Let's talk Ports! Part 3

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Now do it per flag..
Per GF in celebration of our fantastic club milestone this weekend:

TeamWeeks in Top 8Grand FinalsPremierships
HAW
131​
4​
3​
SYD
171​
3​
1​
RICH
131​
3​
3​
WCE
168​
2​
1​
WBD
88​
2​
1​
GEE
194​
1​
0​
COLL
126​
1​
0​
ADL
118​
1​
0​
GWS
110​
1​
0​
FRE
101​
1​
0​
MEL
68​
1​
1​
PORT
139​
0​
0​
ESS
81​
0​
0​
NTH
74​
0​
0​
BRIS
66​
0​
0​
STK
48​
0​
0​
GCS
30​
0​
0​
CARL
28​
0​
0​
 
Per GF in celebration of our fantastic club milestone this weekend:

TeamWeeks in Top 8Grand FinalsPremierships
HAW
131​
4​
3​
SYD
171​
3​
1​
RICH
131​
3​
3​
WCE
168​
2​
1​
WBD
88​
2​
1​
GEE
194​
1​
0​
COLL
126​
1​
0​
ADL
118​
1​
0​
GWS
110​
1​
0​
FRE
101​
1​
0​
MEL
68​
1​
1​
PORT
139​
0​
0​
ESS
81​
0​
0​
NTH
74​
0​
0​
BRIS
66​
0​
0​
STK
48​
0​
0​
GCS
30​
0​
0​
CARL
28​
0​
0​
lol - we have more than twice as many weeks in the top 8 as Melbourne and they look as if they're well on their way to a threepeat.
 

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A failure you can tolerate on the back of 3 flags in 5 years

Guess you don’t remember 1999 when their captain and coach walked out, Kardinia Park was falling down and they were $9,000,000 in debt.
 
Guess you don’t remember 1999 when their captain and coach walked out, Kardinia Park was falling down and they were $9,000,000 in debt.

The irony when having a captain and coach walk out and only being $9,000,000 in debt would actually be a step up at our club right now.
 
Che Cockatoo-Collins was on Yokayi Footy last night. They did the bit with his nieces, Laquoiya and Litonya, signing up and Che talking to them on video + a segment with Darryl White a few years ago when they were 15 or 16 and were part of the Suns academy up in Cairns.

Then Che tells some Cockatoo footy history. He talks about his uncle Robert making the Teal Cup carnival All Oz side with Roger Delaney, Tim Ginever, Greg Anderson and Milne Hanna from carlton, that era he says,which I'm pretty sure was 1983. The Cockatoo clan is all from Cairns.

He then talks about North Melbourne recruiting gurus at the time, Ron Joseph and Lawrie Dwyer going up to Cairns to recruit Uncle Robert. There was a no from "granny". They came back with Jimmy Krakouer who helped them convince the family to let him go to Melbourne, but granny said what about younger brother Rodney.

North took them both, they both played U/19's and reserves, younger brother Rodney I found out was in the star stunned 1989 U/19 GF captained by Wayne Carey, coached by Dennis Pagan winning flag side. Neither brother played an A grade game.

Che says to Andrew Krakouer, to pass on his thanks to father Jimmy, because if he didn't go to Cairns and convince granny to let the boys go down to Melbourne, and Jimmy was living proof that one of their mob could make it, the Cockatoo footy clan might never have left Cairns. He confirmed uncle Jason Cockatoo, that the girls mentioned in their interview on Port's website had played for Port, was a fact and someone in the AFLW signings thread said he played underage and reserves footy at Port.

This is the segment




Ok found the link to the full program so if you want to watch all of last nights program, its at the SBS on Demand link, there are 4 segments, a 15 second ad for other SBS programs is between each one, Che is on from 14.30 when segment 2 starts, which is all basically about the Cockatoo family for 14 minutes and he sticks around for segments 3 and 4.


 
It seems to me (totally unscientifically of course) that our record in "special" guernseys is poor. Is that a thing or am I just remembering a few awful performances?
Special guernseys, like special games, bring added expectation and our mentally weak and poorly coached team wilts at the tiniest hint of expectation.
 

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