Brodie, a former Gold Coast Sun and Docker, made the move from the West Australian harbour to Alberton in the AFL\u2019s October trade period, swapped for pick 103 in the draft, a selection ultimately unused by Fremantle in November.<\/p>\n
The cheap exchange comes as Brodie failed to crack the Dockers\u2019 best 22 in 2025, and has played just five games at the elite level since 2022, despite it being a year when Brodie found career-best output as a midfielder.<\/p>\n
It was while playing under new Power coach Josh Carr that Brodie\u2019s career reached its peak, with the Ken Hinkley replacement plying his trade as midfield coach of the Dockers in 2022.<\/p>\n
The move to reunite, and hopefully find such form again under Carr\u2019s guidance, was why Brodie thought the move was a no-brainer almost immediately after Port Adelaide\u2019s succession plan was announced.<\/p>\n
\u201cSort of throughout the year (the process begun), and I was in contact with Carry (Josh Carr),\u201d Brodie said to media on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea of coming here and speaking through (that opportunity) with my manager, it sort of became pretty clear that would be the best option for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then we just worked through it, and it was all pretty simple in the end. I\u2019m grateful it all happened pretty smoothly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn’t really get too serious around coming here until last year when it was announced he was taking the coaching job\u2026I think maybe it ramped up a little bit, and discussions got a bit more serious, and then my manager got involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo yeah, it’s just a bit of a process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starved for opportunity in purple, Brodie reflected it took little time to make his decision, with the hopes of getting a chance to earn AFL selection in 2026.<\/p>\n
A \u201ctough\u201d two-year period has yielded no AFL games, but Brodie is adamant that his best can be recaptured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had a great relationship with Carry from my time at Freo,\u201d Brodie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just sort of said he believes in me, and there’s another opportunity to come here and give it a go and potentially play a role that suits me, and we’ll just see what happens \u2013 that\u2019s all it really took (to convince him to play at Port Adelaide).<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I was at a point where I was really craving some more opportunity, and the idea of a fresh start as well was something that I was just willing to jump at.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been a bit of a tough journey the last few years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just feel like I’ve moved through that well and come out of it feeling excited and motivated to give it all another go and see what happens.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I’m a better, more improved and developed player now than what I was then (in 2022). An (AFL) career doesn’t go forever, so I want to make sure that I’m constantly improving and try to make the most of any opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd hopefully I’ve got plenty more games left in me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Will Brodie\u2019s first opportunity to make his case for selection is in Port Adelaide\u2019s preseason fixture against West Coast on March 1, following the club\u2019s summer preseason training block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie, a former Gold Coast Sun and Docker, made the move from the West Australian harbour to Alberton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-405765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}