Meet Up Club 1870 Cocktail Event tonight 13th May

[RussellEbertHandball]

Anyone else going to this tonight? I completely forgot to start a thread earlier about it?

I know Eddie Dingle an his 2 daughters and pastmyprimus are interstate.


raman Winestoppable Janus MrSpeaker @TheSmallerWarrior I know you guys are members. Ask Ben to point out the bigfooty guys as he knows a few of us.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Have a Fluffy Duck for me REH

 

[Moses01]

Ill be there

 

[The Smaller Warrior]

Won't be there mate, heading to the states.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Won't be there mate, heading to the states.

Me too.

Next week.

Maybe we can work some magic together?

 

[CrimsonRaven]

Can't make it working as usual

 

[raman]

Club 1870 costs $145 more than Black Diamond, so I'll be aiming to drink at least that much worth of cocktails.

 

[PepeSilvia]

I hope the Crows don't include our attendance tonight in the official crowd number for their game on the weekend...

 

[HaroldOliver]

Club 1870 costs $145 more than Black Diamond, so I'll be aiming to drink at least that much worth of cocktails.

Please post a series of selfies, throughout the night, on this thread.

 

[Joelg]

Got held up at work

 

[raman]

OK, I seriously need to stop wearing the media polo to club functions.

Two, TWO separate people mistook me for Ben Demertzis tonight. And both were people who didn't even know my name was Ben, except in as much as they had mistaken me for another Ben. Added to which I'm an inch or two taller than Benny D, a fair bit fleshier, and our hair is completely different.

The first time it was a double-mind* because the guy said something like "Ben! I'm Den(n)is!" with a familiarity that suggested he thought we'd met before. This was amazing because this guy looked remarkably like Lockhart Road. It took me several uncomfortable beats to realise that it wasn't LR, that we hadn't met before, and that he had the wrong guy.

The second time was at a bus stop outside the ground. WTF.

Great little gathering, though. I met up with my uncle who I didn't even know was a Club 1870 member, was great to chat with him on a day that wasn't Christmas, as he more than anyone is responsible for me being a Port supporter.

 

[Lockhart Road]

OK, I seriously need to stop wearing the media polo to club functions.

Two, TWO separate people mistook me for Ben Demertzis tonight. And both were people who didn't even know my name was Ben, except in as much as they had mistaken me for another Ben. Added to which I'm an inch or two taller than Benny D, a fair bit fleshier, and our hair is completely different.

The first time it was a double-mind**** because the guy said something like "Ben! I'm Den(n)is!" with a familiarity that suggested he thought we'd met before. This was amazing because this guy looked remarkably like Lockhart Road. It took me several uncomfortable beats to realise that it wasn't LR, that we hadn't met before, and that he had the wrong guy.

The second time was at a bus stop outside the ground. WTF.

Great little gathering, though. I met up with my uncle who I didn't even know was a Club 1870 member, was great to chat with him on a day that wasn't Christmas, as he more than anyone is responsible for me being a Port supporter.

Sounds like The Smaller Warrior put one of his spells on you raman

Edit: Next thing you know he'll be turning all the koalas at Ocean Park in Hong Kong into 2015 PAFC Pet Members

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I went but could only stay a short time. But I saw raman and the Lockhart Road lookalike and even I did a double-take.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

PS Just one potato farmer

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

PS Just one potato farmer

More to come

 

[I Dont Care]

OK, I seriously need to stop wearing the media polo to club functions.

Two, TWO separate people mistook me for Ben Demertzis tonight. And both were people who didn't even know my name was Ben, except in as much as they had mistaken me for another Ben. Added to which I'm an inch or two taller than Benny D, a fair bit fleshier, and our hair is completely different.

The first time it was a double-mind**** because the guy said something like "Ben! I'm Den(n)is!" with a familiarity that suggested he thought we'd met before. This was amazing because this guy looked remarkably like Lockhart Road. It took me several uncomfortable beats to realise that it wasn't LR, that we hadn't met before, and that he had the wrong guy.

The second time was at a bus stop outside the ground. WTF.

Great little gathering, though. I met up with my uncle who I didn't even know was a Club 1870 member, was great to chat with him on a day that wasn't Christmas, as he more than anyone is responsible for me being a Port supporter.

Your last name isn't Dover is it?

 

[The Smaller Warrior]

Me too.

Next week.

Maybe we can work some magic together?

PM me your itinerary.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Just on the potato farmer ... Matt Richardson among other topics talked about Port's China strategy. He was in Guangzhou and saying how it blew New York away, where he had been 6 weeks earlier. He was standing on the street looking at these 110 storey buildings rising all around. His guide said that 6 years earlier this had all been potato fields. The government bought all their land and built the city.

Matt noticed Bentleys, Jags and Rollers prowling the street and the guide pointed at them and said 'And those are the potato farmers'.

Matt said Port's strategy wasn't about trying to sew up the Chinese market, but if they could get the attention of just one of those potato farmers ....

(I'm sure REH will fill in more detail )

 

[Portology]

Just on the potato farmer ... Matt Richardson among other topics talked about Port's China strategy. He was in Guangzhou and saying how it blew New York away, where he had been 6 weeks earlier. He was standing on the street looking at these 110 storey buildings rising all around. His guide said that 6 years earlier this had all been potato fields. The government bought all their land and built the city.

Matt noticed Bentleys, Jags and Rollers prowling the street and the guide pointed at them and said 'And those are the potato farmers'.

Matt said Port's strategy wasn't about trying to sew up the Chinese market, but if they could get the attention of just one of those potato farmers ....

(I'm sure REH will fill in more detail )

One Chinese 'potato farmer' > any number of Russian oil oligarchs