I'm Sorry

[gwAllan]

Suspect that Williams shouldn't be back next year. Also suspect that the GF loss may have had a fair impact on not a few Port players.

A couple of years back it was Port who alerted Geelong that a certain departed Cats employee was hawking club info to other clubs. As a club they have, and will retain, my respect.

 

[iameviljez]

Dear Geelong Supporters,
I am sorry for the way my weak excuse of a club treated your players on the weekend, our coach calls it tough football, but I see it as a bunch of soft guys trying to act tough by going after players and trying to injure them, Whoever tried to get Gary Abletts head between their knees in the first quarter should be dropped but knowing our coach he wont be because apparantly that is "TOUGH FOOTBALL". Ever since the Grand Final I hated the GFC but that changed this year when I started to see how Geelong are I always tell my mates that Geelong is a "Real Honest Club" and the fact that they just focus on winning games and nothing else and Port Adelaide should really take a leaf out of your books. Obviously I support a minority of Power supporters but hopefully this will show you that not all supporters liked the way our club acted on the weekend.

The haranguing (sp?) that the OP has got from this thread is mind-boggling - from their own supporters, and from us over a spelling mistake (and, fair enough, being sexist). I applaud what's written above - reminds me of when we went the whack against Carlton in Buddha's last game, awful "football".

I did used to think that most Power supporters here were knuckleheads. But a new respect for Alberton Magpie for me, for one.

 

[iameviljez]

I might just add that you idiots from the Power jumping in to harangue your own man are just disgusting. True pride in your club doesn't show itself in blind, stupid patriotism that defends the club at all costs.

True pride in your club shows when you accept all truths about the way it conducts itself and it either hurts or it pleases. Makes winning all the sweeter, too.

 

[Shmoses]

I'm only just now watching the game from Sunday and I've gotta say, Port played like real scum. These Port posters need to get the hell out of our forum, especially dyertribe - how can you expect to have anything you say about footy taken seriously when you change from a Crows fan to a Power fan just like that?

 

[tribey]

IThese Port posters need to get the hell out of our forum,

Why would you have such a siege mentality like this when Geelong are flying? I could come up with the most empassioned, airtight defence of the side's aggression (misguided or otherwise) ever and you could still trump me with '119'.

especially dyertribe - how can you expect to have anything you say about footy taken seriously when you change from a Crows fan to a Power fan just like that?

OK, this has been done to death by the emo and kiddie collection on the Crows board with no concept of football before 1995, but I'll at least provide some sort of explanation as is far, given your broadside.

See, I've always been a Port Adelaide man - and the very reason I started barracking for the Crows (at age 10 with inception) was because of Port players who I loved - Hodges, Smith, Abernethy, Tregenza, Brown.

Now by the time the club (Port) got its AFL licence, I was your typical fat angry teenage douchnozzle to whom footy was everything - by now had a Crows season ticket and was enjoying another Port boy, McLeod, rip it up at the highest level. The combination of teal shock and 'PORT POWER' marketing pissed me off too - although my fanboi hard-on for young Tredders and Wilbur (from their roles in the 1996 SANFL flag) was there and I liked to see the club do well in its foray into the bigtime.

But since 2005 or so the Crows didn't mean as much to me and I became more interested in Port games - to the point where I was more disappointed that the club lost in the 'ultimate Showdown' semi final (there's an empassioned defence of Byron in a thread slandering him that very night after he knocked out Biglands, if you'd care to look). I was also getting drilled by Crows supporters and being accused of being a Port supporter for 'defending Port' at every opportunity - funnily enough, by the same people who now accuse me of bandwagoning.

By the 2006/7 offseason I'd more or less turned full circle, but continued to go to Crows games with mates while also going to Port matches.

Knowing full well I'd cop the wrath the god from people like you (and the afforementioned crew on the Crows board), I didn't make it 'official' on here until the week of the Grand Final, but who cares. I'd have been slammed no matter when I did it.

I gave my Crows season ticket up in the summer and bought a full platinum one. I've sat through this awful season and will be there tomorrow supporting the club. Shit happens.

 

[CF]

honestly this thread is totally irrelevant now so Port fans can go to wherever they go and we will see you next year.