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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...brian-cunningham/story-e6freco3-1226308174762

BRIAN Cunningham is a new AFL life member - eight years after he cleared his desk at Port Adelaide.

The Magpies premiership captain who made the Power an AFL premiership club in 2004 last night was recognised by the AFL for his services to Australian football.
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...brian-cunningham/story-e6freco3-1226308174762

Well deserved is an understatement. It is great to see this small but of recognition for such a legend of our football club. Truly one of the legends.
 

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This was spilled by Andy D before Christmas. I think we had another thread on it. Remember being at the AGM and Bucky was there and Duncanson mentioned him receiving the award, which we all applauded, and which got out to the press a few days earlier. I think Dunc said that Andy D had a few too many sherbets and let out that the non players included Mike Sheahan, Bucky and Gareth Johns.

Gotta get the great Warren Tredrea to coach at least 16 games so he can get to 300 and get his life membership. His AFL + preseason + state games + international games sits at 284. Bloody knee injuries and that last ankle injury stuffed him up otherwise he was a shoe in.
 
gopower said:
Sorry to potential derail this thread, but it's a good opportunity for me to ask something I've always wondered.

Who signed the AAMI stadium deal that we're still currently using? Was it Bucky?
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I'm not sure that the potential to assign blame on the person who signed is irrelevant when there was no bargaining power with ownership of the licence - this power vested in the SNAFL clubs and the dictators who ran them at the time.

Another cash cow was born and continues to be milked as we speak.
 
gopower said:
Sorry to potential derail this thread, but it's a good opportunity for me to ask something I've always wondered.

Who signed the AAMI stadium deal that we're still currently using? Was it Bucky?
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The current deal ( 2010) is a tweaked version of the original deal. It brought the break even figure down. The AFL licence said a basic condition was we had to play at Footy Park. Basically it was signed in 1996 with a gun to Bucky's and Boulton's head and we had told the SANFL and AFL in our 1994 bid documents we would average 27,000 people per game.

Crows, Power given incentive to build crowds

By Katrina Gill 5:31 PM Wed 24 Feb, 2010

ADELAIDE and Port Adelaide have taken the first step towards securing a better deal at AAMI Stadium, with the SANFL set to introduce a number of incentive-based initiatives at the venue in 2010.

SANFL chief executive Leigh Whicker announced on Wednesday that the new initiatives would revolve around increased match-day attendances for both clubs.

If the Power are able to increase their average home crowd from fewer than 24,000 in 2009 to 28,000 this season, they could pocket an extra $700,000 to $800,000 by year's end.

Similarly the Crows will receive a boost of up to $500,000 if they can attract an average attendance of 44,000 compared to 40,000 last season.

Port Adelaide and Adelaide were ranked 15th and 16th in respective stadia returns across the AFL in 2009.

The Power were $4.6 million behind the competition average, while the Crows came in at $2.4 million below.

Crows chief executive Steven Trigg welcomed the SANFL's move, but said negotiations on stadium yield still had a long way to go.

"It's a really healthy start for us and it's important revenue. It's set for 2010 but I think Leigh (Whicker) would be the first to admit that we've got some more analysis to do through 2010 in preparation for 2011," Trigg said.

"If you look at that average across the competition both clubs are still a long way off the pace, but the spirit of cooperation with the League is fantastic."

The Power have already put their campaign for more patrons into overdrive.

The club will decrease the number of empty seats at home games by covering 12 bays with black guernsey-themed banners and will also take over the old 'Crows Shed' for post-match functions.

Chief executive Mark Haysman said the SANFL's initiatives provided even more incentive for Power supporters to get down to AAMI Stadium.

"Leigh touched on some upside that can flow to us by getting more people here and our focus is simply that, getting more people to the footy," Haysman said.

"AAMI Stadium is our home. The 'Power Cauldron' and going 'Back in Black' here is all about enhancing the experience. We love playing here and the players love playing on this surface.

"We've had a lot of success here, so right now we need to focus on enhancing what we have here."

Whicker also used the opportunity to announce a multi-million dollar naming rights extension with AAMI.......
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Crows, Power given incentive to build crowds

But our crowds went from 24,349 in 2009 to 23,044 in 2010 to 21,678 in 2011 including the AO game. So we didn't get any of the incentive. We needed 27,000 to breakeven a couple of years earlier and we didn't write cheques worth $700k to the SANFL in 2009. The crows crowds went down in both 2010 and 2011 so they didn't get anything out of the new deal either.

Plus in 2010 and 2011 the crows and port sold advertising on those wrap around the outer screens that they copied from the EPL. All that advertising revenue would have gone to the SANFL prior to the deal being adjusted.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
This was spilled by Andy D before Christmas. I think we had another thread on it. Remember being at the AGM and Bucky was there and Duncanson mentioned him receiving the award, which we all applauded, and which got out to the press a few days earlier. I think Dunc said that Andy D had a few too many sherbets and let out that the non players included Mike Sheahan, Bucky and Gareth Johns.

Gotta get the great Warren Tredrea to coach at least 16 games so he can get to 300 and get his life membership. His AFL + preseason + state games + international games sits at 284. Bloody knee injuries and that last ankle injury stuffed him up otherwise he was a shoe in.
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May have to console himself with Hall of Fame entry - although since Bickley's token nod that honour sits between Logie and Freo B&F in terms of prestige.
 
tribey said:
May have to console himself with Hall of Fame entry - although since Bickley's token nod that honour sits between Logie and Freo B&F in terms of prestige.
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If Wazza isn't a automatic entry on the first year he is eligible, ie May/June 2014 intake, I will be bombarding the AFL with protests every day until he gets in.
 

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Loved watching him play. Like Lachie Neale, he defied the belief that short men cant be great players ... he was a great player!
 
It's great watching these interviews and being lucky enough to having seen these players and lived through this era of Port Adelaide. One of the great sanfl rovers and along with Darrell Cahill formed one of the great roving partnerships ever.

And to hear him talk about Port Adelaide's expectations of success and the accountability to the supporter base, themes echoed in the John Cahill interview, you feel almost blessed to have experienced that era. But it's also sad to think there's really no one left who has that lived experience in the current set up.

You hope Josh Carr can replicate at least the themes, it will never be that actual experience again.
 
Ford Fairlane said:
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And to hear him talk about Port Adelaide's expectations of success and the accountability to the supporter base ...
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To think that Bucky had a Monday to Friday job as well yet was held more accountable than today's full time professional players.
 
Ford Fairlane said:
It's great watching these interviews and being lucky enough to having seen these players and lived through this era of Port Adelaide. One of the great sanfl rovers and along with Darrell Cahill formed one of the great roving partnerships ever.

And to hear him talk about Port Adelaide's expectations of success and the accountability to the supporter base, themes echoed in the John Cahill interview, you feel almost blessed to have experienced that era. But it's also sad to think there's really no one left who has that lived experience in the current set up.

You hope Josh Carr can replicate at least the themes, it will never be that actual experience again.
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Note that it's the SANFL putting these out, not Today's PAFC.
 

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Old school Port Adelaide reminds me of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. We use words like honour, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.

And he was the bad guy?

 
Ford Fairlane said:
Old school Port Adelaide reminds me of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. We use words like honour, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.

And he was the bad guy?

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Bitcho saying that the players always need to be told that the season was a success no matter where we finished always reminds me of that scene.
 
Ford Fairlane said:
It's great watching these interviews and being lucky enough to having seen these players and lived through this era of Port Adelaide. One of the great sanfl rovers and along with Darrell Cahill formed one of the great roving partnerships ever.

And to hear him talk about Port Adelaide's expectations of success and the accountability to the supporter base, themes echoed in the John Cahill interview, you feel almost blessed to have experienced that era. But it's also sad to think there's really no one left who has that lived experience in the current set up.

You hope Josh Carr can replicate at least the themes, it will never be that actual experience again.
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Darrell Cahill, one of my favourite players growing up very underrated and how the hell is he not in the PAFC hall of fame?
Brian Cunningham another idol growing up (after Russell) our greatest player from the 70’s.
 
Ford Fairlane said:
It's great watching these interviews and being lucky enough to having seen these players and lived through this era of Port Adelaide. One of the great sanfl rovers and along with Darrell Cahill formed one of the great roving partnerships ever.

And to hear him talk about Port Adelaide's expectations of success and the accountability to the supporter base, themes echoed in the John Cahill interview, you feel almost blessed to have experienced that era. But it's also sad to think there's really no one left who has that lived experience in the current set up.

You hope Josh Carr can replicate at least the themes, it will never be that actual experience again.
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Bucky Cunningham and Darrell Cahill were regular multiple goal scorers as well as being a great pair of rovers, I remember one particular game at Alberton in the Jack Cahill era when they kicked a huge bag of goals (12 or more), and the oppo coach saying after the game that his defence had trouble working out which player was roving, and which one was in the forward line.
 
Bucky and DC kicked 800 career goals between them. Didn't realise DC finished runner up in the Port Best and Fairest 5 times!

DC really is underrated outside of Port. Handy golfer too 😉
 

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