{"id":30776,"date":"2016-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/boak-bites-back-we-re-not-a-soft-club\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T00:00:00","slug":"boak-bites-back-we-re-not-a-soft-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/boak-bites-back-we-re-not-a-soft-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Boak bites back &#8212; \u201cWe\u2019re not a soft club\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Port Adelaide captain Travis Boak has flatly rejected suggestions his team is mentally soft.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly don\u2019t have a soft group at all,\u201d Boak told FIVEAA\u2019s Rowey and Bicks. \u201cWe\u2019re not a soft club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Port Adelaide great <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-legend-s-showdown-fear-mentally-they-re-not-up-to-it\">Tim Ginever said he didn\u2019t believe the Power were \u201cmentally\u201d up to their Showdown clash<\/a> with Adelaide this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball in general \u2013 sport in general \u2013 is 95 per cent mental, there\u2019s no doubt about it,\u201d Boak said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s certainly the challenge, being able to stay in that space. That\u2019s always a challenge, that\u2019s always a challenge for each side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a completely mental game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still think our group is brave, we\u2019re just not able to execute it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/278320833&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But Boaky was at a loss to explain the yawning chasm between the Power\u2019s best and worst footy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer\u2019s not easy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess if we knew the answer we wouldn\u2019t have that gap. It\u2019s certainly way too big.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve certainly had our challenges. 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That doesn\u2019t help the group.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR RIGHT NOW<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-koch-on-crows-i-don-t-think-they-get-nearly-enough-credit\"><strong>KOCHIE\u2019S UNLIKELY COMPLIMENT FOR THE ADELAIDE CROWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/michael-voss-unfazed-by-whispers-behind-his-back\"><strong>MICHAEL VOSS UNFAZED BY \u201cWHISPERS\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Adelaide captain Travis Boak has flatly rejected suggestions his team is mentally soft. \u201cWe certainly don\u2019t have a soft group at all,\u201d Boak told FIVEAA\u2019s Rowey and Bicks. \u201cWe\u2019re not a soft club.\u201d On Saturday, Port Adelaide great Tim Ginever said he didn\u2019t believe the Power were \u201cmentally\u201d up to their Showdown clash with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Boak bites back - \u201cWe\u2019re not a soft club\u201d - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/boak-bites-back-we-re-not-a-soft-club\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boak bites back -- \u201cWe\u2019re not a soft club\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Port Adelaide captain Travis Boak has flatly rejected suggestions his team is mentally soft. \u201cWe certainly don\u2019t have a soft group at all,\u201d Boak told FIVEAA\u2019s Rowey and Bicks. \u201cWe\u2019re not a soft club.\u201d On Saturday, Port Adelaide great Tim Ginever said he didn\u2019t believe the Power were \u201cmentally\u201d up to their Showdown clash with [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/boak-bites-back-we-re-not-a-soft-club\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FIVEAA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-17T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/travis-boak.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/boak-bites-back-we-re-not-a-soft-club\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/boak-bites-back-we-re-not-a-soft-club\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"headline\":\"Boak bites back &#8212; 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