Laughing Out Loud At Port Power!!!

[subaru]

Woo who Mister Timemachine
Port Patheticaide..LOL

Mr Time machine -- that's a cracker!

 

[Damp Squarie]

Fancy tanking and admitting to it
PoRt pOWeR

The picture above is either PoRt pOWeRs backline or new culture born of the laughalution/

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/sport/afl/story/0,26547,24165572-5016212,00.html

 

[xamol]

Way to give up Choco

 

[D_One]

Way to give up Choco

That’s not giving up. Giving up is when you make the Grand Final one year, have a really bad season the next year and you walk away like an absolute loser. Just like Blighty did in 1999. Choco's gonna hang around and fight his way out of it unlike that contemptible coward of a deserter, Blighty.

 

[Geoffa32]

That’s not giving up. Giving up is when you make the Grand Final one year, have a really bad season the next year and you walk away like an absolute loser. Just like Blighty did in 1999. Choco's gonna hang around and fight his way out of it unlike that contemptible coward of a deserter, Blighty.

Not if the GC offer some decent coin.....

 

[Niximus]

That’s not giving up. Giving up is when you make the Grand Final one year, have a really bad season the next year and you walk away like an absolute loser. Just like Blighty did in 1999. Choco's gonna hang around and fight his way out of it unlike that contemptible coward of a deserter, Blighty.

Blight's wife was seriously ill in 1999, he was extremely stressed and left so that he could spend time with her.

Classy D-One.....

 

[xamol]

That’s not giving up. Giving up is when you make the Grand Final one year, have a really bad season the next year and you walk away like an absolute loser. Just like Blighty did in 1999. Choco's gonna hang around and fight his way out of it unlike that contemptible coward of a deserter, Blighty.

Blight's wife was seriously ill in 1999, he was extremely stressed and left so that he could spend time with her.

Classy D-One.....

All class D. where's that rock?

 

[D_One]

All class D. where's that rock?

Any proof of this?

From http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s36198.htm

MALCOLM BLIGHT: I'm pretty tired actually. You know, I've been going sort of thirty years in this game now, and when we started to review this season and started talking about the year 2000 and what the club should do and where it should head and all that sort of stuff, I just couldn't get my whole mind around it. You know, another pre-season, another whole crack at it, and yeah, the battery's really running down.

And as Bob said, you know, I'm certainly committed to doing everything I can in the last seven weeks, but beyond that I think probably Malcolm Blight and football and playing and coaching is over.

I mean I've had a pretty good run for thirty years so I think it's just time to look at something else in your life and just take a spell. You know, I'm not going to do anything, really, for the next twelve months.

Show me a newslink and I'll apologise to the insane one.

 

[subaru]

That’s not giving up. Giving up is when you make the Grand Final one year, have a really bad season the next year and you walk away like an absolute loser. Just like Blighty did in 1999. Choco's gonna hang around and fight his way out of it unlike that contemptible coward of a deserter, Blighty.

Best news I've heard all day

 

[benpower]

Blight's wife was seriously ill in 1999, he was extremely stressed and left so that he could spend time with her.

Classy D-One.....

So he went to coach another club a year later!!!

 

[benpower]

Port honestly were the worst team I've seen play Carlton in nearly 8 years (biggest losing margain as well lol) ..
They really were rubbish ...
Melbourne would have defeated them yesterday...

Lucky you said 'play carlton', because i have seen Carlton play worse that that many times over the last 8 years!!

 

[Niximus]

So he went to coach another club a year later!!!

By that time her life was no longer threatened. Seriously, in 1999 there was a chance of her dying, I'd like to see any of you do your jobs properly with that hanging over your head.

 

[malph]

By that time her life was no longer threatened. Seriously, in 1999 there was a chance of her dying, I'd like to see any of you do your jobs properly with that hanging over your head.

I'm not going to accuse you of being wrong, but I have never heard that story before. Do you have a link?

 

[Niximus]

I'm not going to accuse you of being wrong, but I have never heard that story before. Do you have a link?

It wasn't widely publicised in the Media but I thought it was pretty common knowledge that she was sick in 1999 and that was a major factor in his decision. Though at the time it was only a rumour, it was confirmed later after she was out of the woods that she had indeed been very sick.

Best I can find on the internet is

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22194854.html

AAP General News (Australia)
07-16-1999
SA: Main stories in today s Adelaide newspapers

ADELAIDE, July 16 AAP - The main stories in today's Adelaide Advertiser:

P.1 - Police investigate bikie gang rivalry after bomb blasts rock Adelaide's north-western
suburbs.

P.2 - Study shows outsourcing of SA government's computer systems has injected $225 million
into state's economy.

P.3 - Wife of Crows coach Malcolm Blight denies rumours of her failing health and says
she's well.

OVERSEAS - Prince Charles attacks poor teaching of children in recent years, which he says
has created a moral and cultural void (London); China says it can now build a neutron bomb
(Beijing); Girl has half her ...

 

[D_One]

It wasn't widely publicised in the Media but I thought it was pretty common knowledge that she was sick in 1999 and that was a major factor in his decision. Though at the time it was only a rumour, it was confirmed later after she was out of the woods that she had indeed been very sick.

Best I can find on the internet is

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22194854.html

I contacted two people associated with Blighty’s family and both said they believed there were health issues but neither could pinpoint when they were. I also rang a friend who worked at the Crows at the time and he confirmed that the health rumours were around but they were not true. He did confirm a few more rumours from that time. Something to do with a ladder and the players awarding themselves “level of abuse” medals. Matt Connell got gold, I can’t remember who got the silver but Matt Robran got the bronze.

 

[Niximus]

I contacted two people associated with Blighty’s family and both said they believed there were health issues but neither could pinpoint when they were. I also rang a friend who worked at the Crows at the time and he confirmed that the health rumours were around but they were not true. He did confirm a few more rumours from that time. Something to do with a ladder and the players awarding themselves “level of abuse” medals. Matt Connell got gold, I can’t remember who got the silver but Matt Robran got the bronze.

If people who know his family remember her having health problems then it would be this they remember.

 

[footy4ever]

Couldnt resist revisiting this thread.

As the weeks pass and the Power Failure go from really bad to terminally bad, I love to hear/read/see the latest CHOCCO antics. When will the power admin listen to its supporters and sack this loser?

Well, never I hope. Its so much fun watching the best zip-4 team ever, fail constantly, sign him up for more of the same and keep the population forever amused.

 

[Campbell's Chunky]

 

[subaru]

I contacted two people associated with Blighty’s family and both said they believed there were health issues but neither could pinpoint when they were. I also rang a friend who worked at the Crows at the time and he confirmed that the health rumours were around but they were not true. He did confirm a few more rumours from that time. Something to do with a ladder and the players awarding themselves “level of abuse” medals. Matt Connell got gold, I can’t remember who got the silver but Matt Robran got the bronze.

Mate - get a life......

Are you related to Rucci ?

 

[footyfreak]

I contacted two people associated with Blighty’s family and both said they believed there were health issues but neither could pinpoint when they were. I also rang a friend who worked at the Crows at the time and he confirmed that the health rumours were around but they were not true. He did confirm a few more rumours from that time. Something to do with a ladder and the players awarding themselves “level of abuse” medals. Matt Connell got gold, I can’t remember who got the silver but Matt Robran got the bronze.

I can confirm the matt connell abuse part. One of my mates played at the crows and i was asking him only last weekend about Blight in relation to the Saints sacking and was his behaviour similar at the crows (not going to training much in pre season etc / all the reasons st kilda sacked him)

He mentioned that the abuse MC copped in that last year was like nothing he had ever seen before (and he had been on the end of plenty of Blight's cracker sprays). Apparently it was humiliating and degrading beyond what even blight was famous for. Nasty. Didn't rate him clearly.

Also said the guy was a gun coach, had an amazing football insight and that St Kilda ****ed up by not doing their homework as the way he behaved there was the same as at Adelaide and look what happened in 97/98.

my 2 cents.

 

[xamol]

Still laughing!!

What a year they are having!!

 

[subaru]

It's actually starting to hurt now ....I reckon I've cracked a rib!

How's that crowd Friday night - what a cracker!

 

[xamol]

It's actually starting to hurt now ....I reckon I've cracked a rib!

How's that crowd Friday night - what a cracker!

Sub, my stomach muscles will never be the same. It started happening after the GF last year, and has continue all this year.
Damn you Port Adelaide

 

[Asgardian]

By that time her life was no longer threatened. Seriously, in 1999 there was a chance of her dying, I'd like to see any of you do your jobs properly with that hanging over your head.

You are talking like an adolescent, without life experiences.

People in that situation do their jobs maybe even better than they ever have, because that job is vital to everything else within their life. That job will pay for any & all necessary treatments, and whatever else is thrown up at them by way problems.

People in that situation do not fall apart, except for the understandable initial shock when bad news is first transmitted to them, after that they get down to business, doing what they have to do to survive.

This is how the vast majority react, this is how they have to react in order to cope. If they fall apart at the seams they'll do no-one any favours, least of all themselves or their partners.

Your comments are easy throw away lines, ones that most who have not the experience are likely to make. But they are wrong, dead wrong.

 

[Niximus]

You are talking like an adolescent, without life experiences.

People in that situation do their jobs maybe even better than they ever have, because that job is vital to everything else within their life. That job will pay for any & all necessary treatments, and whatever else is thrown up at them by way problems.

People in that situation do not fall apart, except for the understandable initial shock when bad news is first transmitted to them, after that they get down to business, doing what they have to do to survive.

This is how the vast majority react, this is how they have to react in order to cope. If they fall apart at the seams they'll do no-one any favours, least of all themselves or their partners.

Your comments are easy throw away lines, ones that most who have not the experience are likely to make. But they are wrong, dead wrong.

Are you crazy?

Take a high stress situation and throw in more stress and you do better? I'm sorry Asguardian, people don't work that way.

I am not speaking as an adolescent with no life experience. I am talking as a human being. I have had relatives and loved ones very sick and I can tell you that work was the last thing on my mind.

Not everyone is a cold-hearted freak like you.