Not many former players command more respect at Port Adelaide than Warren Tredrea.
The club's only ever AFL premiership skipper labelled his former side's effort against North Melbourne at Docklands on Saturday night as 'pathetic'.
Another @pafc no show pathetic - 🦘 ✔️✔️✔️
— Warren Tredrea (@warrentredrea) August 17, 2019
It took the four-time All Australian just a quarter to make that assessment and things got worse for the visitors after the first change. Far worse.
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Coming off the back of a stirring win over Sydney that lifted Port into the top eight, the Power had it all to play for against the Roos who are out of finals contention.
Though as has often been the case this season, Port Adelaide backed up a solid performance with a woeful one.
They were out-enthused by their opponents, going into quarter time down by five goals before a heated Ken Hinkley attempted to fire them up.
Unfortunately for Port Adelaide fans, the spray didn't work, with their side giving up 6.5 in the term to go into the main break down by 58 points.
Ruckman Todd Goldstein was a dominant force around the ground for North, while Ben Brown (six goals) and Nick Larkey (four) ran riot in the forward line.
This was the same North side who were held to 14 points all game last week.
It wasn't just Tredrea who'd seen enough, with plenty of Port fans taking to social media with their frustration.
Might erupt with a good old fashioned 🌋 @SunFootyShow #AFLNorthPower
— Kane Cornes (@kanecornes) August 17, 2019
If Ken Hinkley has Port Adelaide on right track then I don’t want to know the destination. #AFLNorthPower
— Liam Sheedy (@Sheeds1984) August 17, 2019
This is so perfectly Port Adelaide under Hinkley. Could have scripted it. #AFLNorthPower
— 💧Jason De Luca (@DeLuca_JD) August 17, 2019
In the end the Power went down by a demoralising 86 points - Brown finishing with 10.1 - seeing their percentage take a beating to allow Adelaide to jump them on the ladder despite the Crows suffering an 11-goal loss to Collingwood earlier on Saturday.
Ben Brown's magnificent 10 goals in one minute 👇#AFLNorthPower pic.twitter.com/MzLOATTf11
— AFL (@AFL) August 17, 2019
The Advertiser will have plenty of targets to pick off over the next week, with both South Australian clubs a chance to miss the eight after a shocking weekend.
