There is “no reason” why Collingwood can’t win the 2022 premiership, according to David King, with the club even compared to the ‘Baby Bombers’ of 1993.
The Magpies are running hot on a 10-match winning streak to sit in third – just one win off top spot after 20 rounds.
And while the criticism has been that they’ve beaten 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 18th in that run of victories, there’s also been wins over Fremantle, Carlton and Melbourne.
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“You can say what you like about the numbers, the stats, the possessions,” King said on AFL360.
“They turn up for each other – this is building something quite special.
“There’s no reason why they can’t do it this year – we saw Chris Scott do it first year, we saw Rodney Eade make a grand finale his first year, (Luke) Beveridge and (John) Longmire win it in their second year – this is big, come with it.”
AFL360 co-host Mark Robinson laughed as he admitted: “I’m on the dark side already, I’m all in on Collingwood”.
“It might be the Baby Bombers of ’93 all over again,” he said.
Tim Watson with the 1993 premiership cup.Source: Supplied
The Essendon premiership side were dubbed Baby Bombers for having 12 players aged under 25 years in that winning team.
Against Port Adelaide last weekend, the Pies had 10 players under the age of 25, and two players currently aged 25.
King highlighted the fact Collingwood are outrunning their opponents as one of the best features of their game.
“I don’t know how you can just put a line through them,” he said.
“They are doing this better than the comp – they are gut running. Their running and power running is enabling them to end up with an extra number.
“Their run and link, kick forward, their demand for corridor we all see. But we don’t recognize their desire to just work harder than the opposition.
“This is a club in sync.”
King said every club needed a point of difference to win the AFL premiership.
It’s clear to see the love for coach Craig McRae. Picture: Michael WillsonSource: Getty Images
“Maybe (Collingwood’s) is not in the stats, it’s on effort. It’s on a buy-in. (Craig McRae) may just be a special coach,” King said.
“What I do love is what they are doing for each other.”
Statistics show that the Pies share one similar trait with the premiers of the past two seasons – Melbourne and Richmond – and it’s their ranking for what they without the footy.
The Magpies are currently the best ranked team in the competition – like Melbourne were in 2021, while Richmond were ranked fourth when they took the flag in 2020.
Collingwood do have a tough run home with games to come against Melbourne, Sydney (away) and Carlton – who could be battling for finals by Round 23.
Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis said on Tuesday he would not sign any more African players unless they agreed to not take part in the Africa Cup of Nations.
Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly — now at Premier League side Chelsea — and Cameroon midfielder Andre Zambo Anguissa missed several Napoli games while on international duty at this year’s AFCON, which took place between January and February.
“Or they sign a waiver giving up their right to participate to the Africa Cup of Nations tournaments or between AFCON and the championships in South America… I never have them [Napoli players] available,” he said in a Wall Street Italia talk show.
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Koulibaly responded to De Laurentiis’ comments in his first news conference as a Chelsea player and expressed his disappointment.
“You have to have respect for the national team, because you cannot speak about African national team like this,” Koulibaly said.
“As captain of Senegal I think it’s not a good way to speak about an African national team. But I respect what it is. If he thinks the team can play without African players, it’s up to him. Not everybody has the same idea as him in the club.”
De Laurentiis also criticized the fact that clubs were agreeing to more and more games, suggesting a European tournament with the top clubs from the strongest five countries instead of the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League.
“The world of football cannot self-manage because we do the puppet show for others… if we could play 100 games, it would be a happy ending for everyone and we [clubs] like cretins agree to that.”
The Italian film producer also said he did not support the breakaway European Super League which folded less than 48 hours after it was announced last year as it was an elite club.
“You cannot create a super club of privileged members who invite others [to the league]. You need to democratically keep the door open for everyone,” he said.
De Laurentiis added he was tired of offers from investment funds for the club, adding that he was offered €900 million around four to five years ago by American investors.
“You [bidders] did not understand a thing [about me]. I am a pure entrepreneur who enjoys doing business … let me play,” he said.
“I want to be the 12th player on the pitch. Actually the 12th player is the fan, I can be the 13th or even the 14th, as 14 is my favorite number.”
The reality of retirement is slowly sinking in for West Coast great Josh Kennedy as he prepares for his 293rd and final game against Adelaide at Optus Stadium on Sunday.
But the Eagles’ loss will herald a special gain for one lucky reader of The West Australian, who will claim the goal-kicking guru’s final playing guernsey when the battle with the Crows is done.
As part of the celebration of his outstanding career, that reader will win his match jumper featuring his familiar No.17 on the back.
Kennedy told The West Australian on Wednesday he was relieved at having announced his retirement and now being able to set his focus one last time on producing the type of performance that has turned him from knockabout Northampton kid, to all-time great of the game.
As part of the celebration of his outstanding career, that reader will win his match jumper featuring his familiar No.17 on the back. Credit: Daniel Carson/AFL Photos/via Getty Images
“I’ve sat with it for a long time, but with the build-up to announcing it officially and talking to the players and the footy department, there is a bit of relief, I suppose. . . even though most of the crew here internally probably already knew this was going to be the last week,” the 34-year-old said.
Kennedy, who will also pass his initial West Coast captain Darren Glass’ club tally of 270 games on Sunday (he also played 22 matches for Carlton), said the reaction to his pending retirement had been overwhelming.
“The phone has been a bit crazy,” he said.
“But I wake up early, just before five and before my kids wake up at about 6-6.30. I had an hour-and-a-half to get back to everyone, so apologies to anyone who had a phone pinging off at about 5.30.”
West Coast’s all-time leading goal-kicker, with 704 from his 15 years with the Eagles, has not always been at his most productive against Adelaide.
He has kicked just 35 goals in 20 matches against the Crows, almost half of his personal high tally of 61 against the Western Bulldogs in the same number of clashes.
West Australian Newspapers Editor-In-Chief Anthony De Ceglie said the jumper was a unique prize which money could not buy.
“JK is one of the all-time greats of WA footy,” De Ceglie said. “But in addition to being an extremely talented goal-kicker, he is also a genuinely great guy who embodies the WA approach to life.”
He said the jumper would take pride of place in any West Coast fan’s pool room or on the bedroom wall.
“Our thanks go to JK and the Eagles for making this prize available to our readers to honor a wonderful champion,” he said.
To enter the bid to win Kennedy’s match-worn guernsey, simply look for the unique code on the front page of Friday’s The West Australian and enter it online at thewest.com.au/jk by noon on Monday.
Being paid $15 million to sit around for a year may seem like a dream job for most of us, but Daniel Ricciardo deserves better from McLaren.
If, and right now it is speculation based on a lot of hearsay and unnamed sources, Oscar Piastri has signed a letter of intent to race for McLaren next season, the Woking team has one too many drivers.
Ricciardo being the too many.
If McLaren today have a choice between keeping him or keeping Lando Norris it is a no-brainer given that, while the Aussie has the team’s only win since 2012, Norris has been the much more consistent driver.
One cannot argue against that. It is a simple fact as the numbers do not lie.
But pushing the 33-year-old out when he has just one year left on his contract, one year that could be his last in Formula 1 as it stands, is poor form from McLaren who themselves haven’t given him, or Norris, a race-winning car.
Ricciardo, though, has made it clear he wants to see out his contract, the eight-time grand prix winner convinced there is life in the old Honey Badger, he just needs to get his claws into that MCL36.
According to reports he does hold all the cards, the only person who has to say whether or not he is with the team in 2023. And he has until September to inform McLaren of his plans.
He’s already done that, at least in the statement he put out three weeks ago, making it clear that he wants to continue with McLaren, not sit on the sidelines.
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But even if Ricciardo takes up that option, insisting on staying with McLaren, that doesn’t necessarily mean he will be racing as the team could do what Ferrari once did with Kimi Raikkonen and pay him to sit on the sidelines.
Effectively his options are a push, the sidelines, or racing for a team that he knows doesn’t want him there.
It does, as many have pointed out, reflect badly on Zak Brown and McLaren as a whole if this is how they treat their drivers.
The company, already involved in one contract saga over IndyCar with Alex Palou and Chip Ganassi, are courting yet another in the space of just a few weeks.
McLaren not only need Alpine to back down on their claims that Piastri belongs to them, but they also need Ricciardo to willingly fall on his sword either by quitting the team to retire or join another, or take the money and sit on Vettel’s couch to watch the Formula 1.
Some may argue that $15 million and not racing in Formula 1 beats a pay cut and joining Alpine as, given the past few days’ happenings, it seems something is very wrong over in Enstone.
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Losing the in-form Alonso because they wanted him to be a seat-filler for Piastri doesn’t say much about the team’s management but losing two drivers in one week says a lot, and what it says is not great, about the higher ups .
Alpine have opened the door to Ricciardo returning to the team that he quit after just two seasons, but given that he actually quit after just one as he signed with McLaren after his first year with Renault, it seems inconceivable that he would want back in.
What he wants, and has made abundantly clear, is to remain a McLaren Formula 1 driver. “I know what I’ve got. I know my future. I know my contract.”
And then he threw it back to McLaren…
“Give me a winning car and I’ll win. That’s the challenge for myself and McLaren. That is the confidence I have in myself. That’s why I wake up and still want to do this.”
“Clearly we are sorry to Eddie and anyone who is suffering from that camp,” McLachlan said on Channel Seven.
“We’ve seen today how much it hurt Eddie and frankly some of the stuff that went on was a disgrace and we are hearing him and hear his pain and are sorry.”
Eddie Betts was traumatized by the club’s 2018 pre-season camp.Credit:Getty Images
The AFL said on Wednesday it would not re-open the investigation into the camp and had not shifted that position late on Thursday, saying it had made changes that improved governance and oversight of such camps.
Sloane admitted on Adelaide radio station 5AA he was in the same group as Betts when personal information the former forward had disclosed to the camp’s counselors about his upbringing was yelled at him in front of those present. The incident where Betts was told he would be a “shit father” because he had been raised only by his mother was detailed in his book about him, The Boy from Boomerang Crescent.
However Sloane, who was not a skipper when the camp was held, said he did not hear what was being said at the time.
“I was in that group. There was so much going on over the course of that. There was about 10 or 12 of us. There’s so much going on during that time that I suppose I didn’t pick up on it until Eddie mentioned it to us after. It is sad to think that that’s what they used it for and it’s not OK,” Sloane told 5AA.
He said he went through a similar process as Betts on the camp, but the personal information used about him related to his football and nothing was said about his family.
“I won’t share the full details… mine was more around my footy. I’m not gonna dive right into it because it’s just stuff about my footy…Mine was not related to my family,” Sloane said.
He said the club and its leaders had numerous conversations in an attempt to overcome the fallout from the camp, but they could not find a way to resolve the issues.
“It was a really hard thing to manage because some guys found the camp boring. Some guys had a really horrible experience on the camp. Some guys enjoyed their experience on the camp. So that’s what made this so hard to manage. We had so many conversations about how could we try and how do we come out of this camp with a stronger group?” Sloane said.
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“And that was probably the other reason why there wasn’t a lot of things shared really in the end because there was so much vulnerability shared throughout different parts on the camp. We certainly sought out some apologies from the camp directors at the time. You look back at it now and you put your ‘captain hindsight’ hat on and of course when you hear the stories like Eddie’s you would have loved to done some things better.”
Sloane also stood by his comments post-camp in which he said he had come back a better husband, father and son because of the camp, relaying a task in which he sat in an “honouring chair” while teammates told him why they loved him . He said he took that experience back to his own family, telling his mum and dad why he loved them.
Jamaica has defeated Australia for the first time in Commonwealth Games netball history, springing a shock 57-55 upset to shake up the race for gold.
Both nations went into the hotly anticipated clash undefeated and faced their first proper test to decide the winner of Group A.
There was nothing in it in the first half as the Diamonds and the Sunshine Girls went goal for goal, and Australia took a 30-29 lead into halftime.
Australia dominated the third quarter and took a six-point lead into three quarter time, largely thanks to their control of the midcourt and Gretel Bueta and Steph Wood firing on all cylinders in the shooting circle.
But just as the Aussies looked home and hosed, Jamaica somehow found another gear in the final term and chewed up the deficit in just a handful of minutes to hit the lead.
Bueta was silenced in the last quarter — she finished with 36 goals from 39 attempts, while Wood had 19 goals at 86 per cent shooting.
“How quickly this game has been turned on its head,” legendary Diamonds shooter Cath Cox said in commentary on Channel 7.
“It looked like Australia had taken control and it was all over.”
Jhaniele Fowler was superb at goal shooter for Jamaica in a physical duel with her West Coast Fever teammate Courtney Bruce.
Adelaide Thunderbirds duo Shamera Sterling and Latanya Wilson were outstanding in defense and secured ball at will for Jamaica with countless deflections.
“Extraordinary scenes, the Diamonds defeated for the first time this tournament,” Sue Gaudion said.
Cox said Jamaica’s performance “screamed ‘we can medal at these Games’,” adding Australia appeared to “shut up shop” in the last quarter.
“Australia couldn’t win the ball back — it was some brilliant defensive work from Jamaica. They really just lifted another level in the fourth quarter,” she said.
The two-point victory was Jamaica’s first over Australia in Commonwealth Games history and will seriously shake up the race for the medals.
It’s far from disaster for Australia, but they will now likely come up against England in the semi-finals on a more difficult path to the gold medal match.
Australia’s last Commonwealth Games netball gold medal came in Glasgow in 2014. The Diamonds claimed silver on the Gold Coast in 2018 after losing a thrilling final to England.
Three members of the Sri Lankan team have gone missing at the Commonwealth Games, the team has confirmed.
The Sri Lankan team says it has not been able to find two athletes and one official team.
Local news agencies in Sri Lanka are reporting the team’s chef de mission, retired army general Dampath Fernando, has now confiscated the passports for all remaining athletes and officials the country brought to Birmingham.
Sri Lankan team spokesperson Gobinath Sivarajah has told The Telegraph in India that Birmingham police are investigating the disappearance and have launched an official inquiry
“We have asked all athletes and officials to submit their passports to our respective venue officials in all the villages after the incident,” he said.
“The police are investigating and the three cannot cross the UK borders. What has happened is really unfortunate.”
The team has confirmed reports that the athletes involved are a wrestler, a judo athlete and a judo coach. The team says they have not been since Monday.
The judo and wrestling events are taking place at Coventry Arena, a 30-minute drive from Birmingham.
It is feared the three individuals do not want to return to Sri Lanka, which is facing the worst economic crisis in the country’s history.
Sri Lanka had picked a 161-member contingent, made up of 110 athletes and l51 officials.
The athletes and officials were granted standard 180-day visas by the British government for the event.
The scandal has overshadowed one of the country’s greatest athletics results after Yupun Abeykoon won the bronze medal in the men’s 100m at Alexander Stadium in a time of 10.14 on Thursday morning (AEST).
At the Gold Coast Games in 2018, a third of the Cameroon team went missing after the event was completed.
It was revealed the following year that 230 athletes and officials had made asylum claims to remain in Australia. 217 of those claims were rejected.
Sri Lanka is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. The economy has collapsed under the weight of $75 billion of debt.
Shocking new details have emerged as a father whose children were caught up in a terrifying crash at the Commonwealth Games speaks out for the first time.
The London velodrome was the scene of a horrific cycling accident last week that saw 15km scratch competitor Matt Walls fly over the fence and into the crowd.
Walls, Matt Bostock and Derek Gee were hospitalized while multiple other riders went down in the incident, which you can watch in the video above.
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The crash sparked serious concerns for spectators after several people, including children, were seen ducking for cover and cowering in fear.
It has now been revealed Walls’ bike landed where a five-year-old boy and another child had been sitting prior to moving up one row to see more of the track.
Several families were caught up in the accident. Credit: John Walton/AP
Hugh Colvin, the father of the five-year-old, and his wife Laura, who was not in attendance, say they regret sitting so close with children in tow, having been “completely unaware” fans could be in such significant danger.
“If we had known for a moment that there was a risk that a bike with an adult male going at that speed could come into contact with my seven-year-old daughter, my family would never have been there,” Laura told the BBC .
The Colvins said it had been difficult to look back at photos of the crash as they pieced together what had become a blur.
“It all happened so incredibly quickly at the speed the cyclists were going,” Hugh said.
“You can see the trajectory of the bike, it came through, grazed my daughter’s shoulder, and (in) one of the photos you can see we are obviously underneath the wheel.
“It must have been within centimetres, millimetres, of our heads.”
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Laura added: “What has been quite hard for us to get our head around is being able to see from the photographs that were taken of the incident exactly how close this came to being a complete catastrophe and how close our two younger children came to being seriously injured or killed.”
“That has been the main thing we’ve had to reflect on over the last few days,” she said.
The family spoke out after Matt Walls shared a video call with their seven-year-old daughter, which they say has helped her cope with the trauma.
Matt Walls of England (left) along with George Jackson of New Zealand and Joshua Duffy of Australia during a crash in the Men’s 15km Scratch Race on Day 3 of the XXII Commonwealth Games at the Lee Valley VeloPark in Birmingham, England, Sunday, July 31 , 2022. (AAP Image/Alex Broadway/SWPix.com) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY Credit: ALEX BROADWAY/AAPIMAGE
Laura said one of the adult friends who attended with the Colvins still needs surgery on a deep cut on his arm, something the hospital described as “being like a machete injury”.
“It’s been really difficult for him,” she said.
“In addition to the soft tissue and muscle injury he’s got a partially severed tendon in his arm, so it is the start of a long road to recovery for him.”
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England’s five-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny said the crash showed her sport had advanced to a point where governing bodies must now act on velodrome safety.
“I think the crashes are getting worse and it’s because the speeds are getting higher, the positions are getting more extreme,” Kenny said.
“At some point the UCI are going to have to put a cap on these positions. Maybe there should be screens because Matt should not have been able to go over the top and into the crowd – that’s pretty damn dangerous.
“Matt was laughing and making jokes with the paramedics, which is brilliant to hear, but if he’d not gone over, he would have done less damage and certainly done less damage to the little girl (in the crowd).”
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Cyclist run over in horror Games crash
Cyclist run over in horror Games crash
Sir Chris Hoy acknowledged that “it might seem strange” that riders are able to fly over the fence.
“Personally I think it’s preventable if you put a plexiglass screen around like they do in ice hockey,” he told the BBC.
“Look at motorsport and its catch fencing and the lengths they go to protect the crowd and also the athletes.
“I didn’t want to see the video, I have seen a shot of it, and it was horrendous to see but on the whole it’s a very safe sport.
“All you can do is learn from mistakes and think: how can we make the velodrome safer for athletes and spectators?
“I hope the people in power look at this and think something really has to be done before something genuinely serious happens in the future.”
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The brutal yet pleasant rivalry between Duncan Scott and Tom Dean gained another chapter on the very last day of swimming at the Sandwell Aquatics Center as Scott hung onto his lead during a dramatic climax to the 200m individual medley, eventually seeing off a surging Dean to win his second gold medal and fifth medal of the Games.
Another gold medal is further evidence that Scott stands at the peak of his powers. Over the past 13 months, he has won two individual Olympic silver medals, four overall, and now six medals at the Commonwealth Games.
His haul in Birmingham includes another gold medal in the 200m freestyle, where he and Dean also faced off, with Scott edging him out. Scott, 25, is Scotland’s most decorated Commonwealth athlete of all time with 12 medals overall.
Having trailed in third place after the opening butterfly lap, Scott tore through the field on the backstroke lap to establish a half-second lead after 100m. Despite Scott not letting up, Dean spent the final freestyle lap furiously chasing Scott down. He very nearly did but Scott held on to win with a Games record time of 1:56.88, just 0.13 ahead of Dean.
“Rivalries or competition in general gets the best out of us. I say that for myself and I can say that for Deano, we love a race,” said Scott in a joint interview with Dean to the BBC. “Whether it’s with each other or anything from Olympic Games, World Champs or Commonwealth Games, we love the atmosphere, we love finals. We love getting in amongst it and we love racing each other as well because it gets the best out of each other.”
This has been no deficient debut Commonwealth Games for Dean, whose second place finish yielded his sixth silver medal of the event. After winning two gold medals in a stunning breakout Olympics last year and then three bronze medals at the World Championships this year, the 22-year-old has further established himself as one of the premier swimmers of his generation.
Dean celebrates after winning the men’s 4x100m medley final with England. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA
After the silence of the empty venues at the Tokyo Olympics, it is also his first experience of a major international Games with a crowd, something he has lapped up throughout. “What a great week,” he said. “Dunc got the better of me again on this one tonight, but pushing each other on, that’s what’s all about. And I can’t get enough of this crowd. My coach, Dave, says it’s like a drug. It just gets you going. It’s absolutely incredible.”
In the penultimate race of the event, Dean finally clinched his first Commonwealth gold medal, anchoring the England team in the final leg of the 4x100m medley relay as they barely held off Australia to win gold.
Over the past eight years, one of the constant sights in Commonwealth Games swimming has been the excellence of Ben Proud, who broke through on to the world stage aged 19 in Glasgow 2014 and quickly established himself at the top of the sport. He continued his sprinting dominance over all rivals by winning his third consecutive gold medal in the 50m freestyle. It is his second gold medal for him in Birmingham, having also won the 50m butterfly title.
Now 27 years old, Proud is enjoying one of the best seasons of his career after also winning 50m freestyle gold at the World Championships in June. The victory takes Proud’s medal haul to two golds this year in Birmingham and eight Commonwealth Games medals overall. Afterwards, Proud saluted his teammate, Lewis Burras, who finished in second place.
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“For me, that’s a really big achievement,” said Proud. “To be able to say I’ve been here for years consistently at the top is brilliant. I held off the young guns for one more year. It’s a fantastic job from Lewis, getting a silver medal. Never thought I’d have an English guy with me, but today’s the day. A massive swim.”
Burras, 22, clinched his first ever individual medal to secure England’s first swimming 1-2 of the event with his first individual medal. As he took it all in, he shook his head: “To stand on the podium with this guy, 12 year old me is going crazy,” he said.
Port Adelaide remains tied with Western Bulldogs midfielder Josh Dunkley.
The out-of-contract 25-year-old is yet to re-commit to the Bulldogs who have reportedly offered him a long-term deal.
Dunkley is on the radar of the Power, but what would they have to give up to get him to Alberton?
Matt Rendell speculated about what would be a fair trade for the 112-game premiership Dog.
“Dunkley has been talked about a lot,” Rendell said on SEN SA’s The Run Home.
“I think Dunkley is a good pick if they can get him, but I wouldn’t be offering any more than a second-round (pick).
“They (the Dogs) wanted two first (rounders) off Essendon a couple of years ago.
“Dunkley is out of contract, so Port can walk him to the pre-season (draft) if they want. They won’t want to.”
There are plenty of clubs who are reportedly keen on Dunkley with Adelaide and Port as well as big Victorian clubs showing interest.
While Dunkley would provide plenty of midfield depth for Port, a position they need strengthening is in the area of the small forward.
With Robbie Gray nearing the end, Connor Rozee flourishing as a midfielder and Steven Motlop retiring this week, it heaps pressure on the often injured Orazio Fantasia.
Rendell says the situation presents as a problem for the Power.
“Fantasia is the big issue here,” I added.
“He hasn’t played hardly for four years. At his best, he makes Port so much better.
“With Gray probably close to retirement, Rozee playing in the midfield and Motlop retiring, their small forwards have gone from a big group to virtually none overnight.
“That’s their big issue, small forwards. Can they get Fantasia up?
“I’d be trying to find another one. Most of the good clubs have got a couple there.
“The rest of the balance of their team looks great to me.”
The Run Home co-host Kym Dillon indicated that a small forward at this year’s draft is well within the sights of Port, but stopped short of naming who they may be interested in.
“I’m hearing they’ve got their eyes on someone in the upcoming draft in terms of a small forward,” he added.
The Power, who are now highly unlikely to make the finals, host ninth-placed Richmond at Adelaide Oval on Saturday night.
