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Saturday, November 23

"Something greater than sport": What is Port Adelaide really doing in China?

SPECIAL FEATURE | While AFL clubs around the country focus on honing their playing lists and coaching panels, Port Adelaide this morning made a key back-room appointment that could turn out to be the biggest signing of its off-season. Could a Chinese-born diplomat who has never set foot at Alberton hold the key to the club’s financial future? Tom Richardson finds out.

Port's wily move on delisted Cat

Port Adelaide has snapped up discarded Geelong cult figure Wylie Buzza in a decisive start to the AFL’s delisted free agency period.

Eddie Betts could be back at Adelaide Oval in 2020. Photo: Michael Dodge / AAP

Crows get ready for Eddie, Power set to break out the bars

Eddie Betts is set to make a dramatic return to Adelaide Oval when the Crows host Carlton next season for just the second time in ten years, while Port Adelaide will break out its ‘prison bars’ motif in its first home game as the Power hosts the Crows in an early-season blockbuster.

Touch Of The Fumbles: Goodbye to romance

A final Fumbles farewell for a year that promised fun and flags, but delivered yet more folly, failure and fetid fallout. Some of the Crows’ biggest names have gone, and a new era awaits – under a former Port mentor, no less. So, an uneventful few weeks then…

Crows confirm new coach - in the nick of time

UPDATED | The Crows have confirmed football’s worst-kept secret a day before the AFL’s trade window closes, with former Port Adelaide assistant Matthew Nicks formally unveiled as the man to lead a list that will look dramatically different to the team that contested a Grand Final just two seasons ago.