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Brisbane 20 points behind at half time in an away final against Geelong and win by 10 points. Port 20 points behind at half time in a home final against Geelong and lose by 84 points. Says it all really.

Boak is the quintessential "great clubman", with all the positives and negatives associated with that phrase. Boak at his best was in my opinion something of a poor man's Greg Williams, which is intended as a compliment, not an insult. Unfortunately his skills tended to let him down at...

Here's another depressing set of stats: Top 2 minor round finishes since 1997: Geelong - 8 (5 gfs and 4 flags plus 1 gf made from 4th) Port - 7 (2 gfs and 1 flag) Brisbane - 6 (4 gfs and 2 flags plus 1 flag won from 3rd) Hawthorn - 4 (4 gfs and 3 flags plus 1 flag won from 3rd) Collingwood - 4...

I bet she's been a Fremantle supporter for her whole life... Too bad they couldn't salute against the Hawks for her 94th birthday. The really sad thing is that she's probably got great-grandchildren who won't see a Freo flag in their lifetimes either...

That's a stat line that Kevin Bartlett would be proud of!

Most likely he was. And Graham Cornes coached the SA team.

Yes, great pick up! And we also won the AFL premiership that year, as well as in 1913, 1910 and 1890.

Yes, and it's only 7-6 in our favour for the last 7 seasons - 7 seasons in which Adelaide has never made the finals and Port has been top four 4 times and finished above Adelaide every year. And 2 of those 7 wins were by very narrow margins. This really should be an era of showdown dominance for...

Port had early dominance in the showdowns, winning 10 of the first 14. And it should have been more. It should have been 12-2. The 2 losses by 7 points each in showdowns 2 and 7 should have been wins. Port blew big leads in both of those games, with Adelaide stealing late wins. Port were...

I get what you're saying and no doubt that's how the tribunal sees it but I just disagree that the so-called "duty of care" principle can or should be applied to a violent contact sport in the context that it's being applied here. As we have seen with the ad hoc application and inconsistent...

The question here is what can be considered "a reasonable result of the bump"? It's not difficult to see the "reasonable result" of the action if a player is pushed into the fence or has his head slammed into the ground as part of a tackle, but I don't see Rankine's head hitting the ground as a...

I guess all we can hope for now is that Dan Houston in 2024 is the equivalent of Russell Johnston in 1988, with the same outcome at the end of the season.

I agree. And from memory he got 0 games.

So how many games did Charlie Cameron get for the same thing against Dan Houston in a showdown in 2017?

I don't remember that Preliminary Final. Did we win?

Thanks for your carefully considered response and I hope your family and friends in the west will stay safe and get through this. As I said, mine are in the east and it has bothered me for many years that their side of the story is not told or, if it is, it is misrepresented and the people...

Thanks for the tip!

Being based in Melbourne, I have relied on Kayo subscription for access to live Port games. A few years ago that was a pretty good deal because Kayo had a lot of other sport that I was interested in. But in the past couple of years the value of Kayo has declined sharply. They have increased...

I have a bit of a personal/historic interest in this conflict as my first wife was Ukrainian by nationality but identified primarily culturally and linguistically as Russian, as do many (probably the majority) in the southern and eastern regions of the country. Prior to meeting my first wife, I...

I guess if they're not already on it, we can add GWS to the list of teams that Port can't beat in games that count. My current collection of teams in that list would be Melbourne, Brisbane, Collingwood, Carlton, GWS and, most amusingly of all, Adelaide.

Fair point.

I reckon Tim Watson gets into that conversation somewhere.

In two weeks from now, there will be 12 of the other 17 teams that have played in a GF and 7 that have won the premiership during Hinkley's tenure at Port. The incredible (and damning) thing for me is that in the case of 9 of those 12 teams, Port have finished higher on the ladder than them...

You're being a bit harsh on Joyce there. He did win two premierships at Hawthorn.

Two awful, insipid finals performances to close out the season. Tonight, we were beaten by a team coached by a former Port premiership player, a bloke who got delisted, then fought his way back into the team and earned a flag. A bloke who learned the lessons about taking opportunities and...

A game of reserves standard football befitting of the reserves standard timeslot it was scheduled in.

Before reading this post it had never really dawned on me that Josh Carr's initials are JC. Just think about that. JC. Those are the initials of the immortal, our Lord and Saviour... John Cahill. It's a sign. The next JC will start coaching us in 2024, exactly 50 years after the last JC...

Aren't all wikipedia pages written by the CIA?

Just got to make sure no campaigners turn up there and glue themselves to it.

Yeah, I was thinking it might have been Andy, just couldn't quite remember if he was still playing then.