Player Watch Welcome to Port Adelaide Rory Atkins

[Thrillthorpe7]

Yeah dunno about that. He was an average player at his peak 7-8 years ago. The last 5 years hes been a complete spud. He is absolutely not better than any of those players now

He averaged 20+ touches, kicked 35 goals and had 40+ goal assists across 2016-2018, playing basically every game. He was better than an average player at his peak, but he hasn’t been close to that player since 2019 and it’s hard to see him getting there at 31. It’s an unusual pickup.

 

[Hodges 153!]

Nah mate Atkins dominated the VFL this year

If Butters does leave end of 25, this is last proper crack at a flag for a while

ROFL "proper crack".

Not sure there's been one of those for quite some time.

 

[agmsy]

We have too many players that are too good for SANFL but not good enough to play AFL finals.

Blame it on whatever you want (just starting out, underperformance, bad culture, bad coaching, maladministration), but this is basically the story of our entire club since 1997.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

We have too many players that are too good for SANFL but not good enough to play AFL finals.

I'm wondering who these players are that are too good for sanfl. I wish they would show it.

 

[Us against the rest]

I'm wondering who these players are that are too good for sanfl. I wish they would show it.

I'm talking about the last 5-6 players that are playing in our A side.

 

[Us against the rest]

I'm wondering who these players are that are too good for sanfl. I wish they would show it.

Mead - narkle - McEntee - Evans - Dixon are an example and the club has cut some of these already.

Even Burton - Boak & Finlayson are borderline imo and with T. Marshall have concusion issues is another.

Most of these players would be playing reserves at the good clubs.