Port Melbourne News

From Leader Group Newspapers - localfooty.com.au
Reported by Paul Amy
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PORT Melbourne has done a lot of talking to prospective recruits. Last week it was time to lock in a few.

Delisted Carlton onballer Adam Bentick is the most notable of the newcomers, bringing to TEAC Oval the experience of 68 AFL games between 2004 and 2008.
Injury wrecked his 2009, but he did finish the year with some strong performances for the Northern Bullants.

POTENTIAL Warrnambool AFL draft recruit Sam Dwyer is already looking forward to the Victorian screening on October 3, just days after his side Port Melbourne was knocked out of the VFL finals.

Port Melbourne lost to Northern Bullants last weekend to miss out on a berth in Friday night's grand final against North Ballarat.

The Borough was seven goals down at half-time but stormed home to go down by just over three goals.

Dwyer, 23, was again among Port's best to top off an excellent season in which he finished fifth in the VFL best and fairest, the Liston Medal, behind North Ballarat's Myles Sewell.

The silky skilled former South Warrnambool and Geelong Falcons player said yesterday he was still recovering after the weekend encounter but his attention would quickly turn to the state screening at the Melbourne Sports And Aquatic Centre on October 3.

He said he was invited to the session a month ago after scouts registered interest in him.

From The Age
Reported by Brent Diamond
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PORT MELBOURNE'S last-gasp, four-point victory over Box Hill Hawks yesterday had all the elements of a blockbuster final to earn it a second-straight preliminary-final berth against the Northern Bullants on Sunday.

From the Sunday Age
Reported by Brent Diamond
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FAST-FINISHING Port Melbourne overran Sandringham at home by 31 points to edge closer to the top two and end the Zebras' finals hopes yesterday.

And at Visy Park, Collingwood officially stamped itself in the VFL finals for the first time after eclipsing Frankston by 76 points.

From the South Coast Standard
Reported by Peter Fletcher and Matt Neal
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IT'S taken time for former South Warrnambool and Geelong Falcons player Sam Dwyer to settle into the line-up for VFL side Port Melbourne.

Now in his fifth year with the Borough, Dwyer has backed up a 21-out-of-22-game season in 2008 with an even stronger start to 2009.