Port Adelaide slipped to 1-2 for the season after a disappointing 12-point defeat to Essendon in what can only be described as a stinker of a game at Marvel Stadium on Thursday night.
Fans could have been forgiven for switching off their TVs in disgust at some of the football on display but the Bombers were at least able to secure the four competition points.
For Port, who thumped Richmond last week after being thrashed by Collingwood in round one, there will be some alarm bells ringing.
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In the wash-up to the defeat, one of Port Adelaide's main men, Jason Horne-Francis, was singled out for what club great Kane Cornes believes are concerns around his body language.
The 21-year-old had some bright moments in a 22-disposal, one-goal effort, but drifted in and out of the match and, in Cornes' view, displayed some petulance at times.
“It’s the body language for me, because he’s a competitive winner, but he doesn’t cope well when things aren’t going his way,” Cornes said on SEN on Friday.
“He sooked last night, there’s no sugar-coating that.
“Then he seduces you into thinking he’s going to be the match-winner again with that one-handed grab and finish.
“Consistently, he's got to be better with the body language stuff and infects the whole of the group when he's like that.
“When he's moping around, when he's giving free kicks against, when he's fumbling and when he's dropping easy marks, you just look at him and the influence his poor body language has on the whole of the group is a dark shadow over the rest of his teammates.
“That's not good enough.”
Port Adelaide host St Kilda at Adelaide Oval next Sunday.