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Port Adelaide is finals bound for the 13th time in AFL company - and third time in the past four years. But what of the club s finales to the home-and-away season since 1997?
Just as there is no such theme as a friendly in world football, no Port Adelaide-Collingwood match is insignificant - not even a trial game at Football Park in the autumn of 1993.
Port Adelaide president David Koch declared during the summer this would be the season of redemption. This relives a theme that ensured the club ended a long drought during a year of celebration in the SANFL.