Preview R23, 2022 – Showdown LII (Robbie Gray Farewell)

[Capital Power]

Whose idea was it to spew all this crap. Yes we hate them, but I have doubt we may even back it up.

Potential disaster on our hands

Designed merely to deflect the unrest they know exists amongst the fans. It's working.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Well played Nicks and 100% correct

 

[Willsy10]

Who gives a s**t, honestly.

 

[Powerade 08]

It is PR aimed at the ‘diehard’ Port fans who have called up to cancel memberships.

Ok we aren’t wearing the PB’s ever again, or getting rid of the dickhead in the box, but we can pretend to hate the Crows! isnt that something we can all get behind?

 

[Bernie L]

Hi guys,

Ive just come over to cause a bit of a ruckus, stir up some shiit, throw some rocks at windows and basically just kick your cat!!!


#amidoinitrite



Good luck To Robbie Gray

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Robbie Gray

Age

36

Ht

183cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.9

5star

K

9.8

4star

HB

10.1

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

3.2

5star

G

1.4

5star

D

13.3

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

7.3

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.6

4star

G

0.6

4star

D

10.4

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.8

3star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.4

4star

G

1.4

5star

. Great player.

 

[afl2004]

Who gives a s**t, honestly.

Happy clappers do it's all they care about, had them in school it's very sad to see port fans now with the same mindset

 

[Visenfest]

The smack talk is really embarrassing. It would be fine if we'd earned the right to that level of arrogance, but the sad reality is that someone like Jonas will be flat on his arse at some point watching the Crows run into an open goal to make it a 6 goal deficit for us. Going into Robbie's final game, the club needs to have some dignity and can it.

 

[Coobk001]

Hi guys,

Ive just come over to cause a bit of a ruckus, stir up some shiit, throw some rocks at windows and basically just kick your cat!!!


#amidoinitrite



Good luck To Robbie Gray. Great player.

See ya at the footy...

 

[Capital Power]

Finishing 12th with our list ought to be a cause for shame, not trash talk.

If we win tomorrow it'll be all about how Ken has turned things around already, if we lose it'll be how all the extra pressure brought by the fans affected performance. The whole place lives in la-la land these days.

 

[Doctor Feel]

if only you knew how bad things are

 

[Stryke]

The smack talk for the deadest of a dead rubber is frankly embarrassing. Nicks has owned our whole club pointing out that we should be celebrating Robbie. Sack everyone honestly.

 

[Willsy10]

Happy clappers do it's all they care about, had them in school it's very sad to see port fans now with the same mindset

I'm more talking about the carry on over a few comments the the players have made to drum up some interest and add some spice to the dead rubber. In this case it's clearly just a bit of fun, the players will probably all joke about it after the match. It is really taking being outraged for the sake of it to new levels being angered over this.

I actually liked it and think there should be more of it.

 

[Smartys Power]

Finishing 12th with our list ought to be a cause for shame, not trash talk.

If we win tomorrow it'll be all about how Ken has turned things around already, if we lose it'll be how all the extra pressure brought by the fans affected performance. The whole place lives in la-la land these days.

Set up nicely for back to back comfortable wins against bottom 4 teams and all the talk to be like “watch out 2023, this team has their mojo back”.

 

[Stryke]

Set up nicely for back to back comfortable wins against bottom 4 teams and all the talk to be like “watch out 2023, this team has their mojo back”.

'we finished the year strongly'
'good signs for 2023'
'credit to Kenny keeping the team focused'
'developing nicely'

 

[Jojay]

Well played Nicks and 100% correct

Didn't our illustrious coach knock back a joint presser with Nicks for the showdown?

We are a parody of a once famous club

 

[fingerbone]

Still a bit disappointed i couldn't go to the game all the tickets were sold out just wanted to see robbie's farewell game.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

It is PR aimed at the ‘diehard’ Port fans who have called up to cancel memberships.

Ok we aren’t wearing the PB’s ever again, or getting rid of the dickhead in the box, but we can pretend to hate the Crows! isnt that something we can all get behind?

If we lose another unlosable showdown it is going to backfire massively.

Hopefully enough to remove Ken.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Its like both teams now are doing everything they can do distract from the disaster they have become.

Adelaide are desperate to get people looking at anything other than the camp and potential upcoming class action lawsuit, along with still treading water down the bottom of the ladder after delivering their first spoon.

Port are trying to get people to ignore the fact that we've again missed out on a crop of coaches while we continue our longest ever flag drought in history under a bloke who has set a new record for mediocrity in a comp that's been around 130 years. Oh and the fact that we were on record expecting to win 3 flags in 5 years yet currently sit in 11th 3 years in to that period.

Quick lads, throw out a few "port powers" and "entitled" accusations to get people riled up...

 

[rocket18]

Nothing wrong with a bit of smack talk, AFL players are too generic.

Who gives a toss? It's fired up the customers like nothing I've ever seen, so for that I think its worth it.

Not too many of us fired up about this orchestrated "campaign", more bemused that someone at your club gave instructions to your players on what to say to the press.

This last one by Houston is perhaps the funniest "It's a mini-final. We're not playing finals, so this is our season on the line".

Power star further fans flames ahead of fiery Showdown

Maybe someone can have a chat with Dan and let him know where you guys are on the ladder, "the season on the line" was probably a few weeks ago.

Any way, all the best to Robbie on a great career - when he was hot no one could stop him, he certainly tore us a new one plenty of times.

See you at the footy!

 

[chiwigi]

South Australia is so ******* embarrassing sometimes!

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Meh, I don't really give a s**t about players who choose to leave.

Yeah I respect what Karl delivered for us, but you don't get a send off game if you're going to another club.

 

[tribey]

Tom Jonas was at it too, calling them arrogant and self-entitled.

“Arrogant and entitled”, says man who wears a Rostrevor College mouthguard via Norwood, has a law degree and MBA in his back pocket, said after last year’s WCE loss that he’d expected to go undefeated, and responded to supporter criticism of Ollie Wines’ waterskiing injury with a photo of himself on the slopes.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Not too many of us fired up about this orchestrated "campaign", more bemused that someone at your club gave instructions to your players on what to say to the press.

This last one by Houston is perhaps the funniest "It's a mini-final. We're not playing finals, so this is our season on the line".

Power star further fans flames ahead of fiery Showdown

Maybe someone can have a chat with Dan and let him know where you guys are on the ladder, "the season on the line" was probably a few weeks ago.

Any way, all the best to Robbie on a great career - when he was hot no one could stop him, he certainly tore us a new one plenty of times.

See you at the footy!

******* hell that link is bad....


"There's so many reasons we want to win this last game," Houston told AFL.com.au.

"It's not just because we're going into the off-season and it's something that will go with us, it's not just for Kenny or Robbie.

"As a whole club we are set on winning this game and that's all we've got our eyes on at the moment, winning this game for the club, for Robbie, for Kenny, and for our fans."


Why... in the everloving *.... would we be trying to win this game for "Kenny"? What does that even mean. *s sake. So ******* embarrassing.

 

[JimmyBC]

lol

 

[TeeKray]

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“Arrogant and entitled”, says man who wears a Rostrevor College mouthguard via Norwood, has a law degree and MBA in his back pocket, said after last year’s WCE loss that he’d expected to go undefeated, and responded to supporter criticism of Ollie Wines’ waterskiing injury with a photo of himself on the slopes.

His attempts to self style himself as a blue collar battler are hilarious. Just own who you are man, it's OK.