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From this article.

So, after what was "probably my most disappointing season", Guerra knew the time had come to tell coach Mark Williams that he wanted to move to a club, in Victoria, where he had the opportunity to play four quarters every week.

It was a difficult decision for Guerra to make, but it was amicably received by Williams.

"Port Adelaide is a great team and it was just hard to break in. I didn't know where I stood and I thought if I came back home, I hopefully could make an impact with a club back here and I was lucky enough to get to St Kilda," he said.

"I played a lot of football back, forward and a bit onball.

"I wanted to become an onballer and with Port Adelaide, they've got so many of them at the moment. I just thought it was time for me to go."

Now intent on forging himself into a four-quarter contributor, he looks forward to finding himself a place at St Kilda, with coach Grant Thomas' only request so far that he "play tough footy".

It is a task into which Guerra, frustrated by his limited bursts of time on the ground, is more than happy to throw himself.

"I was the sort of player who'd come on for 10 minutes and hopefully get a few goals out of me, but I really want to be playing a full four quarters. With a bit of luck I'll be doing it here," he said.


Fair enough reasons and I am sure nearly all of us, if not all of us, wish him all the best.
 

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i'm so sad to see him leave! good luck goo!


just remember vans arent buses! and you will go up in the world :)
 

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Can't believe we let the situation come to this. He should be in the team. Our football dept. sh*t me at the moment. I don't even want to think about the coming year.
 

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I can see where he is coming from. Port would not have been able to offer him more than half a game a time if he was lucky. He certainly has the skills to be a fixture but when our club has Kane Cornes, Shaun Burgoyne, Steve Salopek, Dom Cassisi as it's second string of on-ballers Guerra can only expect to wait in the background and hope for players to lose form or get injured. And that is no way to build a promising career. I wish him well and hope he doesn't sink without trace like Barnaby French looks like doing.
 

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Originally posted by Eago77
Stills ****s me that he wont be around here next year:mad:
Yeah, me too. Though I'm ****tier with Choco and the coaching panel for continually pushing him out in favour of the gold pass individuals. If they hadn't we probably wouldn't be in this situation.

Porthos is right, next year he'll make them see exactly what they've lost.

The thing is, we've known all along :(

Damn those gold passes, damn them to HELL :mad:
 

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Originally posted by Paralowiepower
Unfortunately Choco see's and knows alot more than we do.
If it was football ability, he would of probably played every week.
With Guerra it hasn't been not playing games, he got to play in quite a few, it was more a case of not getting enough game time in those games.
A lot of the times he got dropped over the years wasn't so much for playing badly, but so he could get a full game or two under his belt.
 
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