Unpopular Port Adelaide opinion you may have

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'Hombsch is currently a better player than Jonas' is an unpopular opinion. 'Hombsch has always been a better player than Jonas' is just a lie. You did not believe that in 2017 and 2018 and you know it.

Who's been more consistent over their career?
 
Someone who has coached their own side for 6 years and had full control of the football program across 3 grades of a club is probably better experience than 6-8 years purely as an assistant coach at AFL level and never had to make tough decisions re selection, cutting players and implement positional and strategy changes on game day.

Sure compared to someone who has coached 6 years as head coach at AFL level they are behind the 8 ball, but most coaches who have never coached their own side, be it an AFL reserves side or state league side are more likely to fail than ones who have. I want someone who has experienced the heat of being the main man and having to make the tough decisions on game day.

One day the AFL world will wake up to the idea that assistant coach and senior coach are two totally different roles requiring totally different skill sets.
 
One day the AFL world will wake up to the idea that assistant coach and senior coach are two totally different roles requiring totally different skill sets.
Oh but you have to do our Level 4 coaching course to be good enough to do any coaching - AFL HQ
 
i always saw Hombsch as best 22 but those chronic hip issues and such (well documented by REH maybe others) kept him out of being a full time AFL athelete
 

Smithy7

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We should have drafted Ben King over Rozee last year. We are now left with a dearth of key forward options and 2019/2020 are bad KPP drafts.
What did King do last year ..
Here is Rozee v King
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King will want to improve b geez
 

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If you consider the fact that King is a first year key forward and was playing in possibly the worst team since Fitzroy (or ever), his season was very impressive. It would not surprise me if in ten years time King has just a good a career as Rozee if not better.

There are Rozee types in every draft (see Kemp this year), but King types come once in a blue moon and the chance that a club actually has the pick to land them is even rarer.

The one concern about King is the go home factor but at the moment that's looking OK for Gold Coast, and worse case scenario if he does leave Gold Coast will get seriously good value for him.
 
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We will not win another AFL premiership until we are back to being a self managed football club.

Including a genuine Port Adelaide person as the president instead of the egotistical muppet we currently have.
Like coaches the ceo's original allegiance isn't as important as long they have the right skillset, but the position of president needs to filled by a real Port Adelaide supporter with genuine respect for the club's history.
 
Trading Wingard and Howard out will be looked back on in five years time as the best thing that Port Adelaide has done since the 2004 premiership.
 
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