Update
Please excuse the lack of recent posting as I'm currently preoccupied with preparing for an upcoming Web project. News of this soon.
Here's a quick thought on yesterday's AFL grand final. Despite being a Collingwood fan I can't help but commiserate with Port Adelaide's disastrous result. As a long-suffering St George rugby league supporter I know only too well the long term effects of such a record losing grand final.
In 1975 Saints were whitewashed 38-0 by Eastern Suburbs, in what came to be known as the 'white boots' grand final. St George legend Grames Langlands took the field injured, only to spend the game 'in a field of fairies', after an overdose of pain killers. Sadly, he was totally useless.
And just to compound the misery he inexplicably broke with tradition and choose to wear gleaming white football boots for the game !?
As a result of this ignominious thrashing I have a friend who, anytime he wants to push a button, quietly says to me, "Mate, white boots..." In much the same way my son will occasionally remark on my wedding suit choice from that year, "Dad, brown suit..."
Grand finals can be cruel and some games are best forgotten. Thus I fear Port Adelaide fans are now faced with a psychological hurdle taking a generation or more to overcome, if ever. Good luck to them.
The Pies and Saints for '08 !
As a Port Power supporter, it was a bloody awful result but we are used to our team's erratic performance. I don't think we'll be weeping for a generation or two. The coach, Mark Williams, achieved a miracle in getting his bunch of new boys and misfits into the Grand Final and, while the better team most certainly won, the Power did finish number two on the ladder. So, in the grubby, industrial Port Adelaide tradition there is always next year...These anti-depressants are well worth the money. Makes me take a Pollyanna approach to just about everything.
Posted by: Colin | October 01, 2007 at 07:29 AM
It ain't necessarilly so, Adrian.
I'm not a Port fan, but i recall in 1989 Port Adelaide in the SANFL smashed North Adelaide. I forget the Port score, but as a Rooster supporter 1.8 is burned in to my mind for North's score.
A generation to pass? No, two years later North were again SANFL premiers.
Posted by: David | October 05, 2007 at 12:01 PM