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Fair point.

I reckon Tim Watson gets into that conversation somewhere.

In two weeks from now, there will be 12 of the other 17 teams that have played in a GF and 7 that have won the premiership during Hinkley's tenure at Port. The incredible (and damning) thing for me is that in the case of 9 of those 12 teams, Port have finished higher on the ladder than them...

You're being a bit harsh on Joyce there. He did win two premierships at Hawthorn.

Two awful, insipid finals performances to close out the season. Tonight, we were beaten by a team coached by a former Port premiership player, a bloke who got delisted, then fought his way back into the team and earned a flag. A bloke who learned the lessons about taking opportunities and...

A game of reserves standard football befitting of the reserves standard timeslot it was scheduled in.

Before reading this post it had never really dawned on me that Josh Carr's initials are JC. Just think about that. JC. Those are the initials of the immortal, our Lord and Saviour... John Cahill. It's a sign. The next JC will start coaching us in 2024, exactly 50 years after the last JC...

Aren't all wikipedia pages written by the CIA?

Just got to make sure no campaigners turn up there and glue themselves to it.

Yeah, I was thinking it might have been Andy, just couldn't quite remember if he was still playing then.

On Anzac Day in 1982 we scored a goal after the final siren to draw the game against Glenelg after we had given up a six goal lead at half time. I can't remember who kicked it but I do remember it came from a pretty lucky free kick. Somewhere on youtube there is video of it. After the goal...

Especially satisfying that it was Essendon and, in my case, being there to see it in person with my daughter, as we attended our first game for 4 years. I'm sure there are some good people who support Essendon but in my years of living in Melbourne and going to games I've always found them to...

That's good. He can be our CEO after he's finished playing.

I'm gonna call him the Cardinal.

The 1978 GF isn't as hard to watch as the 1984 GF...

I've mentioned before that I was at the 1977 GF and can see my 13 year old self in that famous photo. Back in those days the crowd would always invade the field at the end of the GF and try to get as close as possible to the presentation. Made it pretty hard for the winning team to do their lap...

Yes, and I remember Carl Fragomeni worked at Quinns sports store in the Port. He sold me one of those Gray Nicholls cricket bats.

I don't remember that. Whose jaw did he break it on?

The telling point for me here is when the writer refers to Russell as one of his few heroes who has retained that status. I think that sums it up perfectly. As kids and young adults, we can be quick to assign hero status to sportspeople and other entertainers who are great at what they do and...

Graham Cornes is an anti-Port campaigner but I will freely acknowledge that he was a very good footballer in his time. It didn't work out for him at North. I think that was because he was too old and his body couldn't stand up to the weekly rigours of Victorian football. If he had gone over...

I don't normally post on opposition boards but given the circumstances I thought I'd share a personal story from 1979. Early in that year, before the start of the football season, my mother took me to the sports store that Russell Ebert had with Paul Weston in the Adelaide CBD to buy me a...

I was there too and I can actually see myself in that famous photo. A privilege to be in the same photo with the great man and our team on that memorable day.

In a world where the words "champion" and "hero" have become cheapened through overuse, Russell Ebert was undeniably both a champion and a hero in the true meaning of those words. He was a champion for his achievements on the field and a hero for his deeds off the field. We have lost a great...

You could be right about Dixon. He is good at jumping with one arm up.

We need Book fit and in form, he's such a good reader of the play.

I hope you're right but now I'm worried about the underscores in your username.

The club is much better at shifting goal posts than it is at kicking the ball through them.

He died?

Another statistic that I always found interesting was that from 1962-1990 there were only two SANFL GFs that didn't feature at least one of Port or Glenelg in them. The two exceptions were Sturt-Norwood in 1978 and West-Sturt in 1983.

Isn't there another bloke named Trent playing for us who couldn't get a game at the wooden spooners?