Port Adelaide Season 2012

[Dirko]

I just read Terry Wallace has put his name forward for the job.

[stan]

I just read Terry Wallace has put his name forward for the job.

Two words. Train wreck.

[CoverKing]

I just read Terry Wallace has put his name forward for the job.

Two words. Train wreck.

His idea does have merit though Wallace. He has said he wants to coach with an assistant coach being groomed to take over him whilst he is there. He will then be able to take all the criticism which will come in the short term. Not a bad plan. Who is this young coach though, that is the question?

Dean Bailey, Terry Wallace, Rodney Eade the front runners IMO

[gossipgirl]

hawks to tank, the power to win

[Psyber]

They should take Mark Bickley, and then the Power can become the Crows reserves team and gain more supporters.

[Media Park]

Option three:
Hawks have Power's attitude of last week ("We're only play that Port rabble), try and play million dollar footy, and the Power bust their hump to prove they aren't totally useless, get the jump on the Hawks, and win the thing.

I think it's unlikely, but it could happen.

Don't feed the trolls!

Two quick goals does not a super coach make.

[Booney]

Andrew Fulker - The Australian :

THE wild game season has been extended this winter but only for a South Australian species of teal.

This bird evolved out of the magpie family and is easily identified by its teal, black and white colours.

Unofficial sources have it on the endangered list, but the authorities have urged calm, saying its future is assured.

Yes, the anti-Port Adelaide bandwagon is groaning under the weight but climb on board, we'll make room somewhere.

Matthew Primus's sacking and president Brett Duncanson's tearful resignation this week have the mob lighting their torches, reaching for pitchforks and eyeing off high boughs while looping a noose.

After what was roundly derided as a farcical press conference on Monday, one writer opined: "What do they really bring to the competition besides continual headaches?"

Well success for a start.

At the start of 2012 Port had a better winning percentage than arch-rival Adelaide.

The supposed basket case's win/loss ratio of 51.9 per cent compared with the Bulldogs' 45.5, the Dockers' 40.3, and the Saints' 39.5.

Port won the premiership in 2004, exactly 50 years after the Bulldogs' only premiership and 40 years since Melbourne's most recent triumph. St Kilda's only premiership was in 1966.

And of course the Bulldogs, Melbourne and St Kilda flags in question were won in the VFL.

Before entering the AFL, Port won SANFL premierships in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 . . . well, you get the picture.

Port made the finals in its third year in the AFL, starting a run of seven finals appearances in nine years, ending with the 2007 grand final.

Former AFL boss Wayne Jackson has defended Port Adelaide, saying the attacks on the Power reeks of a Victorian-centric culture.

"The Victorian press is so fond of talking about interstate clubs," Jackson told The Weekend Australian. But in a national competition there's no such thing as an interstate club. They're all interstate clubs."

Jackson said charges Port was a drain on the competition were easily countered by flipping through the other clubs' books.

"The financial support given to Port would be significantly less than that given to Melbourne, the Western Bulldogs, North Melbourne and the two (new) franchise clubs."

Jackson said that for the foreseeable future the AFL was committed to the league's present structure.

However, he cautioned Port against placing too much faith in the move from AAMI Stadium to Adelaide Oval in 2014, a decision repeatedly put up as a game changer by Duncanson and Thomas during Monday's press conference.

"I don't believe Adelaide Oval solves Port's problems," Jackson said.

"The move by itself doesn't necessarily improve Port's playing performance. Adelaide Oval will obviously be a terrific thing for Australian football. But the fact is going to Adelaide Oval doesn't kick goals for Port Adelaide Football Club. You can play on a beach if you're winning."

Port Adelaide is Adelaide's Collingwood. Outsiders are raised to hate the black and white (as Port wore before deferring to the other Magpies, formed 22 years after it).

Just as the antipathy towards Collingwood has been embraced in Adelaide it seems the anti-Port graft has taken in the east.

But the critics have forgotten the favour Port did the rest of the competition by stopping Brisbane's seemingly inexorable run at four consecutive flags in 2004.

Playing a bruising brand of old-fashioned football, the Power's journeymen won without bottoming out, without tanking, and without a Clarkson's cluster (although Alastair Clarkson was an assistant at Port in its premiership year). It won with only one out-and-out champion -- Gavin Wanganeen.

Mark Williams sculpted a side with real grunt. Josh Carr, Roger James, Michael Wilson and Damien Hardwick crashed into packs and intimidated their opponents.

It recycled before the hip inner-Sydney types embraced the Swans' environmentally-friendly band of interstate once-beens and never-beens.

Wanganeen, Hardwick, Jarrad Schofield, Matthew Bishop, Adam Kingsley, Josh Mahoney, Byron Pickett and Darryl Wakelin were all recruited from other clubs or returned after starting with the Port Magpies.

Grateful for their second chances, the rough and ready dissidents sacrificed all for the club.

Primus followed a similar path in assembling hard nuts: Port has won more hard balls than any of Hawthorn, Collingwood, Geelong or the West Coast this season.

But the Power failed to embrace one of the game's key buzz words -- the spread. While others spread, the Power shrank.

Encouraging wins over St Kilda, North Melbourne and Carlton were forgotten as the game plan descended into a schizophrenic mix of stagnant, crab-like movement and costly turnovers.

Off field it is haemorrhaging money, recording losses of $3.16 million in 2011 and $3.69m in 2010.

Attendances are down but that is easily fixed -- by winning.

Jackson says successful clubs get four key appointments right -- the president, chief executive, coach and football operations manager.

"I have no doubt that with the right people Port can get back to being extremely successful on the field," he said.

[Johno6]

ill be at the game this sunday, hopefully i can get a ticket
unless mr and mrs tarp have brought the place out

[Hefty]

I just read Terry Wallace has put his name forward for the job.

This is the coach who took Richard Tambling ahead of Buddy Franklin........good luck!!

[Choccies]

We can kill 2 birds with one stone here....

Get a ginormous tarp to cover the whole stadium then no-one has to put up with watching the awful stuff they are putting out at the moment AND we get a covered stadium !! WIN, WIN !!!

[Rik E Boy]

Andrew Fulker - The Australian :

A similar article probably appeared about Fitzroy in 1952.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

ill be at the game this sunday, hopefully i can get a ticket
unless mr and mrs tarp have brought the place out

The tarps have the place covered as Port have been canvassing for support.

regards,

REB

[GWW]

A similar article probably appeared about Fitzroy in 1952.

regards,

REB

Hopefully that gives us at least another 45 years then

[Psyber]

There is some talk on the Port supporters only thread blaming Peter Rohde for their ills.
It is a little puzzling as he did a very good job at Norwood.
Perhaps he is in the wrong role at the Power?

[JK]

There is some talk on the Port supporters only thread blaming Peter Rohde for their ills.
It is a little puzzling as he did a very good job at Norwood.
Perhaps he is in the wrong role at the Power?

To be fair Mickey Mouse could have coached that 97' Norwood team to a flag .. I think it's perfectly understandable the supporters question Rohde's role, he's been there through the clubs darkest years so supporters will naturally associate the two.

[Booney]

There is some talk on the Port supporters only thread blaming Peter Rohde for their ills.
It is a little puzzling as he did a very good job at Norwood.
Perhaps he is in the wrong role at the Power?

To be fair Mickey Mouse could have coached that 97' Norwood team to a flag .. I think it's perfectly understandable the supporters question Rohde's role, he's been there through the clubs darkest years so supporters will naturally associate the two.

Especially when his role oversees all the player development roles and recruiting. His position is now untenable and I am amazed he has yet to be shown the door. I guess changing that role with 3 weeks to go is pointless though.

Must be moved on.

[Footy Smart]

There is some talk on the Port supporters only thread blaming Peter Rohde for their ills.
It is a little puzzling as he did a very good job at Norwood.
Perhaps he is in the wrong role at the Power?

To be fair Mickey Mouse could have coached that 97' Norwood team to a flag .. I think it's perfectly understandable the supporters question Rohde's role, he's been there through the clubs darkest years so supporters will naturally associate the two.

Especially when his role oversees all the player development roles and recruiting. His position is now untenable and I am amazed he has yet to be shown the door. I guess changing that role with 3 weeks to go is pointless though.

Must be moved on.

Is suggest moving him on now allows you 3 weeks extra to replace him and that person 3 weeks extra to prepare for next year. Darfting, coaching appointments (if he plays a role in that), list management etc

[Strawb]

There is some talk on the Port supporters only thread blaming Peter Rohde for their ills.
It is a little puzzling as he did a very good job at Norwood.
Perhaps he is in the wrong role at the Power?

To be fair Mickey Mouse could have coached that 97' Norwood team to a flag .. I think it's perfectly understandable the supporters question Rohde's role, he's been there through the clubs darkest years so supporters will naturally associate the two.

Especially when his role oversees all the player development roles and recruiting. His position is now untenable and I am amazed he has yet to be shown the door. I guess changing that role with 3 weeks to go is pointless though.

Must be moved on.

Look what he did at the Western Bulldogs in his two years as coach and Port hired him.

[daysofourlives]

I cant believe no one has suggested Andy Collins, he is a multi premiership winning player in one of the greatest era's of all time, premiership coach in the VFL and has West Adelaide finally looking like a contender for the SANFL flag.
They could do alot worse than him.

[Rik E Boy]

A similar article probably appeared about Fitzroy in 1952.

regards,

REB

Hopefully that gives us at least another 45 years then

What a barrell of laughs that would have been. You guys having 45 years like that is more than us non Portonians could hope for!

regards,

REB