News PAFC & CHINA - The Celestial Frontier

[Lockhart Road]

PORT ADELAIDE SUPPORTS ‘TEAM CHINA’ FOR THE 2014 AFL INTERNATIONAL CUP


· This development is a direct result from the PAFC Board’s visit to Hong Kong for the Business Luncheon held at the Hong Kong Football Club on Friday, 16 May and Board Meeting held there on Saturday, 17 May.

· It is anticipated that new corporate partnerships involving a logical China connection will result, enabling the Club to strengthen the significant financial foundation it is seeking to build nationally and internationally.

· The name under which Team China is expected to compete at the AFL International Cup will be the China Power Dragons.

· Strip design and colours are under consideration.

· It is due to the Club’s initiative and lightning reflexes that there will be a national team representing China in Melbourne in August 2014. A China team competed in 2008 and 2011, and an absence this year would have been a setback for the growth of AFL as an alternative skilled sport at universities in South China.

 

[TheFVK]

Huge news. Talk about a lucrative market..

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Thanks for the update Lockhart Road - great effort to scoop the club with its own press release!

Well done Port Adelaide again - The China Strategy continues to develop. Tony Abbott might think Japan is our best friend and the USA our greatest ally but at Port Adelaide, we like Chinese! (waits for Monty Python aficionados to start posting ).

· Strip design and colours are under consideration.

Here's a challenge for some of our resident annual guernsey and logo designers!

 

[Steve Dore]

...... we like Chinese! (waits for Monty Python aficionados to start posting ). .......

I almost feel contractually obliged to post this;

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Was going to be you or Ant Bear

 

[Garibaldi Red]

I almost feel contractually obliged to post this;

Very clever wharfie

 

[Killer Power]

· It is anticipated that new corporate partnerships involving a logical China connection will result, enabling the Club to strengthen the significant financial foundation it is seeking to build nationally and internationally.

Nice. I will have first guess. Cathay Pacific fly between Adelaide and Hong Kong.

 

[Ant Bear]

Was going to be you or Ant Bear

I do sleep occasionally...

 

[HaroldOliver]

Go you China Power Dragons! (doesn't quite roll off the tongue).

 

[Jim Dixon]

I don't know the ins and outs of overseas television rights at all, but the club really could do worse then to pay for Cantonese & Mandarin commentators and aim the feed for free in China over the internet. Who doesn't love free content? Getting the legalities might be hard, and getting Chinese language people with the footy nous to commentate might be even harder. But it would be worth doing. Sow the seeds, harvest the crops, bake the bread!

 

[HaroldOliver]

I don't know the ins and outs of overseas television rights at all, but the club really could do worse then to pay for Cantonese & Mandarin commentators and aim the feed for free in China over the internet. Who doesn't love free content? Getting the legalities might be hard, and getting Chinese language people with the footy nous to commentate might be even harder. But it would be worth doing. Sow the seeds, harvest the crops, bake the bread!

I have some vague memory* of Essendon/(AFL?) having some of their games broadcast over the net or tv by Melbourne-based Chinese Language commentators a few years back.

*memory is not what it once was.

 

[5um0F1]

Fantastic news for our club, looking forward again instead of looking backwards!!

Well done to everyone involved

 

[Lockhart Road]

Go you China Power Dragons! (doesn't quite roll off the tongue).

Agree. Like 'Port Adelaide Power' ... which is now either 'Port Adelaide' or 'the Power.'

So our guests become 'China Power' or 'the Dragons.'

 

[Janus]

Here's a lame idea for a jumper I threw together...

 

[rumoursofwinter]

 

[Lockhart Road]

China national emblem is one large + four smaller yellow stars on a red background.

We have black, white, teal and silver... of which the teal won't fit at all with the yellow and red.

Basics to strip: red background, five yellow stars on left-hand flank and 'China Power' ( perhaps ) logo on right breast with silver fist and yellow lightning bolt.

Black and white trim somewhere, I guess. Plus a dragon, perhaps.

Also depends on sponsor/s logos.

ISC is working on design as we speak.

 

[HighBudget]

Here's a lame idea for a jumper I threw together...

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Yes. But maybe add some white on the dragon

 

[Lockhart Road]

The finals of the South China AFL league were played on the Main Pitch of the HKFC on Saturday, 14 June.

The SCAFL currently consists of six teams:
Hong Kong Typhoons;
Kowloon Cobras;
Lantau Lizards;
(the above three teams are all from the Hong Kong Dragons Football Club)
Macau Lightning;
Guangdong Seagulls;
Guangzhou Scorpions.

The grand final was played off between the Typhoons and the Scorpions. It was a steaming day, temperature on the artificial grass pitch closer to 40 degrees than 30. The 12-a-side match was cut to two 20-minute halves... then 15-minute halves... ending up as 12-minute halves.
The fitter, younger Guangzhou lads were coming from behind and running down the more experienced, less-fit expat Typhoons when time ran out. Longer halves would have seen a different result.
Here are some pix of the Guangzhou Scorpions taken on the day:



Most of the players selected for Team China at the International Cup next month will come from the Guangzhou Scorpions, with the Captain, Howard Zhang Hao seen in action in the top photo.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

One of these ruckmen available?

 

[brad the brain]

Here's a lame idea for a jumper I threw together...

View attachment 66602

I like it.

 

[brad the brain]

Just watch Collingwood try and worm their way into China now.

 

[Janus]

China national emblem is one large + four smaller yellow stars on a red background.

We have black, white, teal and silver... of which the teal won't fit at all with the yellow and red.

Basics to strip: red background, five yellow stars on left-hand flank and 'China Power' ( perhaps ) logo on right breast with silver fist and yellow lightning bolt.

Black and white trim somewhere, I guess. Plus a dragon, perhaps.

Also depends on sponsor/s logos.

ISC is working on design as we speak.

Righty-o. Back in a bit.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

China national emblem is one large + four smaller yellow stars on a red background.

We have black, white, teal and silver... of which the teal won't fit at all with the yellow and red.

Basics to strip: red background, five yellow stars on left-hand flank and 'China Power' ( perhaps ) logo on right breast with silver fist and yellow lightning bolt.

Black and white trim somewhere, I guess. Plus a dragon, perhaps.

Also depends on sponsor/s logos.

ISC is working on design as we speak.

That's starting to sound like this:

 

[HaroldOliver]

Agree. Like 'Port Adelaide Power' ... which is now either 'Port Adelaide' or 'the Power.'

So our guests become 'China Power' or 'the Dragons.'

Now, Go you Dragons or Dragon Power is so cool!
Great stuff LR and PAFC.

 

[Powerstufff]

I almost feel contractually obliged ....