Power storm home to sink tiring Saints on Easter
March 27, 2016 5:50 PM
PORT Adelaide's bid to re-emerge as a force in 2016 has started with a 33-point win over St Kilda at Adelaide Oval on Easter Sunday.
However the nature of the Power's victory won't convince the skeptics they have fixed the issues that undermined their 2015 season, forced to overcome a 21-point third-quarter deficit for the 20.13 (133) to 15.10 (100) win.
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The Saints welcomed Port's invitation to engage in a shoot-out, and the result was a pulsating end-to-end battle which ebbed and flowed for three quarters, and only turned in Port's favour after Chad Wingard's mark on centre wing in time-on in the third term.
From that point Port kicked eight goals to one and finally found ways to slow the Saints' relentless run.
But the transition turnovers and poor defensive accountability which dogged Port in its disappointing ninth-placed 2015 season were issues for three quarters.
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The Power coughed up three turnover goals in the opening quarter and went at 50 per cent efficiency by foot for the term.
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