Port Adelaide looking to recapture fans
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:11 amAfter reading Rucci's article this morning about Keith Thomas looking to get it's old fans back on board, I questioned a mate, what he would say when his letter arrives from the Power asking him to sign back up. This is his response which I thought was worth sharing. Mod's I edited this as best I could
Lads its quite simple
I am short bald white boy, with a fat wife and two little girls, no chance of having a little boy – cos my n*** have been disconnected, and therefore no chance to pass on my incredible sporting prowess to the next generation.
I have enough problems without adding PAFC back into my agenda
If I was to re-enter the PAFC Family, what would this achieve
1. I get to join a club who is desperately hanging onto to its 1870 tradition, but at the same time saying – well, we’re not really PAFC – so Norwood fans should get on board too
2. The stench of Williams will linger in the clubrooms for a long time, he brought with him a lot of negativity, a refusal to accept any blame for the infamous choke years – purely directing it at players and not the game plan – which is why people like Bourgoyne left, and people like Roger James don’t go to games – If you can’t get a club champion to watch a game live – what chance have you got of getting anyone else to.
3. Football Park is about an hours drive for me, it costs $4000 to get drunk at the game, and you will probably sit next to a production line worker who yells holding Da ball every time the opposition touch it, and if Judd or Ablett or anyone else from the opposition does something incredible at the game – it is deathly silent, no respect at all – all you can hear is someone whinging about a free kick from 10 minutes before.
4. Football isn’t the game it was – for example the dragging it under rule, whoever came up with that should have his face held up to a brick and have a wall thrown at it. No other game in history has sweeping changes every year like AFL does, the game was awesome in the 90’s, long kicking to contests, one on one was a genuine tactic that made a game exciting, flooding wasn’t done – and if it was – it wasn’t so clinical that it puts 36 players in half of the oval. An accepted coaching manoeuvre these days is to take someone off immediately after they kick a goal, are u f*kcing kidding me ? Keep him out there and give him back the ball – he’s on fire for FFS!
5. The rich clubs are getting so much richer and more powerful they have basically a license to print money – they get all the block buster games, their choice of grounds on what night and don’t travel much, this is what is wrong with Premier League in Europe – there are only 4 or 5 teams that ever make the flag, and the way Collingwood are going – they are becoming so powerful that even with a salary cap, they still have a huge advantage over poorer clubs.
6. So maybe I should shift clubs, would that help ? No – I live in SA so if I follow a Melbourne team I’m gonna have to drive for an hour to get spat on by morons, if I go for the other Adelaide team – I am basically telling the universe I have no respect for football clubs, and would rather follow some composite mash of Norwood Sturt and Glenelg who were so pissed off by Port winning an AFL license that they had to take it to court and cry lack pack if impotent slugs and stamp their feet temper tantrum style until they formed the fruit loops, sponsored by arguably the most boring Car in the history of Australia. Not because they deserved a license – but they were just so bitter that the team that dominated the SANFL for so long was moving on. That is the sort of behaviour that gets your head cut off in Iran.
So whats the solution
I still enjoy the footy, but not as much as before, so now I simply watch games at home on my leather recliner – in fully air conditioned comfort, getting smashed for about $25, and if the game sucks, I turn on my Blu Ray player and watch a good movie instead, where no matter what – no idiot runs onto the field holds his tie up like he’s choking, and then singles out the no# 1 sponsor of the club – what a marketing genius that f*ckwit was, can you imagine if Malcolm Blight got up and said “ And Toyota – Your Camry Bores Me”
Lads its quite simple
I am short bald white boy, with a fat wife and two little girls, no chance of having a little boy – cos my n*** have been disconnected, and therefore no chance to pass on my incredible sporting prowess to the next generation.
I have enough problems without adding PAFC back into my agenda
If I was to re-enter the PAFC Family, what would this achieve
1. I get to join a club who is desperately hanging onto to its 1870 tradition, but at the same time saying – well, we’re not really PAFC – so Norwood fans should get on board too
2. The stench of Williams will linger in the clubrooms for a long time, he brought with him a lot of negativity, a refusal to accept any blame for the infamous choke years – purely directing it at players and not the game plan – which is why people like Bourgoyne left, and people like Roger James don’t go to games – If you can’t get a club champion to watch a game live – what chance have you got of getting anyone else to.
3. Football Park is about an hours drive for me, it costs $4000 to get drunk at the game, and you will probably sit next to a production line worker who yells holding Da ball every time the opposition touch it, and if Judd or Ablett or anyone else from the opposition does something incredible at the game – it is deathly silent, no respect at all – all you can hear is someone whinging about a free kick from 10 minutes before.
4. Football isn’t the game it was – for example the dragging it under rule, whoever came up with that should have his face held up to a brick and have a wall thrown at it. No other game in history has sweeping changes every year like AFL does, the game was awesome in the 90’s, long kicking to contests, one on one was a genuine tactic that made a game exciting, flooding wasn’t done – and if it was – it wasn’t so clinical that it puts 36 players in half of the oval. An accepted coaching manoeuvre these days is to take someone off immediately after they kick a goal, are u f*kcing kidding me ? Keep him out there and give him back the ball – he’s on fire for FFS!
5. The rich clubs are getting so much richer and more powerful they have basically a license to print money – they get all the block buster games, their choice of grounds on what night and don’t travel much, this is what is wrong with Premier League in Europe – there are only 4 or 5 teams that ever make the flag, and the way Collingwood are going – they are becoming so powerful that even with a salary cap, they still have a huge advantage over poorer clubs.
6. So maybe I should shift clubs, would that help ? No – I live in SA so if I follow a Melbourne team I’m gonna have to drive for an hour to get spat on by morons, if I go for the other Adelaide team – I am basically telling the universe I have no respect for football clubs, and would rather follow some composite mash of Norwood Sturt and Glenelg who were so pissed off by Port winning an AFL license that they had to take it to court and cry lack pack if impotent slugs and stamp their feet temper tantrum style until they formed the fruit loops, sponsored by arguably the most boring Car in the history of Australia. Not because they deserved a license – but they were just so bitter that the team that dominated the SANFL for so long was moving on. That is the sort of behaviour that gets your head cut off in Iran.
So whats the solution
I still enjoy the footy, but not as much as before, so now I simply watch games at home on my leather recliner – in fully air conditioned comfort, getting smashed for about $25, and if the game sucks, I turn on my Blu Ray player and watch a good movie instead, where no matter what – no idiot runs onto the field holds his tie up like he’s choking, and then singles out the no# 1 sponsor of the club – what a marketing genius that f*ckwit was, can you imagine if Malcolm Blight got up and said “ And Toyota – Your Camry Bores Me”