Rival Crows And Port Players Sit Down And Break Bread

Port Adelaide and Crows indigenous players have sat down together for a “brothers dinner” as they work to support “each other a bit more off the field”.

Players from both clubs met for dinner at La Vita in Kidman Park on Monday.

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Port Adelaide’s Paul Vandenbergh has told The Lowdown Podcast:

“It’s one of the decisions we made at the (pre-season All Stars) summit about supporting each other a bit more off the field and networking a bit.

“We’ve been doing this brothers dinner for about eight years at Port Adelaide and all the other clubs started seeing that was a really cool opportunity to support them a bit better.

“Jeremy Johncock is working at the Crows and he’s my cousin so we get on really well. Him and I have been communicating the last 12 months so he’s doing fantastic work down there.

“It (the dinner) removes the colours, there’s no competition in this space, it’s just how do we support each other.”