Toast #BringBackTheBars - Our Heritage, Our History, Our Right! Part 1

[Jonts]

If we don't hear anything in the next portnight prior to round 1 it isn't happening this year what would be extremely disappointing

 

[TeeKray]

I saw three young dudes side by side in full decked out PB jumper and black shorts. Great to see. Looked fabulous.

Post reported to Eddie McGuire for copyright breach.

 

[The Rubber Man]

I thought I heard dwayne russell say during the crows v port game that he was looking forward to port wearing the prison bars in each showdown this year, thought he just misspoke or was mistaken, however now I just listened to a podcast with Ben Baker (Port Adelaide Ambassador) on the 2 guys 1 cup podcast, he said we would be wearing it in each showdown this year which was a compromise with the AFL.

Is this done and dusted but just not publicly announced?


Link if anyone wants a listen

2G1C Presents My Club: Talking Port Adelaide with Ben Baker - EVERYONE RELAX

2G1C Presents My Club: Talking Port Adelaide with Ben Baker - EVERYONE RELAX

tofop.com

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

I saw three young dudes side by side in full decked out PB jumper and black shorts. Great to see. Looked fabulous.

I didn't get the PB memo and rocked up in the new polo shirt.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Just arrived at Pro Drinkers Corner:

 

[PowerBaz]

Just arrived at Pro Drinkers Corner:

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Looks like the local butcher here in Goodwood. Big Port man! Maybe he’s got a side gig making that stuff OS!

 

[Interstater]

Just arrived at Pro Drinkers Corner:

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What damage that must be doing to the Collingwood brand

 

[Spadge]

2 guys 1 cup podcast

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

Looks like the local butcher here in Goodwood. Big Port man! Maybe he’s got a side gig making that stuff OS!

Best butcher in Adelaide. I go out of my way to pop in then down a couple of doors to the Goody Cellars and pick up some crafties.

 

[PowerBaz]

Best butcher in Adelaide. I go out of my way to pop in then down a couple of doors to the Goody Cellars and pick up some crafties.

Well ask for Paul and you’ll see the resemblance.
Good Butcher, good fruit and veg and good bottle shop.

 

[Winestoppable]

You guys telling me we've butchered our proposal to the AFL?

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[bacharach]

I thought I heard dwayne russell say during the crows v port game that he was looking forward to port wearing the prison bars in each showdown this year, thought he just misspoke or was mistaken, however now I just listened to a podcast with Ben Baker (Port Adelaide Ambassador) on the 2 guys 1 cup podcast, he said we would be wearing it in each showdown this year which was a compromise with the AFL.

Is this done and dusted but just not publicly announced?


Link if anyone wants a listen

2G1C Presents My Club: Talking Port Adelaide with Ben Baker - EVERYONE RELAX

2G1C Presents My Club: Talking Port Adelaide with Ben Baker - EVERYONE RELAX

tofop.com

Compromise as in just wearing them in 2021? Because fook that

 

[chiwigi]

Compromise as in just wearing them in 2021? Because fook that

I find it VERY hard to believe that we would sign something that meant we could never wear them again after.

 

[Grave Danger]

Compromise as in just wearing them in 2021? Because fook that

Ben talks about it around the 14 minute mark of the podcast - he doesn't mention it being just for this year, he says "it looks like they've (presume he means the AFL, not Collywood!) agreed to both Showdowns, that's a pretty good deal".

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I thought I heard dwayne russell say during the crows v port game that he was looking forward to port wearing the prison bars in each showdown this year, thought he just misspoke or was mistaken, however now I just listened to a podcast with Ben Baker (Port Adelaide Ambassador) on the 2 guys 1 cup podcast, he said we would be wearing it in each showdown this year which was a compromise with the AFL.

Is this done and dusted but just not publicly announced?


Link if anyone wants a listen

2G1C Presents My Club: Talking Port Adelaide with Ben Baker - EVERYONE RELAX

2G1C Presents My Club: Talking Port Adelaide with Ben Baker - EVERYONE RELAX

tofop.com

Thanks for the link TRM. I wouldn't read too much into what Ben said. I thought it was a bit of a throw away line, rather than something definitive.

He's definitely the sort of ambassador the club needs. Knows his stuff about the club and stays up to date, despite living overseas for 20 years. It was a bloody good listen, explained the history and culture of the club very well to a curious Vic footy fan who wanted to know more about PAFC. Living across the road from Alberton Oval, going there most games from 5 years age, working in the bar area on grand final nights in 1989 and 1990, and training for and playing a few games for Port's under age sides would do that for anyone. Loved what he said about Jacko.

Now he is back in Oz post the covid outbreak, I wonder if he is doing some photo stuff for the club. Documenting the season maybe?

A few months after he did the photography for the Since ..... 2017 membership campaign, I was in the line up for a beer at that shitty alternative GDV on the south side of the Torrens the club was forced to set up, and up rocks then COO Stephen Dawes with Ben and he introduces me to him. Had a 10 minute chat about the membership campaign, what he had to go thru to follow Port living outside Oz for 20 years, and as I had read the SA Weekend magazine article on his career a few months earlier, I asked him about his photoshoot back in 2013 or so with then Citizen Trump and his previous photoshoots with presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. It was a great chat. Definitely one of those ambassadors that pulls their weight for the club, rather than just have a celebrity title.

 

[Grave Danger]

Some of Ben's work...

Footy — Ben Baker

www.benbakerphoto.com

 

[Grave Danger]

Maybe not great timing...

Power assistant coach Bassett outlines frustrations with AFL and AFLCA

“Maybe if we’re supposed to be so good or so important, maybe we should be a little bit more supported and respected.”

www.sen.com.au

 

[malcheski]

Maybe not great timing...

Power assistant coach Bassett outlines frustrations with AFL and AFLCA

“Maybe if we’re supposed to be so good or so important, maybe we should be a little bit more supported and respected.”

www.sen.com.au

He does raise a valid point - coaches get blamed for the way the game is played and get paid half or less than of what a Steve Hocking would be paid to make up BS rules on the fly which directly changes the way the game is played. I feel it is more of an attack at the AFLCA which basically bent the knee in COVID negotiations and they got hung out to dry with 1 year contracts at reduced pay etc whilst the executive still pocketed bonuses.

 

[Winestoppable]

Have we given up on this ?

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[Enviable Tradition]

We haven't.... but the current administration of the club might have.

There is no other option for us as fans than to win this, no matter how long it takes.

 

[Bars]

Have we given up on this ?

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Sounds like we will wear the bars in each showdown every year.

 

[jakey]

There's enough background talk in the media around the PBs in showdowns idea and no one has come out to shut it down. Makes me think they are waiting on a pre determined moment for the announcement.

 

[RossFC]

The club unpinned the petition last week from its twitter and replaced it with a membership ad.

 

[melanChronic]

You really have to think that if any kind of agreement had been reached, the club would be proudly advertising the fact.

Slinking away from the issue in 2021 hoping that the fervour dies down is much more likely, and also reflective of McLaughlin's style of ignore/distract from an issue until it hopefully goes away. You'd imagine AFL house have been trying to postpone this into oblivion.

Our job is to not let that happen.

 

[TheFVK]

If the showdown happens and we aren't wearing Prison Bars we start this fire again

This is not a problem for you that will just go away, Gil