He's a lifelong Port supporter
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So he didn't leak anything. He just did his job and reported information he was given.
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I think he caught the main players from Port and VFL at a restaurant together having lunch and did some digging to find out more. I can’t recall any leaking from within the club.
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Very much in the Rucci mould, Port Adelaide nuff who then entered the media.
Except as opposed to Rucci, rather than remaining a hack reporter he started to climb the corporate ladder very successfully.
Not sure how anyone could have any issues with him breaking the 1990 story, that is literally the job of a journalist and breaking probably the biggest story in SA Footy history is quite the feather in anyone’s cap.
It just didn’t suit our agenda lol
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Sounds like a journo just doing their job.
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Absolutely. Regardless of how negatively it impacted Port, it was an incredible scoop that made his career.
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I have no issue with him choosing the story over the club. My issue is getting him into the club after that.
Agree. He should've been black listed for life...
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Was he even a Port supporter?
He's a Victorian living in Melbourne. Seems to me he's just another non-Port person the AFL thought should be on our board for their own reasons and not for the benefit of the PAFC.
So Port aren't Cardone or Ransom's first team, is that normal on other boards?
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Point taken.
But he should never have been allowed within 10,000 miles of the club after that, given his views on shifting us elsewhere, the PB's, etc etc since.
Especially given his conflict of interest being an Eddie McChins employee!!!!!!
Boot him into the sun asap.
He's a born and bred south ozzie and a massive port supporter. As with a lot of people who want to go where the opportunities are, he ended up in Melbourne where he ran the footy show for years and now runs McGuire's media company.
The main reason I'm not a fan is because he is tied to Eddie McGuire.
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Cardone is in the Board less for what he can add to the club, but to what Koch believed could help foster his own personal agenda. [Holly was picked for similar reasons.] This is obviously my opinion. I can’t possibly know it for a fact. There is the possibility of it being wrong.
However, I’ve been watching Port closely for the past eight years. I’m not saying that out of nothing.
If I’m right, this alone is reason enough for Cardone to step down. The fact that, after what he did in 1990, he shouldn’t be allowed to be around Alberton ever again is just a plus.
However, I’ve been watching Port closely for the past eight years. I’m not saying that out of nothing.
If I’m right, this alone is reason enough for Cardone to step down. The fact that, after what he did in 1990, he shouldn’t be allowed to be around Alberton ever again is just a plus.
Possibly. I don’t know any details.
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Waiting for someone, anyone in the board or football committee to say they got it wrong and it’s time for change.
Until then they are all complicit so **** em all.
Accountability.
Until then they are all complicit so **** em all.
Accountability.
A lifelong Port supporter shafts Port. Love it.
There's no chance they will use those words. Attend an AGM & that will become abundantly clear.
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That's my only beef really. From memory; He was a moderately prolific journalist (channel 9) in the late 80's-90 and obviously a port guy back then
Breaking news for him was just doing his job. It's easy to label him a traitor based on the fallout but it's a bit of a stretch tbh
His ties to McGuire are concerning, probably why we were so weak on the guernsey stance 5 years ago... BUT even with that, he might be better placed as a president then the current one if he uses his media links appropriately. No doubt he's a smooth operator to be where he is for so long
My opinion towards him has softened of late, I'm hesitantly willing to give him a chance to show his true allegiance (self/mcguire vs PAFC)
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Not if it's the wrong people selecting the wrong people with no accountability.
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Put this in the sack koch chairman of the redeem team thread last year.
Mike Sheahan broke the story for Sunday Age on 29 July 1990, but the Heads of Agreement hadn't been signed between Port and the AFL. This needed to be signed before Port could go to the SANFL and tell them what they were doing and work out the next step.
Mike Sheahan happened to be at AFL house less than 2 weeks before he wrote the story and saw Weber and former GM Ian Mckenzie waiting to meet Oakley and Schwab. He then dug around and went with the story for the 29th July edition.
Either the next day or on Tuesday Port officials met at their lawyers and the Heads of Agreement was worked on with the AFL and drafts being sent back and forth on fax. This is back page of The News in 1990 either Tuesday 31st July or Wednesday 1st August.
Cardone positioned himself at the lawyers building and in the car park for hours to talk to Weber and Boulton. The picture is of Weber and Port's legal counsel John Firth.
Got this image of the headline in The News from a screen shot from the doco that came with the 2004 premiership DVD package
I can still remember like it was yesterday picking up a copy of The News that day (yes, we used to have two newspapers in this town... and The News had an early and late edition to boot!) - reckon it was definitely a Tuesday because we used to play indoor cricket on Tuesday nights and me and a mate couldn't quite believe it.
It was definitely one of those 'where were you when Kennedy got shot' moments in life. Like being at Alberton for that next Port game (playing Westies) and KG almost coming to blows with the faithful.
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