News PAFC to march to Adelaide Oval

[afl2004]

In a show of strength before games at the redeveloped stadium, Port fans will gather in a teal-decked Rundle Mall before games and march along King William St, across the new River Torrens footbridge and on to the Oval’s southern plaza, starting with Showdown XXXVI on March 29.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...ts-a-record-high/story-fnia6ojc-1226833163989

 

[raman]

Sorry, but: meh

 

[Janus]

Nah - marches should only be reserved for away games. We're not invading our own stadium.

 

[misternoitall]

Nah - marches should only be reserved for away games. We're not invading our own stadium.

I believe this is part of a sponsorship with rundle mall, so if they want to pay the club to get us to march from the city to the game, I'm all for it.

If we take over Melbourne with the march to the G, why not own our own city.

 

[Stewies Power]

Nothing wrong with organising marches for home games, but save them for the big games only imo.

 

[afl2004]

Its worth a try , at least the club is trying to make fans happier on game day , if it does not work they will get rid of it anyway

 

[Stewart2Austin Reborn]

I'd like to do a week-long march from Adelaide to Melbourne.

 

[blackdiamond]

March to line up at the gate, can't see it taking off

 

[Dirty Bird]

I don't like the message it sends as a club.
Retreating from the heart of Adelaide?
Why don't we just admit defeat.

(I'm using "we" as I am actually a Port member)

 

[Relativity]

Nah - marches should only be reserved for away games. We're not invading our own stadium.

Yep. Should be more like a sashay across the terrace, random meander over the billabong and casual war dance through the what ever the Vic Richardson entrance is now called.

 

[Kickpuncher]

To much negativity in here.

I'm all for it.

 

[Stewart2Austin Reborn]

I don't like the message it sends as a club.
Retreating from the heart of Adelaide?
Why don't we just admit defeat.

(I'm using "we" as I am actually a Port member)

Woah with that kind of attitude, fellow pen owner, there may or may not be any Arceus 4 u

 

[Dirty Bird]

Woah with that kind of attitude, fellow pen owner, there may or may not be any Arceus 4 u

I retract my statement.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

KT loved the march to the MCG from Fed square before the Rd 1 game against Melbourne and encouraged it for the 2 finals and got Kochie there to give the troops a pep talk before both finals. I met my nephew there as he lives in Melbourne and had my ticket is with the Vic Supporters group who organised the Rd 1 march, and I did the march for the Collingwood final - but missed it for the Geelong final as got there too late. Made sense on foreign territory.

I stuck this in the Round Ball game thread on the Black Diamond Corner board, and have been thinking about an AO march since the finals and since I watched Bloomberg TV's C-Suite 20 minute show on the Seattle Sounders in October and saw their March to the Match - where 3k to 8k people march from somewhere in downtown Seattle, about a 500m march to the Center Link Field which is where the Sounders play as does their partners Seattle Seahawks. The 2 sporting teams have different owners but a large degree of their staff is one staff working on both teams. And being a US team they have their own band - the Sound Wave that joins in the march. The last video is 2 minutes of the 20 minute story showing the march. For more info see...

http://www.soundersfc.com/matchday/march-to-the-match.aspx


The Western Sydney Wanderers RBB (Red and Black Bloc) grand final day last April.



The club has encouraged our fans to march to the ground as well but not everyweek




WSW fans copied the Seattle Sounders fans and their March to the Match whose average crowds or 43k to 45k would rank them about 20th in the world for average crowds per game ie bigger than most UK, European, Brazilian,and Argentinian clubs. Their average crowds are almost double what the #2 club averages in th MLS. Listen to why majority owner Jo Roth says he bought the team - at approx 1;00 minute - that had failed twice and was playing in the minor leagues. Sound familar about soccer in Sydney and western sydney in particular???


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_attendances_of_European_football_clubs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_home_attendances_in_non-European_club_football





And the Sounders fans probably copied somebody else.

 

[dav3]

I'm not sure what the issue is...... in a town where we're 2nd in terms of support and media exposure, if a 5-10 minute march down a street to games is going to give us and our sponsors a bit of exposure I really can't see what the problem is. I'm pretty sure it's regular thing for things like the EPL.

 

[Duck Farmer]

I'm not sure what the issue is......

I think its because we bagged the Crows plan to do it and we can't be seen to endorse it now without admitting that Triggy is a God and Notso his immaculately conceived disciple.

 

[I Dont Care]

I think its because we bagged the Crows plan to do it and we can't be seen to endorse it now without admitting that Triggy is a God and Notso his immaculately conceived disciple.

Notso

 

[simba_]

seems like a great idea. plenty of people, perhaps even hundreds will be in and around rundle mall up to hours before the bounce before every game. naturally they will congregate in some area, the end of the mall is a spot people meet and hang. people will almost be walking together anyway. to organise a march for people to walk with other fans to the oval sounds like something this club would do. i'm sure there are people who go to games alone or don't go because they don't have someone to go along with, this is just another great initiative that brings fans together.

could be a good time to organise a bigfooty meet??!

i still have the idea for a Port pub in the city.. wouldn't the city be the best place to relocate the pokies? not sure if we are still looking to do that. but a club owned pub where we can all meet before and after games and pump money into the club makes so much sense no? maybe even inside adelaide oval? plenty will still go to the club after games , I guess the club will encourage that most, also the fact that we now play in the city, the club would rather your bum on a seat at the oval then a few hundred meters away in a pub watching on TV. but this will also attract every day people who don't follow footy or casual fans that can watch the games in a Port pub getting amongst the atmosphere, may sway people into signing and eventually walking down to see it live. not to mention non-game days where it will serve as a regular pub for the people. we'll have the Port Club... and the Port Pub. perhaps a few years down the line.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[Peck]

I think this is fine. If you don't want to do it, then don't.

Seemed pretty successful last year in Melbourne (not that I went).

 

[restitute]

I'll be at the Archer before night games with mates and at the facepainting outside the ground before day games with my kids.

We're a diverse mob so having a few different things to do before games to appeal to different people is great.

Loving the clubs proactiveness (if that's a word) and creativity in all departments at the moment.

 

[misternoitall]

I think its because we bagged the Crows plan to do it and we can't be seen to endorse it now without admitting that Triggy is a God and Notso his immaculately conceived disciple.

We would not be copying the Crows at all, I know for a fact that Ben from the club was the organiser of the March to the G ( the club actually internally call it March to the G with Benny D) he looks after supporter groups so got all of them involved for round 1 and it evolved from there. He seems to travel to most away games to get local supporter groups involved with the Club as much as possible. So if anything the Crows are copying us, although it's not an exclusive idea in sports.

So now we have a company sponsoring something we were probably going to do anyway. And as always if you're not interested you don't have to join in.

 

[Rankor]

I never heard of a crows march plan?

When was this? I'm sure I must have been sleeping.

 

[70sDinosaur]

Can we get some WWII veterans from Japan to organise a march for crows fans?

 

[beenreal]

seems like a great idea. plenty of people, perhaps even hundreds will be in and around rundle mall up to hours before the bounce before every game. naturally they will congregate in some area, the end of the mall is a spot people meet and hang. people will almost be walking together anyway. to organise a march for people to walk with other fans to the oval sounds like something this club would do. i'm sure there are people who go to games alone or don't go because they don't have someone to go along with, this is just another great initiative that brings fans together.

could be a good time to organise a bigfooty meet??!

i still have the idea for a Port pub in the city.. wouldn't the city be the best place to relocate the pokies? not sure if we are still looking to do that. but a club owned pub where we can all meet before and after games and pump money into the club makes so much sense no? maybe even inside adelaide oval? plenty will still go to the club after games , I guess the club will encourage that most, also the fact that we now play in the city, the club would rather your bum on a seat at the oval then a few hundred meters away in a pub watching on TV. but this will also attract every day people who don't follow footy or casual fans that can watch the games in a Port pub getting amongst the atmosphere, may sway people into signing and eventually walking down to see it live. not to mention non-game days where it will serve as a regular pub for the people. we'll have the Port Club... and the Port Pub. perhaps a few years down the line.

David Basheer still has the Strathmore, so happy to support a Port man pre game.

Went to the Cathedral during the Adelaide Test. Felt like I was walking into a time warp, with nothing done. Surely it's ripe for the picking as a Port Pub?