Summary
Port Adelaide have been there or thereabouts all season long without ever delivering the statement victory to convince doubters they were genuine flag contenders. Tonight was that statement.
The Power bullied Geelong over four quarters, making Chris Scott change tack at least twice, running a team full of stars off their feet, and displaying the confidence and hunger of premiership favourites. Aliir Aliir set the tone, dominating the opening quarter from fullback, thereafter the quick hands of Ollie Wines and Travis Boak cut through the Cats in the middle and Orazio Fantasia showed his importance with a clutch of neat finishes.
There were contributors everywhere, from Charlie Dixon exposing the absence of Tom Stewart, Willem Drew typifying his side’s intensity with 11 tackles, and Ryan Burton’s dash off halfback. Two more allround performances like this from the side with the best form line in the competition, and Ken Hinkley will be a premiership coach.
His counterpart at Geelong has no such luxury. Not for the first time in his coaching career at the Cats his side has looked a million bucks in the home and away season but arrived in the finals looking like pocket change. Geelong couldn’t match their hosts for intensity and run, despite winning their share of clearances and free-kicks. The problem was most worryingly exposed coming out of defence with a succession of poor turnovers ending in goals, and there could have been more, with Stewart’s absence hurting badly. Despite looking destined for the minor premiership only seconds before the final siren of the home and away season, the Cats will barely deserve favouritism against the winner of tomorrow’s Sydney derby in next week’s elimination final.
Thanks for joining me tonight. I’ll be back tomorrow for Sydney v GWS. See you there.
Full-time: Port Adelaide 12.14 (86) defeat Geelong 5.13 (43)
That was comprehensive. The Port Adelaide bandwagon is rolling.
Q4: 2 mins remaining: Power 12.14 (86) v 5.12 (42) Cats - Make that two for the sub! SPP outmarks two Cats in the goalsquare to add even more gloss to the scoreboard.
Q4: 4 mins remaining: Power 11.14 (80) v 5.12 (42) Cats - Powell-Pepper, on as the medical sub, gets in on the act, picking up the pieces outside 50m and snapping truly to just clear the fingertips on the line. The crowd enjoyed that one. He’s a home favourite.
Q4: 6 mins remaining: Power 10.14 (74) v 5.12 (42) Cats - Port Adelaide are taking the Mickey now, handballing amongst themselves in midfield before Boak launches a bomb that’s touched behind. Party time at Adelaide Oval.
Q4: 9 mins remaining: Power 10.13 (73) v 5.12 (42) Cats - How are Geelong going? Rohan is sending torps to the centre spot from the kick-in. Port Adelaide too quick, too strong, too confident in every discipline.
Q4: 11 mins remaining: Power 10.12 (72) v 5.11 (41) Cats - Port Adelaide are seeing out this game with ease. Their pressure without possession remains ferocious.
Q4: 13 mins remaining: Power 10.12 (72) v 5.11 (41) Cats - There we go. Fantasia is subbed out for Powell-Pepper.
Q4: 13 mins remaining: Power 10.12 (72) v 5.11 (41) Cats - Fantasia is on the bench and he’s receiving treatment to his knee. It doesn’t look serious, but even so, this late in the game he isn’t worth risking keeping on, neither is Gray.
Q4: 15 mins remaining: Power 10.12 (72) v 5.11 (41) Cats - For the first time tonight Geelong string some crisp long passes together down the wing. The centring ball ends up in Selwood’s hands at ground level and Hawkins is invited to finish unopposed.
Q4: 18 mins remaining: Power 10.10 (70) v 4.11 (35) Cats - Selwood drills one back for the Cats. Only six more to go.
Robbie Gray doesn’t look great, limping on that heavily strapped left knee. Not sure he needs to be out there.
Q4: 19 mins remaining: Power 10.10 (70) v 3.11 (29) Cats - Fantasia snaps his fourth seconds after the bounce. Put a fork in this one, it’s done.
Port Adelaide are going to have a week’s rest and head into their preliminary final on the competition’s hottest run of form. They’re going to take some stopping from here.
Goals: Fantasia 3, Motlop 2, Marshall, Gray, Butters, Ladhams
— Port Adelaide FC (@PAFC) August 27, 2021
Disposals: Wines 25, Boak, Amon 20, Houston, Duursma, Bonner 16 pic.twitter.com/yrTXkHnFSB
3QT: Power 9.10 (64) v 3.11 (29) Cats
Not a lot of scoring that quarter, but Port Adelaide remain firmly in control of this qualifying final.
Q3: 1 min remaining: Power 9.10 (64) v 3.11 (29) Cats - Time and again Geelong play themselves into pressure, engineer an exit, only to find the clearing kick ends with a hooped forward outmarked. Port Adelaide have bullied this final.
Q3: 2 mins remaining: Power 9.10 (64) v 3.11 (29) Cats - Geelong win the clearance and spread but Duncan kicks straight to Port Adelaide. The Cats have certainly had enough ball tonight, they just haven’t used it well enough.
Q3: 3 mins remaining: Power 9.9 (63) v 3.11 (29) Cats - In a full flex against the Cats faffing around, Power just welly the ball a couple of times up the guts and it lands in Marshall’s mitts for a simple mark and go... oh dear. That was a gimme, but the drop was awful and the point-blank effort hits the post!
Q3: 4 mins remaining: Power 9.8 (62) v 3.11 (29) Cats - After what feels like a full Lord of the Rings fight scene Geelong wrestle the ball forward, Selwood wriggles half a yard of space, finds Close, and a vital set shot is hooked to the skinny side.
Q3: 6 mins remaining: Power 9.8 (62) v 3.10 (28) Cats - Geelong spend an age in quicksand. It’s painful to watch, like a lion slowly dragging a wildebeest into the long grass. Eventually Blicavs coughs up the inevitable turnover and the Cats are back defending on their 50. This has become very very ugly for Chris Scott.
Q3: 8 mins remaining: Power 9.7 (61) v 3.10 (28) Cats - The Cats just cannot find an easy out. The Port Adelaide press is too good to penetrate with patience, and the dump kick exit is snaffled up by Aliir. There is no individual inspiration either to take the game on and do something drastic.
Q3: 10 mins remaining: Power 9.7 (61) v 3.10 (28) Cats - Duursma nails Dahlhaus in a tackle that really highlights the gulf in intensity between the two sides. Port Adelaide are flying in top gear, Geelong are huffing and puffing like a diesel with a flat tyre.
Q3: 11 mins remaining: Power 9.7 (61) v 3.10 (28) Cats - Two quick frees in succession against Bews allow Port Adelaide to control territory and get the crowd into the action to berate the Cat. This quarter hasn’t really caught fire, but that suits the hosts just fine with their commanding lead.
Q3: 13 mins remaining: Power 9.7 (61) v 3.10 (28) Cats - Geelong continue to labour out of defence. They look ponderous then panicked when faced with the oncoming Power forwards. The outcome is scruffy football that fails to maximise the twin towers of Cameron and Hawkins.
Q3: 15 mins remaining: Power 9.7 (61) v 3.10 (28) Cats - Parfitt snaps wide when he should score. It was a chance the product of Chris Scott’s tactical switch to put Rohan behind the ball as a dashing halfback. He began a chain of possession with Menegola - both of whom were quiet in the first half.
Q3: 16 mins remaining: Power 9.7 (61) v 3.9 (27) Cats - Scrappy start to the half from both sides, played mostly between the arcs. Geelong haven’t come out with the required intensity to disrupt the flow of this game. Port Adelaide seem much more content to play for time and pick their targets. And as I type just that a slow build up ends with Fantasia snapping from 50m out on the right flank after Dangerfield fumbled a high ball. That’s Power’s ninth, and most of those seem to have rolled through unguarded goals.
Q3: 19 mins remaining: Power 8.7 (55) v 3.9 (27) Cats - Dangerfield does superbly to find Dahlhaus at a right-angle in shooting range after roving near the boundary. The former Bulldog unloads but is way off target with the set shot.
Ken Hinkley just gave a great walk-and-talk half-time interview. He was confident but measured, revelling in his side’s “finals footy”.
And to make matters worse, Jed Bews looked pretty banged up on the siren. Mark O’Connor has already been replaced by medical sub Shaun Higgins. Not only could this be a costly result for Geelong it could have lasting effects on their finals campaign.
Port Adelaide controlled the first quarter through Aliir’s positioning and dominance in the air. He was barely sighted after quarter-time with the Power’s run and carry taking over. Sharp hands in midfield, an urgency to win the ball back, and quick thinking at ground level inside-50 were all too much for a ponderous Geelong. The Cats need an injection from somewhere and a massive momentum shift if they’re going straight to the prelim, but it’s hard to see where it’s going to come from.
Goals: Fantasia, Motlop 2, Marshall, Gray, Butters, Ladhams
— Port Adelaide FC (@PAFC) August 27, 2021
Disposals: Wines 19, Boak 15, Amon 13, Burton 11, Bonner 10 pic.twitter.com/4HG3w9wRQS
HT: Power 8.7 (55) v 3.8 (26) Cats
Port Adelaide turned a slender quarter-time lead into a dominant second quarter. They are bossing this qualifying final. Geelong with an uphill task to work their way back into this one.
Q2: 1 min remaining: Power 8.7 (55) v 3.8 (26) Cats - Cameron is penalised harshly in Geelong’s attacking 50, allowing Burton to run 25m without bouncing then thump a perfectly weighted kick for the leading Butters. He marks and kicks a goal. “Power!” reverberating around Adelaide Oval.
Q2: 2 mins remaining: Power 7.7 (49) v 3.8 (26) Cats - Ruck infringement favours Lycett 65m out. He feeds Wines and his centring ball from the right clears the pack, lands in Marshall’s arms and he snaps well on the turn from a tight angle. After all that dominance Power score from a freebie.
Q2: 3 mins remaining: Power 6.7 (43) v 3.8 (26) Cats - Better form Geelong. Stanley and Selwood combine for a clean centre clearance. The ball remains in hooped guernseys by hands until Miers snaps 40m out but it lacks distance and is off hands for a point.
Q2: 4 mins remaining: Power 6.7 (43) v 3.7 (25) Cats - Blicavs does brilliantly in traffic in defence and he clears to Close on centre wing, but the contested mark is with Miers - an indication of Geelong’s lack of cohesion so fare. Close then belts the ball down the line and out of bounds. A free-kick spares Geelong’s blushes, then another, downfield, to invite Simpson to shoot from 40m out - and he kicks the goal! Huge moment for Geelong. Playing poorly, benefiting from plenty of assistance form the umpires, but Simpson keeps them in touch.
Q2: 6 mins remaining: Power 6.7 (43) v 2.7 (19) Cats - Geelong can’t clear far, Port switch from left to right, and in no time the ball is back in their right forward pocket. This time they do smuggle clear and two penetrating kicks should end with a Cameron contested mark, but he can’t hold on. He does well at ground level to recover though and snap a low effort that’s rushed behind.
Q2: 7 mins remaining: Power 6.7 (43) v 2.6 (18) Cats - Brilliant hands from Boak and Gray in traffic turn congestion to a fast break. It ends with Fantasia marking in space 30m out in the right forward pocket, but his set shot slides across the face.
Q2: 9 mins remaining: Power 6.6 (42) v 2.6 (18) Cats - Cameron grazes the upright with a set shot as Geelong finally wrestle some control after being ambushed by Port Adelaide this quarter so far.
Q2: 10 mins remaining: Power 6.6 (42) v 2.5 (17) Cats - Geelong are punch drunk. And that won’t help - Mark O’Connor is having his hamstring strapped and Shaun Higgins is on as the medical sub.
Q2: 11 mins remaining: Power 6.6 (42) v 2.5 (17) Cats - It’s training ground stuff now from Port Adelaide. They have collective flow, hitting targets at will, running harder, kicking smarter than their opponents. They should score again but after carving the Cats open the kick from 40m is too close to the man on the mark.
Q2: 12 mins remaining: Power 6.6 (42) v 2.5 (17) Cats - The game is very squarely on Port Adelaide’s terms despite the Cats leading the free-kick count 14-5! The Power are dominating inside, hitting targets outside, and it’s no surprise when a stoppage on the left wing is engineered into a snap on the burst from Fantasia in the right forward pocket for another goal. Adelaide Oval is rocking, and deservedly so.
Q2: 14 mins remaining: Power 5.6 (36) v 2.5 (17) Cats - The Power should score again. The ball is pinged through the corridor at rapid speed, Port Adelaide flooding Geelong in midfield until they reach 50, where Motlop shoots on the run but off balance. As the ball drifts wide Rozee has a stone cold free-kick next to the behind post - but it isn’t paid! And Geelong escape.
Port Adelaide could kill this off in the next ten minutes if Geelong don’t watch out.
Q2: 15 mins remaining: Power 5.5 (35) v 2.5 (17) Cats - That miss doesn’t haunt the Power for long. Geelong, who are making an art form out of failing to shift the Sherrin out of their backline, perform more miracles of fumbling, and Motlop is on the mistake in a flash, snapping from 40m into the unguarded goal. The Cats have committed a season’s worth of coach killers in 25 minutes of footy.
Q2: 16 mins remaining: Power 4.5 (29) v 2.5 (17) Cats - Lycett has time to thump towards the goalsquare from 60m, a pack forms, and DIXON is in the middle of it, showing incredible strength to hold a terrific pack mark. But, oh... he goes back and drags a 35m set shot wide. Poor miss.
Q2: 17 mins remaining: Power 4.4 (28) v 2.5 (17) Cats - Not for the first time the Cats cannot clear their lines, but also not for the first time an umpire’s whistle gives them some respite. Plenty of boos around Adelaide Oval, they’d be much louder if there were more than 20,000 in attendance. The umps really haven’t read the rules around home ground advantage.
Q2: 18 mins remaining: Power 4.4 (28) v 2.5 (17) Cats - Port Adelaide sweep downfield along the right flank. At the apex of the boundary and 50m the centring ball finds Boak in space but his 45m set shot fades wide.
Q2: 19 mins remaining: Power 4.3 (27) v 2.5 (17) Cats - Cameron rolls out of 50 to compete for a 50-50 with Duursma that leaves the Port Adelaide player on the deck. The big Cat then does well with a second and third effort to set play moving down the left wing. It ends with another soft free-kick Geelong’s way (they are getting by far the best of the umpires) but Hawkins cannot split the big sticks from the boundary line.
Mitch Duncan is dominating the stats sheet (14 disposals, nobody else has more than eight!) but Aliir Aliir is shaping this contest with his positioning, spoiling, and - crucially - his intercept marking. Geelong have to respond.
4️⃣ intercept marks for Aliir and it's only quarter time 😳#weareportadelaide#AFLPowerCats pic.twitter.com/l4tKPRILPD
— Port Adelaide FC (@PAFC) August 27, 2021
QT: Power 4.3 (27) v 2.5 (17) Cats
The Power take a 10-point lead into quarter-time courtesy of an Aliir Aliir masterclass.
Q1: 1 min remaining: Power 4.3 (27) v 2.5 (17) Cats - Geelong again too slow coming out of defence. Guess what happens? A Cat ends up under all sorts of pressure and the ragged punt downfield ends up with Aliir marking overhead. With the quarter running out the ball is pumped forward in a hurry and after it’s brought to ground level Fantasia is sharpest to crumb, snap and goal.
Q1: 2 mins remaining: Power 3.3 (21) v 2.5 (17) Cats - Bews does brilliantly on the right wing after good work from the superb Duncan, but with the 50m arc approaching he failed to offload to a better kick and blazed towards the goalsquare where Lycett was waiting to palm a behind.
Q1: 3 mins remaining: Power 3.3 (21) v 2.4 (16) Cats - Geelong are very patient coming out of defence, but it’s too slow, way too slow. Aliir again reads the exit, intercepts, and two kicks later Ladhams has a leading mark and the Power are back in the lead. The story of the game so far is all about Aliir. Not only is he influencing Geelong in attack, he’s also forcing them to rethink their exits out of defence. Chris Scott needs to mix up his set-up to disrupt Aliir’s day out.
Q1: 5 mins remaining: Power 2.3 (15) v 2.4 (16) Cats - Port Adelaide move the ball to half-forward but then lose possession. Duncan is to the fore for Geelong, zipping through the corridor by hand and foot, and it’s rapid enough for Hawkins to lead, free from the attentions of Aliir. He marks then goes back to goal in his 300th. Cats back in front.
Q1: 6 mins remaining: Power 2.3 (15) v 1.4 (10) Cats - Geelong are having to work incredibly hard to clear the first press. Then when they do Aliir is like a magnet attracting the ball either directly, or dropping off his man to intercept. He is having a magnificent quarter.
Q1: 7 mins remaining: Power 2.3 (15) v 1.4 (10) Cats - Port Adelaide are denying Geelong any time in possession and moving the ball swiftly when they get it themselves. It’s harum scarum stuff as Hawkins comes downfield to influence the contest only for Drew to smother, then O’Connor receives a free for a high tackle, but the Cats cannot clear their lines. The turnover seems inevitable and when it arrives Marshall shoots wide.
Q1: 8 mins remaining: Power 2.2 (14) v 1.4 (10) Cats - Dixon leads and marks just outside 50 on the left wing. His long bomb is almost marked by Marshall but it’s off hands for a behind. End-to-end stuff in this opening quarter. Neither side have yet established terms, which you’d fancy suits the home side for the time being.
Q1: 10 mins remaining: Power 2.1 (13) v 1.4 (10) Cats - Parfitt sprays a 50m free-kick after being gifted a free for a dangerous tackle, that really wasn’t. From the kick-in, Port Adelaide break the forward press with some fortune, then do well to hurry the ball forward at pace, continually isolating the Cats 1-1, denying them time set to set up that structured defence. The passage ends with Drew snapping to the narrow side.
Q1: 11 mins remaining: Power 2.0 (12) v 1.3 (9) Cats - Aliir is currently the most influential player on the ground. From a midfield free-kick the Cats go deep but the All Australian is there yet again, like a sentinel, and suddenly the ball is working Power’s way. The long punt downfield comes to ground and it falls nicely for Gray who wheels around and snaps with just enough force to kick through the unguarded goal.
Q1: 12 mins remaining: Power 1.0 (6) v 1.3 (9) Cats - Aliir again repels a Geelong entry and the Power are first to the loose ball. They cough it up heading infield and Cameron can launch it back into attack, but Aliir is there again to fist clear! The Cats are well set though and Selwood marks just outside 50 before drilling low to Cameron on the lead. He has a set shot from 40m out on a 45 degree angle - and he kicks a marvellous goal! A huge toothy roar and bicep flex follows. Geelong needed that.
Q1: 14 mins remaining: Power 1.0 (6) v 0.3 (3) Cats - Kolodjashnij now with the vital intercept mark in the back pocket. Geelong try to chip their way clear but they can’t find an exit. Henderson is then stuck in no-man’s land run down by Gray. Motlop is alone inside 50 and he smashes the game’s opening goal!
Q1: 15 mins remaining: Power 0.0 (0) v 0.3 (3) Cats - Now Houston wins a free-kick in midfield and Amon launches deep. Blicavs again does well overhead to spoil and clear. He is crucial to Geelong in Stewart’s absence and he’s started well. Down the other end Aliir cruises into yet another intercept mark to keep the Cats at arm’s length.
Q1: 16 mins remaining: Power 0.0 (0) v 0.3 (3) Cats - Superb run-down tackle from Close on Amon to force another turnover in the centre square. The ball is soon in Geelong’s 50 and Hawkins is too strong 1-1 to clunk the mark. But he misses to the left from 40m out straight in front. That was a golden opportunity missed.
Q1: 18 mins remaining: Power 0.0 (0) v 0.2 (2) Cats - Dangerfield wins a holding free-kick 60m out, takes a couple of steps then roosts a monster on target that Aliir has to palm behind.
Conditions are perfect, by the way.
Q1: 19 mins remaining: Power 0.0 (0) v 0.1 (1) Cats - Keenly fought early exchanges, as you’d imagine, but it’s Port Adelaide who hoist the first inside-50, but Geelong do well to outman Charlie Dixon. The Cats then force a turnover in midfield that Smith belts in Rohan’s direction. The ball spills out the back and from the pocket Miers dribbles a bobbling point.
Opening bounce!
The 2021 finals series is underway!
And immediately, as soon as the broadcast moves from the studio to the commentary box Jaybee and Beetee talk about... themselves. Does anybody produce these blokes any more?
Updated
National anthem time. A chance for the broadcast camera to capture a significant proportion of Geelong’s list wearing hairbands. None for the Power, although Scott Lycett is rocking an all-time mullet.
The two sides are lined up facing each other, connected into a horseshoe by the match officials, as the welcome to country is broadcast on the big screen.
The 20,000 or so inside the grand old cricket ground are much happier to see the black clad Power rangers.
Out come the Cats onto the glorious Adelaide Oval turf. Geelong are in the whitest iteration of their famous hooped uniform.
It all starts here 🤝#weareportadelaide pic.twitter.com/q77rVPr1sv
— Port Adelaide FC (@PAFC) August 27, 2021
While we’re on the Geelong legends love-in, Joel Selwood matches Corey Enright for the most games played as a Cat tonight. And if the Victorians win, it will be the 200th time Selwood and Hawkins have sung the team song in triumph together.
The equal second most finals played in league history 😤#AFLPowerCats | @Deakin pic.twitter.com/3dsqnKyTvB
— Geelong Cats (@GeelongCats) August 27, 2021
A VFL premiership, two AFL premierships, a Coleman medal, 299 games, 657 goals, countless imposing marks and clutch goals. One heck of a career.
Frankly obsessed with Tom Hawkins holding up his own banner for his 300th game, so his daughter could run through it and tear up the part with her iconic advice to him. pic.twitter.com/OV4xAmkCgT
— Brodie Lancaster (@brodielancaster) August 26, 2021
Geelong
Chris Scott has been boosted by the availability of experienced midfielder Mitch Duncan after a lengthy spell on the sidelines with a knee injury. Tom Stewart being done for the season remains a huge issue to contend with and Zach Tuohy’s hamstring is still another week away from allowing him to play, but the Cats are on the mend after a rough trot.
FB J. Henry, L. Henderson, J. Bews
HB M. O’Connor, M. Blicavs, T. Atkins
C S. Menegola, M. Duncan, I. Smith
HF S. Simpson, J. Cameron, G. Rohan
FF B. Close, T. Hawkins, G. Miers
FOL R. Stanley, J. Selwood, P. Dangerfield
Int L. Dahlhaus, C. Guthrie, J. Kolodjashnij, B. Parfitt
Sub: S. Higgins
In: Duncan
Out: Holmes
Port Adelaide
Ken Hinkley will be disappointed not to be able to call upon Mitch Georgiades but the teenager’s hamstring soreness shouldn’t rule him out for long. Otherwise it’s an in-form 23 with an exciting blend of youth and experience, a powerful spine, and plenty of creativity on the outside.
FB T. Jonas, A. Aliir, T. McKenzie
HB R. Burton, D. Houston, D. Byrne-Jones
C X. Duursma, O. Wines, K. Amon
HF O. Fantasia, S. Motlop, C. Rozee
FF T. Marshall, R. Gray, C. Dixon
FOL S. Lycett, T. Boak, Z. Butters
Int M. Bergman, R. Bonner, W. Drew, P. Ladhams
Sub: S. Powell-Pepper
In: Fantasia, Powell-Pepper
Out: Georgiades, Mayes
Preamble
Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of the opening AFL final for season 2021. Port Adelaide v Geelong in the second qualifying final will be underway at Adelaide Oval at 7.20pm local time (7.50pm AEST).
I’m going to be honest, I have no idea who’s going to win tonight, tomorrow, next week, or at any other juncture between now and the last Saturday in September. This is as open a finals field as you could imagine. For what seemed like months there was a defined top-five (of which I expected the Bulldogs to finish as the first among equals) but the run home was a lottery with teams dipping in and out of form, the Swans making it a top six, and both GWS and Essendon showing enough to suggest they’re going to do more than simply make up the numbers. It promises to be a belting few weeks.
Tonight’s opener should start the ball rolling nicely. The Power are the competition’s form side with six wins on the spin and just one defeat in their past ten matches. However, there remains a question mark over their ability to beat the best. They have suffered home losses this season to the Bulldogs, Demons, and tonight’s opponents the Cats, each loss raising doubts over their fortitude in finals footy. Last week’s thrilling triumph over the Doggies was the perfect pre-Finals fillip.
The Cats seem a quarter-to-quarter proposition, let alone a week-to-week one. At times they look the best pure football team in the competition by some distance with so many experienced A-grade stars in synch. But they can just as easily look slow and directionless, unable to arrest the momentum of a contest working against them. After looking premiers elect through the middle third of the campaign Geelong’s injury-plagued run home raises the possibility once again of another limp postseason exit for Chris Scott’s perennial contenders.
I’ll be back soon with teams and more build-up. If you want to join in yourself, feel free to send me an email or tweet @JPHowcroft.
