Unpopular Port Adelaide opinion you may have

[tribey]

Don't forget "Power Surge" and "Power Failure".

What we need is a mascot that's not known for anything at all so there can't be any puns associated with it. Maybe we can just make up a word. The Port Adelaide Florpajorts.

Happens with just about everyone.

"The Pies are hot/cold"
"Bombers shot down"
"Crowing/Crows have their wings clipped"
"Dees are in hell"
"Saints are in heaven/Saints are sinners"
"Richmond have AIDS"

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Don't forget "Power Surge" and "Power Failure".

What we need is a mascot that's not known for anything at all so there can't be any puns associated with it. Maybe we can just make up a word. The Port Adelaide Florpajorts.

Subeditors in newspapers get paid to come up with headlines to play on sporting teams nickname. Come up with a meaningless nickname like the one above and fhey will think of how to play on it. Flogports will be worked into a headline if the above nickname was adopted.

Its like parents trying to come up wifh a name that kids cant change or ryhme with at school so their child wont get teased. Basically a pointless excercise.

 

[Dylan8]

"Richmond have AIDS"

Well, at least you tried.

 

[Paesano]

Don't forget "Power Surge" and "Power Failure".

What we need is a mascot that's not known for anything at all so there can't be any puns associated with

The Port Adelaide MAGPIES

 

[Jello_B]

Happens with just about everyone.

"The Pies are hot/cold"
"Bombers shot down"
"Crowing/Crows have their wings clipped"
"Dees are in hell"
"Saints are in heaven/Saints are sinners"
"Richmond have AIDS"

Lols at Richmond have AIDS.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Agree on Fruit Tingle (which to be honest I never understood anyway...) but "Cows" will never die. I don't think anyone really even views it as a slur, but a combination of the general gormlessness of the humble cow, and the fact that it's also the name of the South Park peewee football team... these things just make it fit, somehow.

I thought the term Cows was started by them.

Didn't the latest 5CC Ambassador do an ad in their early days where the sign writer wrote this on the grass on Footy Park? This prompted a response of "Cows, who are the Cows?".

 

[Ando39]

I thought the term Cows was started by them.

Didn't the latest 5CC Ambassador do an ad in their early days where the sign writer wrote this on the grass on Footy Park? This prompted a response of "Cows, who are the Cows?".

This. This is why the fruit tingles, the plastics and all that will come and go, but the Cows will never die. No serious football club would ever allow such a ridiculous play on their own name like that, and they certainly wouldnt get senior players involved.

Btw, it was Riccuito, not Bickley, from memory.

 

[Lou Zyffer]

This. This is why the fruit tingles, the plastics and all that will come and go, but the Cows will never die. No serious football club would ever allow such a ridiculous play on their own name like that, and they certainly wouldnt get senior players involved.

Btw, it was Riccuito, not Bickley, from memory.

Yeah, it was an ad for Snickers. A similar but slightly different ad ran in Bris with the "r" left out of of Broncos, i.e. Brisbane Boncos.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Don't forget "Power Surge" and "Power Failure".

What we need is a mascot that's not known for anything at all so there can't be any puns associated with it. Maybe we can just make up a word. The Port Adelaide Florpajorts.

Florpajorts come up short
Florpajorts can't play sport
Florpajorts are good sorts
(If we hired Stephen Trigg) Salary cap Florparort

 

[Dylan8]

Florparort hahahah

 

[DragoonCody]

Ah so, it has to not rhyme with anything. In which case, let's welcome the Port Adelaide Florpajoranges!

*Warning: may rhyme with Gorringes

 

[RossFC]

I love the off-season

 

[charcolechaddy]

Kane Mitchel deserves his upgrade.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The Port Adelaide Squid Jags lure Paddy Ryder to Alberton

 

[Ando39]

Ah so, it has to not rhyme with anything. In which case, let's welcome the Port Adelaide Florpajoranges!

*Warning: may rhyme with Gorringes

If the Port Adelaide Florpajoranges doesnt get a huge swell of grassroots support, I'll eat my hat.

 

[edgie]

Ah so, it has to not rhyme with anything. In which case, let's welcome the Port Adelaide Florpajoranges!

*Warning: may rhyme with Gorringes

Port Adelaide Florpajoranges go down to GWS Charcoal and Oranges!

 

[Lambot]

If the Port Adelaide Florpajoranges doesnt get a huge swell of grassroots support, I'll eat my hat.

Maybe the rumours are true... we're changing our jumper to reflect our new Florpajoranges nickname.

 

[DragoonCody]

Well, first things first, we need to figure out what the Florpajoranges mascot will look like. I think we're going to have to reach out to children to design one in a contest like we did with our jumper. I don't know why, but in my imagination it's round and has three arms.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Maybe the rumours are true... we're changing our jumper to reflect our new Florpajoranges nickname.

Hopefully we don't f**k up the marketing by branding ourselves Port Florpajoranges.

#florpajoranges

 

[SgtSchulz]

<-- is about all I will change for.

 

[Ando39]

Well, first things first, we need to figure out what the Florpajoranges mascot will look like. I think we're going to have to reach out to children to design one in a contest like we did with our jumper. I don't know why, but in my imagination it's round and has three arms.

I think the three arms goes without saying. I'm thinking something inspired by the Capital City Goofball.

 

[moanaman]

Maybe the rumours are true... we're changing our jumper to reflect our new Florpajoranges nickname.

I think it should be the Port Adelaide Florpapurples. What could possibly rhyme with that?

Edit: It does sound like something "Bill and Ben" would say

 

[Nemisis]

I'm over Kane Cornsey in the media/twitter - pushing his luck with some of his antics

 

[Duck Farmer]

I think it should be the Port Adelaide Florpapurples. What could possibly rhyme with that?

Daniel Gurple, coffee aficionado.

 

[proman_x]

Subeditors in newspapers get paid to come up with headlines to play on sporting teams nickname. Come up with a meaningless nickname like the one above and fhey will think of how to play on it. Flogports will be worked into a headline if the above nickname was adopted.

Its like parents trying to come up wifh a name that kids cant change or ryhme with at school so their child wont get teased. Basically a pointless excercise.

I was always curious why the parents of a boy I went to school with would call their chid, Wayne Ker. Perhaps they had a grin on their faces when signing the birth certificate or were exceptionally self assured people