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No team is destined for greatness unless you treat football as a form of religion which is always a dangerous thing to do. The good teams are the level-headed ones with level-headed coaches who set realistic targets for the players under their tutorage. They say things such as: "If you achieve...

I went to the Sydney game at the SCG a fortnight ago and it was a thrilling encounter. It took Port three and a half quarters to reconstruct their game to suit that strange venue. They were cramped in the spine and prevented from moving forward. Sydney's defensive clamp was extraordinary. But...

1. The home-crowd factor at Adelaide Oval with 50,000+ at both of this year's showdowns has been incredibly important. The home-crowd applause for little things is noticed by the players and it enables each team to build and sustain a belief in themselves. I'm glad, in a South Australian footy...

The age-old question... are rucks overrated? West Coast have the two best rucks going around in Cox and Naitanui but that doesn't mean they win games. Sandilands is the best tapman of them all, but the rest of his game fails to hurt the opposition most of the time. Carlton's Warnock gets a...

I'm an Adelaide supporter and go to every game. My girlfriend is a Port supporter and I go to every game with her. Thus, I go to AAMI Stadium every week. I love footy and I love my girlfriend and, if the world was absolutely perfect, she'd barrack for my team. The world isn't perfect but at...

At the press conference, last Saturday night, Matty Primus said that Port has only had two and a half bad games this season. I thought about that statement afterwards. I think Collingwood, West Coast and maybe Hawthorn are entitled to say that they have had two and a half bad games this...

Thanks for posting such a well reasooned arguement. I'm not totally convinced but you've made me see things in a different light.

I'm sorry, Alberton Magpie. The point of your post completely escapes me.

I wasn't unhappy with Primus' response. He made it very clear that Chad Cornes has no role left… except, perhaps as a player of last resort. As far as inappropriate timing goes, this wasn't just my question. Others have suggested recently that Chad Cornes would be the perfect sub and those...

ThunderPower, I really don't understand what you are saying here. Chad is being paid whether he is playing or not. And being paid well. Therefore, why not use him? But I'm not confident that I know what you are saying. Want to rephrase?

I don't think it's about emotion, ThunderPower. Chad is being paid an awful lot of money this year to sit and twiddle his thumbs. That money is more than enough recompense for not being played. The question is whether he could help the young Port kids in the second half of games to...

Yeah. :thumbsu: At the beginning of the season, I didn't think much of the concept of the sub. It was meant to control or reduce the number of rotations and it hasn't. It was meant to tire the players out which it has and produce less injuries which it hasn't. But it's done at least one...

I wonder if Chad is over the whole Chad Cornes thing.

If i thought I knew more than Matty Primus, I wouldn't have asked him that question.

An extract from the post-match conference: John Kingsmill: Matty, many would regard Chad Cornes as being almost perfect for a permanent substitute role. Why don’t you? Matthew Primus: Umm… what’s perfect for the substitution role? JK: Someone who is capable of playing any line...

Paul Kelly will be co-launching the Footy Alamanac 2009 with Che Cockatoo-Collins in Adelaide on Thursday December 3 from 6-8pm The launch will be at the Lutheran Football Club, South Parklands, Adelaide. Paul will sing a couple of songs. The event will be free and everyone is welcome but if...

R14 Port vs Brisbane. Mark Wiliams Press Conference transcript. Unlike all other fiteeen coaches, Mark Williams likes to make a speech at the start of his press conferences. Here it is. Mark’s preamble: Obviously we were thrilled with the result. The club was under a lot of...

Re: Run Home ... with key players returning from injury. Amazingly, the outcome of the Showdown might determine whether Port finishes fourth or fifth.

Exactly, Forzaport. And any player currently supporting Choco will also support a new coach if they want to get a game next week.

I think it would be reasonable for him to ask for Long Service Pay like any other employee in Australia. He's devoted a significant portion of his life to this club. Yes, he would have been paid well along the journey, but he has made big sacrifices too.

It could be that Blight would only have a one-year attention span at the moment. Choco is the longterm plan. Blight would be there for the clean-out only. And to give the box office a one-year boost. Hardly. THe situation at Port has been unstable since the Geelong GF. This is a...

After eleven years at the helm, Mark Williams may need a sabbatical and so too may the players, support staff, and some of the fans. Give the man a holiday so that he can travel the world and refresh. Appoint an existing AFL coach as a caretaker for a year, so that the ship doesn’t sink. Paul...

I'm not a Port person but I am not trolling. Can I offer a longer view? The choice in June for Port management is whether to extend Mark Williams' contract into a second decade or whether to refresh the player group and the club culture with a new coach. There are arguments for both...

Yes, REH, I think you may be spot on. From hereon, I think Port has about five years to grow its base to over 30,000 every home game or go bust. If Port only retains its current customers, it is doomed. Every marketing dollar has to be spent on growth. Promotional dollars can be spent on...

I refer to Mark Williams interview on the first Footy Show on Channel Nine in March. I don't have the tape. I hope someone here has. If he didn't say: 'I look forward to returning home some day" or something very similar to this, than I must have been watching another show. There is no...

Port may have maximised its traditional market-pull, or rather its Alberton connection. The AFL and the SANFL believe that Port has to grow a new market from areas outside of Alberton or for reasons outside of the club's tradition. And that includes changing demographics, and a changing...

Mark says different things to the media depending upon where he is. At home, he's loyal to Port to the nth degree. When he does media work in Victoria, he always opens the door to the possibility that "I look forward to returning home one day". These are strange words for SA ears. The truth...

Most posts on this thread seem to have missed the point. It's not Caro doing Choco at all, from what I hear. It's more Choco doing Caro. One reading of that article could suggest that he went to her and allowed himself to be quoted. Who says that she went to him, fishing for quotes. What...

I don't know if you can make that conclusion one way or the other. From the tone of her article in the Age last week, she made it seem that Choco approached her with his revelation that coaching in Victoria was not out of his agenda. 0r, to put it more bluntly, he wanted that notion to be on...

I thought Westhoff showed more flexibility, more ground work than I've seen before. I think you are hard on Ebert. He was starved of space and opportunity on the SCG but still worked as hard as he could to turn nothing into something. I would have thrown him into the backlines for ten...