Let's talk Ports! Part 3

[Del165198]

I was there before another game when Dani Ladley was there and only just left before the game started and was an assistant coach

Only via Skype, might have called in to Primus on the laptop from the pub

 

[Steve Dore]

PAFC Creed Lager #3

ABV: 4.5% The Creed Lager tells the story of Fos Williams' Creed through a 4 part can release - black, white, silver and teal. Each of those colours represent a pillar of the Port Adelaide Football Club and the role that pillar has played within it for over 150 years. The teal can represents our...

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Looking forward to the Hinkley The Saviour edition.

 

[Capital Power]

PAFC Creed Lager #3

ABV: 4.5% The Creed Lager tells the story of Fos Williams' Creed through a 4 part can release - black, white, silver and teal. Each of those colours represent a pillar of the Port Adelaide Football Club and the role that pillar has played within it for over 150 years. The teal can represents our...

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Looking forward to the Hinkley The Saviour edition.

Isn't the Creed now reduced to "we exist to play footy"?

 

[Festerz]

A few days late but this memory popped up on my phone today.

From that memorable game on 9 July 2015 following the tragic death of Phil Walsh the week before. A gutsy win against Collingwood and this photo catches the emotion of the players really well:

 

[Grave Danger]

Hang in there Trevor...

 

[Ford Fairlane]

There are premierships to be won.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Dave belts a future Port captain and teammate.

 

[RossFC]

 

[RossFC]

If anyone is going to the men's training session, please let us know who is wearing the Prison Bars this week.

School holiday open training sessions

Port Adelaide supporters will have a chance to see both the men's and women's teams in action at Alberton Oval with a number of training sessions to be opened to the public this school holidays.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

Open session details – all at Alberton Oval:
Wednesday 13 July | 9.45am (Men’s)
Thursday 21 July | 9.45am (Men’s)
Saturday 23 July | 9am (Women’s)

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

If anyone is going to the men's training session, please let us know who is wearing the Prison Bars this week.

School holiday open training sessions

Port Adelaide supporters will have a chance to see both the men's and women's teams in action at Alberton Oval with a number of training sessions to be opened to the public this school holidays.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

Open session details – all at Alberton Oval:
Wednesday 13 July | 9.45am (Men’s)
Thursday 21 July | 9.45am (Men’s)
Saturday 23 July | 9am (Women’s)

Re connecting with the fans? About time. Maybe we will make a few $$$ as people sit and watch from the new balcony section.

But will all of Ken's secret plans that needed to be behind closed doors, be exposed and we will we lose our edge?

I probably shouldn't be so cynical, as no doubt covid has played a big part in keeping the fans out the last 3 seasons.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

2 or 3 years ago after hearing Koch a few times say that the old saying is - Great teams win games, but Great organisations win Championships, I sent an email to Richo ( before he was CEO), saying he has to pass on to Koch that Greg Boulton had said at the both 2003 and 2004 B&F presentations, that Fos Williams used to say - Individuals win the ball, Teams win games, Clubs win premierships. I even found where it was on the club website quoting Fos, on the premiership fund inattentive pledge page, and included the link.

We do not need our Prez to have to paraphrase what somebody else might have said, our patriarch got it right decades ago.

Timmy G gave the AFLW girls a pep talk last night, the vision is up on the club's website on PTV and also on the club's 2 Twitter accounts and during it, he pulled out this old sign that used to hang up around the club that confirms Fos' sage old words.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The 2017 Premiership Fund page. The fund was started in 2013.

Premiership fund - portadelaidefc.com.au

web.archive.org

...............

To put the potential of the Premiership Fund into context, if we get 10,000 of our 60,000 members to contribute just $5 per win - that's $50,000 per win.

This passion and pursuit of excellence drives us in all that we do. We all have our role to play at Port Adelaide and as Fos Williams once said - "players win the ball, teams win games but clubs win premierships."

By donating to the premiership fund, we are united in this cause to achieve our vision.......................................

 

[NoddyHolder]

2 or 3 years ago after hearing Koch a few times say that the old saying is - Great teams win games, but Great organisations win Championships, I sent an email to Richo ( before he was CEO), saying he has to pass on to Koch that Greg Boulton had said at the both 2003 and 2004 B&F presentations, that Fos Williams used to say - Individuals win the ball, Teams win games, Clubs win premierships. I even found where it was on the club website quoting Fos, on the premiership fund inattentive pledge page, and included the link.

We do not need our Prez to have to paraphrase what somebody else might have said, our patriarch got it right decades ago.

Timmy G gave the AFLW girls a pep talk last night, the vision is up on the club's website on PTV and also on the club's 2 Twitter accounts and during it, he pulled out this old sign that used to hang up around the club that confirms Fos' sage old words.


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Went to Timmy's show at the club a few years back and he said he actually had to rescue that sign from a skip when they were doing some renovations (along with some other club treasures).

He used it as a prop to make his feelings clear on the direction the club was going in then. I imagine he's even less happy now

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Went to Timmy's show at the club a few years back and he said he actually had to rescue that sign from a skip when they were doing some renevations (along with some other club treasures).

He used it as a prop to make his feelings clear on the direction the club was going in then. I imagine he's even less happy now

Over the years lots of stuff under the Quinn stand has been thrown out. Apparently in the late 70's/early 80's there was one big clean out of stuff under the stand. Plenty of stuff was kept, but a lot wasn't. Who knows what treasures were thrown out that were thought less important back then.

 

[JimmyBC]

Not that I'm a huge fan of Grant Thomas but I thought he pretty much described what we have become on SEN today.

Something along the lines of there's only a handful of clubs that are in the business of winning premierships, while others are just happy to be in the AFL & middle around.

He wasn't talking about us specifically but I'm sure we were not in the business of winning flags group, he basically said St. Kilda were hot garbage with no flag on the horizon as well so he seemed pretty lucid lol.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Went to Timmy's show at the club a few years back and he said he actually had to rescue that sign from a skip when they were doing some renovations (along with some other club treasures).

He used it as a prop to make his feelings clear on the direction the club was going in then. I imagine he's even less happy now

Individuals win the ball.

Teams win games.

Clubs win premierships.

Losers chase greatness.

 

[Us against the rest]

Isn't the Creed now reduced to "we exist to play footy"?

Hinkley uses the creed to wipe up the coke zero stains off his desk.

 

[Us against the rest]

As more people that made this club great pass, the easier it will become to dismantle what has been been built over many years and the easier it will be to change the type of supporters that have upheld high standards and expectation.

Jack Cahill and Mark Williams must look on and sigh at what has taken place over the last decade. We are now just about being mediocre with good membership.

I think you all know what I mean, that part of being a Port Adelaide supporter that made you feel a part of something special and feel good about footy and life, we could always hold our heads high and know if we failed this week look out next week.

Is this how St Kilda fans have felt for decades?

 

[VineValerian]

As more people that made this club great pass, the easier it will become to dismantle what has been been built over many years and the easier it will be to change the type of supporters that have upheld high standards and expectation.

Jack Cahill and Mark Williams must look on and sigh at what has taken place over the last decade. We are now just about being mediocre with good membership.

I think you all know what I mean, that part of being a Port Adelaide supporter that made you feel a part of something special and feel good about footy and life, we could always hold our heads high and know if we failed this week look out next week.

Is this how St Kilda fans have felt for decades?

We exist to:
1. play in an elite competition,
2. be a perennial "vanilla-competitive" side, but without achieving the ultimate success,
3. stay solvent financially, albeit with a sizeable(yet manageable) debt,
4. have high membership numbers,
5. have members who don't ask hard questions, nor have high expectations, nor who want unrealistic references to a proud history viz. the PB's.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

 

[NoddyHolder]

It triggers me when Port Adelaide legends get referred to as Port Adelaide Magpies players. Nobody played for Port Adelaide Magpies prior to 1997

 

[RossFC]

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Do you reckon Hinkley would be this blase about how much Port were paying him?








Doesn't hold back on how unprofessional Collingwood were compared to Port.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

When Gav was doing some work for the club in the remote lands he hit a wild donkey in his car on the way back and totalled it (and the donkey too I guess ). Maybe Gav should just stay in the city.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Do you reckon Hinkley would be this blase about how much Port were paying him?








Doesn't hold back on how unprofessional Collingwood were compared to Port.

Right back in the 1970s I realised I could listen all day to John Cahill talk footy.