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Michelangelo Rucci, Chief Football Writer From: The Advertiser October 07, 2010
CONGRATULATIONS to Port Adelaide fans.
In a decade, you have destroyed all your football club stood for in the 20th Century - and all it could be in the national competition that is the AFL.
You have proven you are the greatest (but quickly diminishing) group of front-runners in Australian football.
Even Glenelg supporters, who were accused of abandoning the Tigers to become Crows fans, can mock you now.
You entered the AFL in 1997 vowing to wow the national competition with all the traditions and success achieved in the SANFL. Your club won an AFL licence based on a strong and loyal supporter base.
Yet the Power - which had its membership peak at 38,305 in 1998 - now has its smallest membership numbers and smallest home attendances at AAMI Stadium.
Ah, AAMI Stadium. Apparently, despite the Port Adelaide Football Club having played at West Lakes since 1974 and winning premierships almost at will long before the Crows arrived in 1991, Football Park no longer feels like home.
Not even with all those teal blue seats.
That big Crows building on the western side of AAMI Stadium is reason to avoid watching your team.
Obviously you are not the same Port fans who would travel away from Alberton and ignore the way Sturt flew its five-in-a-row SANFL premiership flags at Unley Oval.
So it is off to Adelaide Oval.
But what then happens in season 2025?
That is when the Crows will be cashed up again and will sell everything at West Lakes.
The Crows will buy space on the southern edge of War Memorial Drive to build their offices at Adelaide Oval. They will train at Adelaide Oval No.2. It will be AAMI Stadium with a city address. What then, Power supporters? For your embarrassing reasons for abandoning your team and leaving its future in the AFL at risk, you win the 2010 Pathetic Pittman Award.
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What was his goal here exactly? He should have bought himself a membership if seeing us survive was at all important to him.
Our membership numbers had improved by 2012 and he was deadly silent after we won three games in a row. It wasn't until the following week, after a 10 goal loss to Hawthorn, that he wrote we were "in the u-bend waiting to be flushed."
CONGRATULATIONS to Port Adelaide fans.
In a decade, you have destroyed all your football club stood for in the 20th Century - and all it could be in the national competition that is the AFL.
You have proven you are the greatest (but quickly diminishing) group of front-runners in Australian football.
Even Glenelg supporters, who were accused of abandoning the Tigers to become Crows fans, can mock you now.
You entered the AFL in 1997 vowing to wow the national competition with all the traditions and success achieved in the SANFL. Your club won an AFL licence based on a strong and loyal supporter base.
Yet the Power - which had its membership peak at 38,305 in 1998 - now has its smallest membership numbers and smallest home attendances at AAMI Stadium.
Ah, AAMI Stadium. Apparently, despite the Port Adelaide Football Club having played at West Lakes since 1974 and winning premierships almost at will long before the Crows arrived in 1991, Football Park no longer feels like home.
Not even with all those teal blue seats.
That big Crows building on the western side of AAMI Stadium is reason to avoid watching your team.
Obviously you are not the same Port fans who would travel away from Alberton and ignore the way Sturt flew its five-in-a-row SANFL premiership flags at Unley Oval.
So it is off to Adelaide Oval.
But what then happens in season 2025?
That is when the Crows will be cashed up again and will sell everything at West Lakes.
The Crows will buy space on the southern edge of War Memorial Drive to build their offices at Adelaide Oval. They will train at Adelaide Oval No.2. It will be AAMI Stadium with a city address. What then, Power supporters? For your embarrassing reasons for abandoning your team and leaving its future in the AFL at risk, you win the 2010 Pathetic Pittman Award.
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What was his goal here exactly? He should have bought himself a membership if seeing us survive was at all important to him.
Our membership numbers had improved by 2012 and he was deadly silent after we won three games in a row. It wasn't until the following week, after a 10 goal loss to Hawthorn, that he wrote we were "in the u-bend waiting to be flushed."
