Certified Legendary Thread China History in the Making

[Steve Dore]

Pretty sure there was some article recently about OzAsia being re-scheduled as not to clash with a Crows home final. The article was written like the Crows were doing them a favour or something, was really odd.

Only the moon lantern festival, which is a part of OzAsia, has been rescheduled to avoid a clash with a Crows' crowd in the Riverbank precinct.

OzAsia's moon lantern festival moved to avoid Crows clash

"He [Adelaide Festival Centre chief executive Douglas Gautier] said the festival decided to move the parade to better manage activities at the popular riverside precinct."

 

[DazzaTys]

Ha ha got sent this.

 

[OneGreatClub]

A Melbourne family but we do get a mention...Love how they get in that Melbourne is the home of football..
The Dongguan Blues are at the forefront of AFL in China.

It has helped set up other clubs in nearby Guangzhou, as well as being the first club in the country to introduce a women’s team.

Mr Egan now continues his association with Dongguan by acting as the team’s Australian liaison manager — and was instrumental in helping Lin come to Australia to experience what AFL is like in Melbourne — the home of football.

With Port Adelaide Football Club announcing it will be one of the first sides to play for premiership point in China next season, football in Lin’s homeland can only become more popular.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/...s/news-story/c5eac6cc0289d1d7f61d8e596736c11d

 

[OneGreatClub]

From CCTV website. Not sure if posted before.

"While sidelined with an injury, Chen continues to train and learn as much as he can about the sport. He’s also enrolled in English classes, and doesn’t seemed phased by the odds he faces of one day playing for Port Adelaide.

Chen said, "That’s my dream, I’m chasing my dream, that’s why I come here."

Team officials say as long as Chen believes he can succeed - the odds really don’t matter."

http://english.cctv.com/2016/08/23/VIDELnkFUZBH3oh7YWGf3iHb160823.shtml

 

[OneGreatClub]

TEN MINUTES WITH ANDREW HUNTER….
http://indaily.com.au/news/business...h-port-adelaide-football-clubs-andrew-hunter/

 

[Needs Gravy]

 

[Dalphonso]

I guess no one is any the wiser about a game in China next year yet?I might start saving just in case.So if not next year then I should be pretty cashed up the following one.

 

[Lockhart Road]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...y/news-story/19d9285ee767e15a60c2427859a103bd

Gina Rinehart ponders bid for S. Kidman pastoral company

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is poised to enter the race for the S. Kidman & Co pastoral empire, alongside Chinese conglomerate Shanghai CRED Real Estate, with a joint bid expected to top $300 million.

The billionaire’s entry into the sales process would be the first serious attempt by an Australian during the most recent battle over ownership of the giant cattle portfolio.

Shanghai CRED, controlled by Chinese billionaire Gui Guojie, was a major party in the consortium that was twice knocked back by Scott Morrison in its attempt to buy Kidman.

The Australian revealed last week that Shanghai CRED had split from Shanghai Pengxin, which had assembled the initial bidding consortium, and a third partner, Australian Rural Capital.

It is understood that under the deal being considered, Mrs Rinehart’s firm Hancock Prospecting would take a two-thirds stake in Kidman if the bid were successful, with Shanghai CRED taking the remaining third.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...y/news-story/19d9285ee767e15a60c2427859a103bd

 

[Dalphonso]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...y/news-story/19d9285ee767e15a60c2427859a103bd

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is poised to enter the race for the S. Kidman & Co pastoral empire, alongside Chinese conglomerate Shanghai CRED Real Estate, with a joint bid expected to top $300 million.

The billionaire’s entry into the sales process would be the first serious attempt by an Australian during the most recent battle over ownership of the giant cattle portfolio.

Shanghai CRED, controlled by Chinese billionaire Gui Guojie, was a major party in the consortium that was twice knocked back by Scott Morrison in its attempt to buy Kidman.

The Australian revealed last week that Shanghai CRED had split from Shanghai Pengxin, which had assembled the initial bidding consortium, and a third partner, Australian Rural Capital.

It is understood that under the deal being considered, Mrs Rinehart’s firm Hancock Prospecting would take a two-thirds stake in Kidman if the bid were successful, with Shanghai CRED taking the remaining third.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...y/news-story/19d9285ee767e15a60c2427859a103bd

Oh no! Australians want to buy two thirds of the company.Outrage against Chinese

 

[SgtSchulz]

Surely tomorrow is just formalities.

 

[OneGreatClub]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...y/news-story/19d9285ee767e15a60c2427859a103bd

Gina Rinehart ponders bid for S. Kidman pastoral company

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is poised to enter the race for the S. Kidman & Co pastoral empire, alongside Chinese conglomerate Shanghai CRED Real Estate, with a joint bid expected to top $300 million.

The billionaire’s entry into the sales process would be the first serious attempt by an Australian during the most recent battle over ownership of the giant cattle portfolio.

Shanghai CRED, controlled by Chinese billionaire Gui Guojie, was a major party in the consortium that was twice knocked back by Scott Morrison in its attempt to buy Kidman.

The Australian revealed last week that Shanghai CRED had split from Shanghai Pengxin, which had assembled the initial bidding consortium, and a third partner, Australian Rural Capital.

It is understood that under the deal being considered, Mrs Rinehart’s firm Hancock Prospecting would take a two-thirds stake in Kidman if the bid were successful, with Shanghai CRED taking the remaining third.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...y/news-story/19d9285ee767e15a60c2427859a103bd

Would Gina like to.sponsor us too ?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Would Gina like to.sponsor us too ?

If John Coates, Kitty Chiller and the AOC in general, keeps on pissing off Swimming Australia and Johnny Bertrand and co. she might move her millions she has ploughed into swimming, syncro swimming, diving and one or two other Olympic sports over the last 3 years and has pledged to support for another 4 years.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Would Gina like to.sponsor us too ?

If she successfully partners Mr Gui on Kidman, she effectively will be.

This shows our Shanghai Superman is quite sincere. Taking one-third in any new offer should satisfy Morrison and FIRB. Looking back, Mr Gui's first two attempts showed up his inexperience in, and over-enthusiasm for, the Australian market. The fact he has taken good advice - from whom I wonder (?) - with regard to the proper makeup of an Aussie-Sino consortium indicates very positively in so many directions, including the future status of the Port Adelaide Football Club.

 

[OneGreatClub]

I hope so. That ill wind that blows nobody good has been blowing a gale at Alberton this year. All indications are that perhaps it has started to change direction and is heading southerly towards the West Lakes swamp.

 

[OneGreatClub]

So, we will hear in about a week whether we have the game in China next year.

 

[Lockhart Road]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32479736/wa-cattle-on-chinese-menu-for-gina-rinehart/#page1

WA cattle on Chinese menu for Gina Rinehart
Brad Thompson - The West Australian on August 30, 2016, 7:15 am

The Chinese company joining forces with Gina Rinehart to buy the Kidman cattle empire has one hurdle to clear in a separate deal to secure a cluster of stations in the Goldfields.

Shanghai CRED has finalised the purchase of two cattle stations in the Kimberley in recent months and owns farmland at Marvel Loch where it plans to fatten cattle from the five Goldfields properties.
The WA Government faces an acid test of its policy on foreign investment in agricultural land when it is asked to approve the transfer of the five pastoral leases to Shanghai CRED, which has set up an Australian operating entity called Shanghai Zenith.

...The deal has already been approved by the Foreign Investment Review Board.
Shanghai CRED and Mrs Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting are close to securing the Kidman properties and about 150,000 cattle in a deal worth about $370 million. The transaction will end 117 years of Kidman-family ownership and involve the transfer of 10 million hectares to Hancock Prospecting and Shanghai CRED.
Hancock Prospecting would take the majority stake with Shanghai CRED owning just over 30 per cent.
Kidman would continue to be run out of Adelaide despite Hancock Prospecting having its headquarters in West Perth and Shanghai Zenith operating from an address in South Perth.
Shanghai CRED founder Gui Goujie (sic) was pictured with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Shanghai in April during the signing of a sponsorship deal with Port Adelaide aimed at bringing the AFL to China.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32479736/wa-cattle-on-chinese-menu-for-gina-rinehart/#page1

 

[OneGreatClub]

Gina Reinhart has an Alan Scott feel about her

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Story from 23rd January 2016
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...g/news-story/e7aab509de2a48b7fa3cbb5a7903e6ce

If there’s one cheque book you wouldn’t mind pointed at your sport it’s that of Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart. That’s was the good news handed to Rowing Australia yesterday with the announcement mining magnate Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting, and her personal charity the Georgina Hope Foundation, have signed a deal making her an official backer of the sport.

Rinehart will become a major partner to both Rowing Australia and the Australian Rowing Team, specifically investing some of her considerable coin at key preparation events for this year’s World Rowing Cups and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

The move also makes Rinehart the naming rights sponsor of the team’s Destination Gold pre-departure training camp — which will see the entire national rowing squad get together in Canberra from February 22 to May 16.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...g/news-story/e7aab509de2a48b7fa3cbb5a7903e6ce

And who she was backing in 2016.

The deal means Rinehart is now a financial supporter of the national rowing, synchronised swimming, swimming and volleyball teams.

From last Thursday's Oz
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...g/news-story/95cda2b6c7a221293c5e1fbd5ebd6401

Rowing Australia will today announce a renewed partnership with Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, which is being described as “transformational” by its president. Rinehart — who has already invested in the sport alongside the national swimming, synchronised swimming and volleyball teams — will, through Hancock Prospecting and the Georgina Hope Foundation, become the principal partner of Rowing Australia over the next four years.

“This is a significant and transformational investment for our sport. It’s the biggest, significant financial, commercial partnership we’ve had,” the president of Rowing Australia Rob Scott told The Australian. Scott said the investment would primarily deliver direct financial support to all Australia’s elite rowers who attend the sport’s national training centres. “It will help support their daily living expenses and also bringing us in-line, if not ahead, of the rest of the world in this regard,” said Scott, who is also the managing director of the industrial division at Wesfarmers.

“If you look at our past in rowing, a lot of the elite athletes have had to move state to state, year on year from different training venues and different coaches and that has not led to the best preparation.” An ongoing problem for Australian rowing — and something Scott and his team have been at pains to address — is the fragmented, federated nature of the sport which sees athletes train with coaches away from any centralised team. “It has also made it very difficult for them to hold down jobs or continue their studies,” Scott said........

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...g/news-story/95cda2b6c7a221293c5e1fbd5ebd6401

 

[Lockhart Road]

Gina is into national volleyball? This might be the connection via Andrew Hunter with Mr Gui, perhaps. Stranger things have happened recently with regard to PAFC and China.

https://www.renegades.com.au/news/year/2004/australians-playing-overseas

Australians Playing (Volleyball) Overseas
2004 - Andrew Hunter - Playing in France in the Pro A league for AS Cannes

http://india.norwoodbears.com.au/teams/andrew-hunter

Andrew Hunter
Date Of Birth: 28 Jul 1977

Position:
Height: 192cm
Shirt Number: 10
Interests:
Reading
Writing
Cinema
Career Achievements:
Two State League premierships as player, one as coach
Most Memorable Moment:
SA State League semi-final v South (2009), and final v Mt Lofty (2009 - last game)
Every moment as a player with AS Cannes
Australia v China, match 2 (Beijing, 2006)
First game in Italian League (in Castelnuovo, Verona, 2005)
French Championship Play-Off semi-final away to Tourcoing (2004)
Biography:
Favourite Food: Sushi/Sashimi; unagi
Favourite Tv Show: How I Met Your Mother

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

These 2 stories - one penned by Gina and a letter on her website show if you deliver, not just on field but off it as well, Gina will support you. Port might not see any monies directly from Gina but if her and Mr Gui get along and their investment is profitable don't be surprised if down the track she gets involved in supporting Port's China venture and our community programs.

http://www.afr.com/business/sport/gina-rinehart-australias-biggest-olympic-fan-20160728-gqfm5b

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/re...s/news-story/e351514fe5216addf40e1b5685cccd4f

http://www.ginarinehart.com.au/congratulations-australias-rowers/

 

[Lockhart Road]

These 2 stories - one penned by Gina and a letter on her website show if you deliver, not just on field but off it as well, Gina will support you. Port might not see any monies directly from Gina but if her and Mr Gui get along and their investment is profitable don't be surprised if down the track she gets involved in supporting Port's China venture and our community programs.

http://www.afr.com/business/sport/gina-rinehart-australias-biggest-olympic-fan-20160728-gqfm5b

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/re...s/news-story/e351514fe5216addf40e1b5685cccd4f

http://www.ginarinehart.com.au/congratulations-australias-rowers/

It's the on field delivery I'm more concerned about.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Gina is into national volleyball? This might be the connection via Andrew Hunter with Mr Gui, perhaps. Stranger things have happened recently with regard to PAFC and China.

https://www.renegades.com.au/news/year/2004/australians-playing-overseas

Australians Playing (Volleyball) Overseas
2004 - Andrew Hunter - Playing in France in the Pro A league for AS Cannes

http://india.norwoodbears.com.au/teams/andrew-hunter

Andrew Hunter
Date Of Birth: 28 Jul 1977

Position:
Height: 192cm
Shirt Number: 10
Interests:
Reading
Writing
Cinema
Career Achievements:
Two State League premierships as player, one as coach
Most Memorable Moment:
SA State League semi-final v South (2009), and final v Mt Lofty (2009 - last game)
Every moment as a player with AS Cannes
Australia v China, match 2 (Beijing, 2006)
First game in Italian League (in Castelnuovo, Verona, 2005)
French Championship Play-Off semi-final away to Tourcoing (2004)
Biography:
Favourite Food: Sushi/Sashimi; unagi
Favourite Tv Show: How I Met Your Mother

She is supporting Volleyball Australia which includes both the indoor version and beach version. She wrote this small article on her website congratulating Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy for their efforts in Rio. They were ranked 5th entering Rio and that's where they finished losing their quarter finals to the USA team which included a triple gold medalist. Taliqua is a Port Ambassador and works in our Indigenous Community programs. So we might have a double entry point.

http://www.ginarinehart.com.au/cong...h-volleyballers-lousie-bawden-taliqua-clancy/

 

[Lockhart Road]

She is supporting Volleyball Australia which includes both the indoor version and beach version. She wrote this small article on her website congratulating Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy for their efforts in Rio. They were ranked 5th entering Rio and that's where they finished losing their quarter finals to the USA team which included a triple gold medalist. Taliqua is a Port Ambassador and works in our Indigenous Community programs. So we might have a double entry point.

http://www.ginarinehart.com.au/cong...h-volleyballers-lousie-bawden-taliqua-clancy/

And China's women won the Volleyball gold in Rio. They are the darlings of China, recently did an exhibition in HK, several seven-footers. Team sports are what Xi Jinping has on the Middle Kingdom menu these days: soccer, volleyball ... Australian Football (to be renamed Shanghai Football and played nine-a-side on existing soccer pitches).

 

[Pappagallo]

 

[Grave Danger]

AFL Commission delays decision on 2017 China match


THE AFL Commission has delayed a decision on whether a game for premiership points will be played in China in 2017 until at least later this month.

At its meeting on Tuesday, the Commission received an update as to how preparations were progressing for the historic game that Port Adelaide and the Gold Coast hope to play in Shanghai next season.

However AFL.com.au understands further details relating to the stadium and commercial arrangements need to be in place before a decision can be made about whether a game is viable next season....