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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby amber_fluid » Mon Jul 23, 2018 4:51 pm

Bum Crack wrote:Geez the shit is going to hit the fan when Adelaide take Port's spot in the 8 at the end of the minor round. This thread could get quite nasty. Can't wait.



Maybe just maybe they might then get a real coach.
They might even think about playing a recognised ruckman and leaving Dixon forward.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby Trader » Mon Jul 23, 2018 5:07 pm

valleys07 wrote:Our ball movement is absolutely insipid.


From below quote is from after Round 7.
Taken some blokes a while to jump on board but seems the message is starting to come through after the last two weeks, our skills are terrible.

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Trader wrote:In 2014 we took the game on and kicked the ball into space, ran onto it and kicked goals.
Teams took a while but learnt if you leave one out the back of the press, that stopped us right then and there.
Ken was forced to move away from the attacking game plan because teams had worked out that's what we were doing.
We don't have the skills to pick our way through a web like the hawks of 2012, so instead we only have one option, negative footy.
Our Disposal Efficiency stats put us middle of the pack, and that's playing a negative game which in reality should move us higher.
As Booney said, over half our side had 3 clangers or more.
We don't have the skills on our list (that stand up under pressure) to play a winning brand of footy.

While it is simple to say we should go back to old footy and plonk a bloke at CHF and another at FF and leave them there, unfortunately we will get eaten alive the other way as sides pick through our web that is missing two blokes.

You are right.

But...

Since then we've replaced

Lobbe with Ryder
Schulz with Dixon
Carlile with Howard
White with Motlop
Cornes with Rockliff
O'Shea with Houston
Monfries with Watts
Broadbent with Bonner

Other than perhaps the last two, which would be breaking even ... That's a demonstrable improvement.

Plus, Jonas, Wines, Hartlett, Westhoff, Polec are better now than then. Gray is still a superstar

Hombsch, Wingard and Boak the only ones that have gone backwards.

Let's try an attacking game plan with this list and see how we go. If it fails, then rebuild. I'd rather that than the monotony of the current status quo.


While it sounds impressive with 8 good "ins", they aren't the guys moving the pill.
Of our top 9 disposal getters this year, Bonner is the only "in" you mentioned.

We have the same group kicking the ball and for mine, they struggle.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby LMA » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:12 pm

UK Fan wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
UK Fan wrote:34000 for a top 4 clash. I guess their are factors.


Port are the 13th highest scoring team in the league

Only Freo w/bulldogs Carlton saints and suns have scored less.


C’mon mate you know Sunday is a bad time slot for Port fans ;)



Im sure we will see some lame excuse. It's what PAFC does well.


Why do we need an excuse? 34,693. Fourth best crowd of the weekend, but it ain't no 1500 at Elizabeth. No reserves in the SANFL you might break 1800 @ My Money
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby LMA » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:14 pm

amber_fluid wrote:
UK Fan wrote:34000 for a top 4 clash. I guess their are factors.


Port are the 13th highest scoring team in the league

Only Freo w/bulldogs Carlton saints and suns have scored less.


C’mon mate you know Sunday is a bad time slot for Port fans ;)


Sunday arvo is a bad time slot for everyone
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby amber_fluid » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:23 pm

LMA wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
UK Fan wrote:34000 for a top 4 clash. I guess their are factors.


Port are the 13th highest scoring team in the league

Only Freo w/bulldogs Carlton saints and suns have scored less.


C’mon mate you know Sunday is a bad time slot for Port fans ;)


Sunday arvo is a bad time slot for everyone


Doesn't seem to bother the other Adelaide team's supporters too much.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby LMA » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:35 pm

More supporters plus for 33% of them everyday is the same
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby LMA » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:40 pm

amber_fluid wrote:
LMA wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
UK Fan wrote:34000 for a top 4 clash. I guess their are factors.


Port are the 13th highest scoring team in the league

Only Freo w/bulldogs Carlton saints and suns have scored less.


C’mon mate you know Sunday is a bad time slot for Port fans ;)


Sunday arvo is a bad time slot for everyone


Doesn't seem to bother the other Adelaide team's supporters too much.


Must bother the Melbourne based clubs, not one Sunday Twilight game in Melbourne this season
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby amber_fluid » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:41 pm

LMA wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
LMA wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
C’mon mate you know Sunday is a bad time slot for Port fans ;)


Sunday arvo is a bad time slot for everyone


Doesn't seem to bother the other Adelaide team's supporters too much.


Must bother the Melbourne based clubs, not one Sunday Twilight game in Melbourne this season


Only the sh#t teams get Sunday twilight games ;)
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby Brodlach » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:47 pm

It’s a wonder Carlton doesn’t get 22 of them then


Thought on TV the crowd looked bigger
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby amber_fluid » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:51 pm

Brodlach wrote:It’s a wonder Carlton doesn’t get 22 of them then


Thought on TV the crowd looked bigger


Nah we're Friday night specialists mate, we leave the Sunday games to the others.................... :lol:
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby Booney » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:59 pm

MW wrote:
UK Fan wrote:34000 for a top 4 clash. I guess their are factors.


Port are the 13th highest scoring team in the league

Only Freo w/bulldogs Carlton saints and suns have scored less.


If this doesn't draw Booney out of his holiday slumber nothing will


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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby Brodlach » Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:09 pm

amber_fluid wrote:
Brodlach wrote:It’s a wonder Carlton doesn’t get 22 of them then


Thought on TV the crowd looked bigger


Nah we're Friday night specialists mate, we leave the Sunday games to the others.................... :lol:

No wonder FNF rating have plummeted
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby amber_fluid » Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:12 pm

Brodlach wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
Brodlach wrote:It’s a wonder Carlton doesn’t get 22 of them then


Thought on TV the crowd looked bigger


Nah we're Friday night specialists mate, we leave the Sunday games to the others.................... :lol:

No wonder FNF rating have plummeted


It's the teams we play against.................




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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby Brodlach » Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:20 pm

Yep, teams that are better than yours. Should tee up a game against the Auskickers
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby FOURTH ESTATE » Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:27 pm

[Must bother the Melbourne based clubs, not one Sunday Twilight game in Melbourne this season[/quote]


Funny about that was at the Essendon & Collingwood a few weeks a go and that was a twilight game started at 3.20pm
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby LMA » Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:45 pm

FOURTH ESTATE wrote:[Must bother the Melbourne based clubs, not one Sunday Twilight game in Melbourne this season



Funny about that was at the Essendon & Collingwood a few weeks a go and that was a twilight game started at 3.20pm[/quote]

Talking the last game of the round, the 4.40 aest time slot but you knew that
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:18 am

amber_fluid wrote:
Doesn't seem to bother the other Adelaide team's supporters too much.

A bit easier when they're 67 years old and don't work on Monday.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby MW » Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:20 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
Doesn't seem to bother the other Adelaide team's supporters too much.

A bit easier when they're 67 years old and don't work on Monday.


As opposed to being 30 years old and don't work Monday either
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:26 am

UK Fan wrote:34000 for a top 4 clash. I guess you can blame different players factors.


Like Port are the 13th highest scoring team in the league


Only Freo w/bulldogs Carlton saints and suns have scored less.

And they have the 2nd least scored against them.

I do think there's some merit in your dig though as the way I see it as their strength player-wise is in the forward line with the likes of Dixon, Gray,
Wingard, Westhoff & co. as scoring options yet they have this ridiculous game plan that prevents them from utilising their main resources and rely on thwarting the opposition and rebounding, it just doesn't work week in week out.

They need to open the floodgates, when they play with some flair they are at their peak.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2018

Postby bennymacca » Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:51 am

Yep the memories I have of port playing their best footy in recent years were those games against hawthorn (and Richmond I think?) where they absolutely blitzed them at the start and were 8 goals to 1 at quarter time or something
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