August 21, 2014: When in Rome...

Port Adelaide have taken a unique approach to their upcoming battle with Carlton, vowing to beat Mick Malthouse at this own game by being 'crazy in defence.'.

"We need to really wind it up. We need to be crazy in defence" said Port's football director, Shaun Hart. While he digressed on to more sensible matters, like stopping Judd and Murphy for running rampant and obliterating their top 4 hopes, we decided to consider the Blues other defence - that of Jeff Garlett and Mitch Robinson - after the former was charged with affray as part of a street fight.

In a case such as this, sometimes you just need to plead guilty and try your luck on mitigating factors. Factors like being employed by an organisation that also employs the photography skills of Josh Bootsma and the general meat-headedness of Mitch Robinson. We shouldn't forget this is a club famous for rorting and cheating wherever possible.

We're not sure the judge will agree, but perhaps it's worth suggesting that all that King Street witness on that night was a case of 'when in Rome...'

In the news...
Extra Miles - Tiger Anthony Miles has signed a two year deal, securing his promotion from the rookie-list in 2015.

The leagues most famous knee injury, Anthony Morabito, has signed a deal with Fremantle that will see him sit outs large portions of next year with injury.

And a Smother applause for Ash McGrath, who has announced he will retire after this weekends game. McGrath played 213 games for the Lions, including the 2003 flag.