2015 Non-Crows AFL Discussion - Part 2

[Pugsley]

Can't think of a better way to wash your mouth out TBH.

Last night tried this beer from Barcelona called Estrella. A bit sweet so nothing I'd go out of my way to buy....it was Ok.

Rather a Lager myself and like the 450ml Grolsch.....and of course a nice drop of whisky!

Enjoy!

I used to wash it out with vodka [emoji15]


Another Grolsch man. My grandfather bought me a carton as part of my 21st present. Nice beer. Props to you Grandad looking down on me [emoji106]

 

[Pugsley]

Dixon in the reserves?

He's in the Barossa. Loading up on wine for those sleepless nights.

 

[OneGreatClub]

He's in the Barossa. Loading up on wine for those sleepless nights.

With Jaensch perhaps who will drive him home?

 

[Pugsley]

With Jaensch perhaps who will drive him home?

Boom !!! [emoji3]

 

[FR0GGY]

With Jaensch perhaps who will drive him home?

Dixon, can follow a white line!

 

[OneGreatClub]

Dixon, can follow a white line!

Some witty people around today.

 

[Pugsley]

Some witty people around today.

Played cricket against a bloke with that surname. Told him to take the h out of it as he was genuinely funny.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Played cricket against a bloke with that surname. Told him to take the h out of it as he was genuinely funny.

haha

 

[mistylake]

I'm no tech expert and I stay away from anything with an i in front of it's name but based on what you're describing maybe the update you did has disabled cookies.

I will check into that as Facebook has been a tad funny lately although not to the same extent.
Now to the cookie jar I go.

 

[mistylake]

With Jaensch perhaps who will drive him home?

Jaensch of course.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

funnily enough many tech experts also stay away from anything with an i in front of its name...

Intimate relations?

 

[Pdub]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...s/news-story/241c5008f0e88a3f850629b5020485ba

Port Adelaide marching into future as Crows left behind, writes Graham Cornes

PORT is thrashing the Crows, and it’s got nothing to do with action on the field.

In the battle for the hearts and minds of the football public, particularly of those who are not yet aligned with their team, Port Adelaide has been streets ahead.

Whoever plans Port Adelaide’s public relations campaign is a genius, because in the daily news cycles in what is supposed to be the off-season, Port has dominated.

The Crows may be satisfied, perhaps complacent, that they are visible in the market place through their website and other forms of social media, but that is only preaching to the converted.

This is the time of year when football supporters think about renewing or, for the first time, purchasing memberships.

Who, of Adelaide’s two teams, has given you the most reason to be excited or optimistic about the future?

Every day this week there has been a good news story about Port. The re-signing of three star players could have been announced on the one day. Instead, three different announcements were spread over the week, with the obligatory praise and appreciation of the club.

The hordes of Port supporters, of course, lapped it up, nodding in approval.

Then followed the good news story of Erin Phillips, daughter of Port Magpie and Collingwood legend Greg, who wants to become a player in the anticipated national women’s AFL competition. She certainly can play — we’ve seen that in the Little Heroes charity games, but perhaps that announcement is a little premature. She yet has medals to win for the Opals in Rio de Janeiro, and Port doesn’t have and is unlikely to have, a stand-alone team in the projected competition.

Erin is a star with black and white blood running through her veins, but she’ll have to pull on a different coloured jumper to follow that dream.

Then late in the week, Port announced a new edition of its pictorial history which displays the history of the club and tries to link the heritage of Port Magpies and Port Power. The perfect Christmas present for a devoted, if gullible, fan. It’s a big advantage the one club/two teams model has.

The Crows instead have tried to move further away from their SANFL heritage. Like a child who may be embarrassed by its parents, Adelaide tends to ignore the history and the legacies of those who spawned it.

Not that long ago, the allegiances of South Australian football supporters, were roughly divided 60 per cent Crows, 30 per cent Port and 10 per cent other AFL teams.

However, the move to Adelaide Oval has seen most of those Port supporters who abandoned the club when it was struggling, jump back on board as well as attracting a new generation of fans.


The gap has narrowed.

Adelaide may not know it but it has a real battle to maintain its position as the most popular team in the state. A lot of Port’s revived popularity has to do with the “match-day experience” that its fans look forward to.

The march from Rundle Mall, if you ignore the odd feral component, stirs the emotions which build to a crescendo with the mass singing of that INXS song that has been spoiled forever for those who are not believers in the “true Port Adelaide tradition”.

The stunning success of Port’s first season at Adelaide Oval, with an audacious running, fast scoring game plan in 2014, also won it new admirers.

To be fair the Crows, their “match-day experience” is one of the best in the competition but, in Adelaide, it has been dominated by Port.

Eventually, results have to speak for themselves and if a team is winning the fans, the Crows have to take notice.

Port has shrugged any paranoia about media campaigns to discredit them.

It makes its players, coaches, chief executive and chairman readily accessible to the media — they dominate media coverage.

This has to impact on the undecided fan.

Conversely, the Crows have given the perception of a siege mentality. For instance, Adelaide has yet to give The Advertiser approval for new coach Don Pyke to sit down with one of its football journalists.

It is true that eventually it is only results on the field that will matter. A successful team will always attract the most supporters. In the meantime both Adelaide teams are striving to attract new supporters and maintain its loyal ones.

Adelaide has, for the past 25 years, had a significant advantage but it cannot be complacent and take that support for granted. In the war for the hearts and minds of SA football supporters, Port has won a few significant battles of late.

The war is not yet lost but the Crows do need to rethink their strategies.

Someone needs to let Cornes know that if the Advertiser replaced Rucci with a journalist, the crows would happily talk to them.

 

[Geoffa32]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...s/news-story/241c5008f0e88a3f850629b5020485ba



Someone needs to let Cornes know that if the Advertiser replaced Rucci with a journalist, the crows would happily talk to them.

When they can get 44k to a game in a "dead" timelot against a minnow club we will know they have passed us in terms of real support.

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[CrowsB4hoes]

Yawn

 

[I Lost My Keays]

lol , people still read the sport section of the newspaper?

 

[Alex99]

5AA need a rating boost for the Saturday morning sports show.

He writes some crap about the crows.

Port Power supporters ring in as they are in love with hearing how great they are and expect more.

Crows supporters ring in to argue with him and call him a flog.

5AA wins as they get a good rating.

 

[mistylake]

I'm no tech expert and I stay away from anything with an i in front of it's name but based on what you're describing maybe the update you did has disabled cookies.

Well stuff me. I've just worked it out.
I guess iOS 9.2 won't let you stay logged in? I've never noticed this before that when you pull up the keyboard to relog in above the predictive text bar on the left it says passwords and auto fills your saved password.
Still a ****ing pain in the arse though.

 

[cm_perfect]

What was Cornseys stance on the State(ish) Guernsey fiasco ??

 

[Elite Crow]

All I read is Port had ONE good week, panic stations

 

[BACCS]

the flip is the point of that article.

The only major thing Port announced this week was Wingard staying. The Crows had a positive past week with the announcement of the women's team, and it's not like we've been mute. Pyke has done countless interviews over the past month.

 

[BACCS]

Haha, I saw the little jibe at the end about Pyke not granting an interview with The Advertiser, can clearly see the motivation behind the article now!

 

[Geoffa32]

Advertiser (News Ltd) is starting to get a bit salty as our club has not granted them an interview with Don Pyke, or anyone.

Meanwhile Fages has had a one on one with Caro from The Age (Fairfax publication) about our push for the Woman's team.

 

[Pugsley]

Haha, I saw the little jibe at the end about Pyke not granting an interview with The Advertiser, can clearly see the motivation behind the article now!

I wonder what my banker mates would have to say about this.

 

[Alex99]

I wonder what my banker mates would have to say about this.

That Cornes is a w***er?

 

[1990crow]

Suck a fat one Rucci. You lose.