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Congrats Travis on your 350 game and Port for winning against Richmond at the MCG. Love the little wink at the beginning of this video as well by Trav, 😉 Congrats to Ken Hinkley as well on his 250 game as a coach!

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AFL Trade news: Eagles forward Junior Rioli has medical at Port Adelaide

AFL Trade news: Eagles forward Junior Rioli has medical at Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide is getting closer to landing Junior Rioli, with the Eagles small-forward undergoing a medical at the club on Monday. Here’s the latest. Small forward Junior Rioli had a medical at Port Adelaide and met with key club figures including Ken Hinkley as he closes in on a decision to stay at West Coast or move to the Power. The 27-year-old was in Adelaide over the weekend and on Monday…

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AFLM finals week 2 footy tips

"apparently there's men's footy this weekend" round

Demons vs carlton

Port vs Giants

#aflm #footy tips #i want neither port or Giants to win but idk might be more interesting if Giants win #port had a nice sob story and they bottled it this week #their only story is ken Hinkley currently and idc about him #Giants at least have a redemption arc #redemption from what i don't know #like a 'hey we're still here don't forget about us' vibe #'i know we've had mass exodus of players to the tigs but the ferrari still runs' #'i know Leon Cameron drove the ferrarri into the wall and we had to tinker with the parts and change the engine but it's good now'

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no flag? no worries. they are kenough.

love to see our midfielders celebrating the end of the year in the most logical way possible. and pulling one over on ken hinkley

#lachie neale #josh dunkley #afl #brisbane lions #i. i was a little worried that this gf would break us ngl #but that concern has gone out the window i love these boys #my sons ← said about two grown men almost five years older than me #i hope they appreciate the oppenheimer joke in this #SURELY they get it

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Season previews: Port Adelaide (9th)

Last season: 3rd (17 wins, 6 losses, 112.7%), 6th after finals Notable ins: Esava Ratugolea (Geelong), Brandon Zerk-Thatcher (Essendon), Ivan Soldo (Richmond) Notable outs: Xavier Duursma (Essendon), Tom Jonas (retired), Scott Lycett (retired)

The real deal or pretenders? It is a query that has increasingly loomed large over Ken Hinkley's tenure as Port Adelaide coach. A Rorscach test, its appearance maybe telling you something about your football psychology. On the one hand, the Power have mostly been a good to very good side under Hinkley and never been a terrible one. Since 2013 their lowest finish on the ladder has been 11th place, they boast a win rate of 60.6%, have made the finals six times and a preliminary final three times. A few clubs would probably kill right now for even one season as good as Hinkley's worst effort. On the other hand, Port are in the business of winning premierships and they have lost all of those preliminary finals. No coach in VFL/AFL history has gone so long without a Grand Final appearance.

Hinkley looked at long odds to keep his job entering last season. Supporters' appreciation for his lifting them out of the doldrums a decade ago had expired and they were beyond restless after missing the eight in 2022. The president, David Koch, waffled on his chances of getting a new deal. An agreement was reached between club and coach where his contract status, due to expire at the end of the year, would not be reviewed until August. This would force a decision before finals so was a curious compromise given the major frustration with Hinkley was a lack of results in September. Did the board, expecting another lowly finish but wanting to avoid a bitter falling out, set a date that would allow them to respectfully end Hinkley's tenure only after being seen to give him a fighting chance? If they did, they didn't count on him to flip the script. Hinkley's men rattled off 13 straight wins from rounds 4-17 and when D-Day arrived on August 1st, they were sitting second on the ladder. Checkmate, 'Kochie' - Hinkley was given a two-year contract extension.

Losses to Brisbane and GWS in the finals however meant a straight-sets exit and one that probably matched their reality, a step off the pace amongst the other also-rans. It gave Port Adelaide some solace that it was the next generation in Zak Butters, Connor Rozee and Jason Corne-Francis consistently leading the way. That trio will be their engine room for the next decade but the Power were often too reliant on them and experienced veterans did not help shoulder the load. The likes of Lycett, Ollie Wines, Travis Boak, Trent McKenzie and Charlie Dixon were all looking tired, sore and old by September. Their captain, Tom Jonas, wasn't there at all having been relegated to the SANFL mid-season.

Port Adelaide attacked the trade period to try and address some of these problems. Their midfield needed someone to tap it to them with Lycett retiring and they targeted Soldo, a solid ruckman who struggled for opportunity at Richmond, and Jordon Sweet as back-up. There are questions over whether Ratugolea and Zerk-Thatcher are the right fit for Port Adelaide's backline alongside Aliir but their recruitment at least means 191cm McKenzie won't again be left manning the Tom Hawkins of the world. Ratugolea has size, strength and athleticism but can be a liability to teammates as he crashes packs to try and mark or spoil with limited situational awareness. Zerk-Thatcher conceded 53 goals in 2023, the most of any defender in the AFL, and Essendon were ultimately comfortable losing him. Port Adelaide did not add to their forward line but would be looking for Todd Marshall and Ollie Lord to take the next steps in their respective development.

The hope at Alberton is that they can wring one more good year out of Boak, Dixon and Wines just as their young guns continue to rise and take the mantle. If their form from around mid-July through the end of the season is any indication, the timing for this is not quite right. The immediate pressure is off Hinkley with his extension but Josh Carr waits in the wings, seemingly brought to Port under an informal succession plan. It's all smiles between the two for now but this has gone south quickly elsewhere. When egos collide and the coaches disagree, the players are torn - do you listen to the guy that might be on his way out the door or the one next in line to succeed him? Getting off to a good start will be crucial, their first five games all winnable playing West Coast, Melbourne, Essendon and Fremantle at home and Richmond away. But start the season like they finished the last one and the pressure rises quickly again.

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'Port Adelaide's bizarre decision to be inspired by a controversial Hollywood movie about building an atomic bomb that ended the second World War has been lashed by footy fans online.

It follows star midfielder Ollie Wines being asked whether the Power had called on any motivational themes ahead of Saturday night's Qualifying Final against Brisbane at the Gabba.

Wines' response - the film Oppenheimer - raised plenty of eyebrows.

'It's a little bit about how much work goes into something,' Wines told SEN Radio this week.

'So many people have to come together and work hard for a number of years....[in terms of our team], this finals campaign isn't just something that's just been building this year — it's probably been the last four years.

'The general grasp of the movie is many people come together and work hard to reach a common goal, which hopefully for us is a premiership.'

Stunned footy fans couldn't believe Port's left-field method of inspiration.

'They may want to go re-watch the film a few more times, because this is a dreadful take and incredibly insensitive to theme things around,' one person wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Another posted: 'it sounds a bit dodgy to be taking inspiration from a biopic about the development of a nuclear weapon that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.'

A third stated: 'The Atomic Bomb!! Seriously??? Tore apart more than it brought together.'

Following an avalanche of criticism, Power coach Ken Hinkley said the collective focus was teamwork under pressure.

Hinkley also bristled at talk the film's star J. Robert Oppenheimer was an inappropriate role model for his playing group.

Every club has some type of theme that they may use at this time of year,' he told reporters before boarding a flight to Brisbane.

'The key part about that, as I think Ollie explained incredibly well, is that it's just a little story around how people had to come together over a long period of time to work really hard on one single thing to get an outcome.

'We've been at this task [winning a flag] for a good period of time — four or five years.'

Hinkley later admitted he hadn't seen the film himself...'

#Port Adelaide #Oppenheimer

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Richmond prepared to chase an untried coach to replace Damien Hardwick, says club CEO Brendon Gale, Ken Hinkley links

Richmond CEO Brendon Gale has suggested the club is not afraid to turn to a previously untried coach to be Damien Hardwick‘s eventual full-time successor. Gale and the Tigers are suddenly on the hunt for a new senior coach after Hardwick shocked both his club and the AFL by pulling up stumps on an incredible 14-season tenure which yielded three premiership cups. The Richmond job is shaping up as…

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Jason Horne-Francis booed by Collingwood fans, Port Adelaide left fuming, Ollie Wines, Ken Hinkley comments

Port Adelaide has been left baffled after youngster Jason Horne-Francis was mercilessly booed by Collingwood fans during his side’s 71-point loss at the MCG. The clash against Collingwood was Horne-Francis’ first outing in Victoria since being traded away from North Melbourne at the end of last season. After playing a starring role in Port’s round one win over Brisbane, Horne-Francis was…

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Kane Cornes doubts Port Adelaide premiership hopes despite Jason Horne Francis trade, Ken Hinkley contract speculation

Port Adelaide champion Kane Cornes has downplayed his beloved club’s premiership chances this season, despite a wildly successful trade period last year. The Power were lauded as one of the winners of the trade period when they lured 2021 No.1 pick Jason Horne-Francis to the club alongside 2018 premiership-winning goalsneak Junior Rioli, bolstering an already…Kane Cornes doubts Port Adelaide…

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Kane Cornes doubts Port Adelaide premiership hopes despite Jason Horne Francis trade, Ken Hinkley contract speculation

Port Adelaide champion Kane Cornes has downplayed his beloved club’s premiership chances this season, despite a wildly successful trade period last year. The Power were lauded as one of the winners of the trade period when they lured 2021 No.1 pick Jason Horne-Francis to the club alongside 2018 premiership-winning goalsneak Junior Rioli, bolstering an already impressive list. However, Cornes,…

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Ken-firmed ⚡🍐

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AFL 2023: Ken Hinkley interview, Connor Rozee and Zak Butters powering Port Adelaide

For Ken Hinkley, the recruitment of Jason Horne-Francis from the Kangaroos was as much about family as it was footy as he joins an exciting group of Power youngsters. Tucking into a medium-well done sirloin steak, with a side of spuds, Ken Hinkley seemingly doesn’t have a worry in the footy world. He rarely radiates worry, Kenny, although he is pragmatic about 2023. His team needs to bounce…

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Port Adelaide Power head hunting Fremantle Dockers’ assistant coach Josh Carr

Port Adelaide Power head hunting Fremantle Dockers’ assistant coach Josh Carr

Fremantle assistant Josh Carr could become the key figure in a coaching succession plan at Port Adelaide, being pursued to return to the club he played in a premiership with for a role as midfield coach. Carr, a confidante of Dockers senior coach Justin Longmuir, would become the man most likely to succeed Ken Hinkley at Port if he chooses to leave the Dockers. Meanwhile, Fremantle have a…

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El entrenador de Port Adelaide, Ken Hinkley, cerró un enlace con North Melbourne y reafirmó su compromiso con Alberton a medida que se calienta la carrera por Alastair Clarkson. A pesar de estar contratado en Power para 2023, los informes indican que Hinkley estará entre los objetivos de los Kangaroos si se pierden a Clarkson, ya que Essendon también apuesta por el cuatro veces jefe de primer ministro. Hablando en SEN una semana después de que tanto él como el club declararan que terminaría el último año de su contrato, Hinkley se descartó de la vacante del Norte incluso si el club le presentó una oferta a largo plazo.Mira todos los partidos de la AFL de gran éxito este fin de semana en vivo y sin publicidad en vivo en Kayo. ¿Nuevo en Kayo? Comience su prueba gratuita ahora >NUEVO PODCAST DE FOX FOOTY: resumen del drama de Dons, vista previa de la última rondaEscucha a continuación o suscríbete en Apple Podcasts o Spotify“Solo puedo responder de la misma manera que siempre he respondido. Estoy comprometido con Port Adelaide y espero terminar mi contrato en Port Adelaide como Port Adelaide lo es para mí”, dijo Hinkley. SEN SA Desayuno.“Intentas abreviar esa pregunta a veces y la gente te critica por tratar de abreviarla, porque la has respondido muchas veces, para mí, ha sido bastante claro desde el club y yo mismo, entonces, ¿qué más se puede hacer? ¿decimos?"Se produce después de que Clarkson habló por primera vez en medio de la persecución de dos clubes por sus servicios mientras viajaba a Adelaide por un asunto personal. Hinkley confirmó que recibió un mensaje de Clarkson después de que el superentrenador refutó su interés en el trabajo de Port Adelaide, diciendo "eso es una falta de respeto para Kenny (Hinkley)" y que le enviaría un mensaje de texto a Hinkley para avisarle que viajaría a Australia del Sur. probablemente alimentaría la especulación.Hinkley tiene contrato para 2023 (Foto de James Elsby/AFL Photos vía Getty Images)Fuente: FOX DEPORTES"En realidad (recibí un mensaje de texto), fue bueno de 'Clarko' porque sabe lo que está pasando, creo que entiende muy, muy bien el panorama del fútbol y es un entrenador increíblemente exitoso, pero también increíblemente respetuoso y creo que él probablemente entendió lo que podría pasar cuando aterrizó en Adelaida”, dijo Hinkley.“Probablemente solo se acercó para decirme que eso iba a suceder, ¡y ciertamente sucedió!”La presión sobre la fraternidad de entrenadores ha aumentado en las últimas semanas, particularmente con tanta fascinación en torno a la inminente decisión de Clarkson. Hinkley confirmó que la presión era "real", pero señaló que es parte del trabajo de entrenar al más alto nivel. “Todos sabemos que cuando aceptamos el trabajo, si pensáramos que iba a ser agradable y tranquilo, probablemente nos engañaríamos un poco, pero no es así”, dijo. “Solo esperamos que sea parte de tu trabajo. Hacemos nuestro mejor esfuerzo como club de fútbol para asegurarnos de que podemos mantener a raya esa presión, no siempre va según lo planeado como el caso y el punto en 2022”.

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Suns coach backs AFL goal-line technology

Gold Coast coach Stuart Dew remains steadfast in support of the AFL’s goal-line audio technology despite it costing his side dearly in a two-point loss to Port Adelaide. Twice, the Suns’ Mabior Chol celebrated goals in Sunday’s Adelaide Oval encounter. And twice, the result of his second-quarter kicks were overturned on review because audio evidence showed both had brushed a goal-post. Watch the latest sport on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> On both occasions, the goal umpire’s so-called soft signal was a goal. Had those calls stood, the Suns would have won, but Dew was pragmatic. “Technology is here – and for a reason,” he said. “If I was wearing the opposition colours and you had technology that saw that it hit the post twice, and you lost the game when you’re trying to keep your season alive, I think it would be pretty deflating. “So where we can use it, let’s use it … it is what it is. “If it’s there, we need to use it. You would hate for that to be a final and get it wrong.” The AFL introduced audio technology similar to cricket’s ‘snicko’ in 2019, with microphones implanted in goalposts. The audio from the microphones is correlated with video feeds to determine if the ball struck a post. But it was the video feeds in another second-term incident in Sunday’s game which raised questions for Power coach Ken Hinkley. A long-range kick from Port forward Kane Farrell was ruled, on video review, to have been touched on the goal-line by a Suns defender. Replays showed a fraction of the ball behind the line of the goal-post padding – the entire ball must cross over it for a goal to be scored. “We felt like we were lucky with their two that hit the post,” Hinkley said of Chol’s overturned goals. “But we felt we were real unlucky with the (Farrell) one that looked like it went across the line almost. “I don’t want to show my ignorance but it should be to clear the goal line, but clearly it’s the padding on the post.” Hinkley offered a solution: have the goal-line painted on the goal-posts. “It would be pretty simple if that was what the line is, but it would look a bit strange,” he said. “Clear the goal line, is what it should be. Pretty simple.” https://ift.tt/gRnhiMH https://ift.tt/HCdrjf2

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Do you have any tips/thoughts on drawing stylized bug mandibles?? I have an anthro bug character and I am sTRUGGLING with their weird face (I remember a little while ago you mentioned not being a big fan of drawing realistic bugs so. Thought I'd ask lol)

alright here we go!!

== WARNING FOR CLOSE-UP INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY BELOW THE CUT and also hilarious plastic skulls that i slapped some mandibles on ==

my blog contains so many bugs anyway but i am just being polite in case of people who (understandably) find them scary to look at. however there's also some of my cartoony art under here too so hopefully that balances

SO as with all things i find it extremely helpful to use a reference. the original ref of my character (which i can't seem to find) was even more insecty than the current one - bug has been through a few iterations while getting simpler/easier for me to handle each time, and now they look kind of cuter and more concise than they did back then. BUT while the design got simpler, the basics have stayed more or less in place, so let's look at the original first

the first thing you should know is that Bug is, as i've mentioned before, kind of a mixed up amalgam of lots of different bugs. but i based their main face structure on an ant, because i like their faces and they often have bigger mandibles than wasps and such

(on with the show!)

if you run an image search for "ant face close up" you'll get a lot of useful macro photos of ant heads. (some are other insects wildly mislabelled but that's the fault of the search engine and people not knowing what bugs are which. as with any image search, use discretion). real-ass ant faces up ahead, scroll at your liesure!

ATTRIBUTION: morganglines @ Flickr accessed 15/08/2022

the first problem i ran into was that ants are kind of.. flat. their heads are angled the way they are because they aren't bipedal - they're bugs that walk close to the ground on six legs, so it's like this:

it felt weird to me to just slap a flat ant shape head onto an upright body. i eventually made bug's head a lot taller, and allocated the eyes/mouth/antennae to that new space however it felt right, which inevitably meant a slightly more "human" distribution of features (that's anthro art, babyyyy)

now let's talk about that weird seam line thing. rather, let's look at some more ant pictures!

ATTRIBUTION: PaDIL/Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker/Museum Victoria @ cabi.org accessed 15/08/2022

you won't find this as clear or even extant on every single type of ant ever, but a lot of them seem to have it, and i make some important use of it when i draw my character!

the seam dictates where i start my antennae, where i put the eyes, and helps me place the mouth/mandibles.

here's the modern ref. i decided i wanted to go Full Furry and give Bug a bit of a snout. because it's more fun for me to draw and it's my character and i hold all the cards and the reins and i can't be stopped. i like drawing Shaped Faces instead of circles, what can i say

SO what i did was, i used that "seam" thing as a sort of facial divider. drawing bug goes like this: the seam is like a "glasses bridge" between the eyes (which also look like glasses. bug's face is just a big secret pair of glasses, shh)

then from the seam i build the nose. if you draw your bugs with the flatter faces like up above, you can still use the same logic! just don't draw a big snoot on it, job done

THEN i fill the rest of the space with an imaginary pikachu cheek circle. and then i attach the mandibles there.

it also helps to think of the mandibles in terms of a real, 3d fursuit head (not that i can afford one lmao). i designed Bug so that if the jaws open, the mandibles HAVE to also be open. Bug's jaw is hinged, and the mandibles are a solid part of the workings of the jaw.

this is just a personal rule i set for my own character, and of course you can make whatever rule you want about how the mandibles/jaws work. but i'm including it here because i think it helps to show how my brain works when it comes to attaching the mandible "pieces" to the face.

i also try to remember at all times that Bug is a creature with an exoskeleton. basically Bug is a suit of armour with all the soft and squishy parts kept inside that.

you can see it here on the body: i draw Bug similarly to a kind of ball jointed doll! where the joints are mostly hidden because the parts are fit together very snugly - but not so snugly that i don't hint at there being joints and seams in there:

(i'm talking about the black bits. and the orange bits on the mandibles! which i also sometimes draw black because i'm inconsistent, oops)

the blue "over-armour" and the black "under-armour" are like a running rule that i also apply to the face. the nose-bridge seam and the mandible seams are the same rule, just applied to finer details

tl;dr what i do about the mandibles is: i set up some rules based on ants, these decide how the face is built, and then i tweaked/simplified them over time. my original design 2015 will probably help you understand this a lot more than the current one, but even the current one follows the same rules!

nosebridge, jaws, mandibles sit on the jaws' hinge. THE HINGE IS THE KEY now look at these fake plastic skulls from a stock image website whose license allows me to edit the image

ATTRIBUTION: Halloween @ freeimageslive.co.uk accessed 15/08/2022

check those out. now look at this:

these are wonky (no bones about it) but hopefully you can see my process a bit more clearly!

CANNOT EMPHASISE THIS ENOUGH to anyone reading this: I DRAW FUNNY CARTOON BUGS that i have tweaked and pushed and pulled like chewing gum to look more anthro/humanlike and allow for fun facial expressions. i do not care about making them particularly Species Accurate or adhere 100% to the laws of physics or biology or whatever. i draw funny cartoons and that's my thing, that's what i do. so take all of this with hefty heapings of salt and the full context that i draw cartoon furries, NOT anatomically accurate real insects for use in science papers. thank you!

there are squazillions of types of bugs and arthropods and etc out there with wildly variant faces, mandibles, mouthparts, and everything else. i just took a bunch of ants, chewed them a bit, and spat out a face inspired by them that worked for me and i found fun/interesting to draw. i encourage everyone to do this with any insect face and see what happens!

this got really long. if you made it this far, thank you for reading!

special thanks to the OpenDyslexic font, which i picked to try and keep things as clear/legible as possible. i could have just used comic sans or something but i like the look of OpenDyslexic :] it's pay what you want on gumroad

EDIT: OH AND!!!

don’t worry about getting mandibles symmetrical. mandibles in nature are pretty much never symmetrical. check out this Bigheaded Ant

ATTRIBUTION: Eli Sarnat, PIAkey: Invasive Ants of the Pacific Islands, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org via insectimages.org accessed 15/08/2022

(damn they didnt lie that ant can bighead) anyway what i’m saying is mandibles will meet in the middle in very strange ways sometimes. sometimes one will be bigger than the other, sometimes the “serration” at the meeting edges will be lopsided like one mandible will be > and the other will also be > so it’ll look like one is pointy and the other has a triangle cut out of it. that’s just the way of the world

#furry art #bugsona #insect anthro #ants #art tutorial #?? i guess?? #and uhhhhh #gmtxt #gmask #anonymous #ty for the ask! hope this helps! if not i dunno if i can explain it another way so good luck dfkjgh