Tredrea's Greatest Moments

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Warren Tredrea retired in 2010 as one of the Port Adelaide Football Club's greatest ever players. A Premiership Captain, four-time All-Australian, four-time Best & Fairest winner and eight-time club leading goalkicker; Tredrea's career was full of highlights.

PortAdelaideFC.com.au sat down with Warren to talk about his greatest games outside of the 2004 Premiership. Tredrea spoke about his five greatest games (outside of the Grand Final) including his breakout game in '98 against Carlton, beating the All-Australian full-back in '02, playing with the flu in the '03 finals, the epic '04 prelim and his one man show against the Tigers in '09 - and we've uploaded highlights of each game!!

The One Man Show

After several injury interrupted years and two goal-less games to start 2009, many pundits believed Warren Tredrea was a spent force in the AFL.

Back-to-back six-goal games in Round 3 and 4 silenced some of the doubters, but it was his match-winning, best-on-ground performance in Round 8 against Richmond that declared there was still life in Tredrea's legs.

Click on the image above to watch highlights from the game, including Tredrea's amazing final minute, in which he kicked the go-ahead goal and took the winning mark.

Tredrea Leads The Way

After three failed finals campaigns, the pressure leading into the 2004 finals series was intense. An impressive qualifying final win over the Cats set-up a home final against the highly-rated Saints in front of a record non-Showdown crowd.

Almost 47,000 crammed in for Friday night finals football making Football Park a Power cauldron. The Saints got off to a flyer with Fraser Gehrig kicking his 100th goal for the year in the first quarter. This, however as Tredrea describes, would prove decisive as the ensuing break in play due to the pitch invasion completely changed the momentum of the game.

Statistically not one of Tredrea's greatest games, he reflects on it with pride, having led the club into our first AFL Grand Final.

Click on the image above to watch highlights from the game.

The Flu Game

Having lost to Sydney the previous week at home in the qualifying final, the pressure was on as the Power took on the Bombers in a re-match of the previous year's semi-final.

Warren Tredrea was at the height of his powers, but on this wet night in September in front of 36,557 die-hard Power fans at Football Park, he was well and truly under the weather. There was doubt all week as to whether Tredrea would play as he battled the flu, but thanks to a unique diet during the week (which he explains in the video), Tredrea not only played, but starred with three goals wearing a long-sleeve guernsey.

Click on the image above to watch highlights from the game.

Tredrea Conquers Hay

Coming off the back of an All-Australian/Best & Fairest double in 2001, Tredrea continued to stamp his dominance on the competition in 2002.

Matched up against All-Australian full-back Jonathan Hay - a fellow budding star of the AFL - Tredrea had a day out down in Launceston taking 16 grabs, many of them contested under close attention from Hay, and booting three goals as the Power drew level with Brisbane at the top of the AFL ladder.

Click on the image above to watch highlights from the game.

The Breakout Game

After a slow start to his second year on the Power list, Tredrea announced himself as a genuine AFL player in Round 7, 1998 at Optus Oval.

The skinny 19-year-old looked lively from the start and led the rampage with a massive bag of goals as Port Adelaide powered to an 89 point win over the Blues on their home deck. Ultimately, however, it was a bitter-sweet win with Tredrea dislocating his knee, Matthew Primus hurting his ankle and Darren Mead finishing the game on the bench with concussion.

Click on the image above to watch highlights from the game and hear Tredrea talked about what it meant to him to finally feel like he belonged at AFL level.

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