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Aaaaand that couldn't have gone any worse as tech issues saw Tom and Dave silent on the air and only Matt was broadcasting. :flushed:

Hi all, Tom and Dave hit the airwaves in 20 minutes with magician, mentallist, illusionist and Port mad Matt Tarrant as the special guest. Jump on the #spreaker app to listen in.

Why? Dixon has 3 years to run, Marshall, Ladhams and Georgiades next in line. Absolutely not.

If the monkey isn’t off the back it’s certainly lost some of its grip as Port Adelaide turned the tables on their nemesis defeating Geelong by 16 points at Adelaide Oval in the qualifying final and in turn earning themselves a home preliminary final against the winner of Richmond and St Kilda...

Interesting times ahead with Port Adelaide's board reportedly saying "Thanks, but no thanks" to several offers from Keith Thomas to stay on as CEO after declaring in 2019 that this year would be his last and he has offered, apparently, to stay on and guide the club out of the economic disaster...

Outcoached when preparing for the match. Outplayed by a team who executed their plan better than we did. The End. It was apparent early that Geelong had a game plan devised to counter the one Port play. In the opening term we saw Geelong exit sideways from defence, one, this gave them space...

Nothing better than getting the test paper back from your teacher with an “A” on the top of it and this morning Hinkley will be handing out 22 of them. I’d imagine it would be a good feeling, didn’t happen to me too often though. The opening to Saturday’s game was electric to say the least...

Another day, another review, thankfully another Port win but it didn’t look like that early on, the Bulldogs certainly jumped out of the box faster than Port did. In particular in the middle and winning the territory battle the Bulldogs dominated early possession but failed to look like scoring...

I didn’t get a chance to punch a review out on Friday and with the nature of the season I’m typing one out 10 hours before Port head back out to play so I’ll keep it short. For mine, Wines set the game up early, with 11 possessions at 84% D/E in the first quarter he set the game up as Port...

At least one reader will attest to this, I told them St Kilda 16.5+ was great value. Port haven’t played 4 quarters for a month, the loss to Brisbane, the win over GWS and the win over Carlton all had a quarter where the opposition had total control and so it was on Saturday night when St Kilda...

What a finish! Let’s talk about the 4 quarters played before that though. Without doubt one of the most entertaining opening halves of footy for the year as Port and Carlton threw the ball around and some express movement from the middle for Port and from defence for Carlton saw the two sides...

Sam Mayes makes his PAFC debut.

Given the boys were at Alberton at 5:30am for a 6am flight I thought I’d go out in sympathy by sleeping until 9 before a leisurely brunch on Semaphore Road. Sure, my morning wasn’t as hectic as theirs but I prepared as best I could for the match and despite the fly in/fly out nature of the...

It shaped up as the first genuine test Port Adelaide would face in 2020 and no, it’s not the hub, it’s the Brisbane Lions who are shaping up as one of the teams to beat this year. Given they’ll play most of their games in Queensland and the rest in Sydney they look cheery ripe to be a contender...

In the immortal words of Lloyd Christmas “I like it, I like it a lot”. There’s plenty of positives that have come from the 2020 season so far for Port Adelaide and one that this column will focus on is the buy in from the players into pressuring the opposition when we don’t have the ball...