Toast Warren Tredrea - Elected to the Port Board (Football discussion only)

[Chewy316]

The winner of this election will not only be on the Board of Directors, but they'll also be on the football committee working with CD etc.

 

[VineValerian]

I've heard it said by a few of our players,
"The performances on the field don't define you as a person." They do, however, define you as a sportsperson.

And that's what they are getting paid as to perform as - sportspeople.
They're not being pad to feel contented with themselves ffs.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Abba in his 5aa interview backed Hinkley with the comment 'his W/L percentage is exceptional' and 'we're grateful to be apart of the billion dollar AFL coffers' convinced me he's pretty much all in on the lil' blue collar battler shtick.

Hard pass.

Listening to Bruce Abernethy on AA was about as inspiring as a nit. Sounded like someone told him it was a good idea and he would give it a go.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Would love to have Choco back in some capacity, but there's absolutely no way the cult would have him around. Can even see them trying their best to keep Tredders away.

First board meeting of the year, got Chadbro manning the door. "Hey Wazza, good to see you mate. Just checking you've got the green tick on your Covid Safe app bro. Ah geez, no tick? That's a shame, sorry you can't come in champ"

Mark Williams Darren Cahill Warren Tredrea all of them winners. Get them involved behind a new young coach and we will go places.

 

[Doctor Feel]

has he won yet

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

has he won yet

Has Koch lost yet?

 

[Poo Eckert]

Not sure about everyone else but the groundswell of support for Tredrea through my network is incredible. People who don't even usually show an interest in anything other than the football side of things are actively talking about WGT and why he should be on the board. There's a few who are anti-Tredrea but even those say that they'd be happy with either Abernethy or Tredrea on the board.

The interest and commentary in this election is unprecedented. Not even the great Poo Eckert got this much traction.

Im happy to live in Wazza’s shadow. After me there’s been alot of former players stand up, I’ll take that as I started something

 

[Bump Bailey]

Mark Williams Darren Cahill Warren Tredrea all of them winners. Get them involved behind a new young coach and we will go places.

1000% I’m reading too much into this, but this post from Jenny W felt quite pointed given the events this week? Like I said, probably overthinking it.

 

[PowerLil]

1000% I’m reading too much into this, but this post from Jenny W felt quite pointed given the events this week? Like I said, probably overthinking it.

Don't think you're overthinking it. That is an unveiled whack at the current incarnation of the PAFC.

 

[Lightning_Rod]

Listening to Bruce Abernethy on AA was about as inspiring as a nit. Sounded like someone told him it was a good idea and he would give it a go.

The moment I heard his answer to the question about ken and it was "he has a great win percentage" I tuned out

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[Rexie J]

1000% I’m reading too much into this, but this post from Jenny W felt quite pointed given the events this week? Like I said, probably overthinking it.

"The 58-year-old has long been viewed as one of the sharpest minds in tennis and is being credited with giving Sinner the belief to beat Djokovic three times in the last few months."

That snippet is from the same article.

Contrast that with the negative comments so often publicly expressed within the PAFC.

 

[Steve Dore]

"The 58-year-old has long been viewed as one of the sharpest minds in tennis and is being credited with giving Sinner the belief to beat Djokovic three times in the last few months."

That snippet is from the same article.

Contrast that with the negative comments so often publicly expressed within the PAFC.

Playing Djokovic is scary and someone has to lose.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

The moment I heard his answer to the question about ken and it was "he has a great win percentage" I tuned out

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It absolutely blows my mind that people use this as a defence rather than an attack.

If you have a list capable of a great win percentage for 11 years and you convert that to donuts, it makes you 10x worse.

Its why Ken deserves the least successful coach of all time ranking so much more than Stephen because Bill Stephen never had the list to convert.

 

[Macca_1870]

H&A win loss percentage is meaningless if you can't win finals. If Abernathy doesn't understand that he should be no where near our board.

Of all the people to understand that, you'd think a 7x premiership player would.

 

[wannabejack]

The moment I heard his answer to the question about ken and it was "he has a great win percentage" I tuned out

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Bruce should've mentioned that it's even better if you exclude finals.

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

We are such a loser club full of politically correct losers.

 

[tribey]

Abernethy’s 5AA comments sounded like he was diplomatically trying to be all things to all people (which is understandable given he’s on the hustings).

While he did mention Ken’s win-loss record positively (in response to Rowe’s direct question: “is Ken the right man for the job?”), he’d previously said in relation to the team’s performance in 2023: “if you’re not playing ‘finals football’ you have no chance in September” — which to me sounded like a vote of no confidence in the way we go about it, rather than any indictment on available talent and associated sympathy for Hinkley.

Also followed up by saying he wanted to know what the club’s long-term strategy is and whether there’s a succession plan in relation to Hinkley.

Before that, he defended the record of Brett Duncanson and took a shot at the overwhelmingly negative media coverage of his friend and the club at that time.

Pointed out that when the 2012 Chairman and board was flushed, they had OneClub in place, Adelaide Oval on the way, and the $9,000,000 rescue funding secured.

If he has been tapped by Koch as a bulwark against Evil Warren and human shield against attacks on Señor Sunrise and the Bell Park Genius, he’s doing a fantastic job of hiding it.

 

[Chewy316]

Abernethy’s 5AA comments sounded like he was diplomatically trying to be all things to all people (which is understandable given he’s on the hustings).

While he did mention Ken’s win-loss record positively (in response to Rowe’s direct question: “is Ken the right man for the job?”), he’d previously said in relation to the team’s performance in 2023: “if you’re not playing ‘finals football’ you have no chance in September” — which to me sounded like a vote of no confidence in the way we go about it, rather than any indictment on available talent and associated sympathy for Hinkley.

Also followed up by saying he wanted to know what the club’s long-term strategy is and whether there’s a succession plan in relation to Hinkley.

Before that, he defended the record of Brett Duncanson and took a shot at the overwhelmingly negative media coverage of his friend and the club at that time.

Pointed out that when the 2012 Chairman and board was flushed, they had OneClub in place, Adelaide Oval on the way, and the $9,000,000 rescue funding secured.

If he has been tapped by Koch as a bulwark against Evil Warren and human shield against attacks on Señor Sunrise and the Bell Park Genius, he’s doing a fantastic job of hiding it.

Might not have been Koch who tapped him on the shoulder to run but he's 100% been asked to run by the Club - even if it was via intermediaries. He's freaking told people I know that the Club asked him to run.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Yes, shout out to Darren Cahill another player (Jannik Sinner) he coaches makes a Grand slam Final and destroyed Djokovic in the process. He has also had Choco Williams sit in the players box the last couple of matches.

 

[Steve Dore]

Grave Danger

 

[Enviable Tradition]

"The 58-year-old has long been viewed as one of the sharpest minds in tennis and is being credited with giving Sinner the belief to beat Djokovic three times in the last few months."

That snippet is from the same article.

Contrast that with the negative comments so often publicly expressed within the PAFC.

Sounds like what all the past players say about Jack.

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[silverfingers]

Abernethy’s 5AA comments sounded like he was diplomatically trying to be all things to all people (which is understandable given he’s on the hustings).

While he did mention Ken’s win-loss record positively (in response to Rowe’s direct question: “is Ken the right man for the job?”), he’d previously said in relation to the team’s performance in 2023: “if you’re not playing ‘finals football’ you have no chance in September” — which to me sounded like a vote of no confidence in the way we go about it, rather than any indictment on available talent and associated sympathy for Hinkley.

Also followed up by saying he wanted to know what the club’s long-term strategy is and whether there’s a succession plan in relation to Hinkley.

Before that, he defended the record of Brett Duncanson and took a shot at the overwhelmingly negative media coverage of his friend and the club at that time.

Pointed out that when the 2012 Chairman and board was flushed, they had OneClub in place, Adelaide Oval on the way, and the $9,000,000 rescue funding secured.

If he has been tapped by Koch as a bulwark against Evil Warren and human shield against attacks on Señor Sunrise and the Bell Park Genius, he’s doing a fantastic job of hiding it.

Well said. People being pretty harsh on Abba on here regarding the AA interview the other night.

And people forget Abba was a winner too, more than Tredrea. And was more liked as a teammate than Tredrea.

 

[Harlott]

Well said. People being pretty harsh on Abba on here regarding the AA interview the other night.

And people forget Abba was a winner too, more than Tredrea. And was more liked as a teammate than Tredrea.

He’s nowhere near as loved as Kenny by the boys.

 

[TeeKray]

And people forget Abba was a winner too, more than Tredrea. And was more liked as a teammate than Tredrea.

What nonsense.

Tredrea is arguably the most significant on field figure in the club's history. The team he captained to a premiership - in a season where he was the league's most dominant player - legitimised the PAFC on the national stage in a way no team had done before or has done since. It stands alone as the club's greatest achievement and he was the driving force behind it.

As for the second part of your post, you don't play football to be liked, you play to win premierships.

 

[TazD]

What nonsense.

Tredrea is arguably the most significant on field figure in the club's history. The team he captained to a premiership - in a season where he was the league's most dominant player - legitimised the PAFC on the national stage in a way no team had done before or has done since. It stands alone as the club's greatest achievement and he was the driving force behind it.

As for the second part of your post, you don't play football to be liked, you play to win premierships.

Yeah, but he's abrasive