WHO is Port Adelaide's greatest player?
It's a question that does the rounds at football ovals, inside club rooms and on the outer.
Some of the club's old timers will tell you Bob Quinn - the club's wartime champion and Magarey Medallist - is the best player to have been seen in South Australian football.
Others will say it's Gavin Wanganeen, potentially the most naturally gifted player Port Adelaide ever produced for the elite AFL competition.
But the club's faithful has spoken, and few will be surprised.
The name is Ebert, Russell Ebert, and he takes the cake by a country mile.
Ebert drew almost 60 percent of the vote when the club's fans were asked who the club's best player of all time was as part of the BIG PORT SURVEY - a wide-ranging poll of the Port Adelaide faithful conducted in June.
Wanganeen was second, taking 23 percent of the vote.
The first AFL premiership captain of the club, Warren Tredrea, was third, ahead of Fos Williams and Quinn.
Ebert will have a statue celebrating his contribution to South Australian football unveiled at the Adelaide Oval at 2:45pm on Saturday afternoon.
The statue, donated by Basil Sellers AM, will stand proudly in the Oval's eastern plaza, as one of four bronze tributes to legends of the game in the state.
Ebert played 392 games for Port Adelaide in a long and successful career that saw him win a record four Magarey Medals and captain the Magpies to the 1977 premiership over Glenelg.
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