Certified Legendary Thread China History in the Making

[Steve Dore]

From Rucci's Reality Bites in today's The Advertiser;

"Oliveball

PORT Adelaide’s Chinese adventure continues to deepen far beyond the original thought of “moving out a crowded Australian market” to find new sponsorship dollars. Club chief executive Keith Thomas has returned from his latest trip to Hong Kong and Shanghai with even grander hopes of having Australian football introduced to more and more Chinese schools. So far, Port Adelaide has its “Power Footy” program in 15 schools, adding another two in Shanghai, during this week’s trip. There is hope to take this reach to 100 schools.

But there was an interesting challenge in explaining to the Chinese authorities just what game Australian football is.

“When we registered the program 18 months ago we could not say it was soccer nor rugby,” Thomas said. “We settled on Australian Oliveball. And the schoolkids are enthusiastically embracing the game.”

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Bit more vision of KT and the club's China team in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

 

[GremioPower]

Do we have any TV deal for showing our games in Shanghai?

 

[OneGreatClub]

Do we have any TV deal for showing our games in Shanghai?

We did in 2016, not sure about now.

 

[OneGreatClub]

So what's this big fixture announcement to be streamed live from AFL house at 12?.Surely not just that we're playing Gold Coasters, because that's old news.

 

[GremioPower]

We did in 2016, not sure about now.

KT can say many words about the future of the sport in China as a whole, but we are also aiming at nurturing PORT'S BARRACKERS there. It is important to be seen...

P.S.: GWS is also Canberra's team; Hawthorn has Lauceston; NM, Hobart; and Western, Ballarat. We want to become Shanghai's local AFL team.

 

[El Zorro]

Mr Gui looking great wearing the PAFC tie. Also like the seating arrangements. It's pretty clear this is our venture and GC only a casual participant

 

[El Zorro]

 

[TeeKray]

Mr Gui looking great wearing the PAFC tie. Also like the seating arrangements. It's pretty clear this is our venture and GC only a casual participant

Well let's face it, they are only a casual participant in the AFL.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

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So we get to beat the piss out of these poor bastards again awesome

 

[Powerstufff]

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Wŏ hěn gāo xìng

 

[Mangus Onfries]

Spent the weekend at the MotoGP in Phillip Island and got talking to a chap who lives in Hong Kong. He went to the game in Shanghai and said it was brilliantly done. Another thing he told me was that the ground could hold more people but that the local government has very strict limits on numbers at large gatherings. He reckons they capped it at around 10,000. Also said there was a huge police presence. Thats why it looked kind of empty in sections on the TV. I'm guessing it's something the club didnt make public because they didn't want to rock the boat.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Adelaide Arena at Jiangwan Stadium. Interesting.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Adelaide Arena at Jiangwan Stadium. Interesting.

deflecting AFL attempts to make it look like the Gold Coast Show in their promotions?

 

[robbo1981]

So home or away game?

 

[Andre]

Mr Gui looking great wearing the PAFC tie. Also like the seating arrangements. It's pretty clear this is our venture and GC only a casual participant

GC if they have acquired any sense will spend less time worrying about jumpers and realise even as the junior partner they can make this worthwhile. They pissed a great opportunity down the drain last year.

 

[DazzaTys]

Wish we weren’t playing Gold Coast. Ungrateful bastards and didn’t embrace at all. Cochstain is an idiot and eade completly payed it off. No wonder their club is quickly becoming irrelevant. Hopefully Dew gets on board and realigns those idiots.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

deflecting AFL attempts to make it look like the Gold Coast Show in their promotions?

Or SA government trying to brand everything with Adelaide and SA all over it when the game is on.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Adelaide Arena at Jiangwan Stadium. Interesting.

I wonder how much the state gov chipped in for that.

p.s. 13 games at Adelaide next year. What a leg up

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

19th May is a Saturday so should be a 4.40 EST start or 2.40 Shanghai time. Saturday arvo game and then kick on Saturday night. The club has to organise a post game event this year.

 

[Portmanteau]

Good opportunity for us to hold Tom Lynch hostage, I mean, hey how's it going?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

19th May is a Saturday so should be a 4.40 EST start or 2.40 Shanghai time. Saturday arvo game and then kick on Saturday night. The club has to organise a post game event this year.

I'm still recovering from the pregame event you organised last time.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I'm still recovering from the pregame event you organised last time.

Thats why we need the club to organise a more sedate post game Saturday night than the pre game Saturday night Port Woolwich organised this year.

 

[CharlieKelly]

Adelaide Arena? What?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

That's Port Adelaide Arena to Tom Rockliff.