Port Adelaide Football Club

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) ...

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.

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.

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.

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.