Booney wrote:morell wrote:MW wrote:Not sure @morell would agree with you
I don't. At all.
Hawthorn have dominated the AFL. As have Geelong. As have Sydney. As have Brisbane.
The notion that you can't have sustained periods of success is defeatist mediocrity accepting bullshit more becoming of the franchise down the road. This is the sort of cultural crap that has pervaded the club of late.
We had our opportunity and didn't take it, we had our chance and let it slip in the early 00's.
Agree, but we've also let it slip since 2013. 2014, 2015, 2016 and now 2017 absolutely wasted years.
I don't expect a flag every year, but I expect us to finish at least where our list and age profile is at and then take our ******* opportunity if it presents itself.
We win one more game we finish second. Two home finals. Maybe a prelim. Anything can happen.
We should've gotten a flag out of the Hinkley group by now. That isn't too much to ask nor is it unrealistic. It should be par for the course for Port.
1 flag every 5 years should be the aim.
Booney wrote:The whole equilisation thing works, you get your turn, you make the most of it or you don't and you step aside for someone else to have a go.
Hawthorn are moving aside, Brisbane are in free fall, Geelong are managing it well and Sydney were aided by some AFL love.
Yeah but they've all won flags, multiple times. So it is possible. Equalisation or not.
Booney wrote:It's a different landscape, a different competition and you're deluded if you think we can do what we did for years and years in the competition you don't watch anymore.
I don't expect Magpies SANFL type success. Thats simple math, we went from 10 teams to 16 now 18.
But I do expect Hawthorn, Geelong, Sydney AFL type success.
Booney wrote:Take into account our shit administration in the late 00's running us into the ground and how the **** do you expect us to be a power house at the top of the table year after year? Open your eyes man, it's 2017, it's the AFL we're in here.
Yep and I want to win the whole ******* thing. As often as possible.
You seem happy with being in the middle and not overtly sucking.
Sadly, so does the club.
Booney wrote:Be pragmatic, run a chart or something to give you a clue on how hard it is to be the best of the best for a period of time. Don't lower your expectations, just be realistic about where you should be or you're going to end up bitter and twisted.
Read The Creed. I believe in it. Do you?
For a traditional Port person you exhibit a heck of a lot of non-Port thinking.
