ThePowerFromPort is a culmination of several efforts since 1997 to provide Port Adelaide Power and Magpie supporters with up-to-date information and results. Once I started using the net back in the Power's first year in the AFL, I found that there were many supporters living away from South Australia and eager to know how both Port teams were doing. At the time there were no official sites.

The Port News Zone as it was then known started off small with a free website and mailing lists to email information to these supporters. It didn't take long for word to get around and people began to request more information.

I eventually found myself with the offer of a free domain and progressed to a fully hosted site at portnewszone.com. Not long after I was approached to do news and results for the official Port Magpie website and to host two email lists for both clubs that were previously linked on their website.

As Rivals.net looked toward starting their AFL section, The Port News Zone came to the attention of staff who then approached me to be the editor of their Port Adelaide website. The decision was made by myself to start fresh with a completely new domain.

ThePowerFromPort was born and joined Rivals.net alongside several well known AFL fan sites including RedandWhiteOnline, Dockerland.com & BomberBlitz.com. After two seasons Rivals.net was so popular that they were made an offer they didn't want to refuse and were taken over. The new owners decided to branch away from covering as many sports as possible from all over the world to concentrate on just a few of the most popular in England. The AFL sites were cut with the biggest ones choosing to remain online with alternative hosting. Ironically they cut the AFL sites just as Telstra took over the official AFL sites and many supporters were complaining about the new Telstra run sites. Had Rivals chosen to keep the AFL sites going there may have been an even bigger increase to what was already a popular group of sites on their network.

In the first year of hosting the site on my own after leaving Rivals.net, Mark kindly offered to help me with the site and now does most of the technical work and design leaving me free to concentrate on the news and moderating the forums. Without his help the site wouldn't be what it is today as he has put together a lot of the historical information which takes up a lot of his spare time.

In 2003 after Port lost to Sydney at home in the finals, Michaelangelo Rucci printed quotes from our members stating their disappointment and included the site address in his Advertiser article which led to a significant increase in members. When we decided to move the site to new servers we had a glitch which saw our members having to sign up all over again. It took most of 2004 to get back to the membership we had before.

ThePowerFromPort is an alternative to the official sites with supporters able to interact with each other. The site is updated daily and usually more than once a day during the season, with news and results for Port Adelaide Power & Magpies as well as the AFL & SANFL. With such a large membership base it's easy to keep up with the latest news not only from the admins but also the supporters who report what they hear on the media sometimes before there is anything official up on the net.

Membership is free and all we ask is that you supply a valid email address (i.e. one that really works if we try to email you). We test every email address and if it comes back as non-existent we don't approve the membership. If you sign up please be patient. We aren't always online to approve members and you will not be able to log into your account and post until we have approved it.