Michelangelo Rucci

Adelaide, Roccacinquemiglia

Contributor at Port Adelaide Football Club

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Hinkley: Confidence creates energy that creates excitement

1 week ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

KEN HINKLEY labels his team's next opponent, Sydney, as the model of consistency in AFL football. This theme challenges Port Adelaide after finding scintillating form against then-league leader Hawthorn in the Gather Round closer. Can Port Adelaide replicate? "We would like to think so; we would like to hope so," said Hinkley at Alberton on Wednesday in the build up to the preliminary final rematch with Sydney at the SCG on Sunday. "We were dynamic for two-and-a-half quarters (against Hawthorn) ...
Tribute to Jeff Potter

2 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

JEFF POTTER was almost lost to Port Adelaide as soon as he arrived at Alberton. "Funny story that one," Potter would say of his introduction to SANFL league football after leaving Mount Gambier in 1959 to fill the big boots of a legend, Fos Williams. "I turned up for training at Alberton Oval," Potter recalled, "and one of the trainers said, 'The colts train tomorrow night; come back then'."Potter was 17.
Hinkley: "Our game is building"

2 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

PORT ADELAIDE is on the attack with its new-look game finally delivering more opportunities to its new-style forward system. But the challenge to turn a dominance with inside-50s to a winning score is still to be won - and the test this week is against the AFL pacesetter, Hawthorn. "We have not been in absolutely great form ... but our game is building," senior coach Ken Hinkley said at Alberton on Wednesday as preparations continue for Sunday's Gather Round closer at Adelaide Oval.
Covert operations: Building the inaugural AFL squad

2 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

BRIAN CUNNINGHAM'S proudest note in his recruiting file for Port Adelaide's inaugural AFL squad is not only bringing home Gavin Wanganeen - but doing so without ever being caught in the act. "All was done under cover ... we just could not have put Gavin at risk (to a media frenzy while he was contracted and playing at Essendon)," Cunningham says. "If anything had become public, imagine what the Essendon supporters would have been thinking ... and his Essendon team-mates.
"Our method is more than capable": Hinkley backs game style against St Kilda

3 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

PORT ADELAIDE faces St Kilda in the club-badged "retro round" at Adelaide Oval on Sunday wanting to turn back the clock five weeks - let alone a decade by wearing an early 2000s guernsey. The aim is to find the hard-running, attacking game that put St Kilda on the back foot in the final pre-season work-out.
Hinkley: Cochrane debut a "great story for AFL football"

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

THIRD game, third AFL debutant. Joe Berry. Christian Moreas. Now, Tom Cochrane gets his start in the big league in Port Adelaide's away clash with Essendon at the Docklands in Melbourne on Thursday night. As Port Adelaide's match committee works through diverse options - even the two-ruck model again - and a long injury list, the confirmation of the father-son recruit is a lock after Cochrane's strong goalscoring output in SANFL trials.
Georgiades: The beauty of our forward line is the great flexibility we have

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

FOR much, if not all of his 71 AFL games, the analysts have struggled to pin a label on Mitch Georgiades. Key forward? Georgiades' first line coach at Alberton, Nathan Bassett, would bristle at such a description and point to the tape measure - 192 centimetres (in the old imperial count). The league's genuine tall forwards, such as Tom Lynch at Richmond and Max King at St Kilda, are taking the tape measure to two metres and beyond.
All dressed up and no one to play: The day Richmond literally didn’t come to play

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

THEY did not come to play .... In sport, such a stinging claim - of a team physically being present but mentally out of tune with the demand of a contest - will torment a coach after a week of intense preparation. It will frustrate the fans. And confuses the critics. In 1997, Richmond did not come to play Port Adelaide in the highly anticipated trial game at Alberton Oval in early February - the first display of the inaugural Port Adelaide AFL squad against a national league rival.
Hinkley putting trust in group to get back to best

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

PORT ADELAIDE has a reputation for responding in supposed crisis - as well noted twice last season. Hefty defeats (to eventual premier Brisbane by 79 points and Geelong by 84 points in a final) were followed by gritty victories. And so the template stays the same for the home-season opener against Richmond at Adelaide Oval on Saturday afternoon after the 91-point loss to Collingwood at the MCG.
Travis Boak and Russell Ebert: Two legends, two eras

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

BRETT Ebert has only once doubted Travis Boak. "I was in the rehab room - troubled by groin injuries - and Trav comes in to join me in recovery," recalls Ebert of the tumultuous 2012 season when the club was in dire financial trouble and Boak was being courted by Victorian rivals, in particular Geelong. "He was injured and I wondered, 'Trav are you going to come back?' and I was not thinking about coming back to Port Adelaide, but the game itself.