Port Adelaide chairman David Koch says he would like to see the club wear its historic “prison bars” jumper against the Adelaide Crows this year and next – in a 150th anniversary “reboot”.
The club is yet to decide which jumper it will wear in its round two clash with Adelaide, but Kochie told FIVEAA Breakfast’s David & Will on Monday:
“We’re going to decide in the next couple of days. I can see both sides of the argument. We do have approval to play it in round two in the Showdown from the AFL. It’s our 150th year, the Magpies will not be playing in the SANFL… so it will be the only run that it gets. But the other side of delaying it until next year is we have it in front of our members and crowds. That’s what we’re weighing up, what’s most important.
“I reckon we do a vote. We do it round two and then I’ll apply to the AFL to play it next year in the Showdown as well. This is our 150th year. It has been – like a lot of organisations – absolutely torpedoed by this pandemic. We can’t celebrate it at all. Let’s play in it for this Showdown, the weekend after next, and then also do it in front of our fans next year.
“I reckon we need a 150 reboot next year. You’d have to be pretty mean spirited not to allow us to wear the prison bars next year in a Showdown after all that’s happened in our 150th anniversary… that’s my personal view, but well decided as a board in the next couple of days.”
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