Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 5 - Cont. in Part 6

[Power Girl]

I could sit and listen to Tim Ginever's stories for hours on end. He just epitomises Port Adelaide to me.

I remember when I was a young girl after a game (now I can't remember if it was someone being interviewed on the tv or it was talkback radio) but this older woman was gnashing her teeth about Timmy and wanting to smash his teeth in and wipe that smile off his smug face. Tim was really the poster boy for our wins and rubbing the opposition supporters faces in it without meaning to of course.

 

[DaTBird187]

Maybe I'm in the minority but I reckon Garry is a decent analyst of the game and also one of the rare ex footballers who can actually string a proper sentence together.

Gary Lyon is a total ****wit ****head ******* campaigner ****campaigner

 

[Nemisis]

Yep. If you have ever seen a Hospital Research Foundation Home Lottery ad, you would have heard about the beautiful home built by this person.

scotty salisbury was a decent footballer as well as being the dirtiest player i have seen.

 

[chiwigi]

Number 32 is just a crap number to be the ‘Marquee’ number at a club.

Surely anything over 18 can’t be considered as such.

 

[chiwigi]

Mr northern suburb got out-threatened...

I miss the thuggery in sport, not the stupid hit from behind or when someone isn’t watching stuff, but the ‘I’m going to make you my bitch’ stuff.

 

[Grave Danger]

I miss the thuggery in sport, not the stupid hit from behind or when someone isn’t watching stuff, but the ‘I’m going to make you my bitch’ stuff.

What would that hit on Ando get in today's AFL? Suppose it still depends what club the culprit/victim plays for.

 

[chiwigi]

What would that hit on Ando get in today's AFL? Suppose it still depends what club the culprit/victim plays for.

Nah, not that crap. I mean the face up fights and the ‘touch him and die’ type stuff. Shirt fronting, enforcing, blow ups etc.
Hockey maintains some, but it’s even gone from rugby now (a game that is 80 percent intimidation). It’s a bit backwards that them being highly paid professionals put an end to it all, you’d think worrying that you had to be back at work on Monday with very little health cover would have been a bigger deterrent.

 

[finbarr]

Number 32 is just a crap number to be the ‘Marquee’ number at a club.

Surely anything over 18 can’t be considered as such.

Chad Cornes was a pretty good #35.

 

[chiwigi]

Chad Cornes was a pretty good #35.

I get that, great players can wear high numbers if they never change, but handing the late numbers down seems strange.

I guess I grew up when soccer, league and union had positional numbers, therefore anything higher than 11,13 or 15 was seen as a disgrace.

I played right back, prop/second row and hooker....so always had 2 on my back, no matter the sport .

Was probably self fulfilling.

 

[finbarr]

I get that, great players can wear high numbers if they never change, but handing the late numbers down seems strange.

I guess I grew up when soccer, league and union had positional numbers, therefore anything higher than 11,13 or 15 was seen as a disgrace.

I played right back, prop and hooker....so always had 2 on my back, no matter the sport .

Was probably self fulfilling,

Yeah, the whole AFL number obsession is a bit weird. Like the 50 metre arc’s that mean absolutely nothing.

 

[5107power]

I believe the builder Power Girl is referring to owns a company that builds homes which are the "the definition of excellence" and uses subbies that employ the likes of Mark Naley.

Do they build these quality homes in suburbs like Salisbury?[emoji6]

(Sorry about the poor humour)

 

[GremioPower]

Nah, not that crap. I mean the face up fights and the ‘touch him and die’ type stuff. Shirt fronting, enforcing, blow ups etc.
Hockey maintains some, but it’s even gone from rugby now (a game that is 80 percent intimidation). It’s a bit backwards that them being highly paid professionals put an end to it all, you’d think worrying that you had to be back at work on Monday with very little health cover would have been a bigger deterrent.

Talking shit, trying to get into the opponents skin, driving them mad... Yeah. I think its part of competing.

 

[GremioPower]

I get that, great players can wear high numbers if they never change, but handing the late numbers down seems strange.

I guess I grew up when soccer, league and union had positional numbers, therefore anything higher than 11,13 or 15 was seen as a disgrace.

I played right back, prop/second row and hooker....so always had 2 on my back, no matter the sport .

Was probably self fulfilling.

Soccer positional numbers change from country to country, as weird as it may sound.

Today's most common formation is 4-5-1 (it was 4-3-3 when I was a kid, then 4-4-2 — although midfield would be distinct in different places: line, Europe; diamond, Argentina; square, Brazil; etc), so in Brazil, in a 4-5-1, numbers would be:

FW: 9
OM: 11-10-7
DM: 8-5
D: 6-4-3-2
GK: 1

 

[240volt]

He did.

I believe he has a serious health problem these days, brain related I think. A mate of mine used to work for him doing gyprocking.

Used to play out of his skin in state games.

 

[240volt]

Gary Lyon is a total ******* ****head ******* campaigner ****campaigner

So you don't like him?

 

[Alyx]

I wasn't sure where to post this, if at all:

Former Port footballer Daniel Motlop who owns Something Wild to teach cooking with native ingredients

NATIVE food is just as important as football for former Port Adelaide player, Daniel Motlop.

When he was a child he would hunt magpie geese, one of the reasons why he became a part owner in small business Something Wild, which specialises in harvesting bushtucker.

He will share his knowledge of game meats, greens, native foods and indigenous culture at Scoffed Cooking School in St Morris on Friday.

Full article: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messe...s/news-story/55f9b4d5fcddc4ac89cf8f89e9fd2c3b

 

[Steve Dore]

I wasn't sure where to post this, if at all:


Full article: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messe...s/news-story/55f9b4d5fcddc4ac89cf8f89e9fd2c3b

I saw that this morning and was going to post it in this Club 1870 thread but haven't got around to it yet.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I get that, great players can wear high numbers if they never change, but handing the late numbers down seems strange.

I guess I grew up when soccer, league and union had positional numbers, therefore anything higher than 11,13 or 15 was seen as a disgrace.

I played right back, prop/second row and hooker....so always had 2 on my back, no matter the sport .

Was probably self fulfilling.

You have a squad of 44 so half the squad has to have a number after 22 and a fair chance plenty of champions have high numbers and those numbers mean something to fans of that club and young players want that number.

#29 Brent Harvey 432 games, Kevin Bartlett 403 games and Matthew Pavlich 353 games. Pav was a bit stiff.
#31 Dustin Fletcher 400 games
#44 Justin Madden and Corey Enright 332 games and the great Johnny Platten wore it 258 times for the Hawks and over 100 games at Centrals.
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/numbers.html

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I wasn't sure where to post this, if at all:


Full article: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messe...s/news-story/55f9b4d5fcddc4ac89cf8f89e9fd2c3b

I posted something on this earlier this year when ABC Landline did a story on Something Wild and other bush tucker from NT. The Motlops got a run in the story. One of items discussed was the Green Ant Gin and the Motlops are involved in this business and I got this twitter alert yesterday from Daniel

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Now I feel bad for insinuating he was a bit vanilla. He just wasn't the stereotypical footballer is all. He was fine. Very polite and didn't complain. Kept his beer and keys tidy at the bar, no beer rings. I'll stop talking now.

I met Mark Naley a couple of times through a mutual friend. He was a pleasant guy but he always gave me the impression he was thinking about something else ... or nothing at all.

 

[Magus]

The Crows had the seventh oldest group in 2017 but have rocketed to the top through the recruitment of midfielders Sam Gibson, 31, and Bryce Gibbs, 28, and two mature-age rookies.

It has lifted their average age as of round one next season to 24 years and 192 days, ahead of Hawthorn (24 and 179), Collingwood (24 and 98), Geelong (24 and 95) and Greater Western Sydney (24 and 16).



Addition of veterans makes the Crows' list the oldest in the land

http://m.afl.com.au/news/2017-11-30/adelaides-2018-list-is-one-for-the-ages

 

[Power Girl]

Bwice has the face that was born to be in that polo.

 

[Magus]

Bwice has the face that was born to be in that polo.

I thought he had a rude head on him before. Those colours certainly don't help.

Also how bad is the cut of those polos? Looks like they have man boobies.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

The Crows had the seventh oldest group in 2017 but have rocketed to the top through the recruitment of midfielders Sam Gibson, 31, and Bryce Gibbs, 28, and two mature-age rookies.

It has lifted their average age as of round one next season to 24 years and 192 days, ahead of Hawthorn (24 and 179), Collingwood (24 and 98), Geelong (24 and 95) and Greater Western Sydney (24 and 16).

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Addition of veterans makes the Crows' list the oldest in the land

http://m.afl.com.au/news/2017-11-30/adelaides-2018-list-is-one-for-the-ages

Fake news according to some crows supporters when I posted this.

 

[El Zorro]

Fake news according to some crows supporters when I posted this.

Why would you challenge facts that can be checked so easily? Clueless.