More Larynx Problems at Port

Get this. Mick Malthouse has a deep throat. No, not that kind. While he was preparing for last Friday night's Port caning, a couple of ex or current Port officials came through with the classified information that last year's premiers are, wait for it, soft. D-farkin-uh!

Had to laugh at/with/near today's Adelaide Advertiser article by Michelangelo Rucci with the subtle headline, Soft, Arrogant and Weak.

Here's the best bits...

"WARNING: If you cannot stomach a cutting analysis formed by wise men, on the outside looking in at the Port Adelaide Football Club, do not read on.

Right, that will take care of many Power players . . . sadly.

Here begins a picture of a Port Adelaide football team that is regarded as arrogant, too easily satisfied with only one AFL premiership, motivated only when its liver is bursting with annoyance at being known as "chokers" . . . and now is seen as "mentally weak".

So annoying about Port is that its players know the problem. Repeatedly at their own meetings they have hit on the fact - as if it is the secret to life - that if they do not play, as they put it, "hard, competitive" football, they are losers. And yet when Collingwood put that theory to the torch on Friday night, most Port players wanted to get back to their hotel rooms to hide under the blankets."