Let's talk Ports! Part 3

[Willsy10]

Basic is fine. Generic is not. I just want to look at it and feel like it's a Port guernsey, which, if we'd won anything over the last 15 years I might regardless, but we haven't. The emotional connection to the SBS guernsey is so much higher because I watched Warren Tredrea win 4 AA guernseys and then lift the Premiership Cup wearing it.

The failure chevrons are a symbol of our descent into the Southern Power. We don't win finals. We eschew the culture that made our club great. We hate accountability. We wear an ode-to-genericism guernsey designed by a 9 year old kid. We're trying to be everyone's second favourite team. We made the community proud. We marginalise club greats who ask for us to have some respect for the history of the club.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s that deep.

It’s just a guernsey, it hasn’t influenced results in finals for us.

It’s a better looking guernsey than the SBS, which was pretty shit to be honest. And we experienced more than our fair share of failure in that guernsey too.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Looks like we're heading into Davey Jones locker territory again

 

[JimmyBC]

A horrendous Port guernsey is better than generic Southern Power chevrons

We'll win our next flag in the chevrons you'll just have to deal with it.

 

[Portology]

reading all this tealery and still trying to figure out which one of you is/was "brad the brain".

 

[JimmyBC]

I'd have no issue with them doing away with the white reverse away thing however the teal version is an absolute shocker and looks bad enough when the girls wear it. I want experimentation with shiny-ish silver (isn't there an NFL team that does it well?) not battle ship grey.

Silver and white chevrons on the home black kit with not a whiff of teal to be seen would be worth a look as well.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I'd have no issue with them doing away with the white reverse away thing however the teal version is an absolute shocker and looks bad enough when the girls wear it. I want experimentation with shiny-ish silver (isn't there an NFL team that does it well?) not battle ship grey.

Silver and white chevrons on the home black kit with not a whiff of teal to be seen would be worth a look as well.

Oakland/LA/LV Raiders do silver.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I'd have no issue with them doing away with the white reverse away thing however the teal version is an absolute shocker and looks bad enough when the girls wear it. I want experimentation with shiny-ish silver (isn't there an NFL team that does it well?) not battle ship grey.

Silver and white chevrons on the home black kit with not a whiff of teal to be seen would be worth a look as well.

I did a quit search I've been talking about using "Shiny Silver like the Oakland Raiders" / now Los Vegas Raiders, since 2008.

Jerry Rice's old #80 jersey comes up better than the one Ford posted.





There are a couple of shiny material white jerseys below. but the helmet silver, is what we should aim for.

 

[JimmyBC]

I did a quit search I've been talking about using "Shiny Silver like the Oakland Raiders" / now Los Vegas Raiders, since 2008.

Jerry Rice's old #80 jersey comes up better than the one Ford posted.


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There are a couple of shiny material white jerseys below. but the helmet silver, is what we should aim for.


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Yea that one pops a bit more it's baffling why we don't experiment more with it, you could play around with pre-season guernseys until you hit one that really works.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Of course, it's not like using Raiders reflective silver hasn't been talked about before

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/prison-bar-guernsey-for-afl.881366/page-2#post-32764084

The club has never shown an appetite for it. Pity, it would rock. Black and silver prison bars, hey they're not white stripes.

 

[JimmyBC]

Of course, it's not like using Raiders reflective silver hasn't been talked about before

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/prison-bar-guernsey-for-afl.881366/page-2#post-32764084

The club has never shown an appetite for it. Pity, it would rock. Black and silver prison bars, hey they're not white stripes.

Those port magpie jackets in the 90's were shiny silver were they not?

 

[NoddyHolder]

The club has never shown an appetite for it. Pity, it would rock. Black and silver prison bars, hey they're not white stripes.

Collingwood knocked that on the head before we even got in. Too close to black and white. Then the afl sent us off to find another colour. Hence teal (and silver being an official club colour despite not being anywhere near a guernsey for 20 years)

 

[JimmyBC]

Collingwood knocked that on the head before we even got in. Too close to black and white. Then the afl sent us off to find another colour. Hence teal (and silver being an official club colour despite not being anywhere near a guernsey for 20 years)

I've had a feeling Collingwood are something to do with us binning the silver/battleship grey away kit with it tied up in 'allowing' us the PB's once a year.

There's another Koch legacy bend over & clamp the PB's to a home showdown forever with no wiggle room.

 

[Interstater]

Is Eddie dead yet?
Do we elect our own board yet?

I'm just happy to mow my lawns today in my Port T-shirt here in Vic and not be embarrassed to wear it.

 

[Grave Danger]

Those port magpie jackets in the 90's were shiny silver were they not?

Found to contain asbestos.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Those port magpie jackets in the 90's were shiny silver were they not?

If you call up Magpiespowaz he will show you a pic of his classic jacket.

 

[JimmyBC]

If you call up Magpiespowaz he will show you a pic of his classic jacket.

We'll cut up his jacket and make an example kit what do ya reckon? Magpiespowaz

 

[Doctor Feel]

I am assuming Magpiespowaz is gonna be buried in that jacket.

 

[JimmyBC]

I am assuming Magpiespowaz is gonna be buried in that jacket.

Inside the millennium falcon.

 

[Magpiespowaz]

You asked, I delivered...

 

[JimmyBC]

You asked, I delivered...

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Robin is defo getting laid in that marvellous ensemble.

 

[Magpiespowaz]

Inside the millennium falcon.

Landspeeder is my favourite vehicle, so I'm gonna go with that.

On a massive Battlestar Galactica kick atm, bingeing the absolute shit outta the 1978 series. Man, I've always loved the look of those Colonial Vipers. Also:

Cylons > Stormtroopers

 

[JimmyBC]

I've gotta say that jacket gives me a boner it's wonderful.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Yeah, I don’t think it’s that deep.

It’s just a guernsey, it hasn’t influenced results in finals for us.

It’s a better looking guernsey than the SBS, which was pretty shit to be honest. And we experienced more than our fair share of failure in that guernsey too.

It sort of has. At least they both come from the same root cause, and it's this club's who-gives-a-shit attitude towards excellence.

The guernsey is fine. The nickname is fine. Making finals is fine. Ollie Wines going waterskiing a few weeks before the start of the season is fine. Losing a home PF by a record margin is fine. Ken Hinkley's record is fine. David Koch thinks everything is going fine.

Is the guernsey the best possible guernsey that Port Adelaide could wear (even acknowledging the issues surrounding the PBs at AFL level)? Do we have the best possible nickname, do we brand ourselves in the best possible way given our enormous storied history?

If we aren't waking up in the morning and pissing excellence in every facet of the club, we're not doing enough. It absolutely is that deep.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I've gotta say that jacket gives me a boner it's wonderful.

They've got the template ready to go from the Jack Cahill jacket, time for an all silver one

 

[El_Scorcho]

We'll win our next flag in the chevrons you'll just have to deal with it.

Hope so, but we could also all be in our cold cold graves before that happens.