Port fan injured at MCG

[AlfAndrews]

A visiting Port Adelaide supporter is in a satisfactory condition after being run over by a tyre outside the MCG today after the match with Hawthorn. It is believed that the tyre came from one of the wheels of the Hawthorn bandwagon, which apparently have fallen off.

 

[play on]

Originally posted by AlfAndrews
A visiting Port Adelaide supporter is in a satisfactory condition after being run over by a tyre outside the MCG today after the match with Hawthorn. It is believed that the tyre came from one of the wheels of the Hawthorn bandwagon, which apparently have fallen off.

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Play on says the umpire
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[Macca19]

Originally posted by AlfAndrews
A visiting Port Adelaide supporter is in a satisfactory condition after being run over by a tyre outside the MCG today after the match with Hawthorn. It is believed that the tyre came from one of the wheels of the Hawthorn bandwagon, which apparently have fallen off.

very clever Alfy, very clever

 

[dee_girl9]

Originally posted by AlfAndrews
A visiting Port Adelaide supporter is in a satisfactory condition after being run over by a tyre outside the MCG today after the match with Hawthorn. It is believed that the tyre came from one of the wheels of the Hawthorn bandwagon, which apparently have fallen off.

good one alf. u know i actually thought it was a serious post. good on me

DOH!

 

[CJ]

HAHAHAHAHAHA. Good call Alf!

 

[Chris_23]

Yeah, it really sucks being 8-2........

 

[Michael23]

yEAH OUT OF THE 8 WINS CARLTON IS ONLY GOOD TEAM HAWTHORN HAS BEATEN...GET REAL CHRIS YOUR TEAM IS USELESS WITHOUT CRAWFORD AND CHICK...

 

[SS11]

LOL pisser

 

[orion]

The Hapless Hawks will be searching long and hard through the excuse book this week ...they have used just about every one so far but am sure they will be creative in there approach and may even use ..."the umpy's are against us " and once again what a feeble crowd attendance at the G ....gee, you Hapless Hawks you guys are slipping real bad

 

[Grendel]

Hey, i just realised, the Umps are against us.

Oops, no hold on a sec, i knew that all along.

Btw Alf, show me where the Hawks fans on this site have been bandwagoning? For the most part i reckon that most posts ive read from Hawks supporters have had us in a state of (pleasant) surprise that the season started so well. Were still along way ahead of where id thought we would be at this stage, and equal top three on percentage difference only? Yea, not bad for a three wheeler!

 

[AlfAndrews]

Hi Grendel,

I must say this. With a few notable exceptions, most of you Hawk fans on this site are OK.

But I was at the game yesterday and when I arrived at the ground I noticed that 95% of the people going in were wearing the brown and gold (scarves, footy jumpers etc) as you'd expect at a Hawthorn-Port match in Melbourne.

At the end of the match, as I was leaving the ground, I looked around and noticed that people in Port colours actually outnumbered the people in Hawthorn colours. The vast majority of people leaving the ground did not appear to be wearing the colours of either team.

Why is it so, I asked myself.

How could there be so many people in Hawk colours going in ... and so few coming out? Obviously a lot of them had gone home early ... surely the cardinal sin for a football barracker ... but I guess you get wimps like that at all clubs.

But what about these vast colourless hordes? I wasn't wearing either team's colours, I know, but that's understandable because I barrack for Collingwood. But surely there couldn't have been a large neutral contingent at this game. There were only 28,000 there for God's sake.

The only conclusion I can form is that there must have been a lot of people who wore brown and gold scarves going into the ground but were too ashamed to wear them coming out of the ground ... another cardinal sin for a football fan.

Three-wheeler, you reckon?

I think you'd better start taking unicycling lessons, Grendel.

 

[Grendel]

LOL Alf. you probably wont believe me, but i used to OWN a unicycle!

Tried for a year to learn to ride the damn thing too! Talk about hard on your upper legs!

I get your point about the lack of colour. However i think you pretty much answered it yourself. Dont think there would have been that many to keen to display it after yesterdays performance (weak). But again as you stated, all clubs have them.

Unicycle, god id fogotten about! lol

Cheers. still lol

 

[RogerC]

I was there until the end. And I stood there for a while afterwards, too, shellshocked. As one of the guys near me noted, if that was Carlton, they would have booed the team off the ground. Along with a few other clubs that spring to mind. At least we don't do that. And until we do, I wouldn't be calling us bandwaggoners.

Our fanaticism hasn't reached the mentally deranged heights of Collingwood or Richmond yet. (I mean that as a compliment - there a few things more inspiring to watch than a Pies or Tigers revival in front of a packed MCG) But there a still a good number of us who would bleed for the club.

Mind you, that last quarter wasn't a pretty sight. I wish a few of the players would bleed for the club a bit.

We used to have a saying we'd yell out in 97 or 98, when the team looked and played like something out of a Mack Sennett comedy. "Come on Hawthorn, play properly." Might be time to dust that one off again.

 

[Hawkforce]

Originally posted by Winny Blues
and once again what a feeble crowd attendance at the G ....

Assuming by your name that you are a carlton supporter.

The crowd was almost the same as the one Carlton pulled against Geelong at the same ground a few weeks ago.

 

[WCE2000]

Great call Alf, likened to a TigerTank post that one.

 

[redandwhiteonline]

Originally posted by AlfAndrews
But I was at the game yesterday and when I arrived at the ground I noticed that 95% of the people going in were wearing the brown and gold (scarves, footy jumpers etc) as you'd expect at a Hawthorn-Port match in Melbourne.

At the end of the match, as I was leaving the ground, I looked around and noticed that people in Port colours actually outnumbered the people in Hawthorn colours. The vast majority of people leaving the ground did not appear to be wearing the colours of either team.

Well Alf, I was at Colonial the day after, at the 20 minute mark of the final quarter, surveying the Magpie crowd as to whether they were wearing their scarves etc. Problem was they had already left!

Do we really have to put up with Richmond and Collingwood people throwing this crap around about bandwagon jumping? How many Pies 'fans' came out early last year, only to jump off just as quickly?

 

[GOALden Hawk]

Feeble crowd???? What the hell are you talking about Winnie Blues? Carlton v Geelong only drew that many a couple of weeks ago....and I didn't happen to notice your pathetic 19,000 at Optus Oval against West Coast... we managed more supporters than that 2 weeks ago.

The game was a dreadful display..I don't think I've ever seen a more one-sided midfield contest. Primus did as he liked and the Port midfield had a picnic.

I stayed til the end, as I do every week. I don't think the bandwagon is falling at all, we are still 8-2, and that's the same as Essendon, Port and better than anyone else in the competition.

Still a few things the Hawks have to do if they are to get back to where they were a few weeks ago:

1. Drop Brett O'Farrell- Big, slow, dud. Simple as that. If Rehn isn't fit next week (he'd better be, we are playing the team with the All-Australian ruckmen) give Loats a go.

2. Don't just concede the midfield - I know we don't have Chick, Crawford and Rehn, but giving the ball to Port and just hoping to counterattack was never going to work. The game plan was way too defensive, I thought Ken Judge was coaching at one stage, as no player (Hay excepted) was willing to run and take on the Power.

3. Put Brett Johnson in the centre - For God's sake, he's been our best midfielder 3 weeks in a row, yet Schwab leaves on the bench or forward pocket most of the game.

4. Get an in-and-under midfielder in the side - Our effective tackes and hard ball gets on Saturday would have been less than 10...Rocky or Vanders should be in the side, especially with Chick and Crawf out.

Anyway, we've got a 2 week break coming up (Geelong then the bye) so that should get us back into shape

 

[elt]

Originally posted by AlfAndrews
A visiting Port Adelaide supporter is in a satisfactory condition after being run over by a tyre outside the MCG today after the match with Hawthorn. It is believed that the tyre came from one of the wheels of the Hawthorn bandwagon, which apparently have fallen off.

Whilst I haven't seen too many rash predictions from Hawks supporters on here still very amusing Alf

 

[AlfAndrews]

Originally posted by redandwhiteonline

Well Alf, I was at Colonial the day after, at the 20 minute mark of the final quarter, surveying the Magpie crowd as to whether they were wearing their scarves etc. Problem was they had already left!

I must admit, I cringed when I saw some of our people walking out. Especially after my comments the day before about Hawthorn supporters. I can assure you I wasn't one of those that left early ... and yes, I wore my scarf ... BOTH of my scarves ... all the way home on the tram. I always do ... win, lose or draw.

There was a pretty big crowd yesterday, and obviously a lot of them were part-time Pie barrackers who've jumped on board after a couple of wins. They won't be there next week. And good riddance, I reckon.

I should have known, when I posted this topic, that it would come back to haunt me. I'm just a bit embarrassed that it happened so soon.

 

[dees01]

Credit where credit is due, that was a good post Alf.

 

[Port Adelaide 1870]

Alf,

Good to see you still go and watch Port...old habits..and passions..hard to break ..huh?

PA1870

 

[AlfAndrews]

Yeah, PA1870

They don't seem to play over here very much, but it was nice to get along there and make a few gorilla noises.

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