I'm a True Believer

[Enviable Tradition]

I'm tired of this True Believer bullshit with it being implied that to be a True Believer TM you need to blindly follow and celebrate every decision the club makes. This is the antithesis of a real Port Adelaide True Believer IMO.

I have always believed in the ethos of the Port Adelaide Football Club. I live my life by it.

I truly believe in the processes that made Port Adelaide great (the most successful club in Australia)

I truly believe in the Creed

I truly believe that success (in the form of a premiership) is a noble achievement

I truly believe in cleaning out the no hopers

I truly believe in open honest feedback over the modern everyone gets a medal approach

I truly believe in that we can celebrate effort when we have done everything we can to leave no stone unturned in our chase for success and not accepted mediocrity in any of our perpetration, personnel or performance.

In short I'm a True Believer in the Port Adelaide Football Club (not the current coach, admin or board).

And don't you dare suggest otherwise.

 

[chiwigi]

I'm tired of this True Believer bullshit with it being implied that to be a True Believer TM you need to blindly follow and celebrate ever decision the club makes. This is the antithesis of a real Port Adelaide True Believer IMO.

I have always believed in the ethos of the Port Adelaide Football Club. I live my life by it.

I truly believe in the Creed

I truly believe that success (in the form of a premiership) is a noble achievement

I truly believe in cleaning out the no hopers

I truly believe in open honest feedback over the modern everyone gets a medal approach

I truly believe in that we can celebrate effort when we have done everything we can to leave no stone unturned in our chase for success and not accepted mediocrity in any of our perpetration, personnel or performance.

In short I'm a True Believer in the Port Adelaide Football Club (not the current coach, admin or board).

And don't you dare suggest otherwise.

HAND CLAPPING GIF

 

[manureid]

Yeh its a load of wank at this stage.

 

[chiwigi]

Sent my email this morning, enough is enough.

Please cancel my auto-renewal:

I will NOT be renewing if Ken Hinkley is at the club next year. He has led us to unprecedented mediocrity and shown over an entire decade that he doesn’t have what it takes.


If he leaves next season I will gladly re-start my auto-renewal and membership.


I do this with a heavy heart, I have been a member in EVERY year I have lived in Australia, I was in the 13k crowds we had at AAMI and with the 50 or so we used to take to the MCG and Geelong, but enough is enough. If the club are too soft to act on something so fundamental then I will have to resort to the only thing left, and that is to remove my financial support.


I have a large number of friends who will be doing the same. The loss of memberships will far outweigh any cost to doing this.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Jonestown was full of True Believers


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[Sheeds]

I have never been a great fan of the 'True Believers' tag. Sounds like a Donald Trump Fan Club or group of people who come together to discuss UFO sightings.

 

[powerrrrrrrrrrrr]

 

[Capital Power]

It's just modern management practice - in my last job it was positioned as a "victim/player" mentality - you're either a team player (ie you do as you're told and suck it up) or a victim (you assume that everyone is against you because you want to do things differently). It's just a way of maintaining control in an environment managed by spreadsheet.

Weirdly, this has all changed in the generations since I started work. In my first role it was made clear that the "wild ducks" who went off on their own were often the instigators of meaningful corporate change. Not any more it would seem.

The Club is making it clear that those who buy customerships and wave their scarves are more welcome than those (often with generations of commitment) who seek to challenge.

 

[Lefti93]

True beliebers

 

[TazD]

And Kochie's a fart smeller

 

[tribey]

The cultists have utterly conflated high-ranking individuals with the very club itself — ergo, criticise (‘attack’) the individual and you’re criticising (‘attacking’) the club.

The notion that Hinkley or Koch is a temporary custodian who could be removed for poor performance and replaced with someone better (as with any annual delisted player) is utterly lost on them — combine this with the Mandela Effected saviour narrative that Hinkley arrived with Boak, Gray and Wingard in his knapsack and Koch built Adelaide Oval with his bare hands — and these two and the 152 year old institution they currently inhabit, are seen as one and the same, ride or die.

So pasting a vote of no confidence as plainly and inoffensively-stated as ‘SACK HINKLEY’ translates roughly to ‘PORT POWER FERALS SUCK A DEEK 119 119 119’ in the eyes of the ‘Trooba Leaver’.

And as such, you’re either a troll, a hater, or are invited to go elsewhere.

 

[crows dude]

The creed was created in 1962. 60 years ago. When Port would win premierships for fun. Unfortunately it is not that easy these days and that is why when you get a chance to win a premiership enjoy it as it could be 30 years before you get another chance.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

The creed was created in 1962. 60 years ago. When Port would win premierships for fun. Unfortunately it is not that easy these days and that is why when you get a chance to win a premiership enjoy it as it could be 30 years before you get another chance.

You don't understand the Creed.

The expectation is to be the best, or die trying. Not to win a flag every year.

We are miles off of the AFL benchmark (Hawks, Richmond, Geelong, WCE) and we seem happy with and try to justify where we're at. The 2nd part of that is the true problem.

 

[PJ Power]

The creed was created in 1962. 60 years ago. When Port would win premierships for fun. Unfortunately it is not that easy these days and that is why when you get a chance to win a premiership enjoy it as it could be 30 years before you get another chance.

With that attitude and mindset, which is not far away from Ken and Kochy's, it will be another 30 years before we get a chance.
Think and talk like it's too hard, and it sure as hell will be.

 

[tribey]

The creed was created in 1962. 60 years ago. When Port would win premierships for fun. Unfortunately it is not that easy these days and that is why when you get a chance to win a premiership enjoy it as it could be 30 years before you get another chance.

Tell us you have no idea without telling us

 

[Grave Danger]

Needs just one of the 30 to sneak in a Sack Hinkley sign. Heck, if they're true true believers they'd all have a Sack Hinkley sign!

 

[tribey]

Rough summary:

• The club is bigger than the individual and the individual is just passing through — do your utmost to leave the place in a better state than you found it, like those before you.

• To win a flag everyone has to pull together and give 100% to the cause — this requires personal sacrifice and spurning half-measures.

• If we still fail, we can live with that as long as everyone gave it everything and we learn from the experience in order to improve the next time.

Timeless ideals to live by.

Opposition fans be like: “PUT YOUR 8-TRACK CASSETTES AND BRYLCREEM AWAY YOU’RE NOT PLAYING GLENELG ANYMORE!”

 

[Workingclass]

Isn't the Creed a beer?

 

[Loony Juice]

I'm tired of this True Believer bullshit with it being implied that to be a True Believer TM you need to blindly follow and celebrate every decision the club makes. This is the antithesis of a real Port Adelaide True Believer IMO.

I have always believed in the ethos of the Port Adelaide Football Club. I live my life by it.

I truly believe in the processes that made Port Adelaide great (the most successful club in Australia)

I truly believe in the Creed

I truly believe that success (in the form of a premiership) is a noble achievement

I truly believe in cleaning out the no hopers

I truly believe in open honest feedback over the modern everyone gets a medal approach

I truly believe in that we can celebrate effort when we have done everything we can to leave no stone unturned in our chase for success and not accepted mediocrity in any of our perpetration, personnel or performance.

In short I'm a True Believer in the Port Adelaide Football Club (not the current coach, admin or board).

And don't you dare suggest otherwise.

So do I, of course.

Despite the disdain with which us Old School/Hardcore/Lifelong/Diehard/Death before dishonour etc types* are viewed, it would be tantamount to deliberate self destruction.

BigDavy LittleKoch might be an arrogant, out of touch, condescending invertebrate, but even he would comprehend that it would stain his 'great legacy as the supreme leader of the Port Adelaide Football Club' to do anything but

SACK KERNEL FINKLEY

* I have used the term True Believer in multiple previous posts, not being aware that the term is used by at least some of the happy clapper brigade.
To me True Believer is a term that applied to just about every aspect of my love and support for PAFC. Being that I always believed any bad times, lack of success were short lived and abhorred by all and sundry involved with The Great Port Adelaide Football Club prior to the infestation

Great post.

Sums things up so well. The thing about being a Port supporter was not to be, or need to be spoonfed. Quite the opposite really. We prided ourselves on the 'us against them' mentality, and some of our greatest triumphs were after being widely written off by the anti-Port SA media.

I have used the term 'True Believer' in other posts, not knowing it had been adopted, bastard-child like by the happy clappers. But I am a True Believer in the PAFC as it was, but recent times, the last 5-7 years, have shaken and reduced that belief like never before. Get these snivelling invertebrates out of OUR CLUB NOW

SACK HINKLEY

Great post ET

The Creed is timeless, if anything it applies doubly now given the infestation of mediocrity and rancidity

PORT ADELAIDE TIL I DIE

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

artificial slogan, just like the artificial band.

 

[afl2004]

When Jarrod Walsh says "true believer" for the 10th time

 

[Igavemyloveachicken]

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Rough summary:

• The club is bigger than the individual and the individual is just passing through — do your utmost to leave the place in a better state than you found it, like those before you.

• To win a flag everyone has to pull together and give 100% to the cause — this requires personal sacrifice and spurning half-measures.

• If we still fail, we can live with that as long as everyone gave it everything and we learn from the experience in order to improve the next time.

Timeless ideals to live by.

Opposition fans be like: “PUT YOUR 8-TRACK CASSETTES AND BRYLCREEM AWAY YOU’RE NOT PLAYING GLENELG ANYMORE!”

Firstly I like your post and I believe in The Creed, its principles should be instilled in any person that represents the Port Adelaide Football Club be it a player or someone in Administration.
Unfortunately I think that such mantras get eroded given the nature of the national competition with draftees coming from all areas of Australia.
The more professional that a sport becomes, the more money involved, the less value that contracts have, the draft system and the removal of zones over time gradually dilute such mantras. Football Clubs become less about being representative of one's community and more about a Business and Sport model.
The Kangaroo's have the 'Shinboner Spirit' which you'd hardly say they've lived up to of late.
Look at World Sport at a club like Manchester United, I'm not a fan of them but it's obvious that players don't play for the shirt because so few have come from the academy amongst a number of other reasons.

 

[benblinkau]

Literally the worst page on facebook. Our club’s gotta be up there with some of the biggest nuffs in the AFL.


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