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It's not just that Port meshes in better as a club, rather than a corporation. Port understands the s**t hand dealt the non-Victorian clubs and works it's arse off to still succeed in spite of it. Adelaide still has the idea that they are 'on the inside', one of the chosen clubs, with the big Vic clubs. They honestly don't get, that just because they get given some better time slots / opponents for games, to maximise AFL revenue / TV Rights, that they aren't 'a player'.
Great article. Best part was ken saying we’ll take him if he’s there and back out culture in. Dogs would’ve known we would be every chance to turn anyone into a 1 club player.Excellent story on our 2018 Draft - from a Herald Sun journo, not a Fertiliser hack.
More good stuff than the mods will allow to be reproduced here, but talks about all the deals we did to get the picks we ended up with (ie Wingard and Polec/Pittard trades), the pick swaps with Freo and Brisbane to keep edging further into the first round, and a 'black ops' deception tactic to bluff the Doggies re Zak Butters (see below).
We almost missed out Xavier Duursma, but Freo with the pick before us went for Sam Sturt instead - our reaction to that is included below...
How Port Adelaide pulled off bold plan to secure dynamic trio Rozee, Butters and Duursma in 2018 draft
Port Adelaide hatched an intricate plan to land three of the best young guns in the 2018 draft and it involved providing false intel for another club.
Scott Gullan
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They’d been forced to launch a misinformation campaign in order to save the “expected” draft order which would ensure a livewire from Bacchus Marsh named Zak Butters was available at their second selection.
The Western Bulldogs had pick No.7 and were all over Bailey Smith, a gun midfielder from the Sandringham Dragons, who had made it known he didn’t want to move interstate.
But Port had got wind of a plan for the Dogs to do a deal with the GWS Giants and slide down the draft because they were confident Smith’s stance had scared off the interstate clubs.
So Port went to work with coach Ken Hinkley getting on the phone to Smith’s manager Paul Connors.
It was a simple message: if the Dogs dropped down, then he’d take Smith and back in his club’s system to settle the kid in Adelaide.
It was a bold move — Smith wasn’t really in their plans — but one they hoped forced the Dogs’ hand.
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Cripps’ phone was running hot. The word was out that Port were thinking of trading out pick 18 and at least three clubs had shown interest in doing a deal.
There were notes being scribbled everywhere with potential outcomes before everything went quiet as notification of the Dockers selection arrived on the screen.
“Sam Sturt, Dandenong Stingrays”
The Port Adelaide box erupted. They couldn’t contain themselves with cheers and high fives all around, the ruckus reverberating throughout Marvel Stadium.
Cripps’ phone beeped again. It was a text from his Richmond mates next door with some lighthearted advice: “Shut the f--- up will you.”
Port were in no mood to be quiet because they’d just made the biggest statement of the 2018 draft.
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I think the fact we aren't getting hately now rules him out Thomas or quaynor more likely.
You reckon?
If we really wanted him I'm sure we could of talked him into it goargie always gets what he wants.
Not really. If Paul Roos or someone done the same he'd have a new (or old) club knocking on his door every season.
If Paul Roos had been publically pleading in the media for a senior coaching job for the last decade it would look equally as desperate as Choco has looked.
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