Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 30

[RussellEbertHandball]

Having a stinker tonight, contract pressure getting to him.

Probably the stuff Caro dropped on him Tuesday night with her usual - I believe - re the crows and Walker, probably has meant he isn't fully tuned in to play tonight.

 

[GremioPower]

A win against Melbourne, and we leapfrog Dees, Saints, and Swans. Since Carlton won't lose in Perth, we would be tied with them and Essendon (10th in pts, but 12th due %).

A loss would feel like a missed opportunity. Worse, we would be practically three wins away from the Top-8 (2 in pts, but our % is pornographic), with only 10 games still to play.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

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I'm becoming Kenny umpire

 

[It Just Is]

$1 BILLION for a stadium in a poor state will kill it.

You’d think Tasmania is Gaza the way it’s talked about.

Their annual budget is just under $10b so over a ten year period we are talking about 1-1.5% of state government expenditure. They just gave away the $300m-odd cost of the roof in household energy rebates.

 

[Alyx]

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[davesnothere]

Yes, it's expensive, but we also had people sooking at the Adelaide Oval upgrade and it's completely revitalised the city.

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the government who kiboshed Tassie's AFL side over a measly billion dollars. I know it sounds like i'm being flippant but having an AFL side and the boost to the surrounding area in the heart of Hobart will be massive and this might be a one time deal. Tassie is the slowest growing state in the country, they might not get another chance.

Don't mess it up. It doesn't need to have a financial ROI. It's a cultural investment.

Polling suggests hung parliament with Labor needing the help of independents at the very best. Likely to need the Greens though.

It’s screwed.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

A win against Melbourne, and we leapfrog Dees, Saints, and Swans. Since Carlton won't lose in Perth, we would be tied with them and Essendon (10th in pts, but 12th due %).

A loss would feel like a missed opportunity. Worse, we would be practically three wins away from the Top-8 (2 in pts, but our % is pornographic), with only 10 games still to play.

The win is very important for the trading team to save face. It feels like a sliding doors moment for the value of the first rounder we traded out.

 

[bomberclifford]

I don't remember that episode of Roseanne.

 

[chiwigi]

You’d think Tasmania is Gaza the way it’s talked about.

Their annual budget is just under $10b so over a ten year period we are talking about 1-1.5% of state government expenditure. They just gave away the $300m-odd cost of the roof in household energy rebates.

Just add an AirBnB tax over there and they probably not have to touch the budget.

 

[afl2004]

 

[Jonts]

Ross lyon blowing up at a journalist that doesn't have all the numbers in front of them about the crowd aside

20k is a horrible Thursday night for not in the rain

There would be shitty chat gpt tarps at Adelaide oval pictures everywhere if port ever posted 20k

 

[Grave Danger]

grok seems a bit coinfused with this...

 

[Interstater]

Such a shame the Crows will not be playing here...

I have some teal shit to wrap ours in, but people may take it as an insult to the Daniher family.

 

[Lagooner]

(2 in pts, but our % is pornographic)

Pornographic percentage is big percentage.

We have monastic percentage. Under the spiritual guidance of the Dapto Lama we have renounced goal kicking in virtuous pursuit of being good humans.

 

[Festerz]

Yes, it's expensive, but we also had people sooking at the Adelaide Oval upgrade and it's completely revitalised the city.

That was the redevelopment of an existing long established sports stadium set aside in parklands for sporting use in Adelaide’s early development. Where football and cricket had co-existed for decades before the SANFL/cricket establishment spat that saw footy shift to West Lakes. The redevelopment simply brought footy and AFL back where it should always have been on a naval recognised as one of the world’s best international cricket venues. And a redevelopment for 55k spectators that in a city with a population of 1 million people and 2 existing AFL sides offered up a huge range of alternative options as an entertainment venue.

The case for the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval into the state's premier outdoor AFL, sporting and entertainment venue was clear as day. Feck, were it not for the fact that the bloody crows had established infrastructure at West Lakes that their establishment felt gave them a sponsorship, financial and playing advantage over Port Adelaide - to the point of potentially bankrupting us, the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval as the home of SA AFL footy would have been unopposed.

The Hobart AFL Stadium proposal is a brownfields development with a maximum capacity of just 23k at a cost of $1 billion and rising on a public site in a city with a population of just 250k that has multiple alternative uses including as a state of the art public hospital for all people in Hobart. And the majority of Tasmanians do not want a stadium there at the price and configuration the AFL is demanding.

I don’t know why people keep conflating the two. They’re totally different propositions - politically, operationally, economically and most of all - in terms of their underlying business case and public support.

Not to mention the fact that with the Adelaide Oval redevelopment Andrew Demetriou did not insist (as Gil and his Dil have insisted with Hobart) THAT IT HAVE A BLOODY ROOF adding $200m plus to the cost (funded by taxpayers of course).


/rant

(perhaps we need to send Port tragic and former SA Treasurer Kevin Foley over to Tasmania to teach the Tasmanian MPs how to negotiate with AFL House?)

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

Chad Wingard

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Chad Wingard

Age

32

Ht

183cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

11.0

4star

HB

7.3

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

2.9

4star

G

1.5

5star

No current season stats available

D

10.2

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

5.6

4star

M

1.6

2star

T

2.0

4star

G

0.2

3star

on that McDonalds interview with Campbell Brown

Campbell Brown

Age

42

Ht

179cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.1

4star

K

8.9

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

5.0

5star

T

2.0

4star

G

0.5

3star

No current season stats available

D

11.8

3star

K

6.4

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.8

4star

, and Browny said he played under three coaches (Hinkley, Clarko, Mitchell)

He actually played under 4 coaches since in he was there in 2012 under Primus.

 

[Steve Dore]

Chad Wingard on that McDonalds interview with Campbell Brown, and Browny said he played under three coaches (Hinkley, Clarko, Mitchell)

He actually played under 4 coaches since in he was there in 2012 under Primus.

Are you saying that Chad Wingard can't "remember 2012"?

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

Are you saying that Chad Wingard can't "remember 2012"?

Campbell Brown obviously doesn’t.

 

[Jojay]

Looks pretty crisp down in tassie

 

[Ford Fairlane]

And a high free to Adelaide

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Looks pretty crisp down in tassie

Saying on the radio will get down to zero. Looks close already

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Rankine's hamstrings will be crying

 

[JimmyBC]

No surprise that soft **** Rachele is wearing longsleeves

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Play in front against Adelaide and be prepared to be pushed in the back

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Oh ffs