Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nButters speaks after ’emotional’ win | 02:02<\/p>\n
Stand-in skipper Zak Butters, who claimed the Showdown Medal with a dominant 37-possession performance, admitted he heard the outside noise, but his focus was more inward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess it\u2019s hard, you live in Adelaide, you\u2019re going to see some stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I feel like, and my message was pretty similar to the boys before the game than what Josh spoke about, but mainly it was about us and our fans and what we\u2019ve done previously.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey paved the way for us, so it was more about us being together, us being united.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added on Fox Footy: \u201cIt\u2019s definitely one of the best wins of my career. I thought Kenny\u2018s (Hinkley\u2019s) last game last year was pretty good, but I think that goes close to topping it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a pretty emotional week for the footy club. Esava (Ratugolea) and a few other boys, season-ending injuries and it can be pretty emotional sometimes when your mates get hurt. <\/p>\n
\u201cAdelaide is a small town and there was a lot of talk during the week. I think just about everyone bar our fans and those inside our four walls wrote us off.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty special win.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The win moved Port\u2019s win-loss record to 5-10 for the season and kept its slim finals chances alive.<\/p>\n
It also played a larger role that helps Power fans see what is possible beyond this season, according to Carr.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it just reinforces about enjoying the journey that we\u2019re on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have our ups and downs, but I think you see your green shoots, you see your young guys \u2026 have a (good) game in a big game against a really good team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe confidence win that we get as a footy club, and as a team and individually, but also I reckon the supporters can see that.<\/p>\n
\u201c(But) at no stage this year have I ever felt that the supporters aren\u2019t behind what we\u2019re doing and where we\u2019re going, and I feel the support from everyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs frustrating as it has been at times with the close losses that we\u2019ve had, I\u2019ve always felt like we\u2019ve been supported.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL coaches don\u2019t generally like to admit that external noise has an influence inside the four walls of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-764844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764844","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=764844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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