RD9 Port v West MATCH REVIEW

[GCC]

lets not get ahead of ourselves Westies fans, we only beat port at the end of the day

big game this week lets hope we make a real contest of it against North, if we can beat a top 5 team then we know we have turned the corner

We beat the eagles last week and they are a top 5 side.

my bad , altho that was two weeks ago

[Brodlach]

lets not get ahead of ourselves Westies fans, we only beat port at the end of the day

big game this week lets hope we make a real contest of it against North, if we can beat a top 5 team then we know we have turned the corner

We beat the eagles last week and they are a top 5 side.

Who happened to beat the undefeated Centrals this week.

[redandblack]

A game of two different halves. West dominated the first half and played some great footy both into and with the breeze. Ben Fisher monstered Clayton, who had no effect at all, except for the usual incident that left Daniel Caire injured. The Bloods moved the ball with speed and precision and had winners all over the field.

To Port's credit, they came out a different side in the third quarter. Perry gave them a formidable target, but kicked a lot of points in amongst a goal or two. Port dominated the quarter and had overwhelming possession with the breeze, but let West off by kicking inaccurately.

West kicked away again early in the last, but made numerous errors to allow a desperate Port back into the game. the last 3 shots of the game all came from West clangers under no pressure and Young had a good chance to pinch the game after the siren.

Fisher was West's best in the first half, although once again Ferguson dominated his opponents for 4 quarters to be West's best overall. Cupido had a few unforced errors, but got a heap of the footy and kicked a couple of goals. Bailey worked hard all day and was very good, Bronik Davies was excellent and Sal Hassan had a good first half. Of the youngsters, Daniel Webb is a big talent at CHF and Marc Borholm was good in ruck and defence in the first half.

For Port, it was the senior players, Summerton, Dolling, Elstone, Perry and Meiklejohn who shone out, with McInerney and Shannon also contributing well.

West continue to develop an attractive running game. Port seem always highly competitive, but lack the aura they used to have.

[dash61]

I have not had cause to comment on the umpiring this year
BUT
The 2nd qtr was bewildering today
PA copped the raw end of the decisions

At half time Id thought WA by plenty
Too fast
Too clever
Too cohsive
PA 2-6
WA 7-3
BUT
WA played negatively 3RD QTR
PA got back into it
Ironically WA were in front all game

THEN
PA 9-15
WA 11-8
Young Young playing his 5th game of the year
Was tackled high and got a sus free kick
From where I was standing it appeared he ducked into that decision
Young Young had a set shot from about 40 mtrs out
THE SIREN SOUNDED
Young Young had a chance to put PA up for the first time all day
He came in
he shoots for goal
its
its
its
a point
a wobbly floaty that missed


PA 9-16
WA 11-8

Prob will get shot down by the WA barrackers
BUT
Very very disappointed in them today
Million $$$$ First half playing dymnamic footy
3rd qtr they appeared to concentrate on stopping PA

In my opinion had they just continued on in the 2nd half as they did earlier they would have won by 40+ points

B.O.G.
Joel Perry
has his critics on SAFOOTY but was a lone hand the PA forward line
And had Young kicked that goal
This review would focus on that Ump descision...

Mal
I think you are spot on, from a westies supporter

[Rik E Boy]

Well done to the Bloods. In fact, well done to anyone who beats Port.


regards,

REB

[FlyingHigh]

lets not get ahead of ourselves Westies fans, we only beat port at the end of the day

big game this week lets hope we make a real contest of it against North, if we can beat a top 5 team then we know we have turned the corner

We beat the eagles last week and they are a top 5 side.

Who happened to beat the undefeated Centrals this week.

Bit rich to be calling us a top-five side just yet, although I agree it is pleasing to see you and us improving with blokes just having a fair dinkum go. (well, except for our efforts when we play you )

[bundy]

I have not had cause to comment on the umpiring this year
BUT
The 2nd qtr was bewildering today
PA copped the raw end of the decisions

At half time Id thought WA by plenty
Too fast
Too clever
Too cohsive
PA 2-6
WA 7-3
BUT
WA played negatively 3RD QTR
PA got back into it
Ironically WA were in front all game


THEN
PA 9-15
WA 11-8
Young Young playing his 5th game of the year
Was tackled high and got a sus free kick
From where I was standing it appeared he ducked into that decision
Young Young had a set shot from about 40 mtrs out
THE SIREN SOUNDED
Young Young had a chance to put PA up for the first time all day
He came in
he shoots for goal
its
its
its
a point
a wobbly floaty that missed


PA 9-16
WA 11-8

Prob will get shot down by the WA barrackers
BUT
Very very disappointed in them today
Million $$$$ First half playing dymnamic footy
3rd qtr they appeared to concentrate on stopping PA

In my opinion had they just continued on in the 2nd half as they did earlier they would have won by 40+ points

B.O.G.
Joel Perry
has his critics on SAFOOTY but was a lone hand the PA forward line
And had Young kicked that goal
This review would focus on that Ump descision...

Mal
I think you are spot on, from a westies supporter

I too agree with Mal

[nickname]

Fantastic result for the bloods and gives us a bit of breathing space from South and Port. Keeps us around the mark with North as well.

Long time since we have said that a North/West game could be the match of the day. well done to the bloods, finally the supporters seeing some rosey times after years in the doldrums, guys like wycbloods and Theile deserve to see some success, just not next week and today was something likes westies 13 or 15th win at alberton in over 100 years. Great result

18th win Locky

20th win John, according to the SANFL press release this week.

[nickname]

lets not get ahead of ourselves Westies fans, we only beat port at the end of the day

big game this week lets hope we make a real contest of it against North, if we can beat a top 5 team then we know we have turned the corner

i think next weeks and infact this years results are not the most important feature for west this year. the fact that west are now very competitive and have belief in themselves is the foundation they were craving for, which i think with a couple more recruits to top up, could/should be pushing for a finals berth next year, and possibly top 3 the year after. not saying west wont play finals this year, but i think thats what id be looking forward too as a west supporter.
collins is laying the groundwork nicely IMO.

Spot on IMO. Nicely observed.

[RustyCage]

And had Young kicked that goal
This review would focus on that Ump descision...

No way Mal, was 25m away right in front of me, definately a free. Maybe we should talk about why the mark on the goal line by Perry I think it was 3 minutes from the end was called play on.

The umpiring standard in the SANFL is disgraceful, and its not just the frees that get missed, many that get paid are incorrect.

We had our chances to win it today (apart from the obvious!), but poor kicking cost us, many goals should have been kicked that missed by a long way, and some out on a full. Poor kicking is poor football. Jezza could be out for a while, if he gets carried off in the arms of the trainers something is definately is wrong. Port are struggling to string 4 full quarters together, we full out of the game too often, going off the boil for patches of each quarter and it is costing us big time. The move of Perry up forward has been a good one and he is a strong target at the minute.

West have definately improved this year, and are a hard running team, and play the flood well by flooding back and beating teams with their run from the backlines with players getting into open space regularly. It looked today that they cant do it for 4 quarters and were flat footed by the end of the game. When the ball was coming out of their backlines they had no one to kick to because they werent able to keep running hard into space. The ball was then turned over and it allowed us to get back into the game.

[johntheclaret]

Fantastic result for the bloods and gives us a bit of breathing space from South and Port. Keeps us around the mark with North as well.

Long time since we have said that a North/West game could be the match of the day. well done to the bloods, finally the supporters seeing some rosey times after years in the doldrums, guys like wycbloods and Theile deserve to see some success, just not next week and today was something likes westies 13 or 15th win at alberton in over 100 years. Great result

18th win Locky

20th win John, according to the SANFL press release this week.

where's spelly when you need him

[RustyCage]

They said on LifeFM today that West have won at Alberton 19 times in the last 103 years, so today was #20

[Mark_Beswick]

Our 22nd win since 1899 although not all our wins at alberton are against Port Adelaide in this stat

[Mark_Beswick]

addendum - Just checked 1 win at alberton was against North and Two against West Torrens - The others against Port Adelaide

[bosvit]

We just don't seem to have the confidence to continue with our game plan once we build a good lead.

It happened against Glenelg and it happened today against Port and the only reason we survived is that they do not have the finishing abilities that Glenelg do.

IMO the writing was on the wall with about 10 min to go in the second quarter. We started flooding and defending our lead.

It has been mentioned in this thread that we are not able to play our running game for 4 quarters, but it's mental not physical IMO.

We stopped attacking and our forwards pushed too far up the ground because our centre players were deep in defence, this made us look flat footed, we slowed the game down, slowed down our decision making and allowed Port to make it a desperation game where they were able to pressure us into poor decisions because every kick handpass etc had to be pin point and AFL teams struggle with this for more than a quarter, what possessed WA to think they could do it successfully for over 2 quarters was beyond me.

We started to attack again at the start of the last quarter got a 2+ goal lead and went straight back to the game plan that got us into so much trouble.

Hopefully by the end of this season or not toooo long afterwards we will have the confidence to attack the whole game.

Only then will we truly be a finals contender, untill then we are just making up the numbers if we make it.

We will get there if this core group sticks together the morale in this squad is excellent and with one or two more pivitol recruits we can become a dangerous team in this league. There are a few sleeps before that happens though.

[redandblack]

Yeh, you could always chalk up a win against Torrens if it was at Alberton

[goraw]

Yeh, you could always chalk up a win against Torrens if it was at Alberton

lol. realy looking forward to the game next week vs west. will be a good challenge vs a fired up west. and my boys have the bye so i can finally go see ya there sarge

[hereselmo1]

Anyone see how Trengove went in the ressies for Port?

[Chambo100]

Young was actually only 30m out in front. (was at the game with a few Port mates).
When the siren went, we noticed and commented on how his head dropped.The kid (actually he is 24yr old) was in his 5th game and had not kicked a goal.

We measured where the mark was taken after the game. Did it go for a point?
I thought it didn't make the distance! My mate had a ping after the game (in his socks) and although it went straight didn't make the distance either!

Have seen Port twice now with other Port blokes. Seriously, they need to look at their kicking (A kicking coach maybe?). The number of times kicks are shanked and don't turn end over end is not doing their efforts any favours.

You Port guys, don't throw darts at me here. I know Port's reserves coach and the assistant league coach and they have interesting things to say on such issues! And it is no different to what the blokes under the outer wing bar have to say either.

[Wedgie]

West will kick North's butt next week if both sides cary over their form from this week.