Port Training News

[Macca19]

I got this info from a board member and selector at the club:

Brendon Lade would be the third fittest player at the club at the moment and he is real excited about the up coming season.

Both Barry Brooks and Damon White are training the house down and according to my source, Mark Williams is looking at both to play a few games at the Power in 2002.

Damien Hardwick has fallen behind a bit, not because he is very unfit, but because, according to himself, he has never had a pre season as tough as this ever before and that the majority of Port players now are fitter than he saw any Essendon player at his time at Essendon. Andrew Russell is giving Port the hardest pre season training ever apparently.


sounds alright to me!

[Grave Danger]

Sounds good Macca. Will be interesting to see how we approach the No Sponsor Cup competition next year. Hardwick too old, too slow? Hope not ;)





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[PowerGirl36]

Originally posted by Macca19
Both Barry Brooks and Damon White are training the house down and according to my source, Mark Williams is looking at both to play a few games at the Power in 2002.

Which SANFL clubs have they been put in next year?

I don't know if Brooks will get to play much if we have Ladey back :confused: It would be great if he could get a few games though. Or would White have a better chance?

[Porthos]

I can't help but feel 2000 repeating. We trained the house down at the start of 2000 too. We were fitter than ever then too. We'd just come off a finals campaign then too.

Are they being overtrained maybe? Its no good winning 5 in a row at the start of the year and bombing out in the finals again...

[Porthos]

Originally posted by PowerGirl36


Which SANFL clubs have they been put in next year?

I don't know if Brooks will get to play much if we have Ladey back :confused: It would be great if he could get a few games though. Or would White have a better chance?

We won't find that out until after the draft and rookie draft tomorrow, so we know how many non-SANFL players are to be spread between the clubs. Hopefully there'll be a couple more, or Port Magpies will miss out on a pick.

[Macca19]

Originally posted by Porthos
I can't help but feel 2000 repeating. We trained the house down at the start of 2000 too. We were fitter than ever then too. We'd just come off a finals campaign then too.

Are they being overtrained maybe? Its no good winning 5 in a row at the start of the year and bombing out in the finals again...

I think the reason of our crappy 2000 form was that the players tended to think they had made it at AFL level just by making the finals the year before. Dew, Burgoyne, Francou, Schofield and Kingsley all had fairly poor 2000 seasons. Then there were the injuries. Its a fairly common opinion i think, but i reckon its true. I think our players are now more professional to not let that happen again. Especially after our finals exit...i think they will be more hungrier this year, to prove they can win finals, than they were last year, to prove they werent a crap side.

We definatly have one of the best lists in the league and only a basic disaster would make us miss the finals i believe. I think they are being trained hard now so that they can last out the end of the season. I beleive we ran outta legs by the end of the finals. After playing all the Ansett Cup games and all the season games and finals games to that point, i dont think we had the legs in the finals. Hopefully this year that will change.

I guess we will find out soon, but im very very confident for our chances this season.

[Porthos]

Sure, it might change. We might do what we did in 2000.

Mark Williams decides to use the Ansett Cup to blood rookies. Then he brings back a bunch of blokes without match practice into the side in the last game of the Cup, and the first round, and there's no teamwork because the core players are starting cold.

Interview with Damien Hardwick: The season doesn't start until the finals next year, I believe is approximately what he said....its true in a way, but its a long way to look ahead. Probably as far ahead as we looked in 2000, perhaps.

I just hope we've learned something...don't want to be the alternate Melbourne of the league.