Dee Boys

And Callum Brown.

PORT ADELAIDE assistant coach Nathan Bassett will depart the club after being advised his contract will not be renewed for 2024. Bassett has spent eight seasons at Alberton, initially as defence coach before taking on the forward line in 2019. This season he returned to the backline, where he made his name during a 210-game AFL playing career. Port Adelaide General Manager – Football, Chris Davies thanked Bassett for his dedication to the club since 2015. “Nathan has worked tirelessly for our club in an extremely demanding role,” Davies said. “He has offered a unique perspective across his time with us and always operated with the utmost professionalism and diligence. “We wish Nathan and his family well with his next career move.”

After being highly regarded a decade or so ago, he was axed by Port Adelaide at the end of 2023 and spent 2024 out of the AFL system. He might be fantastic but it wouldn’t be an overly inspiring appointment on face value.

Whilst not disagreeing, how many of these are actually any good? Or good enough for us to challenge for premierships?

Mate Fullarton’s appalling. The players have all been gobsmacked at his level in training. There’s a reason he didn’t get picked, no matter how injured or out of form others were.

But how is that at all relevant when discussing Wade Derksen?

I don’t mean to be rude but this is one of the most insane things I’ve ever read on Demonland. A bloke who was picked up in the mid-season draft two and a half years ago, who’s never been selected to play a game for his club, and you’re talking about first and second rounders?

We know mate. You’ve said so about 400 times throughout the thread.

From memory he said we were interested in Will Hayward. Not that we’d definitely land him. Do you know how many players clubs show interest in that don’t end up getting done?! As previously stated, if you don’t like it then don’t read it. It’s like that famous Ricky Gervais stand up line about guitar lessons - if you don’t like it then move on! Why on earth would you try to censor something that other people appreciate and doesn’t adversely affect you?

But it’s clearly not totally unsubstantiated. @goodwindees has a pretty impeccable track record with his mail. Getting the inside word on what’s happening within the four walls of the footy club is a big reason for a lot of people being on this site and the actual thing that beggars belief is why on earth anyone would want to censor that, or abuse anyone who’s providing that. Genuinely cannot for the life of me understand it. If you don’t like it then ignore it, like people do with a bunch of other topics and posts.

The Dunning Kruger curve in full effect. ”McQualter can’t be blamed, he needs some cattle to work with” as if the blokes under his tutelage don’t have FOURTEEN All-Australians between them. But yes, let’s leave it at that.

You are talking absolute drivel. Richmond’s midfield was never flying. Even during their golden era their supporters used to lament the fact that they got annihilated at clearance every week, which is why they brought in Taranto and Hopper in an attempt to rectify that. You’re also talking as if our midfield is a group of plodders which is clearly absurd - it’s the best group we’ve had in the club’s history. People’s issues with the midfield this year is largely down to the structures around stoppages. It’s incredibly evident when you’re at the games how nonsensical and reactive our starting positions are. That’s down to the midfield coach. In the game against Freo they won the first EIGHTEEN clearances of the game. There is no excuse for that. None. That is abysmal coaching. The bottom line is a previous strength of our game has become a glaring weakness in the space of a season since McQualter took over the reins.

Chandler’s got some weaknesses but pace isn’t one of them. He’s the fastest player at the club, as confirmed by Windsor who said in an interview that Chandler “smokes him”.

Christ, that’s bad news. If we give up pick 5 for him I’ll be apoplectic.

Convincing Kalani to come to the club was always going to be a challenge, and will be even more so after the last month or so that we’ve had where we’re probably on the nose more than any other club in the competition. People seem to think that just because he’s grown up as a Dees supporter that it’s a done deal that he’ll choose us. I hope they’re right. But the lure of being able to play in front of his family and friends in his home town with mates that he’s grown up playing footy with every week would be really significant too. These kids aren’t nuffie supporters like us - they’re becoming more and more professional at a young age and he’ll play where he and his family see the brightest future for himself. Keep in mind that Nick Daicos wasn’t even a Collingwood supporter growing up, he followed Carlton! Rightly or (largely) wrongly there aren’t many mothers who’d want to send their kids interstate to play for us at the moment with the amount of scuttlebutt floating around about the off field culture of the club. So I’d suggest those thinking Kalani to the Dees is a fait accompli might be advised to lower their expectations a little just in case they get burnt.

Can’t pretend I’m any sort of expert on indigenous culture but the woman who died was Kozzy’s “old mum” who was in fact his aunt (Byron’s sister). His birth mother is still alive.

He’s at the pub today with the other players

Huh? Brad Green is the managing director of a fire safety company and is on the MFC board.

Thanks for the update @goodwindees. I was interested to hear on the channel 10 report tonight that the club was unhappy with some of the advice Petracca’s been getting “from people close to him”. Would this be his management, his fiancée or his parents do you think?

Archie Perkins?! The same Archie Perkins who currently can’t even get in the Essendon side?

Richardson joined the club before the start of the 2020 season, a year before Choco.

Hi mate, did you (or anyone) happen to catch these games? Keen for a bit of good news and hoping he and Kalani continue to progress along nicely…

Melbourne will not trade Christian Petracca under any circumstance with Demons powerbrokers on Monday night emphatic that suggestions he could play elsewhere in 2025 were wildly inaccurate. Petracca, 28, attended Saturday night’s match against Port Adelaide at the MCG as he recovers from a lacerated spleen and was walking laps of the tan in the hours before that clash. The 2021 Norm Smith Medallist is still not allowed to get his heart rate above 110 and the family was disgruntled with his medical treatment following internal injuries sustained in the King’s Birthday blockbuster against Collingwood, where he was allowed to return to the field. A major part of the Petraccas’ frustration was the isolation. In the first 10 days following the injury he had not seen anyone other than his parents and his fiancee. But senior club sources were at pains to stress that Petracca was not going anywhere despite reports he was disillusioned with the club’s direction. While Petracca was disgruntled, it is understood there is no bad blood that would result in the four-time All-Australian demanding an exit. Petracca is contracted until 2029 on a $1 million per season deal and remains critical to the club’s hopes of rebounding up the ladder in 2025. The Demons are confident they will remain in premiership contention and have rejuvenated their playing list this season. The club has handed five players their AFL debut – behind only Richmond, North Melbourne and Collingwood (all six) – and have repeatedly fielded one of the youngest line-ups in the AFL. New players Blake Howes, Caleb Windsor, Koltyn Tholstrup, Kynan Brown and Andy Moniz-Wakefield have all displayed encouraging signs. Petracca’s injury also opened the door for Trent Rivers to shine as an onballer while Judd McVee has also had brief stints in the midfield where he has shown similar promise.

Haha newsflash if needed - players don’t communicate their future plans or disgruntlement with the club to members of the cheer squad!

Well you're right about one thing - that certainly doesn't read well on paper. It reads absolutely disastrously on paper.