Port Adelaide Power: 2019 fixtures, preview, list changes, every player and odds

Mick Stirling

Port Adelaide Power: 2019 fixtures, preview, list changes, every player and odds image

In light of 2017’s rather large fail on the recruiting front, Port Adelaide took a different tack at the end of 2018, moving out more big names than they brought in.

Managing to get Ryan Burton plus a couple of high draft picks for Chad Wingard was a great deal, but losing the star forward/midfielder will be a loss in the short term, as will be Jared Polec’s trade to North Melbourne.

The future may be the beneficiary, but Ken Hinkley will be wanting results now. 

The Power’s rise to what looked like being a dominant era has stalled, and while every year seems just a sliding door away from success, Port’s stars are aging and Robbie Gray, Paddy

Ryder, Travis Boak and Justin Westhoff don’t have a lot of time left at the top.

List changes

In

Ryan Burton (Hawthorn), Sam Mayes (Brisbane), Scott Lycett (West Coast), Connor Rozee (North Adelaide, pictured), Zak Butters (Western Jets), Xavier Duursma (Gippsland Power), Riley Grundy (Sturt), Boyd Woodcock (North Adelaide)

Connor Rozee draft

Rookies

Tobin Cox (Glenelg), Cameron Hewett (Port Adelaide)

Out

Jack Hombsch, Jasper Pittard, Jared Polec, Chad Wingard, Dom Barry, Emmanuel Irra, Jake Neade, Jimmy Toumpas, Will Snelling, Lindsay Thomas

Best Brownlow chances

Robbie Gray $34, Ollie Wines $67, Tom Rockliff $101

Gray has been the star of this outfit for a while now and was named All Australian for the fourth time in 2018, but his Brownlow vote-winning days have slowed since moving more permanently to the forward line in the past couple of years. The loss of Wingard and Polec may see more midfield minutes for the veteran in 2019, making him a good outside chance.

#robbie gray

There’s few more reliable players in the AFL than Ollie Wines but he doesn’t evoke the word ‘spectacular’. However, he does get Brownlow votes, though a pre-season water-skiing accident led to shoulder surgery which could delay his start to the season and seriously hurt his chances of individual honours.

Players to watch

Sam Powell-Pepper, Jack Watts

Some off-field concerns made Powell-Pepper’s season look like a case of ‘second-year blues’, but the hard-at-it midfielder actually lifted his numbers as he settled further into the pace and level of the game. If he can keep his head in the right space, SPP can be a part of a formidable threesome of hard nuts in the Power’s midfield, alongside Wines and Travis Boak. 

#Sam Powell-Pepper

Ex-Demon Watts looked like a low-risk, high-return trade when the Power picked him up for a second round draft selection, but they quickly felt the backlash that comes when the former number-one draftee doesn’t dazzle … which is most of the time. Watts will be given every chance, but if he doesn’t settle soon he’ll find himself playing out his days in the SANFL.

A last chance to watch?

Justin Westhoff, Jack Trengove

Imagine Port Adelaide without Justin Westhoff! It just doesn’t seem possible. Westhoff has been getting better with age and arguably had his best season in 2018, but he’ll be out of contract and 33 years old a week after the next grand final. He may still have plenty to give, but if the Power go backwards and look to inject youth in the side the Hoff may be off.

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Former Melbourne captain Trengove is almost certainly heading into his last season. He’s only 27, but 10 games in the last five years isn’t the kind of CV that keeps footballers employed, no matter what their potential was when taken with pick two in the draft. 

Port Adelaide Powers’ 2019 list

Number Name Games Date of birth Height, weight Position
15 Amon, Karl  42  19 Aug 1995  181cm 79kg Midfield
30 Atley, Joe  4 Aug 1998  186cm 85kg Midfield
1 Boak, Travis  243  1 Aug 1988  184cm 85kg Midfield
26 Bonner, Riley  23  7 Mar 1997  191cm 82kg Defender
5 Broadbent, Matthew  161  1 Aug 1990  189cm 90kg Defender
3 Burton, Ryan  47  31 Jan 1997  191cm 90kg Defender
  Butters, Zak  8 Sep 2000 181cm 71kg Midfield
33 Byrne-Jones, Darcy  64  20 Sep 1995  180cm 76kg Defender
17 Clurey, Tom  60  23 Mar 1994  193cm 93kg Defender
  Cox, Tobin (R) 0 15 Jul 1999 177cm 77kg Forward
22 Dixon, Charlie  126  23 Sep 1990  200cm 105kg Forward
28 Drew, Willem  1 Oct 1998  188cm 80kg Midfield
  Duursma, Xavier  7 Jul 2000 186cm 73kg Midfield
7 Ebert, Brad  235  2 Apr 1990  188cm 89kg Midfield
24 Farrell, Kane  17 Mar 1999  182cm 74kg Midfield
14 Frampton, Billy  20 Nov 1996  200cm 96kg   Ruck
  Frederick, Martin 0 17 May 2000 178cm 74kg Midfield
27 Garner, Joel  21 May 1999  184cm 83kg Defender
9 Gray, Robbie  199  30 Mar 1988  183cm 84kg Midfield
46 Gray, Sam  76  1 Feb 1992  176cm 78kg Forward
  Grundy, Riley  28 Jul 2000 194cm 84kg Defender
8 Hartlett, Hamish  153  14 Aug 1990  183cm 83kg Defender
25 Hayes, Sam  9 Jun 1999  203cm 93kg Ruck
44 Hewett, Cameron (R)  26 Feb 1997  189cm 78kg Defender
43 Houston, Dan  39  1 May 1997  187cm 85kg Defender
32 Howard, Dougal  30  25 Mar 1996  199cm 92kg Defender
31 Johnson, Aidyn  10  31 Oct 1997  185cm 81kg Forward
42 Jonas, Thomas  121  9 Jan 1991  189cm 89kg Defender
38 Ladhams, Peter  14 Jan 1998  203cm 94kg Forward
40 Lienert, Jarrod  5 Aug 1994  193cm 89kg Defender
29 Lycett, Scott  75  26 Sep 1992  203cm 101kg Ruck
13 Marshall, Todd  10  8 Oct 1998  198cm 88kg Forward
34 Mayes, Sam  101  20 May 1994  189cm 88kg Defender
12 McKenzie, Trent  107  3 Apr 1992  191cm 83kg Defender
6 Motlop, Steven  156  12 Mar 1991  183cm 76kg Forward
37 Patmore, Jake  29 Jan 1999  181cm 72kg Midfield
2 Powell-Pepper, Sam  38  8 Jan 1998  187cm 91kg Midfield
  Pudney, Kai (R) 0     Midfield
11 Rockliff, Tom  172  22 Feb 1990  185cm 85kg Midfield
20 Rozee, Connor  22 Jan 2000 185cm 74kg Midfield
4 Ryder, Patrick  226  14 Mar 1988  197cm 92kg Ruck
19 Trengove, Jack  89  2 Sep 1991  185cm 82kg Midfield
23 Watts, Jack  172  26 Mar 1991  196cm 88kg Forward
39 Westhoff, Justin  248  1 Oct 1986  200cm 93kg Forward
16 Wines, Oliver  129  7 Oct 1994  190cm 97kg Midfield
  Woodcock, Boyd  5 Mar 2000 175cm 71kg Forward


 

Port Adelaide Powers’ 2019 Fixture 

Round Date Opponent Venue
1 Saturday 23 Mar 1:45pm  Melbourne MCG
2 Saturday 30 Mar 4:40pm Carlton Adelaide Oval
3 Saturday 6 Apr 6:25pm  Brisbane Gabba
4 Saturday 13 Apr 4:05pm Richmond Adelaide Oval
5 Friday 19 Apr 6:10pm  West Coast  Optus Stadium
6 Friday 26 Apr 7:20pm  North Melbourne Adelaide Oval
7 Friday 3 May 7:50pm  Collingwood  Marvel Stadium
8 Saturday 11 May 7:10pm Adelaide Adelaide Oval
9 Sunday 19 May 12:40pm  Gold Coast Adelaide Oval
10 Saturday 25 May 1:45pm  Hawthorn UTAS Stadium
11 Sunday 2 Jun 12:40pm  St Kilda  Jiangwan Stadium
12 BYE    
13 Saturday 15 Jun 2:35pm  Fremantle  Optus Stadium
14 Saturday 22 Jun 7:10pm Geelong Adelaide Oval
15 Saturday 29 Jun 7:10pm  Western Bulldogs Adelaide Oval
16 Saturday 6 Jul 4:05pm Adelaide Adelaide Oval
17 Sunday 14 Jul 4:10pm Brisbane Adelaide Oval
18 Saturday 20 Jul 1:45pm  Richmond MCG
19 Saturday 27 Jul 7:10pm  GWS Giants Adelaide Oval
20 Saturday 3 Aug 1:45pm  Essendon Marvel Stadium
21 Saturday 10 Aug 1:40pm Sydney Adelaide Oval
22 Saturday 17 Aug 7:25pm  North Melbourne  Marvel Stadium
23 TBC Fremantle Adelaide Oval

Games played on

Friday: 3
Saturday: 15
Sunday: 3

Teams played twice

Brisbane, Richmond, Fremantle, Adelaide, North Melbourne

Showdown Charlie Dixon Sam Jacobs

2019 Preview and premiership odds

Port Adelaide headed into 2018 as one of the favourites for the flag, but they’ve taken a big drop this time around, starting at $18 for premiership success – equal 10th in the betting.

On paper the ‘outs’ look bigger than the ‘ins’ which will make it hard to turn the club’s fortunes around in a hurry, but remember these guys were sitting fourth after round 16, just percentage from second and one win behind Richmond on top.

Does the fact they were so close mean it’s just a matter of fine-tuning to be right in contention, or does it suggest there is more than football ability that needs to be addressed at Alberton?

Whatever the case it will be another intriguing year at Port with plenty of David Koch-fueled headlines paving the way from Shanghai to, possibly, the MCG in September.
 

Mick Stirling