Rnd 1 Port Adelaide / WWT Eagles Review

[Wedgie]

Great stats BP, thanks!

[Lynwood]

Enjoyed the win but not getting to excited just yet. The key for us is to be able to string together 4 or 5 good performances as we have been very up and down over the last few seasons.

[matt1]

Port were great and didn't allow us to do anything that would have seen us get any momentum at all. As much as I hate saying it, we were totally outplayed. Lights were good and I am sure the Club would have been ok with the crowd considering the weather beforehand but I just think that so much infrastructure needs to be upgraded. I spoke with Slaven our pres and he told me that the Club had spent over $5K in bringing in toilets etc to make the Oval functional. Still there are hazards around including concrete loose etc.

Hope the Port supporter who had a stroke is ok.The timeclock was borrowed from Sturt aparently and was an amazing green colour that made life blurry if you looked at it for too long!

[Dols]

Very enjoyable start to the season. Not getting carried away though, even booked a holiday to be away for GF, think we might be a couple of years away yet, but if u are scheduled to play the maggies thus year then look out, we are coming to get u!

[Grahaml]

Premiership hangover!!!!!!!!

Sorry someone had to do it......

[JK]

Not getting carried away

Must have been a different Dols I was standing near tonight

[Macca19]

54 inside 50's to 26? Thats a massive difference. Wwt did well to score what they did considering their midfield let them down so badly

[whufc]

Who from last years top 3 drop out. Port WILL be there!

[Big Phil]

Who from last years top 3 drop out. Port WILL be there!

As Tony Bamford said post game, it is a long, hard season and the club is not getting ahead of themselves after a good solid first up win.

[whufc]

Who from last years top 3 drop out. Port WILL be there!

As Tony Bamford said post game, it is a long, hard season and the club is not getting ahead of themselves after a good solid first up win.

Did he also say they were taking 1 week at a time! lol

GET ON BOARD!!!!!

[Big Phil]

Here is a match review from the Magpies website...

http://www.portmagpies.com.au/news.php?news_id=811

[Dogwatcher]

Implosion?

[NO-MERCY]

Port 10 goals up at 3qtr time & ready to bury them even deeper in the last then the sprinklers decided to switch or someone switched them on, mmmmm it definately slowed the magpies scoring rate down which maybe was the reason they come on to avoid a bigger embarrassment!!
I said the Magpies were back but..... i;d say Bangers wouldn't be too happy with certain players laughing etc at 3 qtr time & would be telling the boys its only 1 game & theirs 19 remaining so keep a lid on it & don't get ahead of yourself.

[FlyingHigh]

Sounds like we were beaten from go to whoa.
Nothing to get too concerned about, many years the top teams cop a game like this that turns out to be a red herring, but obviously some things to address.

[eaglehaslanded]

Free Kicks: Port = 28 - Eagles = 21

Wow this stat surprises me. From my view of the game it appeared a lot more one sided in Port's favour. I'm certainly not suggesting this is the reason Port won the game though.

[Mr Beefy]

Free Kicks: Port = 28 - Eagles = 21

Wow this stat surprises me. From my view of the game it appeared a lot more one sided in Port's favour. I'm certainly not suggesting this is the reason Port won the game though.

It probably appeared that way due to the constant whining by the WWT supporters. I too thought it would have been a bigger difference. I reckon the reason that the free kicks, and the result, favoured Port was because they were first to the ball for the majority of the time.

[RustyCage]

Free Kicks: Port = 28 - Eagles = 21

Wow this stat surprises me. From my view of the game it appeared a lot more one sided in Port's favour. I'm certainly not suggesting this is the reason Port won the game though.

Doesn't surprise me, the Eagles were terribly undiciplined last night, gave away a lot of frees off the ball

[NO-MERCY]

Well said Beefy, someone that knows the game.

[dedja]

This thread reminds me of West / Central early last year ... good start, but a very long season ahead.

[eaglehaslanded]

Can anyone enlighten me to what happened at the start of the game. Port kicked the first goal - then a whistle blows, umpire runs in and pays a free. Which fortunately only resulted in a behind.