Something 'big' coming ??

[Paralowiepower]

We were talking about it at Woodville Oval on Sunday, and I have changed my thoughts on this. These were 30 - 40 year olds who all come from a Magpie back ground. As one pointed out, pre match entertainment is for the kids, most Adults go to watch the game and couldn't give a rats about the pre match. The only ones that care are the kids. My kids liked it, and so did the kids of my friends.

So if that attracts more kids to our game, I'm all for it.


I'm all for Magpie stuff on the video scoreboard, (not every week) but that's not going to get anyone else to the game is it?

 

[Magpiespower]

That was one of the funniest things I've seen at the footy.

Right up there with Angry Anderson and the batmobile...

 

[- PC -]

Just as long as it doesn't involve cheerleaders.

http://portadelaidefc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/6038/Default.aspx?newsId=40907

The revolution is continuing at Port Adelaide,.

Accompanying Thunda Bolt on its regular journey around the AAMI Stadium boundary line will be...
The Power Funk Squad, the exciting young dance team who were introduced to AAMI Stadium last year
The Power 22, which are the 22 Planet Teal members who run onto the field and cheer on the players each week
And for the first time, the NAB Supporter of the Week, who will be in charge of revving up crowd support and will also win a $500 savings account from NAB.

Yep, cheerleaders

 

[- PC -]

Freo do the ''raising of the anchor'' and to be honest its a nice little thing to stir up the crowd, and it works , for me at least

I would suggest the fist is sent around the boundary to the AC/DC Thunderstruck song '' na na na THUNDA na na na na THUNDA'' with the fans encouraged to pump their fists ... corny but it can get the crowd pumped as it were...and yes Crows fans will s******...but no matter what you do we will anyway

But first things first, buy the AFLs soul back from channel 7 and 10 and stop live games against the gate... thats how you get crowds back, stop replays till AFTER the game is finished

 

[- PC -]

We in perth have to travel as far DK, so I see where you are coming from..but why dont you push those 500 - 1000 people to join your supporter group, it would be a start, and they would at least be a member of the club in some form or shape. We do that, and we have just topped 458 members. What is your supporter group numbers at the moment?

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Was talking to the Crows supporters group secretary last week and she was saying they have had 70 members drop off... her explanation was because there was only 1 game this year and against Freo, she felt it was WC fans looking for a way to get a ticket to the game... plus another avenue to get Finals tickets if needed

 

[Count Zero]

We should try THE FIST at CHF, I bet he'd go alright

I must admit to having a laugh at the fist, and grizzling about all of the pre-game hype, but I could also see that kids at the ground could identify with all of the music, colour, movement and funky dancing.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Freo do the ''raising of the anchor'' and to be honest its a nice little thing to stir up the crowd, and it works , for me at least

I would suggest the fist is sent around the boundary to the AC/DC Thunderstruck song '' na na na THUNDA na na na na THUNDA'' with the fans encouraged to pump their fists ... corny but it can get the crowd pumped as it were...and yes Crows fans will s******...but no matter what you do we will anyway

But first things first, buy the AFLs soul back from channel 7 and 10 and stop live games against the gate... thats how you get crowds back, stop replays till AFTER the game is finished

I kind of liked the idea of them playing Hell's Bells ... the silence then the bell tolling, the fist comes out to Angus Young's screaming guitar, the lyrics about rolling thunder, hurricane and lightning flashing are perfect ... but I suspect the following lyrics about killing and Satan probably aren't what Port are looking for ... *sigh* how times have changed ...

I'm a rolling thunder, a pouring rain
I'm comin' on like a hurricane
My lightning's flashing across the sky
You're only young but you're gonna die
I won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives
Nobody's putting up a fight
I got my bell, I'm gonna take you to hell
I'm gonna get you, Satan get you

 

[Count Zero]

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

I was listening to some commentators on the ABC at the weekend who were scathing about the "fact" that the players were made to line up, and the crowd made to stand for the national anthem just for the opening of a replay screen.

Does this sort of thing make us look like small-town hicks, or have the journos got the wrong end of the stick?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

I was listening to some commentators on the ABC at the weekend who were scathing about the "fact" that the players were made to line up, and the crowd made to stand for the national anthem just for the opening of a replay screen.

Does this sort of thing make us look like small-town hicks, or have the journos got the wrong end of the stick?

I wondered why they were playing the national athem. Couldn't remember it being played before the Showdowns I have been to or one I've watched on TV.

A week or so ago I heard that John Schumann was going to perform before the game. Did he? Or maybe it will be at the "Anzac night game".

 

[Count Zero]

I wondered why they were playing the national athem. Couldn't remember it being played before the Showdowns I have been to or one I've watched on TV.

A week or so ago I heard that John Schumann was going to perform before the game. Did he? Or maybe it will be at the "Anzac night game".

Is that the Redgum guy? I don't think he was there unless he was inside the FIST.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Is that the Redgum guy? I don't think he was there unless he was inside the FIST.

I reckon he sang the anthemy kind of song that went around the ground with the fist. That voice sounded familiar.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Is that the Redgum guy? I don't think he was there unless he was inside the FIST.

Yeah that's him. He did the Showdown presentation in August 2002 when the Club celebrated the anniversary of Long Tan. He sang Only 19. It was bloody moving. I looked at a few blokes around me who were of that generation and they all had this steely look in their eye. I thought to myself, there but for the grace of god it could have been me, if I was 12 or 15 years older and caught under the draft and national conscription.

Apparently he has a footy song called Power to the People, different from the John Lennon song.

 

[Count Zero]

I reckon he sang the anthemy kind of song that went around the ground with the fist. That voice sounded familiar.

Thanks FF. I thought that the funk squad were doing something as THE FIST went round, but what with the Vodafone competitions, Funk Squad, THE FIST, Thunda Power, Dewy, Bish, Mike Rann and the new "Super" screen, it's possible that I dreamed the whole thing.

 

[Count Zero]

Yeah that's him. He did the Showdown presentation in August 2002 when the Club celebrated the anniversary of Long Tan. He sang Only 19. It was bloody moving. I looked at a few blokes around me who were of that generation and they all had this steely look in their eye. I thought to myself, there but for the grace of god it could have been me, if I was 12 or 15 years older and caught under the draft and national conscription.

Apparently he has a footy song called Power to the People, different from the John Lennon song.

Yes. I did hear a snippet of that song, FF reckons it was during THE FIST lap.

 

[Macca19]

I have to say, I, and all the people around me, had a great laugh when Mike Rann ended his spiel with 'and have a great showground'.

showground??

 

[Crow-mo]

Please tell me this doesnt revolve around a hydraulic fist ?

yup, and a tub of crisco!

 

[Crow-mo]

Jeez. I give it a couple of hours before someone with Photoshop skills puts some other bolt in its place.

At the moment it sounds ridiculously embarassing.

nah, sometimes you just gotta laugh.

honestly it's hilarious, regardless of what side of the fence you sit on

makes you wonder what the marketing people were thinking, I mean really. Who saw those plans, and said "eureka, that's it!" ?

it's just funny.

 

[tribey]

You'll never see the club hammering in the history thing because they're afraid of alienating all of those anti-Magpies people.

The club would've had me and my family, easily.

The whole teal green, fist pumping evolution in 96/97 was never going to sway anything more than my sympathies, rather than full blooded support.

We need to realise that there isn't some mythical plethora of supporters out there willing to join Port but aren't because we are too like the Magpies (whatever that means). Indeed I would be surprised if the opposite wasn't true i.e. A large group of supporters who are waiting for us to re-embrace our history in a public way.

Hot dog, we have a weiner!

I obviously can't speak for everyone in this situation, but correct weight in my book.

 

[CarnCrows]

Pre-game ent is fair buf, but to be honest it looked kinda stupid. Maybe it did work for the kids? However I can't imagine a child wanting to go to the footy to see the bolt.

That was one of the funniest things I've seen at the footy.

Right up there with Angry Anderson and the batmobile...

Angry Anderson screaching out 'bound for glory' in the bat mobile was the most excruciating pre game entertainment I have ever seen. No the bolt was not even close to this.

 

[Magpiespower]

Angry Anderson screaching out 'bound for glory' in the bat mobile was the most excruciating pre game entertainment I have ever seen.

The most memorable bit of GF 'entertainment.'

Still talked about almost 20 years on!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Got a Power Gear Shop catalogue yesterday and noticed a couple of things ..

$70 for a t-shirt? Who are you kidding?

The increasing appearance of 1996 as the reference point for Port Adelaide merchandise. Seems what they tell the players and what they want supporters to think are branching in different directions.

 

[Pinepower]

Got a Power Gear Shop catalogue yesterday and noticed a couple of things ..

$70 for a t-shirt? Who are you kidding?

The increasing appearance of 1996 as the reference point for Port Adelaide merchandise. Seems what they tell the players and what they want supporters to think are branching in different directions.

I think that they are the items the AFL orders for each club, so it would be the AFL that are putting it on.

What I find amusing is that all the Victorian clubs have the date that they were formed not the date that they joined the AFL.

They do not distinguish the date for any club other than PA.

 

[captain ebert]

If anything, marketing our heritage and success would attract complete newbies (like me and my family - immigrants, interstaters, non-football people etc)

how would you do that though, without being corny? how would we keep it relevant to the team in the afl without looking as though we are continually referencing another league which we really no longer have anything to do with? our success in the sanfl would mean sweet f-all to potential supporters interstate, immigrants etc.

whilst we respect our heritage & cherish everything & everyone that has taken the club to where it is today, the sanfl part is kinda over - going on about our successful sanfl record is meaningless, we're on the national stage now - & i idont know how you can market 130 years of existence in a really attractive way either.

sure its nice to reflect but we have to keep looking forward or else the past means nothing.

 

[- PC -]

how would you do that though, without being corny? how would we keep it relevant to the team in the afl without looking as though we are continually referencing another league which we really no longer have anything to do with? our success in the sanfl would mean sweet f-all to potential supporters interstate, immigrants etc.

whilst we respect our heritage & cherish everything & everyone that has taken the club to where it is today, the sanfl part is kinda over - going on about our successful sanfl record is meaningless, we're on the national stage now - & i idont know how you can market 130 years of existence in a really attractive way either.

sure its nice to reflect but we have to keep looking forward or else the past means nothing.

There is no easy answer and one I am sure the back room boys have been struggling over for the last 10 years.

Maybe a small ''est1870'' on the collar of the jumper ie the FFC on the neck of the Doggies jumper, or even just the 1870 on its own, with the 1870 on its own you can still reference your heritage ie '' from the parklands of suburban Adelaide to the lofty heights of the SANFL and now into the AFL the long tradition of excellence continues which symbolises the Port Adelaide FC'' *

You can utilise the 1870 as a brand name and sell clothing with that on it in the FUBU/Dotti style , those who cherish the history will know and appreciate, those who want to know will ask, no need for sledgehammers, just a slight aside that keeps the door open for questions


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[shaz63]

There is no easy answer and one I am sure the back room boys have been struggling over for the last 10 years.

Maybe a small ''est1870'' on the collar of the jumper ie the FFC on the neck of the Doggies jumper, or even just the 1870 on its own, with the 1870 on its own you can still reference your heritage ie '' from the parklands of suburban Adelaide to the lofty heights of the SANFL and now into the AFL the long tradition of excellence continues which symbolises the Port Adelaide FC'' *

You can utilise the 1870 as a brand name and sell clothing with that on it in the FUBU/Dotti style , those who cherish the history will know and appreciate, those who want to know will ask, no need for sledgehammers, just a slight aside that keeps the door open for questions


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and we continue to have 1870 on our game banner to show the afl and the other supporters our heritage.

There were a lot of comments on it being on the banner for the showdown - all positive.

We cheer squad/supporter club members that made the banner were rather proud of the response to it.