Opinion 2018 Non-Crows Discussion Thread

[GreyCrow]

Ouch. Poor guy.

Did Sinclair just do an ankle too? Tippett retired, Nankervis traded last year. Running out of talls.

When do teams stop bothering with a ruckman? You almost want either a good ruckman or no ruckman.

I bet our set ups are still the little tap down to the midfielders so they can be tackled

THUMP IT SON THUMP IT

 

[Carmo]

Collingwood showing Triggy/us the way with player discipline. DeGoey out indefinitely for a 3rd (?) offense, club really upset, he's let everyone down, indefintely is a long time. Magically coming good just before round 1 tho.

 

[treeman]

What is Trigg doing these days?
He was meant to get the Adelaide United job rifht? Did he get it or have they not chosen yer?

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[CrowsB4hoes]

Collingwood showing Triggy/us the way with player discipline. DeGoey out indefinitely for a 3rd (?) offense, club really upset, he's let everyone down, indefintely is a long time. Magically coming good just before round 1 tho.

Indefinite suspensions are great

Sounds like a strong statement, but really just means they haven’t decided if it’s 5 years or 5 minutes

Port did the same with the banana chucker

 

[PrideOf]

Things must betting hard in Port Adelaide land. Giving tickets away already

So do Port count all of their freebie tickets that they give away?

AFL and Stadium Management Authority again at odds over crowd figures at Adelaide Oval
THE AFL and Adelaide Oval’s Stadium Management Authority are again at odds over crowd figures. For the second time in six months Adelaide is being tagged with an attendance record the league will not recognise.

MICHELANGELO RUCCI
The AdvertiserMAY 16, 20163:55PM

WHAT determines the crowd figure at Adelaide Oval?

The AFL and the Oval’s Stadium Management Authority are again at odds leading to two sets of crowd figures at the venue — and, for the second time in six months, the Adelaide Football Club being tagged with an attendance record the league will not recognise.

The AFL says crowd figures are to count only paying tickets that file through the gates.

The SMA, however, is counting all who are in the Oval’s boundary — including staff and free ticketholders.

The AFL adds it has spoken to the SMA asking the venue manager to fall in line with league policy. And the AFL emphasised the point on Friday night when it quickly tore down the “record” 54,158 figure posted by the SMA on the Oval video screens to report 53,141 attended the Crows-Geelong match.

Loving Rooch's troll by using a Crows match as the example of a crowd figure that was wrong.

Michael, it's your club that constantly gives tickets away. Constantly. How's about you dig deep to find the long-buried journalistic ability and ask some hard questions about Port crowds.

I'll get you started: here's how this plays out for the Freo game, using your story.

If the AFL is only counting paying tickets, then the crowd posted for the Freo game must be multiplied by 0.75 to get a 'real' Port crowd. And that doesn't count the freebies given away because some nuffies went to a Koch financial breakfast, or got a free ticket in the Parmie & Port deal at the Lighthouse. Why don't you find out Rooch?

 

[Geoffa32]

That is kind of sad they have to do that for a round one game.



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[kulak]

I believe North are bidding up the price of every free agent, so that eventually when North have a good player, nobody else will have cap room to offer.

 

[Geoffa32]

I believe North are bidding up the price of every free agent, so that eventually when North have a good player, nobody else will have cap room to offer.

So by 2030 the strategy will pay off?

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[StonesThrow]

What's with that story about China from the AFL?

 

[Deaneus!]

"John Fell Ryan has discovered some interesting juxtapositions that occur if you project two prints of "The Shining" on top of each other at the same time, with one running forward and the other running backward. Jay Weidner, who characterizes himself as a "conspiracy hunter," insists "The Shining" is Kubrick's belated, life-risking confession/apology for faking the television footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing on the sets for "2001: A Space Odyssey" at the behest of the U.S. government."

Why won't Ollie sign?

237 days to go

Is it because he knows Kubrick faked the moon landings?

 

[Deaneus!]

That is kind of sad they have to do that for a round one game.

Holy shit are Port giving away tickets to ROUND ONE?!?!?!

missing piece Ryder plus missing piece Dixon plus missing pieces Motlop Trengove Rockliff etc etc

Where are the Port supporters?

Surely at some point, this can't be explained away by Janus as aliens and the supporters of the club-with-the-most-supporters-in-the-universe just actually ****ing turn up to a game???

Speaking of which, Port v Crows at Alberton

FFS you must be kidding me. There wasn't a more deserving ground? What did it cost to upgrade?

I wonder what the crows will be there, a sell-out? Because of us?

 

[rocket18]

They certainly devalue their product with how they give away tickets all the time.

If, and its a big if, you were a Port supporter you would hesitate to buy a membership with all the freebies they give away through out the year.

Buy an Advertiser, listen to Kochie talk about how good he is, get a Magpie membership, buy 1 get 1 free etc etc.

 

[MarcusP2]

Collingwood showing Triggy/us the way with player discipline. DeGoey out indefinitely for a 3rd (?) offense, club really upset, he's let everyone down, indefintely is a long time. Magically coming good just before round 1 tho.

"We will do what's right for the club. Clearly we're not in a position where we can waste good players. We need to have everyone up and going for us to be a chance in 2018 but it is a long season."

Says it all.

 

[Next Gen Rookie]

What is Trigg doing these days?
He was meant to get the Adelaide United job rifht? Did he get it or have they not chosen yer?

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No CEO has been hired yet. New owners might have their own ideas.

Dunno if he was really in the mix. Not according to my sources.

 

[Coopers]

How is that possible given the "so called" new age of small forward lines

Do you guys remember 6 or so years ago when the bulldogs basically didn't have a tall forward and it was a problem every bloody week?

Overreaction, I reckon.

 

[Geoffa32]

They certainly devalue their product with how they give away tickets all the time.

If, and its a big if, you were a Port supporter you would hesitate to buy a membership with all the freebies they give away through out the year.

Buy an Advertiser, listen to Kochie talk about how good he is, get a Magpie membership, buy 1 get 1 free etc etc.

That could be a good challenge

Attend 11 Port home games via all the various freebies they hand out.

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[Next Gen Rookie]

That could be a good challenge

Attend 11 Port home games via all the various freebies they hand out.

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Probably has to be 10. Getting a freebie to a Showdown might be tougher.

 

[ams4crows]

Probably has to be 10. Getting a freebie to a Showdown might be tougher.

If you were a horrible person you could try the im poor and dying and just want to attend a showdown before I die... start a gofundme page to pay for the ticket...

 

[ams4crows]

So i have this story from about 5 years ago and i wonder if this stuff is still happening today.

A group of young players from a Vic club go out after a Sunday game to town and get drunk (free booze) half the players take recreational drugs the other half don't... come Monday morning at the recovery session the players that took the drugs are fine and zipping around posting pb's the other half are slow sluggish and tired.
The players get called into a team meeting where its addressed that 'someone' has told the coaches a few players went out. They're asked to put up their hand up if they drank and were out late. The group that drank but didnt take drugs put up their hand because it was quite obvious they were out the night before.... none of the drug takers put up their hand.
The dibber dobber 'someone' was out with them all and the one supplying the drugs... he's now captain of the club. All of the guys who wouldn't take the drugs struggled to make the best 22 even if they deserved it, all of the non drug takers who were out that night have been delisted or traded now.

 

[MarcusP2]

Captain 5 years ago or captain now?

 

[ams4crows]

Captain 5 years ago or captain now?

Captain now....

 

[WaynesWorld19]

RIP

 

[chazwazza]

General football discussion thread on the Port board, post #2803

 

[MatthewB]

General football discussion thread on the Port board, post #2803

the Koolaid is strong over there today

 

[Deaneus!]

So i have this story from about 5 years ago and i wonder if this stuff is still happening today.

A group of young players from a Vic club go out after a Sunday game to town and get drunk (free booze) half the players take recreational drugs the other half don't... come Monday morning at the recovery session the players that took the drugs are fine and zipping around posting pb's the other half are slow sluggish and tired.
The players get called into a team meeting where its addressed that 'someone' has told the coaches a few players went out. They're asked to put up their hand up if they drank and were out late. The group that drank but didnt take drugs put up their hand because it was quite obvious they were out the night before.... none of the drug takers put up their hand.
The dibber dobber 'someone' was out with them all and the one supplying the drugs... he's now captain of the club. All of the guys who wouldn't take the drugs struggled to make the best 22 even if they deserved it, all of the non drug takers who were out that night have been delisted or traded now.

Some Game Of Thrones shit there... i think i can guess which club it is