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We have had threads about who should be traded etc, now for the other side of it.
Who should walk out of the club at the end of the year?
Are there players that should feel cheesed off enough with the lack of opportunities that they should consider moving?
We have had threads about who should be traded etc, now for the other side of it.
Who should walk out of the club at the end of the year?
Are there players that should feel cheesed off enough with the lack of opportunities that they should consider moving?
Brett Ebert - IMO for always being dropped even though he is clearly not the worst player in the senior team and also for being played in the wrong position. FFS play him the midfied.
Capital Power
14 May 2006, 17:46
Who should walk out of the club at the end of the year?
*PAF, at a rough guess I would say around 5,000 current members :(
*PAF, at a rough guess I would say around 5,000 current members :(
Nyet.
I am waiting for the replay so I can watch the game and I can understand people being frustrated and all, but no I cannot agree with that. Hang in there, we will turn it around.
Capital Power
14 May 2006, 18:42
Don't worry, *PAF, I'm going nowhere. Still furiously saving my pennies for my next interstate trip. I'm just glad I didn't spend the best part of a grand coming over today, and I feel for those who did.
Been blessed so far this year - saw both of our wins. Can someone closer to Alberton than me please ask Choco to find the boys who played against the swans and put them on next week?
Power21
14 May 2006, 20:30
*PAF, at a rough guess I would say around 5,000 current members :(
It's times like these we have to respect the clubs like Richmond and Fremantle who keep relatively high membership but are perennial underachievers.
Anyone who jumps off now isn't a real supporter.
Arsene Wenger
14 May 2006, 20:39
Exactly right - the best supporters stick by us now... I hope all of you on this board do. Its all well and good to enjoy the good times but we must get out there and back the club coz we will be back...
On another note does anyone seriously think we might win less than 4 games and get a priority pick ? I heard someone say it at the game today and i was very close to losing the plot. We are too proud a club to do this but then again thats how you get the best kids.....
Capital Power
14 May 2006, 21:02
Depends, Arsene - better footy minds than mine can tell you if we would have beaten anybody playing the way we have been in recent weeks. I suspect not.
If we don't beat Brisbane at home then we may well struggle to win any more games this season, but I sincerely hope the Club wouldn't stoop as low as ensuring that we don't.
Toots Hibbert
14 May 2006, 21:31
Exactly right - the best supporters stick by us now... I hope all of you on this board do. Its all well and good to enjoy the good times but we must get out there and back the club coz we will be back...
On another note does anyone seriously think we might win less than 4 games and get a priority pick ? I heard someone say it at the game today and i was very close to losing the plot. We are too proud a club to do this but then again thats how you get the best kids.....
When we were going poorly in 2000 is when I bought season tickets and anchored seats on top of the membership I took out in 1998. I did that to help stem any drop off in revenue due to our poor form. We certainly need our supporters to stand firm now.
No self respecting club should deliberately drop games. Ever.
Forzaport
14 May 2006, 21:46
Brett Ebert - IMO for always being dropped even though he is clearly not the worst player in the senior team and also for being played in the wrong position. FFS play him the midfied.
spot on.
PJ Power
14 May 2006, 21:49
Who here has talked about jumping ship?
Geez, some of us react to disappointment by getting angry, others shrug their shoulders and think "it'll come good".
Just because we have different reactions, does not mean that we are lesser supporters.
I committed my football supporting life to Port Adelaide. Not to one coach, or one captain or one player.
I was devastated as a kid when Russell Ebert got the sack but I knew he wasn't getting everything out of some pretty good players.
I was disappointed for Cahill, but the time to move on to Williams was right.
What happens to Choco is in his hands. If he is the good coach he has shown himself to be in other seasons, he will find a way to get respect back into our club and for our club by the end of his current tenure. If he fails, he will pay the price.
We exist to win premierships every season, not every decade. His 2004 bonus points should be short-lived, as he has to keep reinventing himself and the players.
I would much prefer him to stay as our coach by being successful then failing and needing to be pushed - that will get ugly and people will get hurt.
But how are we going to become successful again.
The performances this year have not been in isolation. We had the same major worries about our players' efforts and self-pride every second week last year.
The players are largely to blame, but Williams is responsible for managing them and getting the best out of them. We know what their best is - we saw it only 18 months ago.