The Power cruise to a massive victory: heads up, these boys are just warming up for the finals.
AFL Round 21 – Gold Coast Suns v Port Adelaide: The Best Laid Plans
August 20, 2014 by 1 Comment
A monsoon makes a mockery of Jamie Simmons plans to showcase footy to new friend Mel.
AFL Round 21 – Gold Coast v Port Adelaide: All hail the Ranga Prince of Alberton
August 17, 2014 by 5 Comments
Dan Hansen dishes out the praise for his club who chose to use a high draft pick to take a ruckman, and watches as that man Lobbe dominates in atrocious Carrara conditions.
AFL Round 18 – Port Adelaide v Melbourne: Triple fun in Sydney Town
July 26, 2014 by 7 Comments
Handbag Hansen is invited to three functions on the one afternoon. Lucky they’re all at the same venue. And Port fall over the line.
AFL Round 13 – Sydney v Port Adelaide: It’s Not About the Footy (Ari’s debut)
June 17, 2014 by 8 Comments
The Moores come from all points of the compass to meet at the SCG, as is the annual tradition. Ari makes his debut, Buddy goes off, and the weekend ends with a happy surprise. [Great family and footy yarn – Ed]
AFL Round 11 – Melbourne v Port Adelaide: A game for points, or the point of the game
June 10, 2014 by 1 Comment
Long-time Centralian and great character, Paul Fitzy Fitzsimons reflects on the significance of the Round 11 game at Traeger Park.
AFL Round 12 – Port Adelaide v St Kilda: Saints overpowered
June 9, 2014 by 1 Comment
Footy is sometimes very simple: you get overpowered by a better team on the day.
The Creed
June 6, 2014 by 3 Comments
Mick Gwyther on the Port Adelaide creed, and the implications that has.
AFL Round 8 – Port Adelaide v Fremantle: Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut Beat Age and Guile
May 22, 2014 by 6 Comments
Amazing! The Sydney Uni old boys game looks exactly like the game from the Adelaide Oval and, in both cases, youth runs over the top of age and guile. [With apologies to PJ O’Rourke]
AFL Round 6 – Port Adelaide v Geelong: Retribution at last
April 28, 2014 by 7 Comments
Dan Hansen has been waiting a long time for this – 135 years. [Great stuff from you Handbag – you are a true student of history, life and the game. And yes, I agree with you]
AFL Round 3 – North Melbourne v Port Adelaide: No Pudding for Dennis
April 8, 2014 by 5 Comments
Neutral Craig Dodson enjoys a competitive game of footy – and Dennis.
An off-Broadway opening
March 19, 2014 by 11 Comments
Veni, Vidi, Vici. “I paid, I saw, I didn’t like” writes Carlton diehard John Butler. Beware the Ides of March?
The Fall
February 4, 2014 by 6 Comments
Franc de Borges identifies four clubs which are on the slide. (Perhaps)
Home: it’s where the Bulldogs are playing
June 11, 2013 by 14 Comments
Kerrie Soraghan misses the smell of wet duffel coats and donut vans at Whitten Oval but the win against Port in Darwin was as sweet as any win she watched there.
AFL Round 6: Winners and Losers
May 6, 2013 by 2 Comments
The first rule of Round Six is don’t talk about Round Six. Not because we don’t want anyone to know about it, but because you didn’t even need to witness it to know what happened for 90 per cent of it.
AFL Round 5 – Port Adelaide v West Coast: Being Ken Hinkley
May 1, 2013 by 3 Comments
Rob Bath tries to get inside the head of Ken HInkley, footy’s unlikely Man of the Moment.
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