Brendan Lines July 13, 2020 06:00pm

Port Adelaide have kept an unbeaten record at its ‘fly in fly out’ home ground of Metricon Stadium, but the Power can finally call Adelaide Oval home again as the AFL announced tonight Port will host St.Kilda Saturday July 25th in front of a crowd of potentially 25 000 fans.

Port Assistant coach Michael Voss spoke today at Alberton fresh off the club’s victory over GWS on the weekend.

“It’ll certainly be nice to have a run of games at Adelaide Oval, if nothing else just being able to play in front of fans with the members that have come with us on the journey,” he said.

Port Assistant coach Michael Voss – Image: The Advertiser

“When we played the showdown early on with only the two thousand people that were there, it had a different feel to it.”

“I can only imagine as we start to increase those numbers it’ll be something I’m looking forward to.”

The news comes as Port have just perfected its ‘fly in fly out’ regime, demonstrating the depth of their young guns on the road, is an ominous sign for any opposition, as the club keeps it’s firm footing on the top spot.

‘If we can get some normality out of being able to get one process right and replicate it, we anticipate or certainly expected there will be another occasion where we have to fly in and fly out before the end of the year.”

“We just look at it as a chance to be able to refine what that looks like and get it right, I felt our guys were well planned and well organised, and as result of that we brought a good game.”

Reflecting back on Port Adelaide’s trip back to the Gold Coast on the weekend Voss says “It was a long day.”

The reward of a win against a top four side brought about more positives than negatives from the compressed travel schedule Voss says.

“The day it self which was challenging enough, if you factor the travel schedule we had the quality opposition, the moment we had to overcome it was right up there as really big win for us and a sign of maturity,” he said.

One of those positives is the emergence of forward Kane Farrell in recent weeks, coming into the side in round 4 off only playing 12 games previously.

Farrell was involved in eight of Port Adelaide’s scoring opportunities and lead Port’s tackle count, while displaying an impressive kicking ability slotting a major from long range in a clutch moment of the game.

“He hasn’t had as much opportunity, but he’s had to bide his time and he’s been afforded a small window of opportunity with Xavier Duursma injured and he had to make the most of it,” Voss said.

“(Farrell’s kick) It’s pretty handy I wouldn’t care to try put into a category other than say there probably wouldn’t be any better ones that are running around right now.”

Port Adelaide will announce ticketing information for the clash with the Saints in the coming days.