Port Adelaide 2015

[Dogmatic]

Both clubs would love to know what strike count he is on.

[Dogwatcher]

Byrne-Jones is limited mate. He try's his guts out but doesn't read the play very well and his disposal is questionable at best.

With the current landscape he plays SANFL league football, if the landscape were not as it is, he'd be playing SANFL reserves.

[Brodlach]

Pittard out of the Showdown, does that hurt Port or Adelaide more?

[stan]

Pittard out of the Showdown, does that hurt Port or Adelaide more?

Hurts Adelaide. Lol [emoji6]

[The Bedge]

I rate Pittard - I think him out of the Pt Adel side makes them a lesser unit.. he gets ridiculed for his mistakes, but he creates a lot of positive attacking plays.

[Dutchy]

I rate Pittard - I think him out of the Pt Adel side makes them a lesser unit.. he gets ridiculed for his mistakes, but he creates a lot of positive attacking plays.

Agree...I think they would be in a bigger hole right now without him, sure he makes mistakes but he takes the game on from defence and starts a lot of their forward ball movement.

[Booney]

When people can look past his obvious errors he also has a strong defensive side to his game.

The problem with his turnovers and the teams turnovers is that they come in waves of three-four and we bleed goals quickly. Often Pittard's are just one of the errors and he often makes them at critical times and it highlights this to the viewing public.

[Rik E Boy]

I rate Pittard - I think him out of the Pt Adel side makes them a lesser unit.. he gets ridiculed for his mistakes, but he creates a lot of positive attacking plays.

I agree Zartan. I said earlier that I don't get the Pittard hate. You'd rather a bloke make a blue having a crack rather than trying to poke it down the boundary line or kicking backwards. He probably just needs some extra experience to realise he doesn't need to 'go' all the time.

regards,

REB

[JK]

I rate Pittard - I think him out of the Pt Adel side makes them a lesser unit.. he gets ridiculed for his mistakes, but he creates a lot of positive attacking plays.

I agree Zartan. I said earlier that I don't get the Pittard hate. You'd rather a bloke make a blue having a crack rather than trying to poke it down the boundary line or kicking backwards. He probably just needs some extra experience to realise he doesn't need to 'go' all the time.

regards,

REB

Totally agree on all counts

[another grub]

J Palmer makes the sqaud. Is this some sort of joke?

[RustyCage]

He is in the squad but won't play, will just be a Pittard>Krackour swap. Palmer has been really impressive for the magpies this year, but no where near AFL ready I wouldn't have thought

[valleys07]

I don't mind his inclusion in the squad. Beneficial for a couple of reasons:

1) As has been mentioned, has been in reasonable form with the Magpies. Making the extended squad will give him a lot of confidence heading into the rest of the season, knowing the coaching staff are noticing his performances.
2) It is great experience for young draftees to experience AFL standard preparation. Applying what he learns from how the likes of Boak, Gray, Ebert prepare for games will really assist him back at SANFL level, this perhaps improving his performance. He will learn the little things it takes to succeed.

[Rik E Boy]

I don't mind his inclusion in the squad. Beneficial for a couple of reasons:

1) As has been mentioned, has been in reasonable form with the Magpies. Making the extended squad will give him a lot of confidence heading into the rest of the season, knowing the coaching staff are noticing his performances.
2) It is great experience for young draftees to experience AFL standard preparation. Applying what he learns from how the likes of Boak, Gray, Ebert prepare for games will really assist him back at SANFL level, this perhaps improving his performance. He will learn the little things it takes to succeed.

I've never played footy and never gone out to training. Do the reserves and league train together or is there quite literally two different levels of preparation? I would have thought they train as a club rather than two separate squads? A big advantage for Ravens and PowerPies if this is the case. In regards about what you said to Palmer, fully agree, good to receive some sort of recognition for some good efforts in the Magoos.

regards,

REB

[valleys07]

I don't mind his inclusion in the squad. Beneficial for a couple of reasons:

1) As has been mentioned, has been in reasonable form with the Magpies. Making the extended squad will give him a lot of confidence heading into the rest of the season, knowing the coaching staff are noticing his performances.
2) It is great experience for young draftees to experience AFL standard preparation. Applying what he learns from how the likes of Boak, Gray, Ebert prepare for games will really assist him back at SANFL level, this perhaps improving his performance. He will learn the little things it takes to succeed.

I've never played footy and never gone out to training. Do the reserves and league train together or is there quite literally two different levels of preparation? I would have thought they train as a club rather than two separate squads? A big advantage for Ravens and PowerPies if this is the case. In regards about what you said to Palmer, fully agree, good to receive some sort of recognition for some good efforts in the Magoos.

regards,

REB

From my (albeit brief) experience at SANFL level, we (reserves) always joined in with the league squad for main training sessions. There might be select occasions where the seniors split to practice specific structures, such as stoppage work- but other than that, the group trains together. I haven't watched an AFL standard training session in a couple of years, however I would imagine they would train in a similar manner- at least for open training sessions and main training sessions, anyway.

The point I was trying to make re. preparation is probably more emphasised when a young player travels with the seniors for the first time, however the principles when playing at home will remain somewhat the same. I would imagine each player is supplied a dietary regime to follow, so nothing would change there, but the analytical preparation in the few days prior, and on game day may be the separation point. The meetings for match-ups once the team is annouced, as well as the game day meetings would differ between levels in terms of depth of opposition analysis.

For Palmer, seeing a particular pre-game routine of a Boak or a Wingard mightn't differ in warm ups, such as shots on goal, practice on stoppages etc- but to get a visual on how either may study their game day role would be beneficial in many ways.

[The Dark Knight]

I don't mind his inclusion in the squad. Beneficial for a couple of reasons:

1) As has been mentioned, has been in reasonable form with the Magpies. Making the extended squad will give him a lot of confidence heading into the rest of the season, knowing the coaching staff are noticing his performances.
2) It is great experience for young draftees to experience AFL standard preparation. Applying what he learns from how the likes of Boak, Gray, Ebert prepare for games will really assist him back at SANFL level, this perhaps improving his performance. He will learn the little things it takes to succeed.

I've never played footy and never gone out to training. Do the reserves and league train together or is there quite literally two different levels of preparation? I would have thought they train as a club rather than two separate squads? A big advantage for Ravens and PowerPies if this is the case. In regards about what you said to Palmer, fully agree, good to receive some sort of recognition for some good efforts in the Magoos.

regards,

REB

From my (albeit brief) experience at SANFL level, we (reserves) always joined in with the league squad for main training sessions. There might be select occasions where the seniors split to practice specific structures, such as stoppage work- but other than that, the group trains together. I haven't watched an AFL standard training session in a couple of years, however I would imagine they would train in a similar manner- at least for open training sessions and main training sessions, anyway.

The point I was trying to make re. preparation is probably more emphasised when a young player travels with the seniors for the first time, however the principles when playing at home will remain somewhat the same. I would imagine each player is supplied a dietary regime to follow, so nothing would change there, but the analytical preparation in the few days prior, and on game day may be the separation point. The meetings for match-ups once the team is annouced, as well as the game day meetings would differ between levels in terms of depth of opposition analysis.

For Palmer, seeing a particular pre-game routine of a Boak or a Wingard mightn't differ in warm ups, such as shots on goal, practice on stoppages etc- but to get a visual on how either may study their game day role would be beneficial in many ways.

The Power squad obviously all train together during the day while the academy Magpies lads train together in the afternoon, after work hours. They try and align it so the Magpies train the same day as the Power, if the Magpies are playing Saturday then the academy lads train Monday, Wednesday (main session) and Friday with Tuesday being their weights day.

[MW]

what was the reason for the booing after the siren and towards tex receiving the trophy? surely not umps fault and tex copping it for the impey fend off?

[bennymacca]

yeah thought that was a little odd too.

There were a few 50/50 decisions that went against both teams in the last quarter, so maybe the port fans just selectively remembering them?

Port probably should have won that in the end. They were all over the crows in the last quarter and missed a lot of opportunities

[carey]

yeah thought that was a little odd too.

There were a few 50/50 decisions that went against both teams in the last quarter, so maybe the port fans just selectively remembering them?

Port probably should have won that in the end. They were all over the crows in the last quarter and missed a lot of opportunities

Probably says more about your mob that we should've won. Facts are we didn't Deserve to. We were nothing short of pathetic for the best part of 100 mins. My good friends on here (And no disrespect indented) will pump it up with blah blah blah, But facts are facts We are nothing more than a below average side trying to play the game style were trying to play.

Who has improved from last year? Answer= No one. Because they're not allowed to play that natrual game.

Boak, Grey and Wingard with a mention to Wines and Hombsh the rest gone backwards. Highlighted by Lobbe, Broadbent, Montfries (Kenny his a cheap slut forward don't try and f**king change him) Jake F**king Neade, Jonas (been our worst).

Finally please put a line through us. Play kids see who's worth keeping get a better draw for next year.

[bennymacca]

Crows are about where I thought they would be, pushing for the eight but below the best teams. I thought port would challenge for a grand final this year and so did almost everyone.

For them to be 6-9 at this stage of the season probably makes them the most disappointing team in the league. Maybe Brisbane still have you in that regard but it's not far off.

[carey]

Crows are about where I thought they would be, pushing for the eight but below the best teams. I thought port would challenge for a grand final this year and so did almost everyone.

For them to be 6-9 at this stage of the season probably makes them the most disappointing team in the league. Maybe Brisbane still have you in that regard but it's not far off.

Kangeroos. Brisbane are shit and so are we Kangeroos were top 4. Kangeroos are Heatless Pretenders

Port 6-9

More like 14-18