2014 AFL - Round 10 Discussion

[Bornadog]

Re: 2014 AFL - Round 10 Discussion

It looked amazing. Add to the stadium/atmosphere that they have players like Wingard and Polec who are playing such exciting footy. How I wish we had a stadium to call our own!

Apparently they are not making much out of the stadium.

Despite record crowds and - for Port Adelaide - an unprecedented membership high of 53,000, both clubs have been shocked at their poor financial returns from the stadium. Port Adelaide hosted the sold-out Showdown in round two and received a $35,000 cheque as its match-day profit. The Crows are still waiting for the breakdown of their first home game, again Sydney in round three.

[Throughandthrough]

Re: 2014 AFL - Round 10 Discussion

It looked amazing. Add to the stadium/atmosphere that they have players like Wingard and Polec who are playing such exciting footy. How I wish we had a stadium to call our own!

Yep. And they have one of the youngest lists in the AFL.


I took this photo tonight

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34664426@N04/14258032635/sizes/l/

[Sedat]

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When my team grows up I hope it plays like this Port Power team. Fantastic to watch.

Less than 3 years ago (and 12 months after our last finals series), 10 of the same Power players from tonight lost to the same opponent by 165 points.

I don't mind the idea of slow and steady improvement while we are rebuilding, but equally I don't want to put any ceiling on our upside. Port's upside in the last couple of years, with a large portion of their current playing group still intact from their cellar dwellar days, is a salient lesson to all teams in rebuilding phase (us included). Some long rebuilds never bear any fruit - Carlton are about to start again and didn't even get to week 3 of the finals, Norf's rebuild has given them a 100 point finals flogging and nothing else thus far, and Richmond's rebuild has given them an embarrassing finals loss to a team that wasn't even supposed to be in there. Port started their rebuild much later than all these clubs (probably later than ours) and have whisked past them all. We really should be expecting to make finals in 2015 and staying there for 4+ years thereafter, otherwise we are putting a ceiling on our improvement.

[lemmon]

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So jealous of what Port have managed to build so quickly. Great coach, great players, great brand of footy and a great admin- all the pieces of the puzzle jumped in to place incredibly quickly. The dyed in the wool supporters who were at AAMI stadium when they had to string up tarps must be pinching themselves.

I don't want that to be read as a criticism of our process either, let's hope the slow burn lasts the longest.

[Remi Moses]

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Wouldn't underplay having a decent coach either.