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Adelaide Advertiser posting a rumour about Boak and Hartletts ex missus.
Port leaders Travis Boak and Hamish Hartlett hammer ‘ridiculous’ rumours of rift

A TONGUE-IN-CHEEK joke at a sponsors’ function by Port Adelaide vice-captain Hamish Hartlett that his former girlfriend “might have got around (Travis) Boak” has led to a series of damaging and false rumours about their relationship as teammates — and mates, they say.

“It’s become ridiculous,” Boak, who is Port’s captain, told The Advertiser on Monday.

The Power leadership pair dismissed claims they are at odds — and have split the team base — since Hartlett said he had amicably ended his relationship with Lauren Jones, while Boak has also recently ended his relationship with his own girlfriend, Renee Barendregt.

Boak said: “There are now about five or six different stories about us — and none is right.”

Hartlett added: “Each week, almost every day, it is, ‘Have you heard the latest’. It has become laughable how this has developed into something that is not right. It began as a throwaway line — but it is now beyond a joke.”

@CrowFansSay @travisboak10 Absolutely laughable. One tongue-in-cheek comment at a function and rumours spread like wildfire.

— Hamish Hartlett (@hharts8) April 20, 2016

Boak, 27, is believed to have split with Ms Barendregt just before the AFL season started.
The former couple, who started dating in 2012 before taking a break, had reconciled in 2014.



Port captain Travis Boak with ex-partner Renee Barendregt on the red carpet for the 2015 AFL Brownlow Medal presentation.
Neither Boak nor Hartlett wanted to comment on their private lives or ex-partners in the media.

Hartlett, 25, traces the unsavoury commentary on his relationship with Boak to a “tongue-in-cheek” remark he made a players’ sponsors function this month when he played the audience for a laugh.

“At that stage, my partner and I had a very civil breakup of our relationship,” Hartlett said.

“The sponsors’ function was on a Wednesday. On the (previous) Saturday — after the (Friday night) Essendon game (at Adelaide Oval on April 8) — the guys were having a few beers. I was not there because I was in recovery with the hamstring (strain). My ex-partner was at the same place; she had a chat with Trav.

“We had that function the next Wednesday. It was a laid-back interview with (function host) Barry Curtin and I wanted to get a laugh with a non-footy chat. Barry asked what was happening in my relationship, you know, life off the football field. I said we had wanted to go our separate ways — after a very, very good relationship.


Renee Barendregt with Lauren Jones, Hamish Hartlett’s former partner. Pic: Naomi Jellicoe
“And, for that laugh, I added, ‘But I think she might have got around Boaky on Saturday night’.”

In the following 17 days, the claims of Boak creating a rift in Hartlett’s private life — and then for the Port Adelaide team to be taking sides to create disharmony at Alberton — have led to further mischievous suggestions of the Power’s premiership aspirations being undermined from within.

This has included unsubstantiated reports that Port Adelaide’s administration ordered Boak and Hartlett to put aside their off-field issues and to present a united front during Saturday night’s AFL clash with Geelong at Adelaide Oval where they stood side-by-side and with arms locked together during the “Last Post” tribute to the Anzacs.

“What has evolved is ridiculous,” Boak said. “There is no disharmony in the player group. We — me and ‘Hammer’ — have not had a falling out.”

Hartlett added: “I wonder if people would be saying this stuff if we were winning? It has become worse because both Trav and I have not been playing well, just as the group has been inconsistent.

“People are assuming there is some underlying factor to what has happened to us on the field. And this (suggestion of a rift between captain and vice-captain and then the full playing group) is not it. “I made a throwaway comment. What has developed from there is laughable, but it is wrong — all wrong.”
 

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Port leaders Travis Boak and Hamish Hartlett hammer ‘ridiculous’ rumours of rift

A TONGUE-IN-CHEEK joke at a sponsors’ function by Port Adelaide vice-captain Hamish Hartlett that his former girlfriend “might have got around (Travis) Boak” has led to a series of damaging and false rumours about their relationship as teammates — and mates, they say.

“It’s become ridiculous,” Boak, who is Port’s captain, told The Advertiser on Monday.

The Power leadership pair dismissed claims they are at odds — and have split the team base — since Hartlett said he had amicably ended his relationship with Lauren Jones, while Boak has also recently ended his relationship with his own girlfriend, Renee Barendregt.

Boak said: “There are now about five or six different stories about us — and none is right.”

Hartlett added: “Each week, almost every day, it is, ‘Have you heard the latest’. It has become laughable how this has developed into something that is not right. It began as a throwaway line — but it is now beyond a joke.”

@CrowFansSay @travisboak10 Absolutely laughable. One tongue-in-cheek comment at a function and rumours spread like wildfire.

— Hamish Hartlett (@hharts8) April 20, 2016

Boak, 27, is believed to have split with Ms Barendregt just before the AFL season started.
The former couple, who started dating in 2012 before taking a break, had reconciled in 2014.



Port captain Travis Boak with ex-partner Renee Barendregt on the red carpet for the 2015 AFL Brownlow Medal presentation.
Neither Boak nor Hartlett wanted to comment on their private lives or ex-partners in the media.

Hartlett, 25, traces the unsavoury commentary on his relationship with Boak to a “tongue-in-cheek” remark he made a players’ sponsors function this month when he played the audience for a laugh.

“At that stage, my partner and I had a very civil breakup of our relationship,” Hartlett said.

“The sponsors’ function was on a Wednesday. On the (previous) Saturday — after the (Friday night) Essendon game (at Adelaide Oval on April 8) — the guys were having a few beers. I was not there because I was in recovery with the hamstring (strain). My ex-partner was at the same place; she had a chat with Trav.

“We had that function the next Wednesday. It was a laid-back interview with (function host) Barry Curtin and I wanted to get a laugh with a non-footy chat. Barry asked what was happening in my relationship, you know, life off the football field. I said we had wanted to go our separate ways — after a very, very good relationship.


Renee Barendregt with Lauren Jones, Hamish Hartlett’s former partner. Pic: Naomi Jellicoe
“And, for that laugh, I added, ‘But I think she might have got around Boaky on Saturday night’.”

In the following 17 days, the claims of Boak creating a rift in Hartlett’s private life — and then for the Port Adelaide team to be taking sides to create disharmony at Alberton — have led to further mischievous suggestions of the Power’s premiership aspirations being undermined from within.

This has included unsubstantiated reports that Port Adelaide’s administration ordered Boak and Hartlett to put aside their off-field issues and to present a united front during Saturday night’s AFL clash with Geelong at Adelaide Oval where they stood side-by-side and with arms locked together during the “Last Post” tribute to the Anzacs.

“What has evolved is ridiculous,” Boak said. “There is no disharmony in the player group. We — me and ‘Hammer’ — have not had a falling out.”

Hartlett added: “I wonder if people would be saying this stuff if we were winning? It has become worse because both Trav and I have not been playing well, just as the group has been inconsistent.

“People are assuming there is some underlying factor to what has happened to us on the field. And this (suggestion of a rift between captain and vice-captain and then the full playing group) is not it. “I made a throwaway comment. What has developed from there is laughable, but it is wrong — all wrong.”

How is this even news? Gutter journalism by hacks that aren't capable of analysing footy and providing useful insight. I'd say it seems like a Sam Lane article, but there aren't enough hysterics about the mistreatment of the girlfriends...
 

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An apt go at both clubs (and Trump for good measure) here from Titus... :)

Collingwood v Essendon

In hindsight, scheduling a NAB Challenge game on ANZAC Day was probably a mistake.

Still, it gave us the chance to see new Brownlow medal favourite Mason Cox put on a master class of ten possessions against a VFL grade Bombers unit.

To be honest, you could put any random American in this side and they’d be an upgrade on Travis Cloke.

I know what you’re all thinking ‘any American? What about Donald Trump?’ It’s a fair point.

I see him more as a centre half back type though. Just building a wall along the defensive 50. It would be a terrific wall, just ask him, he’ll tell you.

This was a huge percentage boost for the Pies and it could be crucial in the battle for thirteenth spot.

There’s no doubt that everything is now fixed at Collingwood. I think I speak for all of us when I say they should extend Buckley again, right now.

Essendon fans will probably be more than a bit annoyed with the effort.

Just goes to show, when it comes to drugs, stick to illicit, not performance enhancing.
 

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SANFL tribunal loophole could rob Port, Crows of player in finals

SANDOVER Medallist Kane Mitchell could have - probably should have - a new rule named after him.

The Port Adelaide midfielder-forward would have pushed for AFL selection last week as the Power considered its options in attack. Mitchell for Jake Neade would have been an appropriate debate in the match committee room at Alberton last week.

The discussion never began - but it did spark another telephone call to the SANFL to expose a problem that could trap both Port Adelaide and the Crows in an AFL final series.

For context: Mitchell on April 11 accepted a one-match ban from the SANFL match review panel for striking North Adelaide forward Lewis Hender.

In effect, the one-game suspension put Mitchell out of all football for a fortnight - and out of the frame for the AFL selection against Geelong in the Anzac Round at the weekend.

The Port Adelaide Magpies had the SANFL bye on April 15-17 weekend, leaving Mitchell to wait until Sunday - when the Magpies played Central District at Alberton - to satisfy the SANFL judiciary’s demands.


Tough luck from the SANFL program some would say. And they would add, if Mitchell had been disciplined - a point of some concern with many Port Adelaide players today - there would be no issue to debate.

But there is.

Say, for the sake of argument, Crows midfielder Brad Crouch - as he almost did at the weekend - needs to play in the SANFL in the last home-and-away round to test a dodgy hamstring.

He is reported. He cops a one-match ban ... and the Crows SANFL team has not qualified to play in the State league finals.

By the current AFL-SANFL agreement, Crouch is not eligible for any football until he has served his ban in the competition in which he was reported - that is the SANFL. He would be ineligible for any AFL action until some time in April the following year.

The Crows would have to go through a full AFL final series with Crouch sitting in the grandstands - unable to serve his SANFL ban and unable to wear his Adelaide AFL jumper.

And Crouch would miss the start of the next AFL season as the state league competition inevitably starts later the national league. It is an extraordinary penalty - and a blind spot in the AFL-SANFL agreement that needs to be debated and resolved.

This Catch 22 applies to every Crows and Power player who works between the two competitions.

The solution? Does the SANFL allow a special tribunal to have the one-match ban replaced by a fine? Or does it grant an extraordinary permit that has the AFL-listed player cleared to play in the national league until the new SANFL season begins when he would immediately be stood down?

Mitchell has exposed a problem in time for the SANFL and AFL - and the other State leagues around the nation - to debate and resolve before they are put under extreme public pressure in September. The need for the “Mitchell Rule” is pressing.
 
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SANFL tribunal loophole could rob Port, Crows of player in finals

SANDOVER Medallist Kane Mitchell could have - probably should have - a new rule named after him.

The Port Adelaide midfielder-forward would have pushed for AFL selection last week as the Power considered its options in attack. Mitchell for Jake Neade would have been an appropriate debate in the match committee room at Alberton last week.

The discussion never began - but it did spark another telephone call to the SANFL to expose a problem that could trap both Port Adelaide and the Crows in an AFL final series.

For context: Mitchell on April 11 accepted a one-match ban from the SANFL match review panel for striking North Adelaide forward Lewis Hender.

In effect, the one-game suspension put Mitchell out of all football for a fortnight - and out of the frame for the AFL selection against Geelong in the Anzac Round at the weekend.

The Port Adelaide Magpies had the SANFL bye on April 15-17 weekend, leaving Mitchell to wait until Sunday - when the Magpies played Central District at Alberton - to satisfy the SANFL judiciary’s demands.


Tough luck from the SANFL program some would say. And they would add, if Mitchell had been disciplined - a point of some concern with many Port Adelaide players today - there would be no issue to debate.

But there is.

Say, for the sake of argument, Crows midfielder Brad Crouch - as he almost did at the weekend - needs to play in the SANFL in the last home-and-away round to test a dodgy hamstring.

He is reported. He cops a one-match ban ... and the Crows SANFL team has not qualified to play in the State league finals.

By the current AFL-SANFL agreement, Crouch is not eligible for any football until he has served his ban in the competition in which he was reported - that is the SANFL. He would be ineligible for any AFL action until some time in April the following year.

The Crows would have to go through a full AFL final series with Crouch sitting in the grandstands - unable to serve his SANFL ban and unable to wear his Adelaide AFL jumper.

And Crouch would miss the start of the next AFL season as the state league competition inevitably starts later the national league. It is an extraordinary penalty - and a blind spot in the AFL-SANFL agreement that needs to be debated and resolved.

This Catch 22 applies to every Crows and Power player who works between the two competitions.

The solution? Does the SANFL allow a special tribunal to have the one-match ban replaced by a fine? Or does it grant an extraordinary permit that has the AFL-listed player cleared to play in the national league until the new SANFL season begins when he would immediately be stood down?

Mitchell has exposed a problem in time for the SANFL and AFL - and the other State leagues around the nation - to debate and resolve before they are put under extreme public pressure in September. The need for the “Mitchell Rule” is pressing.
So would they like AFL players to enjoy diplomatic immunity at state level?
 

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SANFL tribunal loophole could rob Port, Crows of player in finals

SANDOVER Medallist Kane Mitchell could have - probably should have - a new rule named after him.

The Port Adelaide midfielder-forward would have pushed for AFL selection last week as the Power considered its options in attack. Mitchell for Jake Neade would have been an appropriate debate in the match committee room at Alberton last week.

The discussion never began - but it did spark another telephone call to the SANFL to expose a problem that could trap both Port Adelaide and the Crows in an AFL final series.

For context: Mitchell on April 11 accepted a one-match ban from the SANFL match review panel for striking North Adelaide forward Lewis Hender.

In effect, the one-game suspension put Mitchell out of all football for a fortnight - and out of the frame for the AFL selection against Geelong in the Anzac Round at the weekend.

The Port Adelaide Magpies had the SANFL bye on April 15-17 weekend, leaving Mitchell to wait until Sunday - when the Magpies played Central District at Alberton - to satisfy the SANFL judiciary’s demands.


Tough luck from the SANFL program some would say. And they would add, if Mitchell had been disciplined - a point of some concern with many Port Adelaide players today - there would be no issue to debate.

But there is.

Say, for the sake of argument, Crows midfielder Brad Crouch - as he almost did at the weekend - needs to play in the SANFL in the last home-and-away round to test a dodgy hamstring.

He is reported. He cops a one-match ban ... and the Crows SANFL team has not qualified to play in the State league finals.

By the current AFL-SANFL agreement, Crouch is not eligible for any football until he has served his ban in the competition in which he was reported - that is the SANFL. He would be ineligible for any AFL action until some time in April the following year.

The Crows would have to go through a full AFL final series with Crouch sitting in the grandstands - unable to serve his SANFL ban and unable to wear his Adelaide AFL jumper.

And Crouch would miss the start of the next AFL season as the state league competition inevitably starts later the national league. It is an extraordinary penalty - and a blind spot in the AFL-SANFL agreement that needs to be debated and resolved.

This Catch 22 applies to every Crows and Power player who works between the two competitions.

The solution? Does the SANFL allow a special tribunal to have the one-match ban replaced by a fine? Or does it grant an extraordinary permit that has the AFL-listed player cleared to play in the national league until the new SANFL season begins when he would immediately be stood down?

Mitchell has exposed a problem in time for the SANFL and AFL - and the other State leagues around the nation - to debate and resolve before they are put under extreme public pressure in September. The need for the “Mitchell Rule” is pressing.
How about they just miss the next afl game instead - it ain't rocket science :rolleyes:
 
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