Review Round 9, 2020 vs Melbourne

[1954]

David Granger was executed for doing that to Neville Caldwell.

My memory may be failing me but I have recollections of Grave Danger hitting Caldwell with a short right hook that was thrown from about waist level.
I believe he broke his hand in that incident, our own Grave Danger from the sunny west should know.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

I thought the anniversary was in May, hence we were due to wear our first ever blue & white hooped jumper against Carlton in R7. Maybe that was just the date in 1870 that the club was formed, rather than our first ever game.

Whatever, the AFL have done us no favours re our 150th celebrations, so owe us big time re the Prison Bars.

Probably going to be corrected, but my understanding is May was the formation of the club. This weekend is the first game.

 

[Grave Danger]

Probably going to be corrected, but my understanding is May was the formation of the club. This weekend is the first game.

Consulting Bruce Abernethy's seminal work on the history of the Port Adelaide Football Club, From Port to a Power (Wakefield Press 1997), on page 2 he states, "As far as football in South Australia is concerned, however, Port Adelaide played its first game on 24 May 1870, and that makes Port Adelaide the oldest SANFL club."

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

My memory may be failing me but I have recollections of Grave Danger hitting Caldwell with a short right hook that was thrown from about waist level.
I believe he broke his hand in that incident, our own Grave Danger from the sunny west should know.

That's what I recall happening in the 1981 GF on the NE flank about were Wanganeen kicked that goal against St Kilda.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Consulting Bruce Abernethy's seminal work on the history of the Port Adelaide Football Club, From Port to a Power (Wakefield Press 1997), on page 2 he states, "As far as football in South Australia is concerned, however, Port Adelaide played its first game on 24 May 1870, and that makes Port Adelaide the oldest SANFL club."

Rucci wrote the following in these articles on the Port website on 28 March a few days after the season was postponed and 20th April, so it will be in the Port Adelaide Football Club Archives Collection.

Rucci: Is history repeating itself for Port Adelaide

No football today, but Michelangelo Rucci looks at how the restart of Season 2020 could be true to the Port Adelaide Football Club's inaugural year in 1870.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

SO the party is delayed ... but it is still fashionable to be late, correct?

Australian football's hold until at least May 31 does put a dent in the Port Adelaide Football Club's 150th anniversary celebrations. And there is a fair bit more on the agenda today than playing an AFL game - such as the one everyone was eagerly anticipating this weekend: Showdown XLVIII (48) with Port Adelaide in the black-and-white "bars" at Adelaide Oval.

But not all is lost (and let's hope this holds true at a time when everyone, not just the 18 AFL clubs, is fighting a battle for survival like none seen before in Australia).

If, as we all hope, Australian sport resumes in June there will be significant first-up moments from 150 years ago for the Port Adelaide Football Club to acknowledge.

May 24, the date used during the centenary celebrations in 1970 to recognise the club's first game, is now known to be wrong, all by a lack of detailed records from the 19th century and some typographical errors in some early newspaper accounts in the 1920s.

All of Port Adelaide's significant on-field moments in the inaugural year of 1870 are from late July, allowing the 150th anniversary celebrations to remain a beacon of optimism within Australian football's much-wanted revival later in the year.

FIRST GAME: July 30, 1870. This falls on a Thursday in 2020 - and can easily work into a new-look fixture built on playing another 16 home-and-away games this season.

FIRST HOME GAME: August 20, 1870. This also falls on a Thursday in 2020.

THIRD GAME (and last competitive match): September 10, 1870. This completes the trifecta of potential blockbuster Thursday night anniversary events in 2020.

Rucci's Monday Review: From the wharfs to a dynasty

Port Adelaide's story began 150 years ago today. Michelangelo Rucci looks at the three men who had the vision for Australia's most-successful football club on April 20, 1870.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

UNCORK the champagne. Strike up the band, as they did in 1870 for Port Adelaide games. The moment has come. April 20 - the day, 150 years ago, when three men started a football club - and no ordinary football club.

John Albert Rann.
Richard William John Leicester.
And George Henry Ireland.

It was a Wednesday. They met at North Parade at Port Adelaide. They had a vision for their growing community, its people - and the new game of Australian football that was less than a decade-old in Adelaide.

By May 12, Rann had set up this new football club at the Port Adelaide Cricket Club, where he was president. The club's first committee was established with the presidency taken up by John Hart junior, the son of South Australia's 10th Premier, John Hart.

Leicester was the club's first secretary. Ireland, the first treasurer. Rann became a committee member, along with Messrs. R. Carr and F. Bridgeman.The first practice game was played two days later on the Hart's family estate at Glanville
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JOHN ALBERT RANN was born in Dudley, Staffordshire in England on June 9, 1845. His obituary, following his death on April 27, 1912, recorded Rann was "an old and respected resident of Port Adelaide; (he) died at his residence, Church Place, (Port Adelaide) after about 18 months' illness. He took an active interest in athletics at Port Adelaide in former years. He was one of the founders of the Port Adelaide Football Club. A widow, one son, and five daughters survive him."

Four years before his death, Rann told The Advertiser of the club's formation years "as well as if it happened yesterday".

From his memory, the club's first practice game was at Buck's Flat on Saturday, May 14. This is in line with newspaper advertisements placed by Leicester.

The club's first game against the short-lived Young Australian Football Club was, in Rann's memory, at the North Park Lands on July 30, 1870 (and not as recent accounts have it at Buck's Flat on May 24, 1870 - a Tuesday public holiday for the Queen's Birthday celebrations).

Rann's recalled Port Adelaide first home game - the return bout with the Young Australians - on August 20, 1870 was "remarkable for having been decided in a blinding dust storm".

Also notable in his "reminiscences" of Port Adelaide's early years is Rann's thought that the change from the "Magentas" to the famous black-and-white bars jumper in 1902 had "the effect of which to make the men look heavier than they really are."

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Forgot to post the Champion Data Tables the other day for this game. There are some interesting comparisons against the Bulldogs given Ladhams game and mids clearance work.

In the ruck Gawn got 40 hit outs 10 to advantage and Ladhams only got 10 hit outs and 2 to advantage.
Jackson got 4 hit outs and 2 to advantage and Hoff got 3 hit outs and 2 were to advantage. It was 44 to 13.
Clearances were Port 30 to 29, with centre clearances Port 10 to 8 and around the ground 22 to 19

Against Bulldogs
Ladhams won 32 hit outs only 3 to advantage and English 26 with 9 to advantage.
Hoff and Dixon got 12 hitouts between them and 4 to advantage. Dunkley and Macrae got 4 none to advantage.
Clearances were Port 33 to 34, with centre clearances Port 8 to 5 and around the ground 25 to 29.

In the Melbourne game Port got 5 frees inside 50 for 2.2 and Melbourne 4 for 0.2

Marks inside 50 Port 9 for 6.1, Melbourne 5 for 3.2.
Georgi 3 2.1
Hoff... 2 2.0
Farrell 1 1.0
Rozee 1 1.0
Boak.. 1 0.0 out on the full from one pocket to another
Butters 1 0.0 handball to Ebo who got caught holding the ball

Mayes also kicked 1.1 from a mark and free and both times got a 50m penalty and had set shots from inside 50.

So from set shots Port kicked 9.4.