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KT makes a good point that now that we have a formal agreement with the ADF, ie the whole organisation, it makes it harder for AFL to not give us the ANZAC Rd as a home game when we put it in as our #1 fixture request.

So basically now the ANZAC Rd has locked in;
ANZAC eve night game Richmond v Melbourne
ANZAC day Essendon v Colingwood
Freo get their Len Hall game in Perth
Port get a home game in Adelaide.
 
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RussellEbertHandball said:
KT makes a good point that now that we have a formal agreement with the ADF, ie the whole organisation, it makes it harder for AFL to not give us the ANZAC Rd as a home game when we put it in as our #1 fixture request.

So basically now the ANZAC Rd has locked in;
ANZAC eve night game Richmond v Melbourne
ANZAC day Essendon v Colingwood
Freo get their Len Hall game in Perth
Port get a home game in Adelaide.
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We've had it 11 years in a row, it was looking close to locked in already. ;)
 

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Ford Fairlane said:
We've had it 11 years in a row, it was looking close to locked in already. ;)
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No we haven't. KT has had a lapse of memory.

We had to award the Badcoe medal in 2012 a couple of weeks early because we played Sydney at Footy Park in Rd 3 on 14th April. The infamous Cam O'Shea coming on as sub in 4th quarter and fumbling game. Josh Kennedy was awarded the medal in 2012. This article in April 2014 confirms he was one of 3 non Port recipient before the 2014 game was held = LINK

Rd 5 2012 was the official ANZAC Rd - 25th was a Wednesday and on Sunday 29th Adelaide were the home team in the showdown and the showdown medal was awarded. See schedule at
https://afltables.com/afl/seas/2012.html#5

Edit here is the story saying we are awarding it against Sydney - Port Adelaide will continue its tradition of presenting the Peter Badcoe VC Medal as part of Anzac month at this Saturday's game against Sydney.
https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2012-04-11/peter-badcoe-vc-medal-to-be-presented-on-saturday

WE talked about it on this board.
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/adelaide-clubs-want-an-anzac-showdown.936981/#post-24002707
 
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So 10 out of 11 years, hosting it every year since 2012. And the one year we didn't host it , we still played here.

As I said, looking close to locked in. ;)
 
Ford Fairlane said:
RussellEbertHandball said:
KT makes a good point that now that we have a formal agreement with the ADF, ie the whole organisation, it makes it harder for AFL to not give us the ANZAC Rd as a home game when we put it in as our #1 fixture request.

So basically now the ANZAC Rd has locked in;
ANZAC eve night game Richmond v Melbourne
ANZAC day Essendon v Colingwood
Freo get their Len Hall game in Perth
Port get a home game in Adelaide.
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So 10 out of 11 years, hosting it every year since 2012. And the one year we didn't host it , we still played here.

As I said, looking close to locked in. ;)
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It makes one wonders why KT would say something like that. I think he meant: "practically impossible to be locked out."

He has given me the impression that during those 11 years, we had to put an effort EVERY SEASON to keep the fixture. He would be expecting AFL to stop with the bullshit...
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
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.
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I like all the Heartland initiatives. Just hope we take full benefit of our global spread to China too.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
KT makes a good point that now that we have a formal agreement with the ADF, ie the whole organisation, it makes it harder for AFL to not give us the ANZAC Rd as a home game when we put it in as our #1 fixture request.

So basically now the ANZAC Rd has locked in;
ANZAC eve night game Richmond v Melbourne
ANZAC day Essendon v Colingwood
Freo get their Len Hall game in Perth
Port get a home game in Adelaide.
Click to expand...

We are also supposed to be mentoring and promoting women's footy in the Australian Defence Forces but we do not yet have an AFLW team. We seem to get * all from the AFL for all the hard yards we put in at grass roots level. One would think that our indigenous programmes, our foray into China and our links with the ADF would get us a few brownie points with the AFL but no. I would not count on the AFL for anything.

I suspect you know this but I just felt like getting into the AFL w***ers.
 
Ford Fairlane said:
So 10 out of 11 years, hosting it every year since 2012. And the one year we didn't host it , we still played here.

As I said, looking close to locked in. ;)
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I remember the AFL at the start of this decade telling us to make the NT our secondary market - do there, similar to what the Hawks were doing in Tassie. Then they reduce our away games there from 2 to 1 and when the NGA's are set up, we get nothing in the NT but 5 Vic clubs - 2 or 3 who have never played in NT and have done SFA there - get access to indigenous (and multicultural) talent there. Long memory.
 
raptalia said:
We are also supposed to be mentoring and promoting women's footy in the Australian Defence Forces but we do not yet have an AFLW team. We seem to get **** all from the AFL for all the hard yards we put in at grass roots level. One would think that our indigenous programmes, our foray into China and our links with the ADF would get us a few brownie points with the AFL but no. I would not count on the AFL for anything.

I suspect you know this but I just felt like getting into the AFL w***ers.
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The reason we do not have an AFLW side is internal priorities, not the AFL.
 

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In May some of the community team went to Malaysia and did some stuff with our defence force families based there. This is the 2nd or 3rd time they have done this visit to Malaysia. First time was in September 2016 and I'm pretty sure they have been there one more time.

Its all part of the Power To Be Positive Program - The program is primarily delivered to students whose families are working in the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Australian Defence Force 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 field





https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2019-05-28/power-to-be-positive-in-penang
During May, the Power Community team including Ross Wait, Jake Battifuoco, Alipate (Bobby) Carlile and Will Northeast travelled to Penang, Malaysia to deliver the Power to be Positive program. The program was delivered at three International schools with expat Australian students. In school, the team facilitated classroom activities on topics including fixed versus growth mindsets, mindfulness, gratitude and goal setting whilst also teaching the kids Australian Rules Football with a fun interactive clinic.

The team also delivered a resilience workshop and a Personal Training/Aussie Rules session for 120 soldiers on the RMAF Butterworth base. These soldiers had a three-month posting to Malaysia and were finding it extremely difficult during their jungle warfare training. They enjoyed experiencing AFL and having a taste of Australia with a kick and catch of the Sherrins. Bobby’s one-liners about his AFL career stole the show!

Some of the soldiers commented that in the three months they were in Malaysia, this was the best experience that they had had. The team were able to provide the soldiers Power singlets as incentives as well as some footballs to keep on base to have a kick around.

On the final night in Penang, staff held a family event for all Australian families, which included a kick and catch and a BBQ. The families loved the opportunity to meet other families that were posted over there. The gratitude shown by the ADF to the PAFC staff was incredible, and will go a long way to continuing to build the club’s relationship with the defence industry - one that as a club we are proud to have had for a long time.
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The trip was a great success and the Power to be Positive program will now be closed out on June 12th with an event at Alberton Oval for more than 150 ADF school students in years 5-12 from across 17 schools in South Australia................
https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2019-05-28/power-to-be-positive-in-penang
 
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Port Adelaide: Development wanted on another major site

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/west-beaches/port-approach-north-listed-by-renewal-sa-for-major-development/news-story/af93c56e04e5945b917746f968186cb3

Port Approach North listed by Renewal SA for major development

A 12-hectare expanse of land has been released for development in a prominent Port Adelaide spot as the revival of the Port fires up.
... Port Adelaide Enfield Mayor Claire Boan (said) there had been “lots of interest” from smaller developers wanting to get involved in Port Adelaide because it was “a great opportunity to invest”.
“We’re keen and the quick purchasing of land in the area by other developers shows developers are impressed and know it’s the place to be,” Mrs Boan said.
“We’re wanting to attract (development and business) here and with the Defence nearby as well, there are lots of opportunities and I think people are realising that.”
Starfish Development last year began work on its Dock One housing development in Port Adelaide and would also develop Port Approach South, on the other side of the expressway at a later stage.
Cedar Woods would soon begin its Fletcher’s Slip development on the other side of the Port River.


 
Ford Fairlane said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-07/chinese-warships-depart-sydney-harbour/11188084
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Hold the line on Beijing’s power posturing

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/hold-the-line-on-beijings-power-posturing/news-story/25ed88059e8fa0b994355c4999670d0a

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Illustration: Eric Lobbecke.

My criticism of the Chinese naval visit on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is not levelled at the crews of the warships; they were doing their duty. I hope they had a pleasant visit to Sydney — and, above all, were able to experience and learn how wonderful Australia is, and the importance of our democracy, including freedom of expression and association in a culturally diverse and tolerant society.
The decision to approve the visit to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre was not only insensitive but demonstrates that Beijing can dictate terms and we just acquiesce. Scott Morrison’s cabinet of groupthinkers and those responsible for the decision have sought refuge in appeasement. They were totally outmanoeuvred by Beijing.

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Stealth mission finally revealed: Chinese warships on baby milk raid

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/stealth-mission-finally-revealed-chinese-warships-on-baby-milk-raid/news-story/ead42779df37fc2f8ba546f4fc127893

When three Chinese warships steamed into Sydney Harbour on Monday morning, the conspiracy theorists were thick on the ground.
A not-so-subtle show of power at the same time as Scott Morrison was flexing his regional muscle in the Solomon Islands? A pointed political statement on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre? Or was it — just a glorified dash to the supermarket to grab some milk to take home?
On Thursday, on the eve of the ships’ departure for China, People’s Liberation Army personnel were seen loading dozens of boxes full of A2 platinum and Aptamil formula on board.

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Lockhart Road said:
Hold the line on Beijing’s power posturing

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/hold-the-line-on-beijings-power-posturing/news-story/25ed88059e8fa0b994355c4999670d0a

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Illustration: Eric Lobbecke.

My criticism of the Chinese naval visit on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is not levelled at the crews of the warships; they were doing their duty. I hope they had a pleasant visit to Sydney — and, above all, were able to experience and learn how wonderful Australia is, and the importance of our democracy, including freedom of expression and association in a culturally diverse and tolerant society.
The decision to approve the visit to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre was not only insensitive but demonstrates that Beijing can dictate terms and we just acquiesce. Scott Morrison’s cabinet of groupthinkers and those responsible for the decision have sought refuge in appeasement. They were totally outmanoeuvred by Beijing.

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Stealth mission finally revealed: Chinese warships on baby milk raid

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/stealth-mission-finally-revealed-chinese-warships-on-baby-milk-raid/news-story/ead42779df37fc2f8ba546f4fc127893

When three Chinese warships steamed into Sydney Harbour on Monday morning, the conspiracy theorists were thick on the ground.
A not-so-subtle show of power at the same time as Scott Morrison was flexing his regional muscle in the Solomon Islands? A pointed political statement on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre? Or was it — just a glorified dash to the supermarket to grab some milk to take home?
On Thursday, on the eve of the ships’ departure for China, People’s Liberation Army personnel were seen loading dozens of boxes full of A2 platinum and Aptamil formula on board.
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Australia shouldn’t run and hide on the day we invaded Australia or Turkey or any other day we committed a wrong. Rather than hiding we should continue normal business and respectfully acknowledge our past. That requires maturity and confidence.

China should also carry on normal business which includes coming to Australia. Were they show they are a nation still maturing and still building confidence is the banning of discussion and internet filtering of the TS massacre.

Be let’s not forget a nation with so many uneducated people, many still peasants or struggling are not ready for democracy or passionate debates about freedoms. Otherwise riots, uprisings and anarchy is a real risk just as we saw in France and Germany and we all remember the cost that overflowed across the continent.
 
Ford Fairlane said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-07/chinese-warships-depart-sydney-harbour/11188084
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I remember serving on the great warship HMAS Moresby with its wooden decks. Some say they took the guns off her, as the crew were tough enough to engage in naval battles bare knuckle. Others cited, the ship was so rusty, firing the guns risked turning her into dust.

In all seriousness an Australian navy ship in the 90s had a displacement of 2,400 tonnes, wooden decks and guns removed.

Then a Russian Typhoon class tied up outboard to us at Stirling. She was 10 times heavy and probably armed to destroy the world twice over.

It is truly frightening the capabilities difference between our military and the major powers.


30 years later nothing has changed. We could have 12 top shelf nuclear nuclear subs for $36 billion. Instead we are spending $12 billion understanding if we can make a nuclear sub conventional. Spending $15 billion getting SA ready, $85 billion to build them (includes undisclosed damages to Germany and Japan) and $250 billion in WA for seaworthiness.

All that money and risk for an inferior product and outdated by satellite technology.
 
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