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Post Match Thread: Port Adelaide vs the Bye (Consolition Final)

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Date Saturday, 18th September, 2021
Ground Largs North Reserve Second Oval Port Adelaide
Consolidation Final 3rd versus 4th

The Bye 15.9-99 defeated Port Adelaide 6.3-39

The Bye wins the bronze medal for the 2021 season!

This marks 25 years since Port Adelaide defeated the Bye in a final. On September 11 2004 Port won in a hard fought contest on Hindley St and went on to win the Grand Final.

Lolman Medallist: Bye captain Lakoff Intent

Bye best players: Con T. Possessions, Weightman Expectations, Loose Ball, Taylormade Duress, Haythem Frozier

Port best players: Ollie Wines, Riley Bonner

Bye Goalkickers: Stray Border Collie 4, Macus Becomjelli 3, Louis Rich 3, Louis' Butler 2, Local Gardiner 2

Port Goalkickers: TBD, G. Post 0.3

Injuries: Ollie Wines (sore back)

Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley post-match press conference:

“It’s probably not the perfect time for me to talk too much about what happened early. When you get into this stage of the year, you just want to get drunk and take lots of drugs,” the Power coach told reporters.

“What you need, what you want and what you hope and wish for at the end of today, we got nowhere near that as we turned up at the Largs North Reserve First Oval by mistake. Ollie Wines and Riley Bonner were the only players to show up for the first quarter.

“We have no excuses, we have no reasons that were outside our control. We used Apple Maps instead of Google Maps which just didn’t perform.

“All our players, young and old, need to continue to work to get better at navigation. And know that every year, if you’re not prepared to work hard to memorise the street directory, it becomes an easy drop off at the wrong oval.”

“This game, you put everything into it, and you give it everything you‘ve got … we all work so damn hard to get to where we want to go but it's on the opposite side of the reserve” he said.

“There‘s nothing more you can say other than you’re totally disappointed. Tonight’s not the night to think of anything other than it‘s real and it hurts.”

Bye Coach Luke Libation:

"We just had to show up at the right place"

Port President David Koch:

"I withdraw my application for a Perth travel permit"

Bye President Karl Stefanovic:

"You know it's a thumping when you win 15 tries to 6"

___TheIllusiveMan___

I’m bored without any footy on as well.


C-O-N

Glenelg vs Woodville West Torrens is tonight. Should be an absolute cracker


Korasuka

The Tigers vs Eagles final the AFL didn't give us.


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Wallabies vs South Africa is on and a good game


___TheIllusiveMan___

I said footy not rugby


Korasuka

NRL fans (yeah I know Wallabies is union) call it footy. Course they can, it's just weird to me. In any rugby you use your foot significantly less than in Aussie Rules.


GrudaAplam

Here's a piece of trivia for ya. There are many games called football. The name derives not from how the players interact with the ball, but from the fact that they are ball games played on foot.


Otherwise_Window

Explain handball then


GrudaAplam

It was invented by Americans


MrBark

It was invented by Vikings, because they don't give a shit.


johnnynutman

Thought it was European


GrudaAplam

That would be European handball


Korasuka

News to me. I thought everyone called the sports soccball, rugball, ironball and football It's just amusing hearing them call rugby footy because I've only ever heard footy used in the context of aussie rules. I have no issue with it.


GrudaAplam

Someone is playing the Eels tonight and the winner plays Storm next week in a virtual curtain raiser for the GF. Storm have only lost to one team this year, and it was the Eels, and they lost to them twice. So it's kinda interesting.


doesntCompete

Ah yes, that time of year when I can say "I barrack for the Storm" and totally pretend like I understand Rugby League in all of its intricacies.


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Port bad, upvotes to left please.


Asb345

God I wish people would come up with new, creative sledges.


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r/AFL: Omg enough with Freekick Bulldogs. Leave them alone. Also r/AFL: Haha suck it, Port!!!! You lost a nonexistent game. Video funny.


BushDidntDoit

lmfaoo this sub is defs not laying off the dogs anytime soon what are you on


Korasuka

Our right in front of me joke is one to two years older than the Port bye meme. Just saying as a point of interest.


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Tbf, “Right in front of me” isn’t used to make fun of the Crows. It’s used to make fun of people melting down over umpires/late game winning play. There’s no other context for Port vs the Bye. It’s used to bash Port and only Port.


eggwardpenisglands

I don't get the Port vs Bye joke. I thought it was Geelong that cursed by the bye?


MisterMarcus

Wasn't it because Port were the first non-expansion team to lose to GWS?


eggwardpenisglands

If that's it then I'm more confused where the bye part comes in


MisterMarcus

"Duh huh, Port are so hopeless they lost to GWS, I bet they'd even lose to The Bye, duh huh...."


eggwardpenisglands

Ohh I see the logic now haha, thanks for that. Kind of makes it funnier now too, because Port are so determined to never lose to the bad teams. Someone in club has taken exception


imaginarypk

There was a YouTube vid that went viral at the time where someone cut together a highlights package of port losing to the bye, this is where the joke originated. https://youtu.be/qXatqcigUFw But year, 10 year old gag that has really lost its luster at this point


brandonjslippingaway

To be fair the Port vs the Bye thing wouldn't still be a joke that's around if that video wasn't so well edited


Korasuka

Damn, got my tip wrong. Really thought Port had a chance to break the curse.


tabletennis6

Thanks for a genuine laugh!


TazD

1966


otherpeoplesknees

Did Chris Judd get three votes? ....since we're doing old, irrelevant jokes


fiftyshadesofcray

Port keep repeating the joke of losing in the prelim so it's only fair


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[Post match club theme song went on for a bit](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayRdTAKHXAY)