Let's talk Ports! Part 3

[all seeing eye]

Yeah all those old wool stores should be upmarket apartments and it would be nice to see an apartment that is a decent size.

The old wool stores were once used to house post war British migrants, theycould smell the lanolin and it was atrocious in the 40c aussie summer apparently.

 

[PortPortPort]

Yeah I just looked up the project. A spur line they said. Branching off.

Yeah look I think there is a lot of potential in that Pirate Life/Warehousey area. It's got a funky vibe and if they do it right could be a very popular spot

Sometimes feels like I'm in Robocop driving around there



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The latest Mortal Kombat movie was filmed near Piratelife.

 

[portly]

The old wool stores were once used to house post war British migrants, theycould smell the lanolin and it was atrocious in the 40c aussie summer apparently.

I spent a teenage summer working in a wool store out back of Port Adelaide. Rode my bike there from Largs North.

Nice country smell but itchy, and brushing up floors for weeks was a bit boring.

Not as hard as another summer spent working in the dusty timber processing plant across the other side of town, though.

Also spent many a Saturday counting money in the TAB, paying my way through uni.

Good memories.

 

[edgie]

Oliver Wines

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11.0

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13.3

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3.1

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4.9

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5.1

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19.3

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8.3

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11.0

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1.9

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2.9

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23.0

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referring to us as a blue collar club

 

[Poo Eckert]

Oliver Wines referring to us as a blue collar club

Well aren’t we? Always been a work class club, desperate to prove the doubters wrong

 

[edgie]

Well aren’t we? Always been a work class club, desperate to prove the doubters wrong

Is Ollie Wines earning a working class wage compared to say, some average player from Sydney?

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[PowerLil]

Well aren’t we? Always been a work class club, desperate to prove the doubters wrong

Were.

 

[TazD]

Can't believe the concrete prince would say something so out of touch.

 

[Steve Dore]

Well aren’t we? Always been a work class club, desperate to prove the doubters wrong

Myself, my spouse and all of my siblings are PAFC members and we are all current or retired professionals. My grandfather was a blue collar worker and the reason my generation are Ports supporters but we have moved beyond being a working class club.

 

[edgie]

Myself, my spouse and all of my siblings are PAFC members and we are all current or retired professionals. My grandfather was a blue collar worker and the reason my generation are Ports supporters but we have moved beyond being a working class club.

Most Collingwood fans I know are pretty far from the toothless bogan stereotype these days.

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[Steve Dore]

Most Collingwood fans I know are pretty far from the toothless bogan stereotype these days.

Friends of ours, met through my wife's previous employment, live in a multi-million dollar house in Hawthorn, are Collingwood members and hosted us at a Collingwood v Ports game at the MCG in the Medallion Club seating. But we're all, Ports and Collingwood supporters, toothless unemployed bogans.

 

[Papa G]

Yeah the working class schtick is tiresome. Wharfies pretty much disappeared in the early 80s. Most of the western suburbs are desirable places to live these days. I've lived east for the last 25 years. Port supporters everywhere.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Myself, my spouse and all of my siblings are PAFC members and we are all current or retired professionals. My grandfather was a blue collar worker and the reason my generation are Ports supporters but we have moved beyond being a working class club.

I thought you were a stevedore

 

[Steve Dore]

I thought you were a stevedore

International Trade Facilitator

 

[malcheski]

The Port is blue collar I tells ya......

 

[1954]

Yeah the working class schtick is tiresome. Wharfies pretty much disappeared in the early 80s. Most of the western suburbs are desirable places to live these days. I've lived east for the last 25 years. Port supporters everywhere.

Absolutely agree, eg the last wharf labourer who played for the club was Reg Beaufoy in the 1960's, and when I went with a friend to collect her daughter from a bus stop at the top end of Fullarton road after a Port game in the early 2000's there were at least a dozen others who got off that bus wearing Power gear.

 

[thundercloud]

Absolutely agree, eg the last wharf labourer who played for the club was Reg Beaufoy in the 1960's, and when I went with a friend to collect her daughter from a bus stop at the top end of Fullarton road after a Port game in the early 2000's there were at least a dozen others who got off that bus wearing Power gear.

Beaufoy big centre half forward, solid, not that mobile perhaps if recall right.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

International Trade Facilitator

Oh a cowboy then!

 

[1954]

Beaufoy big centre half forward, solid, not that mobile perhaps if recall right.

That was him, he could kick the ball a country mile and from memory played in the 1965 winning gf against sturt.

He unfortunately had serious health issues and passed away when only in his early 40's.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

To be fair, Ollie was reading from a script that could have been better worded. Our history is as a working class club, just as the prison bars are part of our history, and we don't deny them.

But we have moved on from the Marxian Dialectic and it is a bit naff to talk about a multi-million dollar AFL club being surprised to have state of the art facilities.

 

[VineValerian]

International Trade Facilitator

Oh!
A bullshit artist then.

Do you coalesce the vapours of human experience and history, to formulate a coherent and sustainable narrative regarding the importing and exporting of goods and services across national borders?

 

[NoddyHolder]

Why are you all carrying on like being working class is something to be ashamed of?

 

[edgie]

Why are you all carrying on like being working class is something to be ashamed of?

It's nothing to be ashamed of, if it's true.

Port Adelaide is a professional AFL club, with crowd figures and revenue in the middle of the pack of almost 20 multi million dollar clubs. It has to pay it's players a minimum salary cap. Ollie Wines has been a very good player since his first ever game and therefore should have been commanding above average AFL wages his entire career.

These people talking themselves down to working class is disappointing for them and insulting to the actual working class.

They could see we maintain a working class attitude, we represent a working class area, but the club itself is a historically very successful organisation that elevated itself beyond that.

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[malcheski]

Why are you all carrying on like being working class is something to be ashamed of?

It is nothing to be ashamed of, however from the chairman to the playing list, it is used as an out, an excuse as to why we can't have nice things and in-turn, can't compete for a flag.

It is the ultimate cop out.

 

[Grave Danger]

Oh a cowboy then!

More like Daisy Borlase I would hope...wait, what?