Funnily enough, in a season where the Crows are in the bottom half of the ladder and Port are top, yeah, I'd like it if my club resembled theirs.
Most of that article is fluff though. I don't care about how entertaining the pre-game song is, or who has "greater national appeal" (they're only everyone's second team because they've been shite for so damn long anyway). I care about winning games of football, and in that area Port has us beaten at the moment.
Most of that article is fluff though. I don't care about how entertaining the pre-game song is, or who has "greater national appeal" (they're only everyone's second team because they've been shite for so damn long anyway). I care about winning games of football, and in that area Port has us beaten at the moment.
They are flying at present, but they'll come down to earth. It is important to remember that while they are up at present, they have won nothing except games of footy early in the season.
I wouldn't have my club have their history in the AFL for quids. A mendicant club that exists because of handouts. Constant internal strife. A supporter base that deserted them for years while they puddled around in chaos and then gets on the bandwagon when they come good.
While I would certainly prefer their results to ours this season, I don't want our club to be like theirs.
I wouldn't have my club have their history in the AFL for quids. A mendicant club that exists because of handouts. Constant internal strife. A supporter base that deserted them for years while they puddled around in chaos and then gets on the bandwagon when they come good.
While I would certainly prefer their results to ours this season, I don't want our club to be like theirs.
I wouldn't say no to swapping our year for theirs but for anything else they can stick it up their collective arses.
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Membership Updated this afternoon to 57,231
