Unpopular Port Adelaide opinion you may have

[Duck Farmer]

It's a State representative jumper not a club jumper.

Do you support them representing the whole state including yourself? Do you really believe they are the franchise for ALL South Australians?

When old man Cornes fires up over this then you know they've missed the mark.

I think them wearing the state jumper further perpetuates their "Team for All South Australians" culture and mentality which is ultimately the wrong strategy in a national club based competition. I think this is a key reason as to why they have trouble hanging on to interstate recruits - they can tell once they arrive from the get go that the Crows are not a real club, just some "kick a Vic" relic from a bygone pre-AFL era.

I'm not a parochial South Australian and generally prefer club teams to "pseudo" state teams, e.g. loved Adelaide City back in the NSL days but don't really get out of bed for Adelaide United. Therefore the SoO guernsey doesn't really mean that much to me, although I can see how it means more to others especially those that have worn a state uniform in representative sides.

 

[GremioPower]

I personally don't really care. The state team was permanently tainted for me when the crows co-opted the state colours and bastardised the state nickname.
I also don't think the club issued a statement so much as responded to journalists' questions - hence my observation about the hyperbolic headline

It's a PR game, and that wasn't a good move.

 

[bomberclifford]

I played mini league on Robertstown Oval at 8.30am in the middle of winter.

In the 80s, I played a game of high school football on an 'oval' at Aldinga once.
It was like a scene from Mad Max II.

 

[DaTBird187]

In the 80s, I played a game of high school football on an 'oval' at Aldinga once.
It was like a scene from Mad Max II.

Channel your inner Rutger Hauer.

 

[Schulzenfest]

This is us, being absolutely unreasonable:

Power blast Crows over AFL guernsey

Port Adelaide has blasted the Crows over a plan to wear a replica SA guernsey for the Showdown clash at Adelaide Oval.

www.abc.net.au

I don't know who Gremio's greatest rivals are, but whoever they are, imagine they came out tomorrow and said they were going to wear the Brazilian National team's home kit as their home kit from now on. How do you think that idea would go down with fans of other clubs? Or with the Brazilian footballers who earned the right to wear that kit?

 

[johnnysix]

If it were the other way around, I am afraid you all would act like Eddie McGuire. Seriously...

Don't disagree with this. I'd love to have a president that stands up for his club like Eddie.... and we do
The real issue is why does Eddie, or Collingwood for that matter, have any say in this at all? There's plenty of precedent for jumpers with the same pattern (ours is unique) and colour (North Melbourne / Geelong / Carlton). This is purely one club exerting control over another. TBH signing those agreements was a mistake, I can't fault's McGuire's stance, I just think it's a bunk position to hold.

 

[Duck Farmer]

It is ridiculous any club to dictate what another club will wear.

While I am sympathetic to your arguments, there are limits. The Crows deciding to wear the prison bars for example.

 

[bomberclifford]

When we played with a guernsey that was a perfect replica of Collingwood's at the time, had we magically become Collingwood? Were we wearing a Collingwood jumper?

Funnily enough, there were a couple of seasons during WWII where we were literally wearing guernseys borrowed from Collingwood.

 

[bomberclifford]

Channel your inner Rutger Hauer.

Salute the Jugger!

 

[GremioPower]

While I am sympathetic to your arguments, there are limits. The Crows deciding to wear the prison bars for example.

Hahaha! It would be their end.

 

[GremioPower]

Funnily enough, there were a couple of seasons during WWII where we were literally wearing guernsey's borrowed from Collingwood.

My question becomes even more relevant, then!

 

[Killer Power]

In the 80s, I played a game of high school football on an 'oval' at Aldinga once.
It was like a scene from Mad Max II.

Played a mid winter game at Flagstaff Hill in the 80's and ended up on antibiotics for infections in both knees

 

[GremioPower]

I don't know who Gremio's greatest rivals are, but whoever they are, imagine they came out tomorrow and said they were going to wear the Brazilian National team's home kit as their home kit from now on. How do you think that idea would go down with fans of other clubs? Or with the Brazilian footballers who earned the right to wear that kit?

Zero issue. My only complaint is that they wouldn’t look like them. I’m so used to their red. Still, it would be them; so, fine.

The example would be better if they shared Brazil’s colours, only their shirt having a different design. If that were the case, I think I would have “Below-Zero issue.”

They would already have the colours, right?! They would only be reshuffled. I can’t see why I should be bothered by such minimum change.

 

[bomberclifford]

Unpopular opinion: if we called it 'blue' instead of 'teal' there would be less problems with the colour.

 

[El Zorro]

Unpopular opinion: if we called it 'blue' instead of 'teal' there would be less problems with the colour.

Probably

 

[tribey]

Yep, we should have stayed out of it and let them shoot themselves in the foot.

Instead we gave them the opportunity to pretend it was us who blocked them.

We were but one voice amidst a sea of prominent stakeholders vehemently opposed to it, including Mark Ricciuto.

We had a responsibility to all the icons and legends who earned the state guernsey to speak out.

 

[Jonts]

We were but one voice amidst a sea of prominent stakeholders vehemently opposed to it, including Mark Ricciuto.

We had a responsibility to all the icons and legends who earned the state guernsey to speak out.

Yep McDermott, Roo, McKernhan (that isn't how you spell his name is it?), Pavlich, Tredders before you bring in the non croweaters that said it didn't right in the Bereton's of the world

 

[tribey]

Therefore the SoO guernsey doesn't really mean that much to me, although I can see how it means more to others especially those that have worn a state uniform in representative sides.

It’s less that, more the fact that no club team should ever wear a representative guernsey that is earned over and above domestic league football, by default.

I don’t care much for the Socceroos these days due to chronic mismanagement by the FFA — how’s that TaLeNt PiPeLiNe coming along as we scour Scotland for mediocre players with Aussie grandmothers? — but if Melbourne Victory or Sydney FC decided they were going to wear the national strip I’d be dead against it.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I personally don't really care. The state team was permanently tainted for me when the crows co-opted the state colours and bastardised the state nickname.
I also don't think the club issued a statement so much as responded to journalists' questions - hence my observation about the hyperbolic headline

And when the Victorian mercenaries playing in the SANFL team started wearing it.

 

[tribey]

Yep McDermott, Roo, McKernhan (that isn't how you spell his name is it?), Pavlich, Tredders before you bring in the non croweaters that said it didn't right in the Bereton's of the world

Chris McDermott, Sticks Kernahan, Mark Naley, Lindsay Head, John Platten, Paul Bagshaw, Mark Ricciuto, Russell Ebert, Craig McRae, Garry McIntosh, Warren Tredrea, Barrie Robran and more.

The move was universally-panned.

 

[Macca19]

Well, I knew it was unpopular at least. I posted it in the right thread.

However, you all should be able to understand Collingwood's position. If a club can tell another club what they may wear or not, why Collingwood cannot tell us?

They don't want us wearing the PB's because they care about it. It's an important subject for them. Shouldn't we respect that? Besides, we had renounced the PB's when we joined the league, right?

Renounced is not the correct word. We were told we would not be able to wear it so had to come up with a new design.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

We were but one voice amidst a sea of prominent stakeholders vehemently opposed to it, including Mark Ricciuto.

We had a responsibility to all the icons and legends who earned the state guernsey to speak out.

We know that but ask any Crow supporting Facebook nuffy who blocked it.

We shouldn't have given them that PR out.

Let them be **** blocked by their own SANFL idols and open up the AFL admin to more ridicule.

 

[tribey]

We know that but ask any Crow supporting Facebook nuffy who blocked it

If an asteroid hit the fruchoc factory they’d blame us.

They’re a bunch of ****ing morons.

 

[Pappagallo]

Unpopular opinion: if we called it 'blue' instead of 'teal' there would be less problems with the colour.

It’s not pink, it’s salmon!

Yeah I don’t wanna be that guy.

 

[GremioPower]

Renounced is not the correct word. We were told we would not be able to wear it so had to come up with a new design.

There as an old adage that says "choosing is renouncing." We could have kept everything, if we stayed in the SANFL. That wasn't an option. We chose the AFL. That came with a price.