Can you define Wharfie Time?

[The Night Shift]

I personally liked this term as soon as Pavlich uttered it last year, but does it mean...?

Can Fremantle members/supporters/posters define what exactly
Wharfie Time could mean or has meant or may mean in the future...

Can Wharfie Time become a mission statement such as <8% or GTFO has on the Freo' boards ??

 

[4n20]

Beer o'clock?
Strike?

 

[summerthebat]

All I know, is that when I worked at the Railway Hotel in North Freo, when the wharfies wanted to get the ships loaded/unloaded and they needed to catch the 3pm raunchy show.... then they got it done.

That to me, is 'WHARFIE TIME'

 

[4n20]

^^^My old man was a wharfie for 20 yrs......and thats exactly what the day shifters would do.....walk across the road to the Railway for the T**ty shows. Mum wasnt impressed.

 

[dugrene]

The people united will never be defeated.

Out the gate for 48.

Guess it suggests 'stick together brothers' and we can win.

Looking forward to hearing them call each other comrade.

 

[MoraMora]

It's a bullshit phrase, which Im sure Pav would look back on and cringe.

 

[dominguez]

I'd say it's along the lines of what Dugrene said. "Lets go to work boys".

There's a gag there 4n20 but I'll let it slide.

 

[surfsup]

When Pav said "It's wharfie time" to me it meant against the odds, unfashionable, sleeves up kind of stuff.

 

[yakamoto]

MoraMora on the wall

Who is the dimmest of them all?

 

[Dyslexic Emo]

When you missed the last ferry from rotto and you absolutely must be back there before the sun rises, swimming is your only option.......it's wharfie time

 

[ballanFYNE]

When im watching the games people in the crowd tend to stick their fingers together to make a W. What is that?

 

[88mph]

Head down to The Railway on afternoon. Beer, strippers, and a barber shop.

Warfie Paradise

 

[Dr2Sheds]

What Dugrene said

When im watching the games people in the crowd tend to stick their fingers together to make a W. What is that?

To get a supporters pack on "The Western Front" footy show hosted by Goose Gossage ... it's a WA thing.

 

[Catch 22]

Get paid lots for doing very little.

Very Freo.

 

[Kickett Punches Read]

the most cringeworthy statement uttered by the great man.... i seriously hope we never hear it again

 

[ballanFYNE]

the most cringeworthy statement uttered by the great man.... i seriously hope we never hear it again

what does if have to do with a football game????

 

[samseenee]

When im watching the games people in the crowd tend to stick their fingers together to make a W. What is that?

I think its for a TV show in Perth called the Western Front... I stand to be corrected but I think once upon a time if you got on TV doing the 'W' with ure fingers you won a prize? I think as I say I know it was to do with that TV show.... Perth peeps correct me if I am wrong!

 

[Geoff]

The wharf is the essence of what Fremantle is all about. If the wharf wasn't there, there would be no Fremantle. "Wharfie Time" encompasses a myriad of cultural entities not specific to that of being Lumper. What you see now on North Wharf is not what the tradition is all about. The Wharf combined Blue and White Collar, Communist, Labour and Liberal cultures a diversity that had one common value, Football. "Wharfie Time" is Football and all that goes with it such as commitment, courage, respect and effort. I like the term, especially growing up in a time when the wharf is a distant memory from what it is now.

 

[The Night Shift]

The wharf is the essence of what Fremantle is all about. If the wharf wasn't there, there would be no Fremantle. "Wharfie Time" encompasses a myriad of cultural entities not specific to that of being Lumper. What you see now on North Wharf is not what the tradition is all about. The Wharf combined Blue and White Collar, Communist, Labour and Liberal cultures a diversity that had one common value, Football. "Wharfie Time" is Football and all that goes with it such as commitment, courage, respect and effort. I like the term, especially growing up in a time when the wharf is a distant memory from what it is now.

nice.

I agree, 'Wharfie Time' isn't bad at all...

It can be either tongue-in-cheek or it can be serious... It can be the individual supporters take on it.

Maybe you could say we've gone wharfie time on Carlton FC for the most part of last decade just for an example...

 

[IAMJUNGLEMUFFIN]

You know when you're watching something disgustingly embarrasing on tele, and can't force yourself to look at it as it fills you with some sickening shame like feeling?

When i saw the 'Cmon boys, its Wharfie Time' thing, thats exactly how i reacted. I think i even changed the channel.

Now even thinking about it, i get that feeling again. D:

Its kinda like when you walk in on your parents absolutely hammering the living shit out of each other. Really not cool.

 

[Geoff]

You know when you're watching something disgustingly embarrasing on tele, and can't force yourself to look at it as it fills you with some sickening shame like feeling?

When i saw the 'Cmon boys, its Wharfie Time' thing, thats exactly how i reacted. I think i even changed the channel.

Now even thinking about it, i get that feeling again. D:

Its kinda like when you walk in on your parents absolutely hammering the living shit out of each other. Really not cool.

As I said it is all about a time in distant past. If you were born post 70's it would be hard to visualize. Just let me say that there were days before containerization and bulk carriers.

 

[Dyslexic Emo]

Its kinda like when you walk in on your parents absolutely hammering the living shit out of each other. Really not cool.

I think your getting 'Warfie time' cofused with your dad's 'wifey time'......

 

[The Night Shift]

I think your getting 'Warfie time' cofused with your dad's 'wifey time'......

hheheehe

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

I think your getting 'Warfie time' cofused with my boyfriend's 'wifey time'...

EFA, Dissie...

 

[IAMJUNGLEMUFFIN]

As I said it is all about a time in distant past. If you were born post 70's it would be hard to visualize.

And im sure Pav and the rest of the boys that day werent regular visitors or workers on the wharf at any stage during the 1970's, giving that comment little relevancy to them other than being an emotionally falsified catchcry aimed at rallying the troops.

Just let me say that there were days before containerization and bulk carriers.

Going back for as long as you want, the wharves are and were substantially about Unionisation, and the inherent reason for the existance of Union's being to enable one to look after themselves by using the umbrella of others.

I worked on the wharf in my younger days.

It's all well and good having a catchcry on gameday, but i think it'd be great if it was one that actually had tangible meaning to the players, if only for the sake of inspiration.