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I thought Sweet was competing well in the ruck before Marshall got injured, and then as should be expected given the circumstances was definitely the better 4 qtr player, and there is no doubt he is a big strong campaigner who is apparently the tallest player we have had in the history of the...

It has been mentioned many times during kern's tenure that his multiple get out clauses of `finals are scary,' someone has to lose,' etc, etc, etc, plus his laughing and joking with oppo coaches after losing what should have been unlosable games are as non Port Adelaide as it could possibly get...

It probably won't be greatly dissimilar to when Tom Jonas was eventually dropped to the Maggies for 3 games after something like 6 Barry Crockers in a row for the Power, and was then reinstated with virtually zero form at that level too. In the 2 games I saw TJ did his usual thing of trailing...

I watched about 10 minutes of the 2nd qtr and all of the 2nd half of the brisvegas v gws game, and I can't recall watching a game for quite some time where a team has given the ball back to the oppo as often as the brisvegas players did last night, particularly in the 3rd quarter when the result...

I was thinking `provincial' side, if the final line up has anything like 9 top ups in the starting 18 I suspect we are probably looking at yet another smacking from the deadlegs! :'(

Way back in the late 1980's when the sanfl was a 10x better comp than it is now, the hierarchy had the guts to not reappoint (sack?) Russell Ebert and brought back John Cahill. There were numerous complaints from Port supporters about the poor treatment of a club legend, which included at least...

Re `the keys to the gym' bit, there is a pic of JHF from when he was at norf where he appears more developed in the shoulders and particularly his biceps than he does now.

If McCallum is still on the Power list when the Tassie team comes into the comp he would have to be a strong chance to be traded to them, but he would have to improve significantly on what he has shown so far at sanfl level for either of those scenarios to eventuate.

I believe if Port had got the first licence in this state ( as they arguably should have ) the club had about 6 or 7 high quality current AFL players plus a number of very promising locals (and not just from Alberton) ready to join, and would have been able to put a very strong team on the park...

Re Ratugolea, most cut him some slack as it was his first game against another team (for us), but unless my eyes were playing tricks Aliir gave him a few sprays in the first half of that trial at Alberton which appeared to be related to his poor positioning and/or inability to pick up his man...

I'm on the same page as those who believe Tredrea is playing the long game, and will go much harder behind closed doors particularly if this season as expected by many is another wasted year. It's painfully obvious that kokhead is an absolute babe in the woods when it comes to actual football...

Decent first half by the Maggies, but I suspect the difference in body size between many of them and their wwt opponents will unfortunately wear them down later in the game.

I'm on the same page as those who are of the opinion hinkley is as surprised as anyone that he has retained a senior coaching role for this long, and probably would have expected to have been sacked at least 4 or 5 seasons ago by any other club. He is obviously not particularly intelligent in...

As others have already said playing Soldo in the Dixon key forward role was ridiculous, he can score a goal or two drifting forward as a ruckman, but having him opposed to a genuine tall defender in Moore was just gift wrapping the position to the wobblers and their coach. I didn't hear any of...

Jackson has shown the most of those 3 in the SANFL, but is very lightly framed and will probably need to put on at least 5 extra kg's of muscle to have a chance of surviving at the next level. Sinn who has arguably never played any more than the occasional good qtr for the Maggies is...