Dutchy wrote:Im coming to the conclusion that Port are very poorly coached, they have the talent in their squad to win games like yesterday yet cannot seem to put it all together. They should have been running all over the Hawks on the last 1/4 yesterday but looked like they were out on their feet. Be interested in Port fan's views on how they are coached.
Firstly, the competition is very even, more so than ever before perhaps. West Coast, Melbourne and Richmond at the top, Carlton and Brisbane at the bottom and the rest, on their day, could beat any of the others. Maybe only Gold Coast excluded from that.
Port's coaching? Growing frustrated. We've beaten Sydney in Sydney and North at Etihad without either side looking like they were going to trouble us. Pretty much controlled both games without too many problems. Both of them without Ryder in the side, the one who creates so much of our clearance work.
Why? In both games we played
our football, front half football. We like to get the ball into our F50 then lock it in and with repeat entries score from there. Why we go away from this game style to "suit" the style our opposition plays I don't know. I just don't know why we focus so heavily on the oppositions style compared what works for us.
Against Sydney 52 I50's, 14 goals, against North 51 I50's, 15 goals, against Hawthorn 38 I50's, 9 goals.
The Hawthorn result because we spent so much time fart arsing around in defence, so much time chipping the ball around half back allowing the Hawks to set up their zones behind the ball and allowing Siciliy to take intercept marks galore. He had a field day as he got loose in the back half.
I'm frustrated with our coaching group.