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Long article in the Tsier today about Jason - both on and off field improvements.

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Port Adelaide star Jason Horne-Francis opens up on personal growth, leadership and season 2025

What Jason Horne-Francis is doing on the field won’t surprise anyone – but how he’s grown in other facets of life might. The young star opens up two years on from his return home.

Jason Horne-Francis is well on his way to becoming the star many predicted he would become on the footy field. But the real growth for the former No. 1 pick might just be coming away from games as the Port Adelaide midfielder continues to become who those close to him believe he was going to be – on and off the field. The 21-year-old’s footballing ability has rarely been questioned since he burst onto the scene as a teenager, dominating SANFL footy for South Adelaide.

But it has been those little things off the field that were described as his “Achilles heel” and were a lightning rod for critics.

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As he prepares for his fourth season, the little things have become a big focus for Horne-Francis as he looks to build on 2024, when he made the All-Australian squad and finished second in the Power’s best and fairest.

Cooking has become a passion, Horne-Francis jokes that he might have to “start a Tik Tok like (Christian) Petracca”, while he has taken up boxing on his days away from Alberton to further improve his fitness.

Over the past two years, he has gone to America to look for new ways to improve, or methods to employ to get the most out of his body. “I’m continuing to grow all the time,” he told The Advertiser. “I have definitely grown off the field as a person with my prehab and rehab, that has improved a lot. “And the on-field stuff, I wouldn’t say it comes naturally for me but footy has been the sport I have been playing for a while now and when you do those little things off the field the things on the field can come easy.”

[ At AFL HQ lawyers Andrew Dillion and Laura Kane panic and say he can't do that, we have to stop him, as we will get sued if someone knocks him out. Junior lawyer walks into meeting and after reading the articles says, don't panic, he's doing it in his own time, away from the club, so we aren't responsible if he gets concussed.]

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