Player Watch Welcome to Port Adelaide SSP (2025) - Josh Lai

[Rash]

farkkkkk

 

[davesnothere]

Yeah why not. So close.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Cochrane and Lai our young fresh talent having some rotten luck

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

would he be our first ever player to debut who hasnt played some form of leauge football?

incredible story, he's brother is one to watch as well.

Do you consider U/18's football as some form of league football?

 

[Rash]

Do you consider U/18's football as some form of league football?

i only consider league football to be VFL, WAFL, QFL, SANFL and those types of leauges.

u18 is a funny one

 

[It Just Is]

Feels like our young players always get injured when they are about to debut

 

[Freak Dodgeball Accident]

Feels like our young players always get injured when they are about to debut

Definitely, I was thinking exact same thing the other day when this happened. Jake Pasini was definitely in line, pretty sure Hugh Jackson at one stage, possibly Bergman. There's a couple more I had thought of but have completely forgotten now

 

[1954]

i only consider league football to be VFL, WAFL, QFL, SANFL and those types of leauges.

u18 is a funny one

I don't consider U18 level league football either, but back when the SANFL and WAFL were very strong comps and their top 4 or 5 teams were regularly competitive against the lower ranked Melbourne clubs there were Victorian commentators (Lou Richards was the major culprit), who when calling a VFL game would describe a 20 plus SA or WA footballer who had played at least 2 or 3 seasons in the `league' team for their original club as playing `their first game of football!'

It was patronising and condescending BS that got up the noses of many non Victorians and probably helped cause `the kick a Vic' type responses of the era, but Richards in particular got away with that crap for years.

 

[PortAdelFC1997]

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A little late but a one year extension looming for the kid. Hope once he comes back from his injury and has a few solid weeks getting up to scratch again and pushes his case for an AFL debut.

 

[davesnothere]

That's about the easiest decision Port have made lately.