News Chris Davies departs for Carlton

[Alberton Proud]

May the Summer of George never end

 

[Steve Dore]

Chris Davies has gone from zero to hero on this board in 12 months.

 

[Joelg]

Last night I looked through a lot of Costanza/Davies stuff and thought we need to acknowledge how this all started. Apart from absolutely PMSL I found the genesis of all this.

To paraphrase the late great Clinton Grybus, chachi11 take a bow.

He started the whole CD/Costanza thing with this post in the now locked thread Trade Targets 2016 on page 313 On October 11 2016 with this post late in day 2 of the trade week.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/trade-targets-2016.1128919/page-313#post-47245882

Meanwhile....lets cross to CD working hard on our next trade.

I replied on the next page with
Shit that GIF could be used for so much more

He replied with
Hahaha...I like the cut of your jib..

Lets cross to Ken Hinkley working on next years game plan..
<and inserts the same Constanza gif>

Pappagallo replied with
George Costanza playing desk drums is the new Paul Newman tapping his nose.

2 days later in the 2016 AFL Trade Week Thread on page 32 Doctor Feel posts these two pictures
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2016-afl-trade-week-thread.1148558/page-32#post-47303485


Which inspires Alberton Proud to post this on page 33 of the thread



Then Pappagallo posts


Which inspires rumoursofwinter to post these 2 comparison photos


And we are off to the races for 2016 trade week, and trade weeks into the future.

So thanks to the above big footy posters for kicking off a new Bigfooty Port Board tradition last year that will last for years.

Oh and if you want to piss yourself laughing, have a re look at the 2016 Trade week in gifs and memes started on the 13th October and inspired by the above work which is dominated by Costanza.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/trade-week-in-gifs-and-memes.1149199/

Were you at launch of number one ticket holder at Kochies studio when he was announced, I recall you live in Sydney?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Were you at launch of number one ticket holder at Kochies studio when he was announced, I recall you live in Sydney?

Nope. I had just joined the NSW supporters group, after ignoring it for a decade, so I knew the guys who where there. Not sure what that has to do with CD.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I put this in the SPP thread which was moved to the Let's Talk Port Thread but I reckon it whould be in Chris' thread as its a great article

True, but those people in the photo with him are from the family who were his guardians in WA. Karen De Lore is Business Development Manager at Cystic Fibrosis Western Australia and no doubt her connection with SPP makes him an ideal choice as an ambassador and a participant in their big annual fundraising event, which happened to take place while he is back in WA on his break.

If Cystic Fibrosis SA are switched on they should tee him up asap. I might just send them a head-up email

Chris Costanza Davies has cystic fibrosis. This nice long article from the SMH's cricket writer Peter Hanlon in December 2015. Lockhart Road this is a good read.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/chris-davies-a-matter-of-perspective-20151227-glvbn9.html
...."What cystic fibrosis has given me is perspective ... I reckon I'm able to put things that happen – sporting things – into much greater perspective than maybe some other people," Davies says. "Yeah, I've got it. But there are people who've either lost their life, or who deal with a much greater form of it every day of the week. Perspective's important to me.".......

Perversely, it was the disease that made him a cricketer in the first place, rather than a soccer player whose name might have been mentioned in the company of Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill and Lucas Neill, his contemporaries in elite underage competition. The round-ball game was his true love, a career with Manchester United the stuff of his dreams. He'd been good enough to make South Australian junior cricket teams without fully committing to the sport. At 15, when soccer asked for his undivided attention, consultation with his parents and doctors drew the conclusion that pursuing a career as a batsman would be better for his health.

"The reality is I probably would have chosen soccer as my number one sport, but I made the decision to play cricket on the theory that I could bash the ball to the fence instead of having to run," Davies says, big laugh and what-will-be humour to the fore. To this day he reckons it's the only time his physical wellbeing has charted his path.

Davies is 37 now, a husband and father of two, who enjoys largely good health and continues to lead an elite sporting life. His last game for South Australia came more than a dozen years ago, before his 25th birthday. Yet he has never walked past a door the game opened for him without at least taking a peek inside......
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/chris-davies-a-matter-of-perspective-20151227-glvbn9.html

 

[Lockhart Road]

May the Summer of George never end

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Oh my George.

 

[GremioPower]

Fellows, I have a question regarding our club structure: is there a "Football Coordinator?"

I mean, would there be someone below the CEO, but above the football departments: analytics, academy, list management, physical training, Magpies, Power, etc. Is there someone above Hinkley, only responsible to coordinate Port's football as a whole?

If so, who is he? If not, why not?!

Thanks.

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P.S.: It is obvious that our problem relies on the top, but I can't identify precisely who is in the wrong place, what the right place would be (including out of the club), and who should replace those who would need to be replaced.

Having said that, I don't think the club is struggling in other areas as much as we are in football – if we are struggling at all. So there would be my starting point for the Operation What Happened, Port's investigations.

Thus, my first suspect would be Chris Davies. I would begin taking a look at his responsibilities as head of football and what he has done. From the answers to these questions, we would have a better idea of what is wrong and how it could be fixed.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Fellows, I have a question regarding our club structure: is there a "Football Coordinator?"

I mean, would there be someone below the CEO, but above the football departments: analytics, academy, list management, physical training, Magpies, Power, etc. Is there someone above Hinkley, only responsible to coordinate Port's football as a whole?

If so, who is he? If not, why not?!

Thanks.

Chris Davies. General manager of football. Though he would have zero say on match day.

You would be surprised how compartmentalized the club is though. High performance have almost zero contact with the coaches for example. Coaches have offices upstairs with the admin while the high performance guys are all lodged essentially in the gym downstairs.

This is likely by design so that specialists are left to do their specific jobs, however I also think you need a balance so that there is still synergy and everyone is pulling in the same direction.

Additionally there are guys based permanently in Victoria for scouting both the talent coming through in Vic leagues plus strategy/opposition analysis.

I don't think our current structure works at all, though.

 

[GremioPower]

Chris Davies. General manager of football. Though he would have zero say on match day.

You would be surprised how compartmentalized the club is though. High performance have almost zero contact with the coaches for example. Coaches have offices upstairs with the admin while the high performance guys are all lodged essentially in the gym downstairs.

This is likely by design so that specialists are left to do their specific jobs, however I also think you need a balance so that there is still synergy and everyone is pulling in the same direction.

I don't think our current structure works at all, though.

Thanks for the reply. I agree on our structure. I think I have lost faith on Chris Davies, then. Our issues are shown on matchdays, but begin way before that.

 

[tribey]

He could've invented an app that turns Faulkners and Burleys into Sherrins, but having Hinkley's son on staff in any capacity seems incredibly bush league.

 

[GremioPower]

From Davies downwards, I strongly suggest people admiting their share of responsibility on this season's failure. Everyone! No exceptions. They should do sessions AA-meeting style, where everybody take a turn to talk (although Marshall should be immediately excused right after he says "Hi, my name is Todd.").

If no good answer comes out from these meetings, we should bring outside help. "The 'status quo' is not acceptable."

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He could've invented an app that turns Faulkners and Burleys into Sherrins, but having Hinkley's son on staff in any capacity seems incredibly bush league.

I agree, but I can bet it is common practice around the league. It is a sin, but not a big one.

 

[Black 18]

Trying to fix a football club from within is pointless. The old 'internal review' is nothing more than activity to appease supporters with no real end goal in mind aside from fan perception.

I'm sure once we miss the finals we'll hear how KT or Davies is doing this or that and the club will release some footage of someone in authority talking to the players and/or coaches and saying tough, harsh words like "we know who you are" and come beginning of the pre-season everything will have been forgotten and we'll go on from there.

Chris Davies is part of the problem, he's not part of the solution. He's no orphan in regards to the problem though.

 

[powermacs]

Yeah, can we not? His job is to bring them in, not his fault our coach is an idiot.

 

[KenOath]

Doesn't have the requisite AFL clubland experience for the role and it shows... have never liked this appointment.

 

[GremioPower]

Yeah, can we not? His job is to bring them in, not his fault our coach is an idiot.

If he is the head of football, it should be his fault. Hinkley responds to whom?

Football is not working as it should. If there is no one directly responsible for it; then, it is time to assign someone for the task — exclusively.

 

[Rexie J]

If he is the head of football, it should be his fault. Hinkley responds to whom?

Football is not working as it should. If there is no one directly responsible for it; then, it is time to assign someone for the task — exclusively.

Hinkley answers directly to Davies and he answers to CEO Thomas.

 

[GremioPower]

Hinkley answers directly to Davies and he answers to CEO Thomas.

That's why I would begin our "soul searching" with Davies. The CEO is not solely responsible for our football; Davies is ...

 

[PA88]

Thomas and Davies and the board are responsible.

 

[Rexie J]

That's why I would begin our "soul searching" with Davies. The CEO is not solely responsible for our football; Davies is ...

In his most recent interview (it's on the Port site) he describes himself as an Adminstrator and comes from a cricket background.

 

[thundercloud]

You are grasping at straws which shld be banned;
Wc have on field kennedy, nic nat, gaff they win
Power ryder, dixon houston play out game we win last night

What is the logic in turning to davies

They burnt people in the middle ages with more so called evidence of the time, that this thread involves.

Reeks of mcarthism if you need a more recent historical example.

 

[GremioPower]

You are grasping at straws which shld be banned;
Wc have on field kennedy, nic nat, gaff they win
Power ryder, dixon houston play out game we win last night

What is the logic in turning to davies

They burnt people in the middle ages with more so called evidence of the time, that this thread involves.

Reeks of mcarthism if you need a more recent historical example.

I didn't say we should get rid of Davies. I am just saying that I would start looking for the source of our football problems at his role:

So there would be my starting point for the Operation What Happened, Port's investigations.

Or do you deny that we have problem in our football department?

 

[G3TWOTYAD3S3RV]

You are grasping at straws which shld be banned;
Wc have on field kennedy, nic nat, gaff they win
Power ryder, dixon houston play out game we win last night

What is the logic in turning to davies

They burnt people in the middle ages with more so called evidence of the time, that this thread involves.

Reeks of mcarthism if you need a more recent historical example.

Bullshit !! Years of failure mate cmon wake up. Enough excuses we’ve had enough !!

 

[Cam1870]

You are grasping at straws which shld be banned;
Wc have on field kennedy, nic nat, gaff they win
Power ryder, dixon houston play out game we win last night

What is the logic in turning to davies

They burnt people in the middle ages with more so called evidence of the time, that this thread involves.

Reeks of mcarthism if you need a more recent historical example.

If you think everythings ticking along nicely and we are just a kick and an unlucky twisted ankle away from a premiership run, then theres no problem. I dont know about davies or anyone else, but i do know its been a long time since a top 4 finish despite topping up our list with a number of ready made players. Im not smart enough to know what needs to be done, but im not happy with where we are.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

He could've invented an app that turns Faulkners and Burleys into Sherrins, but having Hinkley's son on staff in any capacity seems incredibly bush league.

He does the computers mate! wash ya mouth out he's heaps good at downloading

 

[MrPortAdelaide]

i dont have any real problems with the recruiting, i thinks its been pretty good, the coaching is the real issue