Erin Phillips tight lipped over future as Adelaide's AFLW dynasty set to be tested by Port Showdown

As the siren sounded on a third Adelaide premiership, one word was on everyone's lips: dynasty. 

«It's pretty strange, [AFLW] has had five grand finals, we've been part of four, and won three,» captain Chelsea Randall told ABC Sport.

Strange was typically understated from Randall. 

More accurate is that it's a record immune to superlatives.

Adelaide's third triumph — in the final season before all 18 clubs enter the competition — definitively stamps their dominance on what will historically become known as AFLW's first chapter.

Most importantly for the Crows' competitors, the growth of AFLW will see the belated introduction of a Port Adelaide side, splitting the South Australian talent pool for the first time.

With an inevitable raid coming from their cross-town rivals, Adelaide's envied culture is set to face its most strenuous test yet. 

The first and most important chess piece in this equation is Erin Phillips.

Phillips' legacy speaks for itself: three-time Premiership champion (and two-time Premiership captain), two-time league best and fairest, two-time best on ground in a grand final, two-time club champion, three-time All-Australian… the list goes on. 

There's nothing she has left to prove, nothing left to achieve.

Except, of course, the romance of leading the club her father won eight SANFL premierships for, the club she once said had «been my life, the life of my family.»

«I have no idea what I'm doing to be honest,» Phillips told ABC Sport in the rooms after the game.

«I haven't made a decision. All the talk around my future is just other people predicting things.»

Phillips never set out to play for Port Adelaide's fiercest rival. 

Back in 2015 she was publicly revealed as Port Adelaide's first «signing» (pending the club's