Opinion 2018 Non-Crows Discussion - Part 2: Tom Doedee, Rising Star Nominee & Port's New Major Sponsor

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I see the justification for the crowd is everyone is out the back in marquees.

So even if we're to accept that at face value, which seems somewhat absurd, this game is the equivalent of when they play polo in Victoria Park?
 

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I see the justification for the crowd is everyone is out the back in marquees.

So even if we're to accept that at face value, which seems somewhat absurd, this game is the equivalent of when they play polo in Victoria Park?
Exactly. How is it a success if no one is watching but are all out the back getting pissed
 

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I see the justification for the crowd is everyone is out the back in marquees.

So even if we're to accept that at face value, which seems somewhat absurd, this game is the equivalent of when they play polo in Victoria Park?
That’s the thing, if true it shows they don’t give a shit about the game.
 

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The #portlogic is pretty great, where they can simultaneously believe the SMA fudges crowd figures to benefit the AFC and make the Power's look small, but also genuinely believe Shanghai is a near sell-out.

We will never ever give up our cognitive dissonance
 

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What do you call it when Pyke says that Brouch doesn’t have OP, and the next day Brouch says on radio that he has OP?
Interesting last night on FC they had a grab with Menzel who’s out with OP. Geelong said a week hoping that some treatment would work, it didn’t and now he’s out for longer, reminds me of the same narrative coming out of Adelaide with Matt Crouch.
 

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Tom lynch apparently spent weekend in Melbourne considering his future.
Gawn
I'm going to one of those autograph sausage sizzles on Thursday night and meeting Lynchy. Will report back on demeanour/body language
 

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but the stands are generally full for it aswell
Not any more, you're working bloody hard to get a seat in the members stand (as well as in the marquees) now days.
Be interesting to see this year now the night test has been canned. Although crowds for England and India are usually ok.
 

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Is it defo canned now? Or still in "negotiations"?
Gone. By demand from BCCI.

No Smith, No Warner. No night test. Adelaide to be first test, not the GABBA. India are manoeuvring to win their first series in Australia by dictating the terms of play and the order of the tests to be played. Expecting quite a few more tour games
 

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Gone. By demand from BCCI.

No Smith, No Warner. No night test. Adelaide to be first test, not the GABBA. India are manoeuvring to win their first series in Australia by dictating the terms of play and the order of the tests to be played. Expecting quite a few more tour games
The Port Adelaide of the cricket world. Be the away team and still want everything
 

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No way . Loads are watching as well
Maybe I'm remembering some of the test series in the 80's and 90's before redevelopment. I can remember spending 5 days in a variety of bars and tents barely watching a live ball being bowled.

I sometimes miss the dirty old bars that were underneath the western stand
 

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Tom lynch apparently spent weekend in Melbourne considering his future.
Gawn
The Hun was talking about the other Tom Lynch spending next weekend in Melbourne considering his future (while GC has a bye).
 

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However, to address your question. Their reason for lying would be so that the nation wide press doesn't report that we have a piss poor fitness/medical department that has caused us to lose half of our list to soft tissue injuries that are directly related to our fitness program. Its a bad look for our club.
Hmmmm. That just doesn't stack up. They're lying about something that is just going to be revealed two days later?

There is nothing gained by that. The motivation makes no sense. They don't "get away" with it.

Thats all well and good, but surely even you can see that they have stuffed up the messaging. Take for instance the Pyke and Crouch handling over his OP. 2 days after Pyke denies OP, Crouch comes out and says he has it. Even if Pyke wasn't lying - the correct thing would be for Pyke to come out 2 days later and announce the OP during a press conference. "We did some more testing, it turns out new information changed the diagnosis and OP has been confirmed".

Its often more about how and when the information is presented rather than what the actual information is.
So your point is - Pyke says what he knows to be true, but they find out more information two days later. Pyke should then hold a SECOND press conference, to say "we found out something more."

Why is Pyke holding press conferences about our injuries? If he's asked a question, sure - but it's not his responsibility to have a running commentary with the media. The club has someone else doing that. If NO ONE subsequently spoke to the media, sure - but the right person actually did.
 
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