Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 16

[philreich]

If Richmond and Geelong get through to the grand final, watch the VFL media carry on about the game being a reward for Victorians after such a tough year. And the winner will be stated to have won the hardest premiership ever. If Port or Brisbane win, it'll be an asterisk.

Gotta love the Victorian media - if Port goes all the way, I can totally imagine Tom Jonas on the dias saying, "We would have preferred to have won the flag in better circumstances, but I guess beggars can't be choosers."

 

[Jojay]

I don't think I'd watch a Richmond-Geelong GF.

Yep. Bring on trade week.

 

[GoPorts]

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Big expectations for the suns.
Finished 14th in their breakout season with 1 win and a draw in the last 10 rounds

 

[Del165198]

Big expectations for the suns.
Finished 14th in their breakout season with 1 win and a draw in the last 10 rounds

Every year they start out looking half decent for a few rounds before falling to pieces.. apparently this year is different though, maybe because they had 5 rounds less to rack up losses?

 

[Steve Dore]

Big expectations for the suns.
Finished 14th in their breakout season with 1 win and a draw in the last 10 rounds

Isn't the breakout season a reference to Dew's waistline?

 

[OneGreatClub]

Passive aggressive

 

[Duck Farmer]

if its geelong vs richmond i will hope for a covid outbreak to stop the game

Caused by the imported MCG turf ftw.

 

[Memphis]

If Richmond and Geelong get through to the GF, I won't know what the VFL are saying. I will have ceased interest in any football news for the year, (except what comes out of our club).

Victoria owns the AFL like Juve owns the serie a.

 

[gbear]

Passive aggressive

PR campaign by Richmond in full swing. Lynch is a thug no matter how you spin it!

 

[Enviable Tradition]

PR campaign by Richmond in full swing. Lynch is a thug no matter how you spin it!

Hes not even a thug.

Hes a cheap shot merchant.

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[Schulzenfest]

Hes not even a thug.

Hes a cheap shot merchant.

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Yeah. A thug might occasionally hit somebody from the front. Not Tommy Lynch.

 

[pastmyprimus]

Torquay calling: Boak's plan to come home, post Port Adelaide

A few quotes from an Age article. Boak will have our 100% blessing and eternal thanks if that's his final decision.

At some point after 2022, the Torquay Football and Netball Club is short odds to accomplish what Geelong's Cats and nine other Victorian AFL clubs couldn't: to get Travis Boak back.

Boak, a cornerstone of Port Adelaide's premiership campaign and of the club's revival from the dire days of 2012, wishes to emulate his late father by playing senior football for Roger Boak's club, Torquay, where Travis also played his junior footy.

"I still have a dream of playing for Torquay one day,'' said Boak, an All-Australian for the third time in 2020. "I want to get back there at some stage.''

Boak's father played more than 200 games for Torquay, while his mother Chicki was a stalwart - "legends'' was the word Travis used for both parents at Torquay FNC - of the netball division of one of the power clubs in the Bellarine League.

Torquay calling: Boak's plan to come home, post Port Adelaide

At some point after 2022, the Torquay Football and Netball Club is short odds to accomplish what Geelong's Cats and nine other Victorian AFL clubs couldn't: to get Travis Boak back.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Stryke]

I don't think anyone would begrudge Boaky heading home to play for Torquay for a few seasons after he has retired. He has earned that!

But I want him back at Port again at some point!

 

[Smartys Power]

I don't think anyone would begrudge Boaky heading home to play for Torquay for a few seasons after he has retired. He has earned that!

But I want him back at Port again at some point!

Exactly. Go play local footy for a few years while you’re still young. Retire from that, then come back to Alberton.

 

[wannabejack]

Exactly. Go play local footy for a few years while you’re still young. Retire from that, then come back to Alberton.

Or at least come back to Alberton for the annual 2020 premiership reunion

 

[NoddyHolder]

This is interesting

Heritier Lumumba sues the AFL, Collingwood for 'failing to protect him from racism'

Heritier Lumumba launches a legal claim saying Collingwood failed to protect him from racial abuse or racially-offensive conduct during his time at the AFL club.

www.abc.net.au

Heritier Lumumba is suing Collingwood and the AFL over racist abuse he was allegedly subjected to during his playing days, claiming he suffered trauma, humiliation, distress and loss of enjoyment.



I wonder how proud Eddie is

 

[Ray Nolan]

Boak will end up as our roving ambassador in Victoria, which will be very handy for the club in the long run.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

GF forecast 24/10 Brisbane: 24 degrees and rain.

 

[NoddyHolder]

GF forecast 24/10 Brisbane: 24 degrees and rain.

Ports into the GF confirmed

 

[Festerz]

I wonder how proud Eddie is

It will give him the chance to repeat the line uttered by his predecessor Allan McAlister (another anti-Port flog) , the last time Collingwood was caught out racially vilifying a player:

''As long as they conduct themselves like white people, well, off the field, everyone will admire and respect … As long as they conduct themselves like human beings, they will be all right. That's the key.''

 

[Del80659]

Collingwood aren't racist, they just believe white people are better than everyone else

 

[dav3]

It looks like the Crows are trying to move back in with Mommy and Daddy in their new house, probably explains the Olsen appointment.

The Crows should join the SANFL and the Adelaide Footy League in a shared facility based at Thebarton Oval, the boss of the state’s amateur league says.

The Adelaide Football Club this week declared relocating its home base from West Lakes to new headquarters “close to or in the CBD” was a key priority under incoming chairman John Olsen.

The Crows previously shelved plans for a new facility on the site of the Adelaide City Council-owned North Adelaide Aquatic Centre, but it’s understood the club wants to capitalise on a promised $15 million federal relocation grant that it’s understood remains on the table.

Other sites likely to attract interest include the Adelaide Showground and SANFL’s new home at West Torrens council-owned Thebarton Oval, with the state league recently taking over the lease from the Adelaide Footy League, and set to build a new base with the help of $6 million in federal funding.

But Adelaide Footy League CEO John Kernahan, says there remains ample space at the facility for the Crows to become a co-tenant – a move he says will help unite the amateur and state leagues with the Crows, whom Olsen this week emphasised “came from the eight SANFL clubs”.

 

[Festerz]

It looks like the Crows are trying to move back in with Mommy and Daddy in their new house, probably explains the Olsen appointment.

I actually think that moving into Thebby Oval makes a heck of a lot of sense and don't know why they didn't make it their objective in the first place.

 

[chiwigi]

It looks like the Crows are trying to move back in with Mommy and Daddy in their new house, probably explains the Olsen appointment.

“Keeping in mind there’s a third party to this, being the SANFL – they’d need to be a willing participant as well, but it’s certainly not anything we’d object to,” he said.

Lies! There's no 3rd Party.

 

[Port 2004]

I actually think that moving into Thebby Oval makes a heck of a lot of sense and don't know why they didn't make it their objective in the first place.

No toffy enough for them. They would want an Unley or Norwood address.