No one is leading the charge except the usual suspects on here.
Mega Thread The Port Store Mega Thread Part 2
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Where do you think the #ReturnTheWings campaign started?
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If not for the great QS (R.I.P.) the Eagles would probably still be in the tripanel
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Do you have another banner in you? I wonder if #itswharfintime will also trigger “livid” soccer mums haha.
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#BarUp
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I do like #itswharfintime (it’s got layers man) but #BarUp is more to the point, so to speak.
Far from being a “distraction” away from winning a premiership, pushing to wear the black and white prison bars when we choose to wear them would actually exhibit some of this hardness and ruthlessness Koch and the club bang on about.
A “distraction” is when you’re trying your hardest to not step on other people’s toes and always wanting to be seen as the nice guy. At 2018’s round 23 loss to Essendon it looked like the team spent more time planning Brendan Giddard’s guard of honour than they did putting Essendon to the sword and ruining his last game, as they should have done.
A “distraction” is when you’re trying your hardest to not step on other people’s toes and always wanting to be seen as the nice guy. At 2018’s round 23 loss to Essendon it looked like the team spent more time planning Brendan Giddard’s guard of honour than they did putting Essendon to the sword and ruining his last game, as they should have done.
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There's your hashtag. Now we need a new thread for it to get people on board; no-ones gonna support it in the Mega Store thread
#BarUp
It’s easy for Koch and co to grandstand in the media by putting players on notice. But he’s the president of a club that’s kicked just as few goals off field as it has on it in recent years. I was told by someone at the club the season before last that we’d be wearing the prison bars in showdowns from 2018 onwards. That this didn’t happen suggests a major bending over from those in management, and that’s really disappointing as a fan.
It’s not really a coincidence that the last time we performed well on field and went deep into finals was a time when we ignored the crocodile tears of the Facebook happy clappers, the afternoon radio shock jocks, and whatever resistance there may have been from other clubs, and simply took it upon ourselves to wear “that” guernsey in a final.
It’s not hard, just block out all the noise and get it done.
It’s not really a coincidence that the last time we performed well on field and went deep into finals was a time when we ignored the crocodile tears of the Facebook happy clappers, the afternoon radio shock jocks, and whatever resistance there may have been from other clubs, and simply took it upon ourselves to wear “that” guernsey in a final.
It’s not hard, just block out all the noise and get it done.
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We go to the AFL with the proposal to wear the PBs and they reject it.
Where to from there?
It's easy to say "get it done" but we really aren't in a strong bargaining position. We are in debt to this league. What they say goes basically.
Where to from there?
It's easy to say "get it done" but we really aren't in a strong bargaining position. We are in debt to this league. What they say goes basically.
The precedent is already there. It’s been worn as recently as 2014.
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One game after they were embarrassed by trying to make the home side wear their away kit. It's not the same as wearing it twice a year every year.
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So are we gonna start this #BarUp / #ItsWharfinTime / #ReturnTheBars thing? I agree we’ll need a new thread if we do.
Or we could just get on the front foot and forge ahead with our own plans to wear one of our clubs guernsey’s in one of our club’s games. I’d love to see Mr PR Gill try and come down heavy handed on that.
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Like I said, maybe we've asked and they've refused. What next?
Find out exactly where the resistance is coming from. If, as we suspect, it’s from Collingwood then demand they stop favouring one constituent over another.
If this matter went to a court of arbitration I doubt Collingwood or the AFL would have a leg to stand on. It’s a Port Adelaide Football Club jumper. It isn’t a Collingwood jumper. And we’re not even asking to wear it against Collingwood.
We already tacitly agree to bend over and accept an unfair fixture each year which hands clubs like Collingwood a more commercially beneficial draw than we can ever dream of getting. They AFL knows their entire league is already a house of cards that could crash down if anyone genuinely tried to challenge its validity.
The entire league is built on compromise. Just ask the AFL why it’s always the same clubs who get to feed on the crumbs while others gorge themselves year after year.
We’re not actually asking for much at all.
The entire league is built on compromise. Just ask the AFL why it’s always the same clubs who get to feed on the crumbs while others gorge themselves year after year.
We’re not actually asking for much at all.
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We would absolutely achieve our goal of wearing the prison bars as a main strip if we pushed hard for it. There has never been a concerted, long term campaign to achieve it. If someone wants to run that, speaking to the guys behind #returnthewings would be a great start. They had a simple premise and they pushed until they achieved it.
What’s more, if there was ever any kind of agreement upon entering the AFL that we’d never wear the PB’s then it’s clearly not worth the paper it’s written on.
2003 - “You can wear it this one time...”
2013 - “Ok, you can wear it again...”
2014 - “Oh go on, but this is the last time...”
Any “contract” entered into is clearly now null and void.
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I’d do it myself but considering the fate of the Ports Cap I’ll do everyone a favour and stay the f@&k away from it instead!
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2007 also. So many contradictions to the “agreement” that we accept is valid.
And as you said the whole league is f@&king full to the brim with contradictions. Brisbane celebrates Fitzroy’s heritage with a guernsey that’s ridiculously similar to the home jumper of its own cross-town rival (red jumper with a gold logo) and no-one gives a s**t.
There’s no valid reason why we can’t do the same.
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EFAI’d do it myself but considering the fate of the Infamous Prots Money Laundering Operation I’ll do everyone a favour and stay the f@&k away from it instead!
Ah yes. How could I have forgotten that one.
Part of the 2007 agtreement, at Collingwood’s behest, dictated we were not permitted to market the guernsey or mass produce it for any commercial gain. Utterly ridiculous.
Enough bending over.
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Selling like hot cakes only 6 years later lol.
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