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[P.A.F.C]

This sort of thing every now again would be nice. Usually we have to post our own PR on our website or something, not have an full page 3 editorial on 'getting behind our team'.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/carn-the-crows/story-e6fredqc-1225852936480

Now is the time to band together as one and get behind Craigy, Goody and the boys.

We've been described as a team in crisis; a once mighty force now crippled by injuries and expectations in equal measure.

But recriminations will get us nowhere.

What is needed is solidarity, among the club, the players and most importantly, the supporters.

We need to turn up in huge numbers on Saturday and show our team we're going to support them no matter what.

That's the culture Craigy speaks about and what separates us from the teams who regularly occupy the lower reaches of the ladder.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Not bad are they? Page 3, full colour photo of some tiser journo decked out in crows gear, leading the charge of the rah-rahs.

Meanwhile on the morning of our game against Brisbane, Rucci writes an article describing how the game will be played in 'pouring rain'.

I much preferred the article by self-confessed crow tragic David Penberthy in Fridays' paper:

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To help clarify things I've distilled my thoughts into the following key areas:

1). Being almost good enough is psychologically worse than being no good at all. This is easily the most annoying feature of being an Adelaide supporter.

IMAGINE being a Freo supporter right now. Its fans know that they're almost a joke team in the competition but right now they're two from two, and probably feel the same way we did after 1997-1998.

The difficulty Crows supporters have is that every year we think (and often play) like we're the real deal, and then go nowhere. Just as Richmond is preordained to come ninth every year, it appears to be our lot in life to come fifth and then lose to Collingwood, despite being several hundred goals in front at half-time.

It wouldn't matter if it was any other club, but the Crows' chief function in September seems to be to give Eddie McGuire a chance to punch the air for joy throughout the final term of the preliminary final. This is unacceptable. We have all seen it enough.

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He doesn't even like his own supporters, so just imagine how bad it must be when 40+ thousand of them get together ... which the tiser is now imploring!

3). Crows fans can be kind of annoying, too: Apparently the Crows kicked two goals in a row in the third quarter against Sydney on Sunday, as evidenced by the flurry of crocheted knee rugs in the outer as old ladies started talking about momentum, even though we were still some six goals behind.

MORE than other clubs, we seem to have a blind spot when it comes to our own performance, and will often regard a 30-point loss as close, sheet it home to bad umpiring, a couple of funny bounces, when the reality is we were gone for all money and no excuses can be made.

You really need to read the whole thing to experience his pain.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Absolute joke.

 

[Macca19]

Good old ant. I miss his posts on here.

 

[Absolute Power]

The Camrytiser will be in full damage control mode all week.

 

[tribey]

Good old ant. I miss his posts on here.

lol agree. even more ironic is the fact he is a port boy, well pamfc. i'm sure they'll cope.

 

[PowerKat]

lol agree. even more ironic is the fact he is a port boy, well pamfc. i'm sure they'll cope.

you're the perfect person to help him out

 

[tribey]

you're the perfect person to help him out

By the by I found a nice little piece of memorabilia as I was sorting though my old stuff the other day - my original Maggies scarfe circa 1986. Note the logo. Subtle, but sexy and irreplaceable these days:

 

[Portia]

I'd be really annoyed with the piece if I was a Crows fan, because `Out: Craigy' could only be a good thing at this point.

 

[Phhht]

I'd be really annoyed with the piece if I was a Crows fan, because `Out: Craigy' could only be a good thing at this point.

Porthos please dont advertise this too much....please!

 

[Steve Dore]

..... I much preferred the article by self-confessed crow tragic David Penberthy in Fridays' paper:

link ....

MORE than other clubs, we seem to have a blind spot when it comes to our own performance, and will often regard a 30-point loss as close, sheet it home to bad umpiring, a couple of funny bounces, when the reality is we were gone for all money and no excuses can be made

......

That wasn't a bad read. He summed up the typical Cows' fan quite well.

Great that they followed it up with a loss to Melbourne on the week-end.

Honestly though, is any one at all surprised that the 'Tiser is championing the Cows?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I much preferred the article by self-confessed crow tragic David Penberthy in Fridays' paper:

He doesn't even like his own supporters, so just imagine how bad it must be when 40+ thousand of them get together ... which the tiser is now imploring!

Almost as good as his article he wrote last year about "People like me, who hate Port, wish deep down that they barracked for Port. This is because there's something thrillingly defiant about embracing an organisation that's so loathed by the rest of civil society." see whole article at

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showpost.php?p=14638373&postcount=37

Pity he wrote the following

But treacherous as it sounds, I don't know if I want to devote a minimum of 60 hours to keeping myself annoyed, frustrated and ultimately gutted at the end of the year. I do know that I won't be watching the Showdown.

As I am going to get a mate who has got to know Penberthy well over the off season to invite him to watch the showdown with PA NSW Supporter Group in a couple of weeks time.

 

[Steve Dore]

Almost as good as his article he wrote last year about "People like me, who hate Port, wish deep down that they barracked for Port. This is because there's something thrillingly defiant about embracing an organisation that's so loathed by the rest of civil society." ......

So Cow supporters are the "rest of civil society".

I guess you have to be an arrogant dip stick to be a true Cows supporter. After all they do have the "admiration of the nation". Saying the Cows are "the team for all South Australians" is a bit like Hackney High advertising themselves as the "School for all South Australians". You can't have it both ways.

 

[RoosterLad]

So Cow supporters are the "rest of civil society".

I guess you have to be an arrogant dip stick to be a true Cows supporter. After all they do have the "admiration of the nation". Saying the Cows are "the team for all South Australians" is a bit like Hackney High advertising themselves as the "School for all South Australians". You can't have it both ways.

At the same time a lot of Port supporters like to say "Port Adelaide IS Football".

Personally I can't see the difference.

 

[Steve Dore]

At the same time a lot of Port supporters like to say "Port Adelaide IS Football".

Personally I can't see the difference.

Do they? I've never heard it.

Even if there are Port supporters that say that, and I would question in what context, that is very different from the club adopting that as an official catch phrase.

 

[PortBrillance]

so when we were shit in 08 and 09 no one from that shit paper said "stick with the club" or something like that, just always bag'd us. But when the crows are now pathetic they tell them bunch of ****** fans to get behind em...what a joke

I guess if the PAFC ain't winning flags then SA and the world is falling apart. After 35 flags i can see why

 

[Hodges 153!]

....and on it goes.

Cracked Page 7 today with an in depth piece with Wendy Schaeffer.

Nice pic of her with Burton tho...

 

[sog35]

Surely the Crows are paying for this sort of coverage. I'm not being funny but they are practically advertorials.

 

[sog35]

However I couldn't give a shit. The Tiser is a quick flick through for me over breakfast and that's it.

 

[noddy]

You have Rucci & that is worth more than few glossy photos.

 

[Spadge]

mate Rucci has knifed into us on plenty of occasions, in fact he does it quite regularly so he isnt always on the Crows back

but these puff pieces in the advertiser are just taking the piss

how do they make you feel noddy? glossing over the real issues at the club and trying to unite everyone?

we have never had that kinda coverage.... when we are shit they absoutely give us hell
you guys are shit and they pat you on the head and say there there we will help you make things better

 

[simba_]

You have Rucci & that is worth more than few glossy photos.

not to the big, dumb masses.. the crows get the five second snippets of themselves running through banners or traning drills at the end of every news add and the big color photos in the paper. that's what people remember, not small black and white articles blow that which begin with 'Port'.

not saying Rucci is crap for us I'm just saying when it comes to the big exposure it's become blatantly obvious, the lack of fair game.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Rooch can be a very negative writer, even about Port. It's more editorialising than reporting, it's like the reality of our situation doesn't match the expectation (that sounds familiar) and we need to be punished for it. Not all the time, but he lapses into it.

Sometimes we are going to have to accept Port are not that good a side at the moment, and skill errors will happen irrespective of who trained mid-week. And that when your most creative players are missing from the side, creating will be hard, and the tough slog approach won't always win out. We talk about them being somewehre in the 6-12 table range, but even as a benchmark of expectation, that doesn't seem to macth some responses to how we perform.

For the past few years we've been pummelled for not winning enough contested ball, but we won that duel comfortably against Brisbane, so now there's an issue about skills. They see a rabbit, they chase it down a hole. There's not a lot to be learned from journos these days, sadly.

 

[PortBrillance]

mate Rucci has knifed into us on plenty of occasions, in fact he does it quite regularly so he isnt always on the Crows back

but these puff pieces in the advertiser are just taking the piss

how do they make you feel noddy? glossing over the real issues at the club and trying to unite everyone?

we have never had that kinda coverage.... when we are shit they absoutely give us hell
you guys are shit and they pat you on the head and say there there we will help you make things better

It's called mediocre, saying things like "2nd is as good as 1st" "at least you tried" ect ect only makes the crows more mediocre then they currently are.

honestly that club is a joke and on a road to nowhere

 

[Sheeds]

Rooch can be a very negative writer, even about Port. It's more editorialising than reporting, it's like the reality of our situation doesn't match the expectation (that sounds familiar) and we need to be punished for it. Not all the time, but he lapses into it.

Sometimes we are going to have to accept Port are not that good a side at the moment, and skill errors will happen irrespective of who trained mid-week. And that when your most creative players are missing from the side, creating will be hard, and the tough slog approach won't always win out. We talk about them being somewehre in the 6-12 table range, but even as a benchmark of expectation, that doesn't seem to macth some responses to how we perform.

For the past few years we've been pummelled for not winning enough contested ball, but we won that duel comfortably against Brisbane, so now there's an issue about skills. They see a rabbit, they chase it down a hole. There's not a lot to be learned from journos these days, sadly.

The harshest articles Rucci has ever written about any side was Port Adelaide after going out in the finals 2002, 2003. Nothing will get close to this.