Port Adelaide 2021

[Booney]

Port Adelaide has connected with all relevant parties in response to social media commentary relating to the club’s Indigenous guernsey for Sir Doug Nicholls Round.

Port Adelaide can now confirm the artwork on the guernsey was originally designed by Aboriginal artist Elle Campbell for a 2019 exhibition at Flinders Medical Centre to celebrate NAIDOC week.

The club met with Ms Campbell this morning who stressed that she wanted the club to wear the design as part of the upcoming Sir Doug Nicholls Round.

“Sir Doug Nicholls Round is important to me and my people and I know it means a lot to Port Adelaide. I don’t want to take anything away from the club or the Indigenous players representing the club,” she said.

“I definitely want Port Adelaide to wear the guernsey with great pride in Sir Doug Nicholls Round.”

Ms Campbell confirmed she had been in contact with the student who claimed to have designed the guernsey as part of the curriculum for the Santos Aboriginal Power Cup.

“The way the Port Adelaide Football Club has handled this has been great. I’m happy that I will receive the recognition as the original artist and that my story behind the artwork can be told,” she said.

“One thing that I want to stress is that I don’t want people to hassle the student. She’s young, she’s made a mistake and owned it, and I know what social media culture can be like. I ask people to consider her feelings because there’s certainly no ill feeling from me and I just want her to work through this situation with her family.”

Ms Campbell said she wanted all proceeds from the guernseys to be invested into the club’s Aboriginal Programs.

“I understand all the work Port Adelaide invests into Aboriginal youth through their Indigenous programs. I’m more than happy for all the guernsey sales to be invested back into these programs to ensure Indigenous youth continue to get opportunities to grow,” she said.

Port Adelaide chief executive Matthew Richardson thanked Ms Campbell for her understanding.

“Clearly, no one intended for this to play out this way, but we are now pleased that Ms Campbell will get the recognition she deserves and we look forward to telling the story behind her artwork next week,” Mr Richardson said.

“Ms Campbell has been outstanding throughout this whole process and we thank her for her understanding. It’s a mark of her character that one of her first concerns was the welfare of the student.

“We have provided support resources for the student and her family and will continue to support her moving forward. She made a mistake and acknowledged it, so now we ask others to respect her privacy.”

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Well played Elle Campbell.

[The Bedge]

A good, positive and sensible outcome.

Pleasing to see.

[whufc]

Just copying others design is a true port Adelaide tradition, first Collingwood now this

Nah an awkward situation for all that was handled well.

[Dutchy]

Well handled Port, all over inside 24 hours, crew at West Lakes could learn a thing or two

[Rik E Boy]

Well handled Port, all over inside 24 hours, crew at West Lakes could learn a thing or two

You just said something nice about Port. I'm shocked to be sitting here!

regards,

REB

[Dutchy]

Well handled Port, all over inside 24 hours, crew at West Lakes could learn a thing or two

You just said something nice about Port. I'm shocked to be sitting here!

regards,

REB

I had nice things to say about them on 22/9/2019, wasn't long ago

[MW]

Well handled Port, all over inside 24 hours, crew at West Lakes could learn a thing or two

Always in your thoughts

[Brodlach]

Well handled Port, all over inside 24 hours, crew at West Lakes could learn a thing or two

Always in your thoughts

Crows live rent free in his head

[Spargo]

Yet you ALL keep biting.

[Booney]

WhEre's tHe RePorT?

[mighty_tiger_79]

WhEre's tHe RePorT?

You're still drunk!

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[Brodlach]

WhEre's tHe RePorT?

You're still drunk!

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FFS Sack Booney!

[mighty_tiger_79]

i wonder if Dave from Alberton will chime in tomorrow to help bring equality to the brekky show??

[Jimmy_041]

Such a shame we didn't win by a point

[Booney]

Well handled Port, all over inside 24 hours, crew at West Lakes could learn a thing or two

It was a "Bomb shell" and Port were in "Damage Control", what a beat up and you're bang on, get the facts, deal with them, make your statements and if you're wrong own it. As you noted I don't see how anyone could see Port being in the wrong on this one (unless you're not very clever) and it panned out exactly that way, the artist couldn't have been clearer on how she thought it played out.

[Booney]

Never in doubt, knew we had them all along, hardly bothered us. I said none of these yesterday as Port Adelaide came from behind to beat Collingwood by 1 point in a scrappy, slow dour affair. What I did say throughout the day isn’t fit for print in a family friendly time slot so I had to make something up.

I had mixed feelings about yesterday, a few players down, out of form up against a side with not much to play for on the road is the classic recipe for Port Adelaide to drop the 4 points in years gone by. On the flip side I have more trust in this group than I have had in previous squads and as I sat down to watch I was glass half full, well, in all honesty the glass was completely full but I had just opened a can. By the 15 minute mark I was glass half empty both figuratively and literally. The glass looked like it was going to be filled and emptied a few times.

Another slow start and we’re 3 goals down at ¼ time and bar Wines’ banana in the last minute of the term we would have fulfilled my “We don’t even look like scoring” prophecy. Collingwood were prepared to chip sideways from the very last line of defence all the way to their forward 50 if it meant they denied Port the ball. Frustratingly we allowed them to do this over and over and over and over, there’s a pattern here, again and again and again and again. We’ve not been hitting the scoreboard much in the last month as it is and when Grundy kicked his second and we went 4 goals down that bad joojoo I’d thought was gone crept back into the pits of my stomach. Pretty sure we all had the same feeling. 14 minutes into the second and Gray kicks our first and the first of what turned out to be a best on ground winning 3 goals. When he kicked his second a few minutes later we had finally got some momentum and the game was looking more like the one we like to play, up and down the ground and open space to work in.

That was carried through to the third term when a perfect kick from the improving Farrell ( Just like to emphasise I claimed this kid 2 years ago as one to watch ) landed in the hands of Dixon and soon after Marshall found space to mark and convert and we’ve kicked the last 4 of the game to draw within 3 points. Then they got their hands on it and chipped their way out of the back half all the way through our zone to kick back to back goals to McReery and the 30 minutes we spent on top on either side of half time was, seemingly, wasted.

By now the game Collingwood wanted to play was glaringly obvious and we were letting them do it. They had 138 marks for the day, their season average is 95 and many of those 138 were taken in their back half going 20m sideways. We needed to up the pressure on those kicks and early in the last when Dixon dives onto the boot of Roughead for Houston to swoop and goal we saw the first signs of real desperation. It was the spark we needed.

After the Houston goal Gray kicked his third and when a good transition from defence found SPP alone we had a shot on goal to put us in front. While it didn’t register on the board a rushed behind put us in front and less than a minute later Sammy produced the goods and we had a lead that looked to be more than enough when Wines snapped a ripper on the boundary from a Dixon ruck win. Dixon had a big last term, the smother, a sideways kick to set up that transition I mention above and a clear win in the ruck to Wines, all three moments were crucial in getting us 13 points up and I’m filling, I mean, glass half full again. But, wait, what, they want to score now? And they did. McReery gets his third, Poulter pulls another back and it’s a 1 point thriller. Some big efforts from the back half in the last term as McKenzie and Burton get some important touches and a toe poke from Farrell late gave us the territory we needed to hold on in the last 30 seconds.

Mentions to Farrell, another solid game and I really like how he’s building, Ladhams, although soundly beaten kept at it and his 21 touches and more importantly 9 marks ( 4 contested ) and 6 score involvements gave us something around the ground and McKenzie came in a played like he’d not missed a beat.

Boon’s best – Gray, Boak, Farell, Powell-Pepper, Wines, Burton

Now, let’s destroy all evidence of this one and never speak of it again.

[whufc]

Jesus this review came quick

[The Bedge]

By now the game Collingwood wanted to play was glaringly obvious and we were letting them do it. They had 138 marks for the day, their season average is 95 and many of those 138 were taken in their back half going 20m sideways.

My question is.. what ever happened to old fashioned "man on man"?

Give them their first cheap 20m kick deep back, but surely at some point you just give up on zoning and find a jumper and force them to kick to a contest?

[Trader]

Boon’s best – Gray, Boak, Farell, Powell-Pepper, Wines, Burton

Surprised to see Burton in there.
If it wasn't for Houston running around like a bloke that hadn't played in a month Burton would have been our worst IMO.

Ok, perhaps not the worst, there were plenty of others who were also poor yesterday (DBJ, Bonnor, Mashall, Motlop, Amon, Hartlett), but Burton shouldn't be in the votes IMO.