LOL, it's not going to matter if North Melbourne turn up. The only enemy that Port ever had is itself.
But last week...last week was a four quarter effort. Players were still chasing and harassing opposition players with a minute to go when we were 40+ points in front. Last week was the game I've been waiting for for four years. Because it wasn't a game where we changed our style and caught a team who were expecting us to play one way with something different, which was what happened with Hawthorn in 2015. Instead, it was a game where we played our style of football that we've been trying to play for the first four rounds of the season....except this time, it clicked.
That's the effort of a team that wants to be something greater than the sum of its parts. That's the effort of a premiership team.
The only blip we've had this year was against Richmond in a game that we should have won if we were willing to get in the face of the Tigers instead of letting them dictate the play. And even that game was only a narrow loss.
So you can worry about what happens on Friday night if you like. I'm not. In fact, I hope North Melbourne brings their absolute best effort. It'll be like that guy in Over the Top who got his arm broken, because they'll know that even their absolute best is shit compared to what our players can bring.
I want to destroy the Shinboner spirit and eat the souls of the North Melbourne players.