Don't pack up that gold pass just yet

[Ford Fairlane]

Kingsley could be back!

 

[Portia]

The dream is alive!

Kingsley waiting for second chance

ADAM Kingsley spent three years in AFL's waiting room before Port Adelaide gave him a chance in the big league in 1997. The 28-year-old defender is again waiting for the AFL draft . . . and not discounting he may be in front of his locker at Alberton again on November 22.

"It's a possibility," said Kingsley, axed by the Power along with five others immediately after Port's premature exit from the AFL final series in September. "There are no promises, but there is the chance I could be picked up (by Port) again. If not, I'm prepared to play somewhere else.

Kingsley still believes his time in the AFL is not finished.

"Absolutely not," said the 1998 John Cahill Medallist as Port's club champion. "I've still got a few good years ahead of me. If I get another opportunity, I will make the most of it.

If his name is not called in the AFL national draft on November 22 or the pre-season draft on December 16, Kingsley will remain in Adelaide to play SANFL football with the Port Adelaide Magpies.


Isn't that great news!

 

[Beffery]

Re: The dream is alive!

Originally posted by Porthos
Isn't that great news!

Great!

 

[Portia]

 

[Macca19]

Im so happy i could vomit!

 

[footballphantom]

Originally posted by Macca19
Im so happy i could vomit!

Macca, now I know that you are getting better and the bad memories of hospital are behind you. Thank Goodness.

 

[sog35]

And the bad thing is the sequel is always worse!

 

[Paralowiepower]

As long as you are only bagging Kingsley and not Koula, otherwise there will be hell to pay

 

[Portia]

Who's bagging Kingsley?

 

[_espoir]

Do we give him a brownlow now.......or later?

 

[Eddie Woloschek]

Bring him back. He has served his time.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

It was interesting to note that he too had OP. Does everyone at Port get it? Is it a contractual obligation? Some sort of rite of passage? Or is it something to do with Andrew Russell's running program? Or the new weights program that Rucci seemed happy to discredit?

 

[Beffery]

I had this article brought to my attention and I must say, I found it quite.. humorous (the first sentence in particular).

From the AFL Record: A real goer from day one
Josh Kaplan
[AFL Record]

Adam Kingsley is known for his courage under fire – an attribute he showed in his earliest games.

Adam Kingsley is one of the most courageous and persistent players in the AFL. The Port Adelaide defender simply loves getting in the thick of the action and he has always been that way – right from his first game of junior football.

“During my first game, I was told I ran blindly into packs and really had no idea of what was going on,” Kingsley recalls. “But in the under-eights, I don’t think I was the only one!”

Kingsley grew up in Doncaster in Melbourne’s east, and played most of his junior football with Doncaster Heights. While he has always loved playing, he told the FKO gang that his father, Ray, was the driving force behind him becoming an AFL footballer.

“Every night, my dad would take me outside and teach me how to kick a footy,” he says.

“Dad reckons he was a pretty handy footballer in his day, but they all say that!”

After a stint with the Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup under-18 competition, Kingsley tried his luck with Essendon’s reserves. He spent three years with the Bombers before Port Adelaide drafted him with its fourth pick (No. 37 overall) in the 1996 National AFL Draft.

“I just kept persisting and trying to make a name for myself,” he says.

“You do start questioning if you really are going to become a professional footballer, but it’s a matter of never taking no for an answer.”

Kingsley has now played 110 games, and was Port’s best and fairest in 1998 and third in 1999. He played in the club’s 2001 pre-season premiership side and won the Michael Tuck Medal as best on ground.

• Josh Kaplan was on work-experience with the AFL Record.

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

I don't know what to say.

 

[_espoir]

Originally posted by Kid Dynamite!
I don't know what to say.

come on jen where are those welcome arms......!? hehehhe

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Originally posted by _espoir
come on jen where are those welcome arms......!? hehehhe

Must............resist..............homicidal.............urges.............

 

[mic59]

This is only a story at the moment remember. Journalists have to eat too and sometimes that means making a story out of a chance remark. But look at the bright side, if we get Kingsley back he could be all the better for being cut. Look at the improvement in Poulton when he was delisted then re-drafted.

THIS WAS MY 2500TH POST!

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Originally posted by mic59
THIS WAS MY 2500TH POST!

Well done!

 

[blackdiamond]

Originally posted by mic59
This is only a story at the moment remember. Journalists have to eat too and sometimes that means making a story out of a chance remark. But look at the bright side, if we get Kingsley back he could be all the better for being cut. Look at the improvement in Poulton when he was delisted then re-drafted.

You might be right, he may come back better but I don't think we should tempt fate.

We only give good reason for Choco to re-invent the Gold Pass.

 

[Portia]

Originally posted by mic59
THIS WAS MY 2500TH POST!

I'd like to congratulate you for using it on optimism for Adam `Bombscare' Kingsley.

 

[Eago77]

Oh dear.

I'd much rather pick Paxman back up than Kingers.

 

[mic59]

Originally posted by Porthos
I'd like to congratulate you for using it on optimism for Adam `Bombscare' Kingsley.

It's not just optimism. I have always had huge faith in him and I'm still convinced he would have won another John Cahill medal if Choco had just played him regularly in the midfield. I can understand how someone can be terrible in one position and great in another. Does anyone here remember Tim Evans' third-rate attempts at CHB before Cahill moved him to the goalfront?

 

[Nicski]

Originally posted by mic59
It's not just optimism. I have always had huge faith in him and I'm still convinced he would have won another John Cahill medal if Choco had just played him regularly in the midfield. I can understand how someone can be terrible in one position and great in another. Does anyone here remember Tim Evans' third-rate attempts at CHB before Cahill moved him to the goalfront?

Good point, but would Choco play him in the midfield though? If Kingers does get picked up again, it's pretty likely that he'll be thrown back into our aging defence, which just continues the ongoing problem.

 

[mic59]

Originally posted by Nicski
Good point, but would Choco play him in the midfield though? If Kingers does get picked up again, it's pretty likely that he'll be thrown back into our aging defence, which just continues the ongoing problem.

Yes, I thought that too. I would have thought that with the demise of Nick Stevens Kingsley was going to have more of a role in midfield so I doubt very much if he will be picked up. It makes you wonder who is calling the shots sometimes; after all Choco was the one who convinced Cahill to pick up Kingsley and it was in Choco's first year as a coach that Kingsley won his John Cahill medal.

 

[Nicski]

Originally posted by mic59
Yes, I thought that too. I would have thought that with the demise of Nick Stevens Kingsley was going to have more of a role in midfield so I doubt very much if he will be picked up. It makes you wonder who is calling the shots sometimes; after all Choco was the one who convinced Cahill to pick up Kingsley and it was in Choco's first year as a coach that Kingsley won his John Cahill medal.

Yes that is pretty strange, Choco did have big wraps on him. And that seemed to continue this year as he was picked for the prelim final, only to be delisted anyway....which would get even more confusing if he were to be picked up again!

Just a quick note, didn't Kingsley win the medal in 1998, just before Mark started coaching?