OH MY GOD RICKY!!!!!!!! I am now a North supporter!!!!!
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MAGPIE MANIAC
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Well, Well, Alf, I too come from SA and still have a soft spot for Port Adelaide - not Port Power - in the SANFL. I thank the Magpies from Crow Country for having the influence on me to barrack for the Magpies in Vic. when we made the big move here. You forgot to mention Geoff Motley! He was always good for Port Adelaide. When the Power joined the AFL I wasn't stressed about them because Nathan Buckley pointed out that Port Adelaide Magpies were still playing in the SANFL and Port Power was a new team into the competition and whom I quickly learnt to hate after copping so much shit about Collingwood from the rellies over there! Anyway Port Adelaide has been a very successful side over the years and I don't think they have ever won a wooden spoon! Correct me if I am wrong!
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AlfAndrews
Don't worry, Magpie Maniac. I haven't forgotten Geoff Motley. The only reason I didn't mention him is that the players I listed were all Port players who had either played for Collingwood or coached them at some stage of their careers.
Actually I met Geoff Motley at the Collingwood Social Club a few months ago. He was with Nathan Buckley and, of course, Bucks was surrounded by people as usual. I doubt if anybody knew who Geoff Motley was. But I recognised him and I went up to him and said hello. And I told him that he'd been one of my childhood heroes. I think he was quite pleased about that.
I think footballers tend to be fairly contemptuous of fans when they're at the peak of their careers. But when they're long retired they seem to take it as a great compliment when someone comes up to them and says that they remember when they were a great player. That was one of the great things about the annual premiership celebrations at Alberton. You would see all these past players who'd been your heroes and you could talk to them without having to fight your way through hundreds of hangers-on.
And, of course, the other great Port champion that I didn't mention was the greatest of them all ... Russel Ebert.
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Actually I met Geoff Motley at the Collingwood Social Club a few months ago. He was with Nathan Buckley and, of course, Bucks was surrounded by people as usual. I doubt if anybody knew who Geoff Motley was. But I recognised him and I went up to him and said hello. And I told him that he'd been one of my childhood heroes. I think he was quite pleased about that.
I think footballers tend to be fairly contemptuous of fans when they're at the peak of their careers. But when they're long retired they seem to take it as a great compliment when someone comes up to them and says that they remember when they were a great player. That was one of the great things about the annual premiership celebrations at Alberton. You would see all these past players who'd been your heroes and you could talk to them without having to fight your way through hundreds of hangers-on.
And, of course, the other great Port champion that I didn't mention was the greatest of them all ... Russel Ebert.
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MAGPIE MANIAC
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Alf, I wished I had been at the Club to see Geoff Motley! How lucky were you! I'm pretty sure he would have been surprised at being recognised by you , especially since he was from another State . I know he was Nathan Buckley's Manager - possibly still is as well as Craig Kelly. I always find the older players are quite happy to have a chat with us, too. I haven't heard how his son , Peter, is . Perhaps someone can let us know and pass on our best wishes to him .
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Spidergirl
speaking of all these old farts Magpiegal19 and i had a chat to and got some autographs off some of them a while back in the social club, could have been at that last training at Vic Park before the last game there i think but yeah one problem--->we kinda have no idea who we were talking to coz we r too young but they were definately old legends anyway!
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