Let's talk Ports!

[Jones2ByrneJones]

https://inspiredbyamoderngraphic.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-power-of-tradition/

Have a geez at this post of mine

More like Dylan Swaghorne.

Also nice url.

 

[Dylan8]

More like Dylan Swaghorne.

Also nice url.

So Hawks

 

[Jones2ByrneJones]

Dylan you should definitely send that to the club.

 

[El_Scorcho]

https://inspiredbyamoderngraphic.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-power-of-tradition/

Have a geez at this post of mine

Gr8 read m80

Kevin Foley.

What a lazy populist douchebag. Wanting to water down our identity to nothing, because it worked so well for "The Kangaroos".

It was literally Foley's job to engage people and get them united behind a cause. How he can miss the mark so enormously on the best way to engage Port supporters is absolutely staggering.

That said, Labor used to be the centre-left party. What do they represent now? Maybe he's been taking cues from his party on how to stand for nothing.

 

[Dylan8]

Dylan you should definitely send that to the club.

Why?

That said, Labor used to be the centre-left party. What do they represent now? Maybe he's been taking cues from his party on how to stand for nothing.

POW

 

[I Dont Care]

https://inspiredbyamoderngraphic.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-power-of-tradition/

Have a geez at this post of mine

Nice work Dylan

 

[bomberclifford]

https://inspiredbyamoderngraphic.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-power-of-tradition/

Have a geez at this post of mine

Nicely written article.

That Capel article with comments from Francou and James was so, so misguided.

Boulton said it best ...

Some people say 'yes, but you are going to turn off other people', but I think that is rubbish. I think the reality is that everyone knows that we are the Port Adelaide Football Club, that our home's at Alberton and that it was the Port Adelaide Football Club that got the licence to go into the AFL."

 

[Dylan8]

Nicely written article.

That Capel article with comments from Francou and James was so, so misguided.

Boulton said it best ...

Yep, unfortunately what Boulton said was not reflected in how the club was marketed and how John James pushed the brand.

 

[Nemisis]

Yep, unfortunately what Boulton said was not reflected in how the club was marketed and how John James pushed the brand.

John James ... was no where near AFL standard

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Yep, unfortunately what Boulton said was not reflected in how the club was marketed and how John James pushed the brand.

Ok now I understand that PM you sent me and why you asked for a photo of the banner. 2 things I'd like to comment on your article.

1. A bit picky but - "Winning six of the last eight SANFL premierships from 1988 to 1996, the Port Adelaide Magpies had finally secured entry ...." isnt correct. The PAFC won those flags not the PAMFC. A company PAFC (AFL) Ltd was registered in 1995 but it didnt have any employees it was a shell company. At the start of 1996 it had one employee Bucky, and in June when the licence to enter in 1997 was confirmed it started employing people. So there is no need to say the PA Magpies won 6 flags in 8 years.

2. You wouldnt know this because I have only found out this year, but the push for Power and Teal was from the board in 2002 and 2003 by the board as told to me by George Fiachi. So it was Boulton and the board who set up the strategy and when Bucky left John James had to implement their strategy and he went hard with it. But post the 2007 GF shellacking, the club slowly started to change until The Live the Creed slogan came from marketing focus groups groups the club held from July 2008
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/marketing-focus-groups.468467/

So whilst Boulton might say something publically, privately he and his board were going on another tact. Look closely at what he said in full in that article. He was talking about the 1970's based heritage jumper not where the club was heading.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...n-heritage-strip/story-e6frf39u-1111113891291
Port president Greg Boulton defended his club's decision to wear the heritage jumper, saying it would alienate "very few supporters".

"We certainly have the view that you can't fabricate heritage - it's either there or it isn't," he said.

"And given this is a celebration of 1970s football, we believe we had to wear a heritage guernsey that our football club in the SANFL wore at that time. Some people say 'yes, but you are going to turn off other people', but I think that is rubbish. I think the reality is that everyone knows that we are the Port Adelaide Football Club, that our home's at Alberton and that it was the Port Adelaide Football Club that got the licence to go into the AFL."
http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...n-heritage-strip/story-e6frf39u-1111113891291

A CEO who isnt a board member - gets his instructions from the board. The board was responsible for this shift away from our roots, not John James.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

John James ... was no where near AFL standard

I dont know, he pissed Leigh Whicker off for 4 years badgering him about the stadium deal. I reckon that gets him to the standard needed.

 

[Nemisis]

I dont know, he pissed Leigh Whicker off for 4 years badgering him about the stadium deal. I reckon that gets him to the standard needed.

You're too kind!

 

[Dylan8]

Ok now I understand that PM you sent me and why you asked for a photo of the banner. 2 things I'd like to comment on your article.

1. A bit picky but - "Winning six of the last eight SANFL premierships from 1988 to 1996, the Port Adelaide Magpies had finally secured entry ...." isnt correct. The PAFC won those flags not the PAMFC. A company PAFC (AFL) Ltd was registered in 1995 but it didnt have any employees it was a shell company. At the start of 1996 it had one employee Bucky, and in June when the licence to enter in 1997 was confirmed it started employing people. So there is no need to say the PA Magpies won 6 flags in 8 years.

It wasn't a PAMFC reference, more referring to the team and the moniker at the time. PAFC was the Port Adelaide Magpies at the time. I was simply saying Port had won the 6/8 of the last SANFL flags.

2. You wouldnt know this because I have only found out this year, but the push for Power and Teal was from the board in 2002 and 2003 by the board as told to me by George Fiachi. So it was Boulton and the board who set up the strategy and when Bucky left John James had to implement their strategy and he went hard with it. But post the 2007 GF shellacking, the club slowly started to change until The Live the Creed slogan came from marketing focus groups groups the club held from July 2008
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/marketing-focus-groups.468467/

So whilst Boulton might say something publically, privately he and his board were going on another tact. Look closely at what he said in full in that article. He was talking about the 1970's based heritage jumper not where the club was heading.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...n-heritage-strip/story-e6frf39u-1111113891291
Port president Greg Boulton defended his club's decision to wear the heritage jumper, saying it would alienate "very few supporters".

"We certainly have the view that you can't fabricate heritage - it's either there or it isn't," he said.

"And given this is a celebration of 1970s football, we believe we had to wear a heritage guernsey that our football club in the SANFL wore at that time. Some people say 'yes, but you are going to turn off other people', but I think that is rubbish. I think the reality is that everyone knows that we are the Port Adelaide Football Club, that our home's at Alberton and that it was the Port Adelaide Football Club that got the licence to go into the AFL."
http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...n-heritage-strip/story-e6frf39u-1111113891291

A CEO who isnt a board member - gets his instructions from the board. The board was responsible for this shift away from our roots, not John James.

Thanks for that. I was going off quotes in linked articles which can't be found on the net anymore in a couple of old threads. I didn't find that one.

The Boulton quote I used - ‘the reality is that everyone knows that we are the Port Adelaide Football Club … and that it was the Port Adelaide Football Club that got the licence to go into the AFL’ - was pre-2007 GF shellacking. The tact at that point, according to your post, was to emphasis teal and what not. So in essence he was contradicting the direction of the brand which only served to add confusion to an already conflicted brand.

 

[Smithy7]

Inside Alberton: Mum's the Word
We caught up with the player's mums last week while they were in town for Mother’s Day, to bring you a very special edition of Inside Alberton: Mum’s the Word.
Port Adelaide is putting the power back in the hands of players’ mums, revealing secrets from their childhoods only a mother would know…
A bit of interesting reading ....
More ......... http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2015-05-16/inside-alberton-mums-the-word

 

[Schulzenfest]

Inside Alberton: Mum's the Word
We caught up with the player's mums last week while they were in town for Mother’s Day, to bring you a very special edition of Inside Alberton: Mum’s the Word.
Port Adelaide is putting the power back in the hands of players’ mums, revealing secrets from their childhoods only a mother would know…
A bit of interesting reading ....
More ......... http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2015-05-16/inside-alberton-mums-the-word

Of course Kane Mitchell used to dress up as Danny Zuko from Grease. That is the most obvious thing ever. He probably still does it.

 

[Seanybruz]

Inside Alberton: Mum's the Word
We caught up with the player's mums last week while they were in town for Mother’s Day, to bring you a very special edition of Inside Alberton: Mum’s the Word.
Port Adelaide is putting the power back in the hands of players’ mums, revealing secrets from their childhoods only a mother would know…
A bit of interesting reading ....
More ......... http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2015-05-16/inside-alberton-mums-the-word

Ollie always struck me as a Batista or Lesnar type, if he ever powerbombs someone they'd probably die.

 

[I Dont Care]

Inside Alberton: Mum's the Word
We caught up with the player's mums last week while they were in town for Mother’s Day, to bring you a very special edition of Inside Alberton: Mum’s the Word.
Port Adelaide is putting the power back in the hands of players’ mums, revealing secrets from their childhoods only a mother would know…
A bit of interesting reading ....
More ......... http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2015-05-16/inside-alberton-mums-the-word

Nice read

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The table tennis matches at Geelong between Kenny and Matthew Scarlet are of legendary proportions. A decade on I wonder if Kenny can still keep up with the younger blokes. Matt White was up tonight

Steve Johnson wrote a great long article about Kenny last September after the Richmond win. This is the bit about table tennis which I have heard Scarlett talk about.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...ership-contender/story-fnp04d70-1227055607821
THE COMPETITOR
It is only behind closed doors that you get to see Ken’s real, raw hunger for success. At Geelong we used to have a table-tennis table in the players’ lounge and Ken loved to hold court. I reckon his wife must have wondered about the demanding hours it took to be an AFL assistant coach arriving home late in the evening.

What she probably didn’t know was that Ken used to stay on that table challenging player after player to have a shot at the title, and on the odd occasion when he was beaten, he would demand a rematch. If he was struggling in the rematch he would resort to some serious sledging, and if he still wasn’t winning he would blame the bats. Some of his battles with Matty Scarlett were legendary.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...ership-contender/story-fnp04d70-1227055607821

 

[bomberclifford]

Kern wearing thongs. Expert level.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

It won't be Travis Boak challenging Ken except maybe to get out of doing the dishes.

4. CHICKI BOAK – Travis Boak’s Mum
“When he was in High School, he put his name down for almost every single sport just so he could get out of school. I remember he signed up for hockey and table tennis. He wasn’t very good but it got him out of class.”

 

[Smithy7]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/po...atest-influences/story-fndv8s6g-1227357456102
Port Adelaide backman Jack Hombsch speaks about his greatest influences
IT COULD not be more ironic or fateful that it was Mark Williams, the deposed Port Adelaide coach, who was instrumental in turning Jack Hombsch’s career at Greater Western Sydney and that Hombsch is now doing his best work at Port Adelaide.
Hombsch, 22, had been recruited by the new franchise from Sturt in Adelaide as a 17-year-old access when the Giants had a range of draft privileges, but found himself on the outer at his first AFL club.
But it was Williams, who was working as coach Kevin Sheedy’s right-hand man, who provided some illumination and hope.
Looking back, Hombsch could not be more grateful.
More ........
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/po...atest-influences/story-fndv8s6g-1227357456102

Port Adelaide player Jack Hombsch

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Kern wearing thongs. Expert level.

I was waiting for someone to pick that up. Maybe it reflects Whitey's skills.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Kern wearing thongs. Expert level.

We talk about Casual Keith a lot, but Kern is the only coach in the AFL who I could imagine coaching from the sidelines in a singlet, boardies and thongs while sinking a few beers.

 

[Jones2ByrneJones]

We talk about Casual Keith a lot, but Kern is the only coach in the AFL who I could imagine coaching from the sidelines in a singlet, boardies and thongs while sinking a few beers.

Give it a week and Paul Welsh will be doing it too

 

[faquito]

We talk about Casual Keith a lot, but Kern is the only coach in the AFL who I could imagine coaching from the sidelines in a singlet, boardies and thongs while sinking a few beers.

For some reason i could see Ross Lyon being a sunglasses and bucket hat kinda guy.