Port Adelaide's plan to use jumpers similar to Collingwood

[DieSwans]

Port should wear it post game every week tbh

New tradition

 

[Waspy79]

your truth is everyone else’s outrage and disgust at a pathetic effort to hijack a foundation club’s VFL jumper design.

Exhibit A of inability to handle truth.

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

PLAY FROM 27:20 MINUTE MARK.......GREATEST PORT ADELAIDE FAMILY MEMBER AND PORT POWER PREMIERSHIP COACH MARK WILLIAMS SAYS SO..... I WOULD TAKE HIS OPINION OVER NOBODY FANBOYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHO HASN'T BEEN INVOLED BUILDING PORT THE CLUB..

Where he says he supports wearing it on games against the crows? That’s the opinion you support? Cheers!

 

[edgie]

it’s the same thing as Koch demanding that Port Power suddenly want to reverse their agreement to not play in black and white vertical stripes

An agreement made that should be void given he was the only party out of the loop of future events.

 

[ibd77]

PLAY FROM 27:20 MINUTE MARK.......GREATEST PORT ADELAIDE FAMILY MEMBER AND PORT POWER PREMIERSHIP COACH MARK WILLIAMS SAYS SO..... I WOULD TAKE HIS OPINION OVER NOBODY FANBOYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHO HAVENT BEEN INVOLED BUILDING PORT THE CLUB.

Why so shouty?

Haven't seen Mark Williams much down our way since we gave him the sack. Not sure how much credence we give to former club champion that has fallen out with the club. One of the criticisms Mark received before he left the club is the perception that he was bigger than the club. Not something that is aligned to the current clubs culture.

 

[peternorth]

Gerard Healy and namesake Whately made a point where the great thing about AFL are the colours. That no team has the same colours as others, unlike in football (soccer) and basketball.

Thing they did not note was that in football (soccer) at least that there's 20 teams in each division (of english football), with promotion and relegation where teams chop and change....and also various cup games, both domestic and international. Ergo there's going to be shared colours

 

[Turiyasangitananda]

PLAY FROM 27:20 MINUTE MARK.......GREATEST PORT ADELAIDE FAMILY MEMBER AND PORT POWER PREMIERSHIP COACH MARK WILLIAMS SAYS SO..... I WOULD TAKE HIS OPINION OVER NOBODY FANBOYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHO HAVENT BEEN INVOLED BUILDING PORT THE CLUB.

That's brilliant! He supports us wearing it in showdowns.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

PLAY FROM 27:20 MINUTE MARK.......GREATEST PORT ADELAIDE FAMILY MEMBER AND PORT POWER PREMIERSHIP COACH MARK WILLIAMS SAYS SO..... I WOULD TAKE HIS OPINION OVER NOBODY FANBOYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHO HAVENT BEEN INVOLED BUILDING PORT THE CLUB.

Yep what he said is exactly what we have been saying. Good to have you join us mate.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Why so shouty?

Haven't seen Mark Williams much down our way since we gave him the sack. Not sure how much credence we give to former club champion that has fallen out with the club. One of the criticisms Mark received before he left the club is the perception that he was bigger than the club. Not something that is aligned to the current clubs culture.

Mark Williams is the only senior coach thats delivered us an AFL premiership.

Also what he says in the video is exactly what most of us are saying now. Embrace the future, but respect the past and wear it now and then when we want. Thats all that has ever been put forward by the club.

 

[ibd77]

Mark Williams is the only senior coach thats delivered us an AFL premiership.

Also what he says in the video is exactly what most of us are saying now. Embrace the future, but respect the past and wear it now and then when we want. Thats all that has ever been put forward by the club.

Fair enough, TBH I did not listen to the clip just assumed based on other previous member anecdotes that his views was not inline with the current PAFC values. I was under the belief that there was still tension between Mark & the PAFC.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Fair enough, TBH I did not listen to the clip just assumed based on other previous member anecdotes that his views was not inline with the current PAFC values. I was under the belief that there was still tension between Mark & the PAFC.

There may well be but he has always been a straight shooter and nails it in that clip from my perspective.

Its only about 20 seconds fwiw.

 

[Ice-Wolf]

They'll end up looking like Collingwood-lite.

I believe North Melbourne have already laid claim to that one.

 

[Alyx]

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Mark Williams summed it up perfectly, wear it on showdowns to respect the heritage.

 

[pjcrows]

We sold 250 woollen prison bar guernseys this week at $250 a pop.

This is the whole "prison bars" saga encapsulated in one sentence, unintentionally. End thread.

 

[wallumi]

Meh I disagree for the record... I dont even want 2 because I dont think the Tingles have earned the right to be in those games. I still dont see why we are trying to limit wearing our historic guernsey against an embarrassing joke of a franchise with no history. The closest thing the cows have ever gotten to anything heritage is when they were blindfolded singing the Richmond themesong on their way to Camp Cuck.

I just want us to be able to choose occasional home games where we can bring it out (Id be fine if the afl set us a max limit of 2/year), and not have to deal with this nonsense every time.

Imagine wearing the bars at home against real football clubs, and the additional hype when we do so. Thats what I want.

Your more extensive ambition might be missing a large part of both the technical and the symbolic matters at the heart of this issue. Wearing the bars jumper in a showdown directly displays the deep and pervasive SANFL tradition of Port vs 'the rest' that arose from Port's dominance of that competition over its long history. In many ways the fans of the respective teams bring that same historical character to showdowns. The bars would serve to both authentically and accurately represent and celebrate that traditional SANFL character. For that reason the SANFL should be on the wagon backing the bars into the showdowns. That they aren't, and that Olsen so explicitly rejects them, simple testifies to the nature of the very character that Port Adelaide is seeking to celebrate.

Limiting the jumper to just that local theatre duly respects and preserves the history whilst also avoiding all of the dissipating issues that arise from injecting that local character, 'brand competition', allegation of identity crisis, etc., into the national arena of competition. Nonetheless that history is exposed upon that national stage for those who are capable of understating it.

 

[DieSwans]

Just watching Eddie speak about it.

He's playing to it cool but is absolutely fuming inside hahahabbab

 

[tangolikelama]

Eddie just now: "I've got nothing to say on the matter".. Proceeds to complain for 2 minutes.

 

[Ok Boomer]

VFL now spreading their propaganda to non Port/Collingwood games.

 

[Roby]

Eddie just now: "I've got nothing to say on the matter".. Proceeds to complain for 2 minutes.

Suggested Kochie's nose will get broken for sticking it. Why is this disgusting human still on air?

 

[Rob]

Eddie just now: "I've got nothing to say on the matter".. Proceeds to complain for 2 minutes.

"David Koch sticking his nose into AFL business.....hope he doesn't end up with a broken nose"

Who the **** does Eddie think he is? Al Capone?

 

[Ok Boomer]

Also our weekly reminder that Eddie McGuire is a piece of shit.

 

[Roby]

"David Koch sticking his nose into AFL business.....hope he doesn't end up with a broken nose"

Who the fu** does Eddie think he is? Al Capone?

Yep. Just like AL he was a misogynist and a racist.

 

[Pistol Night]

"David Koch sticking his nose into AFL business.....hope he doesn't end up with a broken nose"

Who the fu** does Eddie think he is? Al Capone?

As Luke Darcy suggested, chuck Kochie and Eddie in the ring for charity and the winner gets the final say

 

[Ice-Wolf]

We are the power. We aren't trying to be the magpies. The design of a guernsey isn't tied to the nickname.

Were you outraged that in 1997 we had a guernsey with a black and white pattern designed to be symbolic of a magpie wing? Closer to anything magpie related than the pylons.

They thought it was the SBS logo.