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How is the debate between wearing a century old guernsey that we wore in dozens of premierships and wearing a 7 year old guernsey that has never been worn in a winning final even a thing? If the AFL approved our use of the prison bars we'd be wearing it the next minute.
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Counterpoint: All the great John Butcher moments happened in the BiB.
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Do people realise there were actually times we were quite shit in the PB's as well, on just a local level!
PB's are our colours and it SHOULD be enshrined in the constitution that they will be worn at every opportunity.
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For some strange reason I initially read that as "our car wash jumper"
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We would keep teal which is great for marketing and the kids but would also have, as Dennis put it, the greatest kit in Australian football.
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And I still think you make a valid point. Car wash jumper it is.For some strange reason I initially read that as "our car wash jumper"
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Spot on.
The PBs are best served as special occasion guernsey and maintained via our reserves.
We're building our identity and the BiB is perfect for where we are heading.
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I think switching to the prison bars would be a no brainer.
I understand that we are trying to build a new brand, but they look freaking amazing, would please almost all our current supporters, and would be locked in for a long, long time.
I understand that we are trying to build a new brand, but they look freaking amazing, would please almost all our current supporters, and would be locked in for a long, long time.
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Nah in the prison bars at the maggies...
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Thrilled to bits that the white panel is back. Its the Port Adelaide jumper that has been there for a long long time. (from the back).
Well done from the club to achieve this. The wobbler wank fought against this when we first entered the AFL. The teal panel at the top of the jumper had to be introduced so we weren't only just black and white from the back .Greg Boulton was happy that we had retained the original back of the Port jumper, but the wobbler wank had the power over the weak AFL executives and made sure they did what they were bloody were told. Its important that this guy is weeded out of decision making about our AFL club.
Well done from the club to achieve this. The wobbler wank fought against this when we first entered the AFL. The teal panel at the top of the jumper had to be introduced so we weren't only just black and white from the back .Greg Boulton was happy that we had retained the original back of the Port jumper, but the wobbler wank had the power over the weak AFL executives and made sure they did what they were bloody were told. Its important that this guy is weeded out of decision making about our AFL club.
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Interesting reads regarding the jumper.
I think most would agree the PB is the best looking footy jumper bar none (thanks Dennis).
Our current BIB is also a great looking jumper, and I love the white panel.
It feels like there is always an underlying pull back to the PB, we love it, it's unmistakably Port Adelaide.
I wouldn't get upset if we kept the current design but I know I always feel so proud, and a touch emotional, to see the AFL lads were the PB jumper. May never happen for all the reasons we all know about but for me would be going full circle.
The argument that the PB polarizes neutrals is redundant. Since KT and Kochie have ruled, we as a club have embraced the traditional PAFC and the people have come. What's more traditional PAFC than the PB jumper?
One day it will happen.
I think most would agree the PB is the best looking footy jumper bar none (thanks Dennis).
Our current BIB is also a great looking jumper, and I love the white panel.
It feels like there is always an underlying pull back to the PB, we love it, it's unmistakably Port Adelaide.
I wouldn't get upset if we kept the current design but I know I always feel so proud, and a touch emotional, to see the AFL lads were the PB jumper. May never happen for all the reasons we all know about but for me would be going full circle.
The argument that the PB polarizes neutrals is redundant. Since KT and Kochie have ruled, we as a club have embraced the traditional PAFC and the people have come. What's more traditional PAFC than the PB jumper?
One day it will happen.
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And that first final at AO against Richmond, us wearing the PB, will go down in history
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Yeah, that's why the AFL won't let us wear the PB. It'd be decades of dominance.
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Yeah I don't even.
Every guernsey we've worn post-1996 has been a bullshit compromise for some reason or other.
Even pragmatists who had resigned themselves to us never wearing the standard prisonbar in a proper game ever (2003 = old-timey version; 2013 = members names all over it; 2007 = 70's/closest to the pin) absolutely lost their shit when we wore it against Richmond.
That guernsey is indelibly us and if we had the chance we should wear it at every opportunity. The fact we immediately turned around and produced a teal variant of the current strip - which had it been around would've meant the PB's wouldn't have happened - was some A-grade Football Park-era bullshit.
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To be honest, I think it's high time we began really pushing this matter along a little further. Eventually there will be no Magpies running around in the SANFL and eventually there will be no supporters left who saw Port Adelaide play in its traditional guernsey. This is our history and identity at stake and something needs to be done.
In the past we've taken a limp wristed approach to the issue of the PB guernsey, largely due to our status as a new kid on the block in the early days and then minnow/handout dependent club in more recent days. Nowadays, we have new found clout with a huge membership base, packed match day, well respected board and executive, the China initiative, etc, which would surely gain us a more sympathetic ear at the AFL than we have ever had in the past. Also, Collingwood are as weak as they have been this century and Eddie McGuire's influence is on the wane and he is likely to be on his way out over the next few years.
Obviously there is no good reason whatsoever that we should not be allowed to wear the PB guernsey. At the very least, we should be producing some type of position paper that makes our intentions very clear and asks for a very clear response on what we can and can't do and the reasons why. I would also look at our legal options in terms of restraint of trade, etc.
Not sure what we can do as supporters. Maybe it needs a more high profile backing ala Ginever and Fiacchi with the One Club thing. But ffs Port, grow a pair and do something about this nonsense.
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If we could have the Wharf Pylons in the AFL full time I'd be happy to wear absolutely anything as a clash, even these funky threads from our back catalogue.
I'd love the blue and white one as a clash.... Said that for a while.
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