Port Adelaide 2020

[am Bays]

Channelling my inner SANFL (yeah I know) forum from 2019

it really is Ports flag to lose from here. They are eerily like Geelong of 2007. I expect the 119 malarkey to be extinguished come October this year.

They are that far ahead of the competition it isn't funny

Give it to them now and prevent a 2nd wave, for the country's sake.

[Booney]

Channelling my inner SANFL (yeah I know) forum from 2019

it really is Ports flag to lose from here. They are eerily like Geelong of 2007. I expect the 119 malarkey to be extinguished come October this year.

They are that far ahead of the competition it isn't funny

Give it to them now and prevent a 2nd wave, for the country's sake.

No skin tight 30 year old SANFL t shirts in the AFL forum.

[am Bays]

Channelling my inner SANFL (yeah I know) forum from 2019

it really is Ports flag to lose from here. They are eerily like Geelong of 2007. I expect the 119 malarkey to be extinguished come October this year.

They are that far ahead of the competition it isn't funny

Give it to them now and prevent a 2nd wave, for the country's sake.

No skin tight 30 year old SANFL t shirts in the AFL forum.

Don't worry about the 30 year old SANFL t-shirts you just worry about getting your order in for this year...

[daysofourlives]

Granted Port look ok but they have only beaten the likely 17th and 18th team.
Ill reserve my judgement until they play a few teams that place a small inkling of pressure on them.
Brisbane will give us more of a guide. Tigers, Pies and Roos look to be the 3 hardest teams to play against

[Booney]

It was touted as the “Showdown like no other” and from a Port Adelaide point of view it certainly was, a 75 point thumping of the cross town rivals a record winning Showdown margin for Port Adelaide, imagine if the quarters weren’t shortened! Should have gone back to 20 minutes + time on for this round.

Being lucky enough to be in the ground I was pleasantly surprised ( and I think the acoustics of the Oval roof system played it’s part here ) at the atmosphere created by just over 2000 people. When Adelaide kicked their second and the first two goals to start the night some 450 Adelaide fans started their “Adelaide *clap clap clap*” chant and you would have thought there was far more than 450 of them there. As it turned out they were barely heard for the rest of the night bar some mumbling of discomfort in not wanting to be seen to leave such an event early. They were made to squirm.

From the 10 minute mark of the first quarter when Todd Marshall kicked the first of two for the night Port Adelaide piled on 12 of the next 13 goals and 9 without reply from midway in the second to late in the third and the match was as one sided as that just sounded. 100 more disposals, 27 more I50’s, 10 more hitouts, 9 more clearances, 66 more marks, 16 more tackles. It was a belting. It was beautiful. Adelaide were listless for much of the second quarter as Port dominated forward half possession, some 80% of the second quarter spent in Port’s forward half. While the goals were coming this dominance was as a result of our back 6 being able to set up our defensive structure. I talk about this a lot in these reviews, it’s because it’s clear to see at the ground, it’s reflected in the stats and it creates our repeat forward 50 entries.

Granted it’s a small sample size and it’s against two sides touted to be in the bottom third of the ladder ( although Gold Coast may shake that tag, long way to go mind you ) Port have only conceded 9 goals in two games, 4 against Gold Coast and 5 on Saturday night against Adelaide and when the ball does make its way into our defensive half the plan is to get it out and get it out quick either by foot or with leg speed and the game plan for the first time in a few years appears to match our list profile. Long kicking from Bonner, Burton and Hartlett in defence, fast feet from DBJ, Amon and Duursma in the middle and the same from Boak, Motlop, Rozee and Butters in the high half forward / midfield roles. Forget the chip to position, it’s now run and gun. It’s fun to watch and looks like it’s fun to play given the looks on the players faces when it all clicks.

A couple of standout performances from Boak and Motlop with a very even spread behind. Dixon, Duursma and Westhoff with 3 goals, Marshall and Motlop with 2, Boak, Ebert, Butters ( and wasn’t it a ripper! ) and Rozee all with 1. 9 goal kickers and I haven’t mentioned the efforts of Byrne-Jones across half back, he’s fast becoming my favourite Port Adelaide player, he’s reliable, he’s bold and is set to be one of the leaders around our club for years to come. McKenzie controlled the deepest part of defence and Jonas enjoyed a night out watching Walker look for the footy. Yellow, has Sherrin written on it would have been my advice to the former Crows captain. Lug.

Boons best – Motlop, Boak, Rozee, Byrne-Jones, Butters, Westhoff

[stan]

Granted Port look ok but they have only beaten the likely 17th and 18th team.
Ill reserve my judgement until they play a few teams that place a small inkling of pressure on them.
Brisbane will give us more of a guide. Tigers, Pies and Roos look to be the 3 hardest teams to play against

This is on the money I would normally say but it's a bit awkward now as one of the teams they beat just gave us a touch up.

But what your saying is correct, the crows at least are all forms of poo.

[daysofourlives]

Granted Port look ok but they have only beaten the likely 17th and 18th team.
Ill reserve my judgement until they play a few teams that place a small inkling of pressure on them.
Brisbane will give us more of a guide. Tigers, Pies and Roos look to be the 3 hardest teams to play against

This is on the money I would normally say but it's a bit awkward now as one of the teams they beat just gave us a touch up.

But what your saying is correct, the crows at least are all forms of poo.

Yeah who knows what Gold Coast will produce going forward, they will get another win at home vs the Crows this week and might be a chance against Freo. With that confidence they may win a few more.
Not sure who the Crows are getting close to this year, Carlton if they get them at Adelaide Oval?

[Dutchy]

How did you get a ticket Boon?

[daysofourlives]

How did you get a ticket Boon?

All that happy clapping paid off or have they identified their biggest mouths.... i mean supporters to make the most noise in a 1400 crowd

[Booney]

How did you get a ticket Boon?

Around 40 odd people who won tickets in the ballot called the club Friday to cancel saying they couldn't attend. ( WTF?? Why go in the ballot? )

As such another mini-ballot was run Friday, I got a text around 3:30 to say I'd got lucky.

[Lightning McQueen]

How did you get a ticket Boon?

That's not important right now!

[Jim05]

How did you get a ticket Boon?

Around 40 odd people who won tickets in the ballot called the club Friday to cancel saying they couldn't attend. ( WTF?? Why go in the ballot? )

As such another mini-ballot was run Friday, I got a text around 3:30 to say I'd got lucky.

Strange as it seems in the current financial circumstances things change quickly. One of the blokes from our work had a ticket and then on Friday morning he was asked if he would like an extra shift Saturday arvo. His wife had been laid off work so the extra $600 odd he would have got made it a easy decision to hand back his ticket

[Booney]

Go on, sign it, just to piss McGuire off if for nothing else.

https://www.change.org/p/allow-port-ade ... fed2346b39

[MW]

Go on, sign it, just to piss McGuire off if for nothing else.

https://www.change.org/p/allow-port-ade ... fed2346b39

Doesnt bother me either way, but I get Eddies point.

Sign contract not to wear it.
Allow a one off heritage
Allow all heritage rounds
Allow in a final
Allow in a 150 celebration game
Can we have it for our home showdown each year?
Put out a petition for both showdowns per year
Next? Can we wear it permanently?

[Booney]

Go on, sign it, just to piss McGuire off if for nothing else.

https://www.change.org/p/allow-port-ade ... fed2346b39

Doesnt bother me either way, but I get Eddies point.

Sign contract not to wear it.
Allow a one off heritage
Allow all heritage rounds
Allow in a final
Allow in a 150 celebration game
Can we have it for our home showdown each year?
Put out a petition for both showdowns per year
Next? Can we wear it permanently?

Why should McGuire dictate/allow us to wear it?

[MW]

Because it's not just the same colours...they are both black and white stripes.
Eddie even said last night, throw some teal in there with the same jumper design.

[Jim05]

Go on, sign it, just to piss McGuire off if for nothing else.

https://www.change.org/p/allow-port-ade ... fed2346b39

Doesnt bother me either way, but I get Eddies point.

Sign contract not to wear it.
Allow a one off heritage
Allow all heritage rounds
Allow in a final
Allow in a 150 celebration game
Can we have it for our home showdown each year?
Put out a petition for both showdowns per year
Next? Can we wear it permanently?

Why should McGuire dictate/allow us to wear it?

Because you agreed not to wear it when you joined the comp. Should have kicked up a stink at the time but instead you willingly still signed up.

[heater31]

Go on, sign it, just to piss McGuire off if for nothing else.

https://www.change.org/p/allow-port-ade ... fed2346b39

Doesnt bother me either way, but I get Eddies point.

Sign contract not to wear it.
Allow a one off heritage
Allow all heritage rounds
Allow in a final
Allow in a 150 celebration game
Can we have it for our home showdown each year?
Put out a petition for both showdowns per year
Next? Can we wear it permanently?

Why should McGuire dictate/allow us to wear it?

Why doesn't Koch admit that it might be a hidden agenda to keep the Magpies alive if they don't comeback to the SANFL [emoji6]

[RB]

Because it's not just the same colours...they are both black and white stripes.
Eddie even said last night, throw some teal in there with the same jumper design.

There may be black and white stripes on both, but the jumper designs are clearly quite different.

Notwithstanding that the One Club 1870 stuff is nonsense, I don't see why Port shouldn't be able to wear whatever jumper they want, at least for home games, and away games where there's no clash, like virtually every other sports team in the world.

I'm not sure why Collingwood cares so much - does Eddie think Collingwood supporters are going to switch to Port?

I seem to recall Port wore the prison bars against Richmond in a home final because Richmond didn't have a clash strip. I'm pretty sure Collingwood don't either. Why are Victorian teams allowed to forego clash jumpers even for away games and force other teams to find something else?

The whole guernsey thing in the AFL is a joke.

I've said it before, substitute common sense in for egos, and it's not an issue.

[Wedgie]

Didn't Port play Collingwood in a practise game or something in either the late 80s or early 90s with both sides wearing their normal guersneys?
I do remember a Port v Geelong practise game with a good crowd too.
Stupid part about it is Collingwood's guernsey has evolved to look more like the Port guernsey as the years have gone on, their guernsey in the 80s/early 90s was predominately white where it has more black now.