The Prison Bars are Back

[finbarr]

Going to try my medium on right now....come at me you pie eating (and holding) barstools!

Yeah, I ordered a large. My player issue Justin Westhoff Large-Long fits like a glove. Weedy ferker and proud.

 

[Power freak 2008]

I hope I don't sound like I'm a party pooper. Love the Maggies and the prison bars. I am concerned though. My girlfriend, her da and brother have been talking about going to the last game of the season. Not their Crows home game but Carlton v Port. They aren't even going to barrack for Carlton. They think it makes sense that they go to the last match considering the stakes could be sky high.

I think that game will be a sell out. The other mob has softened their stance against our club. I think some of their supporters are swing supporters and wouldn't give up barracking for their team but wouldn't mind having a second team. Supporting two teams means that at least one may be in the finals.

I am just afraid that this is not the time for the prison bars. The first game of Adelaide oval maybe but this time we might be missing out on a great opportunity. Anybody feel the same?

 

[edgie]

Going to try my medium on right now....come at me you pie eating (and holding) barstools!

Good luck!

 

[Schulzenfest]

I hope I don't sound like I'm a party pooper. Love the Maggies and the prison bars. I am concerned though. My girlfriend, her da and brother have been talking about going to the last game of the season. Not their Crows home game but Carlton v Port. They aren't even going to barrack for Carlton. They think it makes sense that they go to the last match considering the stakes could be sky high.

I think that game will be a sell out. The other mob has softened their stance against our club. I think some of their supporters are swing supporters and wouldn't give up barracking for their team but wouldn't mind having a second team. Supporting two teams means that at least one may be in the finals.

I am just afraid that this is not the time for the prison bars. The first game of Adelaide oval maybe but this time we might be missing out on a great opportunity. Anybody feel the same?

So we should refuse to show off and be proud of our history because it might turn off a few Crow supporting fence-sitters? No chance.

We are Port Adelaide. To any fence-sitters out there, love us as we are or stick to your soulless franchise. But I think they'll find that supporting a club with history and tradition is more enjoyable than supporting a soulless franchise anyway.

 

[DonDynamite]

I hope I don't sound like I'm a party pooper. Love the Maggies and the prison bars. I am concerned though. My girlfriend, her da and brother have been talking about going to the last game of the season. Not their Crows home game but Carlton v Port. They aren't even going to barrack for Carlton. They think it makes sense that they go to the last match considering the stakes could be sky high.

I think that game will be a sell out. The other mob has softened their stance against our club. I think some of their supporters are swing supporters and wouldn't give up barracking for their team but wouldn't mind having a second team. Supporting two teams means that at least one may be in the finals.

I am just afraid that this is not the time for the prison bars. The first game of Adelaide oval maybe but this time we might be missing out on a great opportunity. Anybody feel the same?

I'm not following... you're saying we shouldn't wear the prison bars in round 23 because we want to be the second team of Crows supporters?

 

[Power freak 2008]

I'm not following... you're saying we shouldn't wear the prison bars in round 23 because we want to be the second team of Crows supporters?

I run a small business. I learn more about how people react in tough times. Right now is a tough time. I am getting better at reading the the needs and wants of people. Business has no ego or memory. I t is either right or wrong for the current climate. Surely people can see my point. This particular game is special and more so than most can get the whole SA public out in force. We don't need to ditch the prison bars.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Going to try my medium on right now....come at me you pie eating (and holding) barstools!

Should fit perfectly...

 

[Eddie Dingle]

**** the crows.

And **** anyone that panders to them.

We Are Port Adelaide.

 

[DonDynamite]

I run a small business. I learn more about how people react in tough times. Right now is a tough time. I am getting better at reading the the needs and wants of people. Business has no ego or memory. I t is either right or wrong for the current climate. Surely people can see my point. This particular game is special and more so than most can get the whole SA public out in force. We don't need to ditch the prison bars.

Nah, sorry. I really don't. If there are any neutral supporters that want to back us then they'll accept what we are, our traditions, our history. If they can't handle that, then, well, **** em. We don't need them, I don't understand why you think we do.

 

[Phhht]

Should fit perfectly...

Is that Dingle about to lay one of his famous headlocks on manureid?

 

[Dalphonso]

I think that game will be a sell out.

The problem here might be if Essendon get booted out?

 

[chiwigi]

I hope I don't sound like I'm a party pooper. Love the Maggies and the prison bars. I am concerned though. My girlfriend, her da and brother have been talking about going to the last game of the season. Not their Crows home game but Carlton v Port. They aren't even going to barrack for Carlton. They think it makes sense that they go to the last match considering the stakes could be sky high.

I think that game will be a sell out. The other mob has softened their stance against our club. I think some of their supporters are swing supporters and wouldn't give up barracking for their team but wouldn't mind having a second team. Supporting two teams means that at least one may be in the finals.

I am just afraid that this is not the time for the prison bars. The first game of Adelaide oval maybe but this time we might be missing out on a great opportunity. Anybody feel the same?

Shut up Meg

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

Got it today, has a bit of special meaning to me and I'll share the story.

My Nan whom I'm was very close with was diagnosed with cancer in February, unfortunatley she lost her battle in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Her goal had been to get to the Port/Carlton game but of course she will not make it. Nan had been a huge Port fan all her life, standing in the rain at Alberton during the 50s, even as a child Bob McLean would often be at her house for the traditional Sunday roast at Birkenhead. Then when I came along she continued the tradition and took me to the games as a youngen at Alberton and Football Park. She'd take me rain, hail or shine, even if she wasn't feeling up for it. Some of my best memories as a kid.

Anyway, when the guernsey went on sale I got her name place on it instead of mine and she was over the moon and a big reason why she was so determined to get to the game. She won't be there in person next week, but she will be there with me in spirit and having her name on the guernseys of the players running around out there makes it that little bit more special. It's going to be a pretty emotional day.

 

[PAFC04]

I hope I don't sound like I'm a party pooper. Love the Maggies and the prison bars. I am concerned though. My girlfriend, her da and brother have been talking about going to the last game of the season. Not their Crows home game but Carlton v Port. They aren't even going to barrack for Carlton. They think it makes sense that they go to the last match considering the stakes could be sky high.

I think that game will be a sell out. The other mob has softened their stance against our club. I think some of their supporters are swing supporters and wouldn't give up barracking for their team but wouldn't mind having a second team. Supporting two teams means that at least one may be in the finals.

I am just afraid that this is not the time for the prison bars. The first game of Adelaide oval maybe but this time we might be missing out on a great opportunity. Anybody feel the same?

I think they just want to be there regardless....... if there true footy followers of the game i can understand why they would come, and we can not stop them from coming to our games, it brings dosh in regardless of what jumper we wear.

To even contemplate to use our BiB jumper instead of the PB just because we may intice new supporters is just damn ludicrous....to surrender what we started with seems to go against the grain of what we have instilled in our players, and that is to never give up on what is an ICON jumper wherever you go in Australia and in some parts of the world....

If these Crows supporters who want to change clubs because they like what they see, then they should really stay where they are, because there most likely to be the first to jump off back to where they came from. Is that the kind of supporter we need right now?

 

[tribey]

I hope I don't sound like I'm a party pooper. Love the Maggies and the prison bars. I am concerned though. My girlfriend, her da and brother have been talking about going to the last game of the season. Not their Crows home game but Carlton v Port. They aren't even going to barrack for Carlton. They think it makes sense that they go to the last match considering the stakes could be sky high.

I think that game will be a sell out. The other mob has softened their stance against our club. I think some of their supporters are swing supporters and wouldn't give up barracking for their team but wouldn't mind having a second team. Supporting two teams means that at least one may be in the finals.

I am just afraid that this is not the time for the prison bars. The first game of Adelaide oval maybe but this time we might be missing out on a great opportunity. Anybody feel the same?

No.

We are Port Adelaide.

And we wore the prisonbars while winning no less than 11 premierships at the ground.

You start ceding things like your iconic standards and where does it end? Do we ban guys like Scott Hodges, Tim Ginever and George Fiacchi from the club because they inflicted so much pain on the rest of the state? Do we only mention 2004 instead of the 34 other senior flags that ultimately propelled us into the national competition?

People like Graham Cornes who say we should distance ourselves from or even deny our glorious history and heritage 'to appeal to more people' only do so because they want us to be even more of a soulless franchise than the one they jumped off their own traditional clubs to follow. Why cover for their guilt?

The more this sinks in the more this is rustling my jimmies to be honest. Adelaide Mentality in the extreme. Someone too good? Too successful? Don't improve. Don't innovate. Drag them down at all costs!

We were too good in that guernsey, therefore we should apologise and never wear it again lest we offend a few people who might deign to come to our games as neutrals? Piss off. It's for this reason if I ever run into Mark Haysman I'll buy him a beer, or a flute of Moët, or whatever it is he prefers to imbibe.

He was the first Port Adelaide employee since Bruce Weber to act solely in Port Adelaide's interest by breaking ranks and telling all who'd listen about what a shit business model we were chained to. No apologies. No beg your pardons. Just a huge f*** this, we're being screwed, get f**ked. And the SANFL have been choking on their own bile ever since. Legend.

I and many others here had long grown tired of our club appeasing our malevolent masters on the one hand and paying clueless marketing consultants with the other, all it served to do was run us into the ground and dilute everything that made us the flagship of the national game.

Beginning with Haysman and continuing on with Koch, that shameful period is over.

Port Adelaide loud, Port Adelaide proud, Port Adelaide first. And if the prisonbars are really that offensive to someone then so should be the entire concept of Port Adelaide, and in that case, who cares about such infidels?

They can jog on with the usual embittered masses who pollute this state.

 

[PAFC04]

im yet to see mine, but i will guarantee i will have the same problem
murphys law and shit

didn't get mine yet, you guys can all get ******!

bloody same here.......come on!! FFS

 

[Spadge]

i shouldnt let it worry me... but it is...

it took me ****ing ages to find my name.....i saw plenty of names i knew... and repeated many times too... some people got their name of the front and back multiple times....

yet i could only find my name... once... and on the ****ing back

i want to frame this and would have loved to have my name visible....

**** off

 

[DonDynamite]

is there a better poster on this site than tribey? Didn't think so.

 

[StrappingTape]

i shouldnt let it worry me... but it is...

it took me ******* ages to find my name.....i saw plenty of names i knew... and repeated many times too... some people got their name of the front and back multiple times....

yet i could only find my name... once... and on the ******* back

i want to frame this and would have loved to have my name visible....

**** off

That was the same for me on the one I have seen but I'm hoping when I actually get mine the names are in different places so I have mine on the front somewhere. It better rock up Monday or I'm going to spiral into a uber panic.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

is there a better poster on this site than tribey? Didn't think so.

No there isn't Don.

We are lucky to have him.

I'm giving him a big hug when I see him.

 

[RangaInTeal]

We should wear the prison bars once a year!

We should also wear three home guernseys next year, normal v, SBS v Brisbane celebrating 10 years, and Prison bars v Carlton celebrating 100 years...

Remind the Camry supporters where they come from!

 

[El_Scorcho]

keep looking dudes. Get someone else to have a look as well.

I found my name on the front by scanning down the black and white stripes stripe by stripe, and i found it and several other names twice

I saw the names of a few bigfooty port boarders that I recognised during the hunt as well.

 

[Spadge]

keep looking dudes. Get someone else to have a look as well.

I found my name on the front by scanning down the black and white stripes stripe by stripe, and i found it and several other names twice

I saw the names of a few bigfooty port boarders that I recognised during the hunt as well.

I scanned the front 3 times...took me hours...its not there

 

[FPPF]

i shouldnt let it worry me... but it is...

it took me ******* ages to find my name.....i saw plenty of names i knew... and repeated many times too... some people got their name of the front and back multiple times....

yet i could only find my name... once... and on the ******* back

i want to frame this and would have loved to have my name visible....

**** off

I would have thought they would have sent out a paper with it indicating where your name is.
You can search on the pafchonorboard site for your name on the (virtual)wall(if you've done it).
I'm on the back too. I think a lot of people are wanting to frame this. I'd like to be able to point out my name to people on there..with the front showing...now I wish I bought two, so I could frame them side by side. God damn it.

 

[Eric Blair]

No.

We are Port Adelaide.

And we wore the prisonbars while winning no less than 11 premierships at the ground.

You start ceding things like your iconic standards and where does it end? Do we ban guys like Scott Hodges, Tim Ginever and George Fiacchi from the club because they inflicted so much pain on the rest of the state? Do we only mention 2004 instead of the 34 other senior flags that ultimately propelled us into the national competition?

People like Graham Cornes who say we should distance ourselves from or even deny our glorious history and heritage 'to appeal to more people' only do so because they want us to be even more of a soulless franchise than the one they jumped off their own traditional clubs to follow. Why cover for their guilt?

The more this sinks in the more this is rustling my jimmies to be honest. Adelaide Mentality in the extreme. Someone too good? Too successful? Don't improve. Don't innovate. Drag them down at all costs!

We were too good in that guernsey, therefore we should apologise and never wear it again lest we offend a few people who might deign to come to our games as neutrals? Piss off. It's for this reason if I ever run into Mark Haysman I'll buy him a beer, or a flute of Moët, or whatever it is he prefers to imbibe.

He was the first Port Adelaide employee since Bruce Weber to act solely in Port Adelaide's interest by breaking ranks and telling all who'd listen about what a shit business model we were chained to. No apologies. No beg your pardons. Just a huge f*** this, we're being screwed, get f**ked. And the SANFL have been choking on their own bile ever since. Legend.

I and many others here had long grown tired of our club appeasing our malevolent masters on the one hand and paying clueless marketing consultants with the other, all it served to do was run us into the ground and dilute everything that made us the flagship of the national game.

Beginning with Haysman and continuing on with Koch, that shameful period is over.

Port Adelaide loud, Port Adelaide proud, Port Adelaide first. And if the prisonbars are really that offensive to someone then so should be the entire concept of Port Adelaide, and in that case, who cares about such infidels?

They can jog on with the usual embittered masses who pollute this state.

Quoted this purely for posteritys sake and so I can in some small way be associated with this written ambrosia above