Round 12: Geelong vs Port Adelaide

[Rik E Boy]

[hearts on fire]

Cats by 60 points

Geelong: 15. 18. 108 def.
Port Adelaide: 7. 7. 49

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[Booney]

Oh well,situation normal...

[Psyber]

59 points is much better than 119 - half way there!

[Rik E Boy]

Not quite so pissed today so I can now comment rationally (well, at least as close as I can anyway LOL) about the game but you know the old story..a picture is worth a thousand words.

Toughness Lite

Port tried to play tough yesterday and the results were laughable. In the old days Port didn't try to play tough, they WERE tough and that is a big difference. The Magpies mantra was 'Power at the body, Power at the ball'. Yesterday was toughness lite a la Fremantle. When Fremantle try to play tough they give away free kicks and 50 metre penalties and this is exactly what Port did yesterday. Locking Ablett's head between your knees is not tough, having a huge ruckman run through Joel Selwood twice is not tough, smashing players who have just kicked the ball is not tough..and neither is a lightweight forward smacking Harry Taylor in the face when he was on the ground tough either. Pathetic. Even that blouse Danielle Pearce tried a limp wristed shove against a Cat opponent. I nearly fell of my couch laughing.

And the award goes to...

Charlie Chaplin, you should be awarded the Gold Logie for that amazing acting after that massive Steve Johnson 'headbut'. While that was weak, it certainly won't be any weeks. Could you imagine Greg Phillips doing that? For Shame. Another award (**** of the week) should go to umpire number ten who saw fit to award a free kick to Brendon Lade because that idiot Brogan pushed Ottens into him and many other pearlers across Geelong's half back line. We finally got a free from this cheat only when Darren Milburn walked within centimetres of this Stevie Wonder with blood pissing out of his head. You had to get close to the clown before he'd give us jack. On the whole the umpriing was good but good old number ten let the side down.

Poor Warren!

The Port forwards had no chance yesterday. On a day when Geelong went in without our first choice Full Back and Centre Half Back the delievery to the forwards was shocking. Port dicked around with the ball instead of kicking it to contests. Choco clearly didn't watch the video of the North v Geelong game because this is why North troubled us. Warren Tredrea hardly put a foot wrong yesterday so why not kick the bloody thing to him? Of the other forwards the Power badly misses Brett Ebert for mine (or, at least in form Brett Ebert), Daniel Motlop is a selfish girl and Westhoff is having real difficulties making his mark this season and clearly needs a few games in the 'Magoos' just like the Cats did to Hawkins. There is no point leaving the kid up front and getting killed every week.

Chappy loves you!

If Port ever got to the tin rattling stage you could recruit Paul Chapman to head up the Victorian arm of the fundraising initiative. Chappy is one happy Cat whenever he plays Port and he was displaying his ownership of the Power once again to the delight of the locals. He even did an atttempted reprise of his towering Grand Final grab but even though he failed to hold the pill he was soon forgiven when he hit the deck and slammed through another Cat goal. Another Geelong player who seems to save his best against Port is Tom Harley. He took his best mark of the season yesterday and he really stood up in the absence of Scarlo.

Junior vs. Kornes

While Junior might not be a blooming god, he is blooming good. But hang on, isn't Kane Cornes also blooming good? Surely Kane should be winning his own ball instead of sacrificing his game to tag a player fast becoming untaggable? There was a period early and late in the game when Kane was going quite well on Ablett but for most of the game Kane was just as ineffectual as a lesser player and most of Kornes' possies werent' all that damaging. A severly reactive move IMO.

Yes he's back, yes he's back, yes he's back..

Brad Ottens showed just how valuable he is to the Cat cause by kick starting the Cat machine yesterday. He racked up a lot of early stats and got us off to a running start even though we only got the one early goal before Port kicked a couple of their own. Yesterday was the first time this season that had a 2007 feel about it. That third quarter was the quarter when the genie was released from the bottle. Hopefully we'll see a bit more of the beast before this season is out. We can't win the flag without him.

4 times in 17 matches et all

I reckon the Power would be pretty happy not to have to play us for the rest of the year as 4 meetings in 17 matches is a quirky turn of the fixture. In that time Geelong has not played Hawthorn once. In a match where Port could have resurrected their season, they went the other way. Too many Portonians went missing and they truly looked like a side that had only visited Victoria twice this season.

regards,

REB

[SCD]

And the award goes to...

Another award (c*** of the week) should go to umpire number ten who saw fit to award a free kick to Brendon Lade because that idiot Brogan pushed Ottens into him and many other pearlers across Geelong's half back line.

Pretty good sum up of the game REB - thought Port were too interested in the body, instead of being tough at the ball and they gave up too many soft 50m penalties and free kicks that resulted in goals.

In regard to the free kick - IMO it was there to Lade in the forward pocket for the Power. Ottens stepped on Lade's foot (half rolled his ankle in the contest) and as he was going to ground, Ottens held onto Lade's shoulders to try and not fall over, it's a free kick every day and a good and correct decision by the umpire.

BUT don't get me started on the headbutt... Chappy's reaction to laugh was spot on!!

[Rik E Boy]

Crap. Ottens was pushed by Brogan so it was not a correct decision by the umpire!

regards,

REB

[JK]

Haven't seen enough of them so this thought could be out of place, but I got the feeling watching the first 3 quarters yesterday, that this could be the match we look back at at season's end and refer to as the match where "Geelong found it's Mojo again".

[gadj1976]

Did i read somewhere that Mark Williams has or is going to be extended till 2011?

[Hazbeen]

The Chad certainly looks like he is playing under duress from his knee injury, will the Power send him off for early surgery so he is ready for next year like we did with Tredders in late 06?

[Thiele]

Did i read somewhere that Mark Williams has or is going to be extended till 2011?

yes in the Advertiseron Friday or Thursday is going extended

[Footy Smart]

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[Footy Smart]

REB you are 100% correct and Mark Williams has to not be so arrogant and pig headed. He was on the news tonight crying we get called soft then to tough wa wa wa..... PORT ARE FAKE TOUGH!!!!! hitting somone on the ground isnt tough, wilson slamming the geelong player into the ground after he marked it is recklass and weak, brogan is a goose and should focus on the footy(hurts me to say when plays properly is one of the best ruckman going around), motlop well my mother is tougher than that outside player. TOUGH FOOTY is when you bump someone off the ball and get it yourself, TOUGH FOOTY when you go back into a pack and take a mark, TOUGH FOOTY is when you are at the bottom of the back and put your head over the footy get it first and give it to your team mate.

Keep up the good work Port im enjoying watching your style of footy

GO THE TIGERS

[Thiele]

According to Choco there best 4-8 team