Nicknames

[Blues_Brat]

Originally posted by servo:
Weren't Port Adelaide also known as "The Pivotonians"?

Amongst other things.

Try telling a Port supporter that their team used to wear pink, many will try to throw a punch.

It's a good way to tell if a Port supporter knows their own history.

 

[DOC]

Country Vic-

West Gippsland
Garfield F.C - The Stars.
Nar Nar Goon - The Goon

Yarra Valley- Mountain Dist
Yarra Glen - River Pigs - I think?
Warby/Milgrove - The Kookaburras
Gembrook -The Brookers

Elinbank Dist. F.L
Buln Buln - The Lyrebirds.

Mornington P .f.l
Tyab - The Yabbies.

Go the Skull !!!
J.I.T.C
THE DOC..

 

[Joe Mama]

Because all there really is in Congupna is the road to Echuca and nothing much else, that's my take on the nickname but it's hard to know the real reason.

 

[Blues_Brat]

Originally posted by servo:
Weren't Port Adelaide also known as "The Pivotonians"?

I've thought about this and come to the conclusion.. What the hell is a "pivotonian"??

Wasn't one of the AFL teams called that in their early days?

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by Blues_Brat:
I've thought about this and come to the conclusion.. What the hell is a "pivotonian"??

Wasn't one of the AFL teams called that in their early days?

Geelong were once called the Pivotonians.

Not sure on the meaning, probably a social group, like the Rechabites and the Freemasons.



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Hallowed be thy Roy

 

[Blues_Brat]

Thanks, Mobben, you are the font of all football knowledge.

Do the old Roy boys follow Brisbane at all? Or is there a lot of contempt for the 'take over'. If I recall correctly there was a push for Fitzroy to relocate there in 1986, in hindsight it may have been a preferable situation.

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by Blues_Brat:
Thanks, Mobben, you are the font of all football knowledge.

Do the old Roy boys follow Brisbane at all? Or is there a lot of contempt for the 'take over'. If I recall correctly there was a push for Fitzroy to relocate there in 1986, in hindsight it may have been a preferable situation.

The response to the situation was many and varied.
Some embraced the Brissy Lions.
Some have nothing but contempt for them.
Some don't mind them , but don't follow them.

Yes there was a push in 1986, and yes it would have been preferable to a merger, but if you think about it, not knowing what might happen ten years later, we as members were hardly going to votes for it back then, were we?


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Hallowed be thy Roy

 

[smithy]

Reynella in SA are known as the wineflies.

 

[Blues_Girl]

Originally posted by Blues_Brat:
Did you know Port were known as that nick for a short while in their early history? When they were about to join the AFL I suggested they revisted history with their choice of a nick, except leave out the L & E.

It took me a while to get it but once I did....another piece of brillance from blues_brat!

 

[dunstall19]

Originally posted by killer:
There's a team in Darwin called the "Waratah Creampuffs"

hsahahaha GO MAGPIES'

HA KILLER' IS THIS CHRIS???

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[Go South]

Originally posted by smithy:
Reynella in SA are known as the wineflies.

There's also a team down here known as the "Bushpigs", but I can't remember which one.


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'...and we won't give up, till the premiership cup is safely in our hands...'

 

[mud n blood]

ha ha ha .... sounds like the ladies team for a few clubs I used to play against .... ha ha ha