Will they improve? Will they regress? The big questions facing Port Adelaide in 2025

SEN Breakfast hosts Cameron Mooney and Sam Edmund have run their eyes over Port Adelaide and how they’re shaping up for the 2025 campaign.

With the trade and free agency period now complete, Mooney and Edmund discussed how the club may improve in 2025, how they may regress if things go wrong and the big questions facing the club next season.

The Power finished the 2024 season in second position with 16 wins and 7 losses but went out in a Preliminary Final to eventual runners-up Sydney.

How can they improve?

“Their best players are genuine A graders, and we are talking Zak Butters, Connor Rozee, Jason Horne-Francis and Jase Burgoyne is on the verge or on the way there,” Mooney told SEN Breakfast.

“Mitch Georgiades and Todd Marshall - with Charlie Dixon gone - if two boys need a huge summer and a huge season because it’s a forward line that doesn’t take enough marks inside 50 for me.

“Can they lead a forward line? Georgiades is 23, Marshall is 26. 69 games for Mitch and Marshall’s at 116 so there both in the sweet spot for age and games.”

Edmund added: “Jack Lukosius arrives, who knows? But if he can catch fire and kick up towards 40-50 goals (it’ll be huge).

“Sam Powell-Pepper comes back from a knee, so they do have strength and depth there.”

How might they regress?

“They have lost a dual All-Australian in Dan Houston and Charlie Dixon also retired,” Edmund said.

Mooney added: “I thought at times Brandon Zerk-Thatcher was good and at times he was poor, so their backline is up in the air.

“I don’t think they will do as well next year as they did this year.”

The other 2025 burning questions

Edmund asked: “Does Port have to win the premiership for Ken Hinkley to keep his job?”

Mooney asked: “Who will step up in the forward line in 2025? Ollie Lord? Todd Marshall? Mitch Georgiades?”