BELLIGERENTS
PORT ADELAIDELAST GRAND FINAL: 1999. Port Adelaide 14.17 (101) def Norwood 14.9 (93)
Last week: Defeated South Adelaide by 20 points.
NORWOOD
LAST GRAND FINAL: 2013. Norwood 10.12 (72) def North Adelaide 4.8 (32)
Last game: Defeated Port Adelaide by 13 points.
HEAD TO HEAD
Port Adelaide 195 v 190 Norwood [16 drawn]
LAST FIVE
Port Adelaide 2 v 3 Norwood
THIS YEAR
Port Adelaide 1 v 2 Norwood
[Differential +23 to Norwood]
PLAYBILL
2014 SANFL IGA League Grand FinalNorwood v Port Adelaide
Adelaide Oval, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide
Sunday 21 September
First bounce: 2:40pm
Hashtags: #SANFLGF
Broadcast: Channel 7 live at 2:00pm, 891 ABC Adelaide and Grandstand Digital, FIVEaa, Life FM, RPH Adelaide and RPH Digital
Tickets: $30 general admission, $18 concession, $8 juniors aged 6-17, $60 family [2 adults and 2 children], car park $15
Essential Power and Adelaide Oval members admitted free on presentation of membership card.
BUY TICKETS
YOU'RE INVITED
Official Grand Final after-match functionThe Port Club
Queen Street, Alberton
From approximately 6:00pm
Full team presentation
Merchandise available in the event of win
All welcome, free entry.
TIME MACHINE
Second Semi Final, 2014: Norwood comprehensively outplayed Port Adelaide in the opening two quarters to run out a 27-point lead at half time, before the Magpies reeled the margin in with an impressive seven-goal-to-one third quarter. Yet that dominance wasn’t carried into the final quarter as the Redlegs bounced back to control the final stages of the game and qualify for the grand final a week early.PORT ADELAIDE 1.1 4.3 11.7 12.7 (79)
NORWOOD 3.2 8.6 9.7 13.14 (92)
portadelaidefc.com.au's best: Newton, A. Young, Ah Chee, Clurey, Logan
Goals: Newton 2, Amon, Biemans, Bruggemann, Harvey, Impey, Krakouer, Logan, Shaw, Stewart, Summerton
at the Adelaide Oval
FOUR POINTS
End to a big yearAfter its destructive game play in the opening half of the season which saw it drop just one game – ironically to Norwood – from the opening nine, through to the indifferent back half of the season that returned just four victories, it’s been a roller-coaster of a season for the Magpies.
It comes to a close on Sunday, and for a club and its supporters who have always demanded the best, all 22 players selected will be pulling on their black-and-white jumpers to give the 2014 season one last crack to bring the Thomas Seymour Hill Trophy back to Alberton Oval.
Finals intensity from the first bounce
It’s a simple scenario for Port Adelaide this weekend: four quarters or bust.
Arguably, the Magpies have scraped together piecemeal performances for the last two months – with a single dominant quarter capable of reeling in (and sometimes overtaking) a significant deficit, but never enough to seal a win.
Last Sunday the side was outplayed by South before cutting the margin after half time and posting a 20-point win.
Garry Hocking and Steven Summerton have both stressed the importance of a full-game performance against the battle-hardened Norwood.
It will be essential on Sunday.
Ins and outs
Port Adelaide could welcome key forward John Butcher back from a back problem this week, after the side’s leading goal kicker missed the club’s opening two finals.
Contracted players Angus Bruggemann, Robbie Young and Henry Slattery will also be considered for selection.
Norwood faces a tough decision at the selection table after triple Magarey Medallist James Allan dominated proceedings with 27 touches in the reserves last week.
The SANFL website also suggested Steve Baldasso was a chance to be selected.
Port Adelaide Exists...
There is an old saying that the Magpies expect to win.
It's not a phrase of arrogance; is exactly what it says - an expectation.
Port Adelaide exists to win premierships and make its community proud in doing so and while this year's team has a new look about it, the expectations placed up on it are still the same - never give up and never give in.
In typical Port Adelaide fashion, supporters can expect to see 21 players run out in black-and-white guernseys and play four quarters of tough, hard footy.
There is nothing more agonising for a Port supporter than losing to Norwood in any game, let alone a grand final.
In typical Port Adelaide fashion, supporters can expect to see 21 players run out in black-and-white guernseys and play four quarters of tough, hard footy.
There is nothing more agonising for a Port supporter than losing to Norwood in any game, let alone a grand final.
As the underdog, people will say the Magpies have nothing to lose, they're dead wrong.
It has a magnificent gold trophy to lose.
It has a magnificent gold trophy to lose.
