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sobrave said:
Where are you at?

Membership Still Western stand platinum. Son sits next to me. Debating about continuing, but probably will.
Season ticket Part of the membership package.
Attending home games Been going to around 9 per year until recently. Dropped to 6 in 2023 and 5 this season. May drop to 4 in 2025. Losing the passion watching a stale, boring, featureless game plan ad nauseum., which better teams pick apart and exploit remorselessly.
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sobrave said:
Merch Still buy odds and sods, ut nothing major.
Watching on TV - Will maybe watch most of the games next season, but only bits and pieces, not entire games.
Hating everything about the club No. They still some off field things ok (Precinct, AFLW, debt reduction, museum), but anything footy related is sub par mediocre, and deserves criticism.
Abusing the club on social media Balanced perspective. Do when I feel it's warranted, which is a helluva lot more than it used to be, but can see both sides (sometimes!!!).

Time following Port - from around 1963 onwards. Member since 1979. G/grandfather and his brother played for Port. Dad born and raised in Semaphore.
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I've been a Port fan since 1979, and I've never been more disengaged than I am right now. Whatever happens in 2025, I won't get remotely excited or downcast, unless by some miracle we win a preliminary final.
 
sobrave said:
Where are you at?

Membership ❌
Season ticket ❌
Attending home games ❌
Merch ❌
Watching on TV - will maybe watch half the games next season
Hating everything about the club ✅
Abusing the club on social media ✅
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This verbatim, although the abusing on social media is minimal as I try to ignore/not go on there
 

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sobrave said:
Where are you at?

Membership ❌
Season ticket ❌
Attending home games ❌
Merch ❌
Watching on TV - will maybe watch half the games next season
Hating everything about the club ✅
Abusing the club on social media ✅

Time following Port - had a port magpies jumper in about 1990 when I was 6. Alternatively, when Port entered the AFL. 34 years or 27.

Well done kern and kock.
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Membership ✅ - until I die

Season ticket ✅ - until I die

Attending home games ✅ - until I die, I won’t let the current crop take that from me.

Merch ❌ - The merch is just shit, which is a shame as a few years back it was fantastic. They’ve gone too Y2K for my taste, an awful time for merch and fashion. Also too much teal.

Watching on TV - ❌ with those commentators and bullshit? **** no! Though if we win I’ll watch the next day.

Hating everything about the club ✅ - they don’t really want fans like me. Until they do.

Abusing the club on social media ✅- I post Sack Hinkley on any thread I can be bothered to be attacked by middle aged women (it’s always them) on.

As long as I’m a member and go to games I reckon I’m entitled to abuse the club on social media! Those abusing me usually don’t even go to games.

They are the only fans I’ll ‘judge’, happy clappers who don’t actually turn up. But tell everyone else to enjoy the shit sandwich.
 
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EskimoPAFC said:
This seems to come up somewhat often and is probably just as wrong as those that think every Port supporter rabidly wants Hinkley gone. Tredders referendum vote was just about split down the line and there's been another season of failure since that point.

There is the odd "Linda on facebook" who thinks Kern Hinkley is doing a great job and that nasty Warren Treadray just needs to shut up... but I'd wager the middling Port fan wants Hinkley gone and wants success but also isn't going to let that stop them enjoying the club or actively hating him.
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The Tredrea vote had the club and media lining up to potshot Warren at every chance. If they'd have thought they could get away with it, they'd have accused HIM of killing greyhounds. I think that says the majority want Hinkley gone, but it's a 55-60% majority, with many wanting him gone, but not invested enough to stop going like many here. Since many of them are still going the club thinks it's a combination of they are on the right track so ignore the 'White noise' and they don't care as long as they keep paying.
 
Membership ❌
Season ticket ❌
Attending home games ❌
Merch ✅ (but only because my old stuff doesn't fit me anymore and I wanted something to wear to AFLW games)
Watching on TV - Only if I have nothing else better to do
Hating everything about the club ✅
Abusing the club on social media ❌ (but only because I've lost the passion to even be bothered)

It's now genuinely getting to the point where I don't even know if I'll be back once Koch and Hinkley are gone.
 
TeeKray said:
Hate to break it to you guys but the fans that feel this way are a tiny minority. You are swamped by literally tens of thousands of newer fans who have never known a successful club and are perfectly happy, even delighted, with what the current regime serves up. Their money is as good as your money and they're much easier satisfied than you are, so that's where the club's focus lies.
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They wouldn't be giving out free memberships and tickets all the time if this was the case. We wouldn't have the propaganda machine in overdrive.

I also don't agree that tens of thousands of fans are happy with what the club are serving up. That's certainly not reflected by my experience of speaking with other Port fans in Adelaide. The vast majority are over it and want change. Home games have the atmosphere of a funeral in most cases. Until the Hawthorn final I don't think i'd heard a "power clap clap clap" chant in 2 years.

Anyway:

Membership ✅
Season ticket ✅ - I have 3 front row seats in a group of 11 that i'll never get back if I give them up, and i'll be sitting in them when Koch and Hinkley are in their cold cold graves.
Attending home games ❌ Unsure at this stage, probably not.
Merch ❌ - not for years unless it's heritage stuff
Watching on TV - 50/50
Hating everything about the club ❌ - Just the club leadership. I quite like the playing list.
Abusing the club on social media ✅
 
El_Scorcho said:
They wouldn't be giving out free memberships and tickets all the time if this was the case. We wouldn't have the propaganda machine in overdrive.

I also don't agree that tens of thousands of fans are happy with what the club are serving up. That's certainly not reflected by my experience of speaking with other Port fans in Adelaide. The vast majority are over it and want change. Home games have the atmosphere of a funeral in most cases. Until the Hawthorn final I don't think i'd heard a "power clap clap clap" chant in 2 years.

Anyway:

Membership ✅
Season ticket ✅ - I have 3 front row seats in a group of 11 that i'll never get back if I give them up, and i'll be sitting in them when Koch and Hinkley are in their cold cold graves.
Attending home games ❌ Unsure at this stage, probably not.
Merch ❌ - not for years unless it's heritage stuff
Watching on TV - 50/50
Hating everything about the club ❌ - Just the club leadership. I quite like the playing list.
Abusing the club on social media ✅
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Thanks for that, some of those points you made helped me make my mind up after quite a bit of time agonising over things. Especially that in bold lol. As for "connected" pretty much the same as you so I'll start with a shameless cut and paste lol.

Membership ✅
Season ticket ✅ - Will renew 2 seats in 334 that i'll never get back if I give them up, and I'll be sitting in them when Koch and Hinkley are in their cold cold graves.
Attending home games ❌ A few each season, when visiting from SYD, but I always get bums on seats. Maybe that's because I know a lot of bums in ADL.
Merch ❌ - not for years unless it's heritage stuff. The teal-centric AFLW members scarf gets a lot of positive comment here in SYD. Maybe it's just the contrast relative all that red-white and orange-grey stuff.
Watching on TV - 50/50, at the local "all AFL games" pub mostly. Sometimes a few quarters of a replay but that's usually after some "wat happen Port?" trying to figure what went wrong assisted by the expert comments here on BF :drunk:
Hating everything about the club ❌ - Just the club leadership. I quite like the playing list. Enjoying the AFLW progress.
Abusing Disengaging from the club and from the bloody happy clappers on social media ✅
 
Where are you at?

Membership-Yes
Season ticket-Yes
Attending home games-will be picking and choosing this year.
Merch-nup
Watching on TV-Nup
Hating everything about the club- Yes
Abusing the club on social media- in Here? yes..too old for the other stuff

Time following Port - Been following since 1974, been through the glory years, the ruthless years, being hated years and now hate the stench of this club, hate other supporters laughing at us or pitying us, hate everything about the pricks running the club but yet still love the club. Barely missed a home game or a game in almost 50 years and now im happy to not go nor listen.
 
Membership ❌ not since 2020 haven’t missed it.
Season ticket ❌ see membership.
Attend home games ❌ the first year since I started following that I haven’t attended at least one game.
Merch ✔️ have been gifted a new hat and a couple of jumpers. Missus was desperate to get me something from the kids for my birthday.
Watching on TV ✔️ Still watch most games but don’t put off other things so I can watch it live.
Hating everything about the club ➖ hate is a strong word. Lack of care is more accurate.
Abuse on socials. ❌ no point white noise and all that. Also I know someone in the social media dept so wouldn’t inflict anymore on her.
Time following: since 1998 (member and didn’t miss a home game from 2000-2019) Never felt more disengaged than the last 3 years. Change is well overdue.
 

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Membership ✅
Season ticket AFL ✅ SANFL ✅
AFLW ❌ (chose to not renew after last year. Thought they were unprofessional.)
Attend games ✅
AFL: Pick and choose. Lost the love after the Russell Ebert tribute game. Didn't attend another that year. Will never forget or forgive the effort from the whole club.
SANFL: Try to get to most games. The one true joy is watching the guernsey even though the club uses it as a cash grab and tokenism.
AFLW: Been to a couple this year.
Always watch games live. Used to watch the replays repeatedly. Can't remember the last time I did.
Don't hate the club as such but despise Hinkley, Davies, Koch Richardson, Norton, the Board bar Tredders.
Social media ✅ BigFooty yes. The others, sometimes. You may hear the odd SMS read out from Lily at West Beach 😉
 

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