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AFL 2019 – Port Adelaide

Hinkley rolls the Dice on Underachieving Port

AFL tips and betting at iTipsports features all 18 teams in our FREE AFL Season Bonus Preview that will outline their fortunes for 2019 from our expert AFL tips analysis and introduces our method of AFL betting analysis the HBM Human Behaviour Model.

Our eleventh team we analyse for the AFL tips and betting in the AFL 2019 season is Port Adelaide.

So much Promise for so Little Return

Port Adelaide was one of the big disappointments in AFL tips and betting season 2018-sitting 11-4 and appearing cemented in the AFL top. Port Adelaide went on to lose 6 of their last 7 matches and spectacularly crash out of the AFL finals in an extremely disappointing end to a season that promised so much.

This is the recurring theme though for Port Adelaide, they consistently fail to deliver on expectation, and vice versa they deliver unbelievable performances when not much is expected of them.

You can probably take it right back to the “chokers” tag they received when not making the AFL Grand Final when finishing top at the end of the home and away season 2 years in a row in the early 2000’s. They failed to deliver when most thought they would or on the flip side the stunning 2014 campaign that saw them within a kick of the AFL Grand Final on the back of no real expectation after scraping into the AFL finals in 2013.

And to follow that they then went on to miss the AFL finals in 2015 when many had them favourite to win the flag. Delivering against expectation is a huge issue for Port Adelaide and it’s the mental application that is costing them.

Recruits in and Stalwarts Out

Whilst the off season of 2018 was all about bolstering the Senior playing ranks by bringing in recruits Jack Watts,  Steven Motlop and Tom Rockliff Port Adelaides off season in 2019 has been about moving players on trading Chad Wingard, Jack Hombsch, Jared Polec and Jasper Pittard.

This indicates to us that maybe Port Adelaide have taken the eye off the immediate future and are looking to build for the long term future, a luxury Ken Hinkley can only just afford with an extension to 2021. However make no mistake if this “mini rebuild” goes pear shaped he must go prior to contract expiration.

New Assistant Coaches In a Positive…probably

The coaching panel was also a big mover at Port with the Power appointing 3 new assistants in former premiership players Brett Montgomery, ruck coach Dean Brogan and Jarrad Schofield. Montgomery has been a hard nosed assistant at a few clubs earning a reputation as someone who will take the Senior Coach to task, Brogan has worked at GWS and Schofield has coached Subiaco to the last 3 flags in the WAFL so although the rigours of AFL coaching will be a little foreign to him the ability to manage men is not.

Port Adelaide with Ryder going down (along with Ports hopes) in 2018 secured Scott Lycett (premiership ruckmen eagles) which will go a long way to giving stability to their big man stock and will give Ryder the chance to pay forward which will be handy as Charlie Dixon seems to have had setbacks again with his injury.

All of that being said we are very wary of the levels Port Adelaide can achieve in AFL 2019 with the off season goings on and the seemingly internal moving of the goalposts from being a “contender” to a mini rebuild. Now whilst these goalposts haven’t been uttered publicly their off season actions indicate as much.

AFL SEASON PREDICTION 8th with 12-14 wins

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