Strategy Potential Defence Forces Partnerships

[RussellEbertHandball]

I recall that BaE were our defence forces sponsor for ANZAC Round 2014 when we beat Geelong convincingly.

Yeah their CEO gave a speech at the pre match function for ANZAC Rd game.

The club courts the defence contractors in SA and those set up in the Le Fevre Peninsula and whilst they don't sponsor the club like DCNS, the corporate guys deal with them and sell them those 10 and 12 seat boxes.

The fact BAE takes over completely from ASC is a good thing and means there will be plenty of sub and frigate contractors set up at Osborne and the club must chase them for different levels of corporate hospitality and sponsorship packages. This will be like Mr Gui and the China stuff. It will provide a 20 to 50 year partnership opportunity. If we get an AFLW team I can see BAE and others jumping on board for higher branding opportunities than they currently have with the club.

 

[OneGreatClub]

I like it
The regeneration of the Port synchronised with the regeneration of Port.

 

[xflamedancer]

Production on the ships starts in 2020 which is Port Adelaide's 150 year anniversary.

The ABC news site used this photo supplied by the ADF ... could the conclusion drawn from this imagery be any more obvious?

Just as an aside that particular ship has been sitting in dry dock at BAE Henderson for at least 18 months now getting a refit.

 

[raptalia]

Ironically that particular ship is the HMAS Anzac. It is that class of ship that will be replaced by the BAE Hunter class.

 

[Contested Marx]

Production on the ships starts in 2020 which is Port Adelaide's 150 year anniversary.

The ABC news site used this photo supplied by the ADF ... could the conclusion drawn from this imagery be any more obvious?

More like to do with our wins with poor Inside 50 differential?

 

[rogerjames]

That's all he ever does.

Still waiting fot the lights

 

[TheFVK]

Production on the ships starts in 2020 which is Port Adelaide's 150 year anniversary.

The ABC news site used this photo supplied by the ADF ... could the conclusion drawn from this imagery be any more obvious?

silver away guernsey confirmed

 

[OneGreatClub]

The imagery

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Duck Farmer]

 

[Smithy7]

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Geez .. Tugboat Yelta .. was working the Port River when I was in shipping office there ..

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Keith Thomas:

“Our partnership with the defence force is growing year by year and we are very proud.

“It consolidates a lot of the work we have done including the ANZAC challenge and our programs that are designed to help defence force families.

“It’s a recognition of the defence force, the Port Adelaide Football Club and being in our heartland. We’re thrilled to be consolidating what we have done for many years.

“This is an ongoing partnership that is being formalised today.”

https://www.fiveaa.com.au/sport/Port-Adelaide-Has-Announced-A-Joint-Strategic-Partnership

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

That's HMAS Adelaide, biggest ship in the Navy's fleet, is in town for a few days. Its massive, at 230m long.

Wow we are finally getting on board with the Navy. I said to Steve Olech back in 2011, as we were trying to find new supporters and improve our media reach for potential sponsors, that we should pursue the Navy and do stuff with them, given we are a Port team and many naval boats have gone thru the Port as well as been based there over the last 150 years. Make Port a defacto navy team and do stuff with them, so that navy personnel have us as their second team, if they dont barrack for us.

I remember talking to Eddie Dingle about this, as he is ex navy. Figured he could be the club's liaison officer with the RAN, given how well he got on with them.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Kenny did his presser from HMAS Adelaide

 

[TheFVK]

Love this, a very natural fit.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/n...partnership-with-the-australian-defence-force

THE PORT ADELAIDE Football Club has announced a new strategic partnership with the Australian Defence Force (ADF), formalising a long-standing relationship between the organisations.

The Power will for the eleventh year in a row host a game at home in the AFL’s ANZAC Round, which features a curtain raiser which pits the Australian Defence Force Australian Rules All-Stars men’s team against the Australian Combined Emergency Service. The game is part of a significant commitment to the ADF by Port Adelaide, which also runs community programs for ADF personnel and their families including The Power to be Positive, aimed at teaching wellbeing and resilience to children of those who serve the nation and are often forced to relocate frequently. As well as the program, ADF families are invited to an annual Family Event along with the opportunity to attend the ANZAC Round game at Adelaide Oval to meet players and form the guard of honour on the field.

The formalised partnership between the organisations was announced during a signing ceremony on Friday, onboard the flight deck of the HMAS Adelaide, which is docked at Outer Harbour. “We’re here to consolidate a relationship that has been very strong for eleven years between the ADF and the Port Adelaide Football Club,” Port Adelaide CEO Keith Thomas said. “The reason it is important to us is because increasingly ADF and all of their supply services are operating out of the Port Adelaide area and their interests are increasingly important to us. “We run programs that are designed to help families and children of ADF service people with the challenges that are unique to them, they have teams which focus on the Indigenous players in the force, women are increasingly playing so we will be supporting the football programs of the Defence Force.”

Major General Matthew Hall said the ADF and Port Adelaide connected around a mutual understanding of the ANZAC spirit. He said there was a mutual respect given the number of Port Adelaide players and staff who had served and died at war, but more than anything, having worked together for such a long time, it was time to put something in writing. “We’ve been exceptionally grateful for the long-term support of the Port Adelaide Football Club for more than a decade that’s enabled us to bring the best of our initially men’s footballers from across the Navy, Army and Air Force to Adelaide to play on a major oval as a curtain raiser to whatever Port Adelaide’s ANZAC Round commitment is that year,” he said. “We’ve been exceptionally well supported with the ability to train at Alberton Oval and use the facilities and support staff, Power Community Limited has been exceptional in allowing our serving members an opportunity they otherwise wouldn’t get. “We’ve been doing that, but now it’s been expanded, and as it’s become more complex… we think it’s now appropriate that we show and demonstrate that what we’ve got together is something very common but also very supportive of each other.

“We like that and we wanted to formalise it fully.” The Australian Defence Force Australian Rules (ADFAR) encourages and promotes Australian Rules Football among ADF members and provides the opportunity for service men and women to participate at all competition levels. Their programs include men’s and women’s interservice competition, best of ADF All Stars, ANZAC Cup competitions, Indigenous football development, and wheelchair ‘Aussie Rules’ for members undergoing rehabilitation and recovery from injury and illness.
As part of the new agreement, ADF All-Stars will continue to get access to the Alberton Oval training facilities, staff and Port Adelaide players during the AFL ANZAC Round commemorative week, while the football club will support the ADFAR’s indigenous, women’s and other diversity programs, as well as its wheelchair AFL programs, which are designed to support recovery and rehabilitation from injury and illness for ADF personnel and veterans. The Port Adelaide logo will feature on the shorts of the ADF All-Stars during the ANZAC Challenge, and ADFAR players and officials will be available to the club for leadership and team development work with Power and Magpies players.
https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/n...partnership-with-the-australian-defence-force

GremioPower this is why Port are heavily linked to the wheelchair footy carnival.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Major General Matthew Hall with Ken and KT. I met Major General Hall at the 2014 pregame for the ANZAC round when Lockhart Road's 9RAR colleagues presented the Peter Chant medals.

He gave me his business card. He was based in Canberra at the time. He was based in information or intelligence section - think the Strategic Policy and Intelligence Group.

Pretty sure his father is John Hall who played in the 1954 premiership. (Might be his uncle, as we talked about his family history).

 

[Us against the rest]

Fantastic for the Port districts and the club.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Its been a good 5 years for Matthew Hall - he has been promoted from Brigadier to Major General. His business card said Director General Intelligence (J2) - Headquarters Joint Operations Command. This is basically the ADF personnel that have command and control of ADF operations worldwide.

A bit of digging around I found he is now, since 2017 appointment, Director of Defence Intelligence Organisation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Intelligence_Organisation

When I first saw the tweet I thought we were doing specific stuff with the navy but its the whole defence force partnership.

Makes sense it was done today, photo opportunity with HMAS Adelaide being in town for 4 days, close to ANZAC day, and the national wheelchair footy carnival being in town, and we have obviously done stuff to help out the ADF team that is competing in the championships.

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

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Major General Matthew Hall with Ken and KT. I met Major General Hall at the 2014 pregame for the ANZAC round when Lockhart Road's 9RAR colleagues presented the Peter Chant medals.

He gave me his business card. He was based in Canberra at the time. He was based in information or intelligence section - think the Strategic Policy and Intelligence Group.

Pretty sure his father is John Hall who played in the 1954 premiership. (Might be his uncle, as we talked about his family history).

Adopting an arms crossed profile is a purely defensive gesture.
Something Ken is not totally unfamiliar with.
I sincerely hoped they would have adopted a Crows like pre game stance.
You know I'm right.

 

[bomberclifford]

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Major General Matthew Hall with Ken and KT. I met Major General Hall at the 2014 pregame for the ANZAC round when Lockhart Road's 9RAR colleagues presented the Peter Chant medals.

He gave me his business card. He was based in Canberra at the time. He was based in information or intelligence section - think the Strategic Policy and Intelligence Group.

Pretty sure his father is John Hall who played in the 1954 premiership. (Might be his uncle, as we talked about his family history).

This is fantastic and I love that the club does this, but... geez our coach is a ******* slob.

 

[Lockhart Road]

This is fantastic and I love that the club does this, but... geez our coach is a ******* slob.

Indeed, and our CEO has lost his ability to speak in public with any fluency at all.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Indeed, and our CEO has lost his ability to speak in public with any fluency at all.

KT never was the best public speaker.

 

[raptalia]

This is fantastic and I love that the club does this, but... geez our coach is a ******* slob.

Yeah, Ken looks like he has just mowed the lawns. It is a very unprofessional look.