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Ah thanks.
Let's talk Ports!
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I thought he mentioned 66k as the crowd and thought he got mixed up with the official crowd of '76.
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Assuming Carlile and Trengove stay healthy, Hombsch continues to improve and the imposter who kidnapped Jonas is ousted for the real mccoy our defence should go back to being a staunch asset. If not we may have to go full shootout, which we're truly capable of now
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Wish I had seen this before using the 2004 GF dais picture for my bar glass splashback. I am extremely happy with what the end product is going to look like but this would have been even better.
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Your blokes learned from the mistakes of 2009, and have more or less been a powerhouse ever since. Hopefully we can do something similar over the next few years.
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That's exactly what I think will happen now. I won't lie I expected it to happen last year as well.... but as funny as it sounds screwing up last year might be the best thing going forward/long term for Port.
look at the mids- Wines, Hartlett, Grey, Boak
Throw in Pollack and Ebert on the wings
Ryder, Lobe in ruck
Look at the forwards- Dixon, Westhoff, Shultz, Wingard
That's a gun team.
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As I wrote, he said it was a crowd of 66,000 and he thought it was the 1966 GF between Sturt and Port. He was a little out for a) the crowd size, b) the year and c) the margin.
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Agree: my only worry is injuries. If we can keep our best 22 on the field for most of the year - or close to it, we'll be tough to stop.
Fritz Freeman currently signing copies of his biography in the village green at the cricket.
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Adding in Bassett's coaching too.
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Wasn't disagreeing with what you said, I was simply stating what I thought at the time Chappelli mentioned it.
No worries. I remember thinking at the time of the 'dishonest football' and 'DK and the vanillerisation of PA' threads - gee, how far removed from the honest appraisal post the 2013 semi is this "we've just got to work harder" bulldust which got trotted out after each loss? However - not sure that a running commmentary of all the 2015 failings would have done any good. We all just wanted something to show that errors made had been picked up and rectified before it was too late.
In the end whatever was done was done too late and we missed the finals. But at least there have been lessons learned.
I reckon a former player 'Where are they now' thread like on the Sydney or Gold Coast board has the potential to work well. Though it's best for it to be focused on players who have left the AFL system and are plying their trade in the state or bush leagues otherwise it descends into a bit of a bitchfest (ie. Chaplin/Jacobs).
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don't know. Didn't have time to read it.Is there a chapter on Ken Cunningham?
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Your team's best 22 and depth for 2016
B: Jack Hombsch, Alipate Carlile, Jarman Impey
HB: Matthew Broadbent, Jackson Trengove, Hamish Hartlett
C: Jared Polec, Brad Ebert, Jasper Pittard
HF: Justin Westhoff, Charlie Dixon, Robbie Gray
F: Angus Monfries, Jay Schulz, Chad Wingard
Foll: Patrick Ryder, Travis Boak, Ollie Wines
I/C: Matthew Lobbe, Matt White, Tom Jonas, Brendon Ah Chee
DEPTHKey-position defenders: Logan Austin, Cam O'Shea, Tom Clurey
General defenders: Riley Bonner, Darcy Byrne-Jones, Nathan Krakouer
Key-position forwards: John Butcher, Dougal Howard
General forwards: Cameron Hewett*, Dan Houston*, Aidyn Johnson, Jake Neade, Jesse Palmer, Paul Stewart
Midfielders: Karl Amon, Sam Colquhoun, Kane Mitchell*, Sam Gray, Will Snelling*, Jimmy Toumpas, Aaron Young
Rucks: Billy Frampton
Due to the Power's injury woes last year many players were offered chances to strut their stuff on the big stage and to be fair to them, many took those opportunities. Guys such as Sam Gray, Aaron Young and Nathan Krakouer are difficult to leave out of a 'best scenario' 22, but the question always comes back to who makes way for their insertion? Tom Jonas will get back to his best, Brendon Ah Chee deserves a spot and for those just missing the 22, the challenge to break in will remain. Jimmy Toumpas may well impress over the summer and climb the pecking order – however Young, Gray, Colquhoun and even Amon have substantially more runs on the board at Alberton.
More ...
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-11-28/your-teams-best-22-for-2016
Jared Polec will be back in 2016 to add some dash to the Power
B: Jack Hombsch, Alipate Carlile, Jarman Impey
HB: Matthew Broadbent, Jackson Trengove, Hamish Hartlett
C: Jared Polec, Brad Ebert, Jasper Pittard
HF: Justin Westhoff, Charlie Dixon, Robbie Gray
F: Angus Monfries, Jay Schulz, Chad Wingard
Foll: Patrick Ryder, Travis Boak, Ollie Wines
I/C: Matthew Lobbe, Matt White, Tom Jonas, Brendon Ah Chee
DEPTHKey-position defenders: Logan Austin, Cam O'Shea, Tom Clurey
General defenders: Riley Bonner, Darcy Byrne-Jones, Nathan Krakouer
Key-position forwards: John Butcher, Dougal Howard
General forwards: Cameron Hewett*, Dan Houston*, Aidyn Johnson, Jake Neade, Jesse Palmer, Paul Stewart
Midfielders: Karl Amon, Sam Colquhoun, Kane Mitchell*, Sam Gray, Will Snelling*, Jimmy Toumpas, Aaron Young
Rucks: Billy Frampton
Due to the Power's injury woes last year many players were offered chances to strut their stuff on the big stage and to be fair to them, many took those opportunities. Guys such as Sam Gray, Aaron Young and Nathan Krakouer are difficult to leave out of a 'best scenario' 22, but the question always comes back to who makes way for their insertion? Tom Jonas will get back to his best, Brendon Ah Chee deserves a spot and for those just missing the 22, the challenge to break in will remain. Jimmy Toumpas may well impress over the summer and climb the pecking order – however Young, Gray, Colquhoun and even Amon have substantially more runs on the board at Alberton.
More ...
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-11-28/your-teams-best-22-for-2016
Jared Polec will be back in 2016 to add some dash to the Power
wwww why is Rick Montiadis's clinic empty....bbb but why?
What is happening...
Please just cleaning or something...
Im about to cry.
What is happening...
Please just cleaning or something...
Im about to cry.
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Re his SANFL and/or AFL allegiances I recall Ian writing "never, ever get on the Port Adelaide bandwagon" in a column somewhere... I don't recall the context or how long ago it was but it might have been him recalling something his dad said to him. Also one of those random wiki pages out on the InterwebZ lists him as a celebrity Essendon fan.
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I think Martin was a Glenelg supporter.
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Nope he was Westies due to his old man, but manly his paternal grandpa. I asked my mate this morning who knows Chappelli well and writes for the Football Almanac site that does all the footy codes and cricket, and he gave me a link to this article written by ABC news and 7.30 reporter Mike Sexton
Chappelli at Sturt
May 7, 2015 by Michael Sexton
Here is a sledge few of us ever endured while going out to bat: ‘You are only in the team because your grandfather played for Australia.’ That was the burden the young Ian Chappell had to bear as a school boy approaching the crease. On reflection, he says he knew he had got under the skin of his opposition when it changed to: ‘You are only in the team because your bloody grandfather played for Australia’. When it got to the swearing stage I knew I was going alright.”
Like his grandfather Victor Richardson, Ian Chappell captained Australia and neither lost a test series while in charge. Richardson famously told his grandson upon being named skipper “don’t captain like a Victorian,” suggesting entertainment should be part of the plan. Chappell considers he is “more Richardson than Chappell” and his admiration for Vic was evident as he spoke at the Sturt Football Club’s launch of two publications by its Historical and Memorabilia Committee.
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Given the admiration for Vic and his deep connection with Sturt it is surprising that Chappell isn’t a Sturt supporter. His cricket club was Glenelg but he didn’t follow the Tigers either. It was another family connection that steered him to West Adelaide. “Obviously my mother Jeanne was very much Sturt and we heard a lot about Sturt but she had s**t for luck. She was the only woman in the household and she got outvoted.”
Chappell’s paternal grandfather Harold ran a pharmacy in Adelaide’s west end and in keeping with the tribal lore of the inner city was a West Adelaide supporter. He also served on the club’s committee. Martin Chappell took his three sons to see the Bloods play at a time when the club was rich in characters. In a decade they played four epic grand finals against Port Adelaide that all ended in heart breaking narrow losses. The experience twisted the young Chappell against anything black and white.
“When I looked at Sturt’s 1915 premiership they beat Port Adelaide which endeared it to me immediately. Although I barracked for Westies I admit in the late 1960s when Sturt was beating Port Adelaide on a regular basis I was always barracking for them which made me popular with mum.
“After watching West Adelaide lose in 1954, 56, 58 and 59 to those bastards seeing Sturt whipping them made my day.” The Chappell boys played football as kids but gave it away in favour of winter baseball. It didn’t mean their interest in the sport waned. The tribal nature of the SANFL was played out in the cricket sheds. Chappell made his debut for South Australia against Tasmania alongside John Halbert who captained Sturt at cricket and football.
The Shield side also featured Neil Hawke and Eric Freeman who wore the black and white prison bar guernsey in winter. Chappell believes Freeman’s passion for Port Adelaide made him vulnerable. “When he walked out to bat Les Favell would say ‘get your head down Fritz’ because he couldn’t help himself and liked to have a thrash and often not sensibly.
“But there was one supporter who used to see him coming and would yell out Carn the Pies just as he set foot through the gates onto the oval and that was the end of Fritz’s brain. He was now playing in a grand final for Port Adelaide and whoosh bang he was out. “When he got back Les would say ‘Jesus Fritz what happened to keeping your head down’ and he would say it was just a normal shot.”
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Welcome Jimmy! What a legend
Many years ago Ian Chappell was coming out of an Orthopaedic clinic as I was about to go in. Just behind Chappell also coming out of the clinic was a guy I used to play footy with, so I said "Thommo! - what are you doing here?" Chappell gave me a wtf look as if to say "Don't you know who I am?"
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About time we got him. He has a soft spot for Centrals as he lived in Elizabeth with mum for many years ( she married a Barnes and Jimmy took his name) but it was the 2 years he lived with his old man Jim Swan at Semaphore or near Semaphore that he became a Port fan. He also is a big Balmain Tigers fan as he lived around the corner from Leichhardt Oval and used to go watch them and took a bit of time to jump onto the West Tigers wagon. He did wear an Eastern Suburbs/ Sydney Roosters jumper in at least 1 Chisel video and I reckon he wore it when they trashed the Countdown awards.
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