Agreed, he isn’t young, but his spot in the team is the most fragile. When the leadership group and coach tell you to do something, you’d feel obliged

Marshall continues to excite me greatly

Sayers playing his only Test

JK wrote:Did anyone think Missy Higgins was a bit alright to look at, at times?

Yep, still do

Idiot Collingwood player, “I think I touched it so I’m going to just run and tackle the player who took a mark”

Every time I watch Port play I think why do we have these great forwards and do nothing with them.

The opposition move the ball into their forward line and we all run back to clog it all up and then there's a turnover so we all run forward hoping the ball goes over the top and we run on to it. Sure, it might work for a few rounds until the niggles start setting in or for the first quarter and a half of a game but it's been proven that it can't be maintained for a full season.

Get big Chuck up near the goal front, have Robbie or Chad around his feet and go froward with some purpose, not sure how many times we see a forward thrust only to hit a wall and go sideways or backwards to dispose of the ball with any chance of efficiency.

Player for player Port are as good as or around the mark with most teams, perhaps they should try and expose this and have each player try and win their position, I get exhausted watching their game plan, it forces me to drink.

Simply put, our guys aren't good enough by foot.
Instead we kick it into space and back our speed in to get it. The kick over the top to space doesn't need to be as accurate as the kick to a leading target.
I dislike the game plan as much as the next guy, but in some respects we've been forced into it due to our lack of skills.

I guess that's why we also go with 1 tall, that spends time in the ruck (Dixon), and 8 HFF/FP's (SGray, Neade, Amon, Wingard, RGray, Boak, Thomas, Motlop) - Granted a few of those are running through the middle at the moment, but it does feel out of wack. mmmm nah.

Our effective disposal % is ok 72.3 - actually higher than Geelong. Clanger count is also reasonable. Most of our guys are pretty good kicks.

When we suck is ... Contested marks (dead last) and i50 conversion.

Forward structure, system and method. In other words.

How many times did we lead and kick to the pocket? We took 4 (!) marks inside 50 on the weekend. 4!

We push our flankers and pockets up to break even in the middle. Leaving the opposition with numbers behind the ball. We then have to try and bomb or lead wide because there is no space. We even try the old Lade / Burgoyne trick of forcing the ball out instead of kicking to a contest to then take advantage of ... our.... elite.... RUCK

This is what I mean by structure and using a method that matches the demography of the selected side.

It’s easy to have a decent disposal efficiency when we chip it backwards and sideways as much as we did

Dutchy wrote:

Spargo wrote:Melbourne - look no further than the coach.
He’s a fraud.

Press conference was a shocker, just copped a 50 points loss and was saying they went OK!!!

About as insightful as a Ken Hinkley press conference

valleys07 wrote:5AA at the moment

Did you hear Josh? Thought he was about to have a breakdown!

carey wrote:Crows losing to Freo

Heave Ho!

Bring PhilG out to umpire?

Jim05 wrote:

Turbo wrote:Cripps has re-signed

Poor bugger!
You guys are going to break him

Stockholm Syndrome

Best way to start a weekend!

DOC wrote:Looks good. Where is that?

Stansbury Caravan Park

whufc wrote:

another grub wrote:Protest 2nd v 1st

It will be a pity if lawyers have to get involved. Surely the SANFL can get this right

If it does get changed all that will happen is North will get their lawyers in and appeal.

Maybe it can drag on for a couple of weeks and the sanfl gf can be the week after the afl gf again

Just make a decision FFS

Staying at Stansbury and getting up for sunrise this morning

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Labuschagne doing ok with the ball!

Can’t wait! Been 5 years since they’ve played here. A DM show is unlike any other you’d go to, highly recommend

Jealous Guy - Roxy Music

Carey drops du Plassis, could be costly

RHCP - Adelaide 500 after race concert - Sunday March 03

So somewhere in the middle of Lake Bonney is a fish dragging a fishing rod around behind it!

Booney wrote:Up early and out for a walk, cool but calm and no rain, Pearl Jam "Ten" blasting through the phones.

I find walking early in the morning very enjoyable

Did we do well tonight? I’ll tell you in 5 years time

Brilliant innings by Ferguson. Wickets falling around him, trying to bat to save a match, steps up when no one else did

Dropkick Murphy's tonight at HQ, absolutely brilliant gig. Top setlist, they did Famous for Nothing, probably my favourite song, Bar Room Hero and the big one, Tessie! Can't believe they played it, seeing it live is for me, incredible.

The best gig I've been to in recent times, even got to quickly meet and have a photo with lead singer Ken Casey as he hung around to meet people and have photos with after the gig.

Yep, brilliant show. No such thing as a bad Dropkick Murphy’s show. Was standing to the side of the stage and watched Tim Brennan move seamlessly between guitar and accordion, damn the guy’s good.

Agree with Mark Waughs thoughts about Heads dismissal
The ball was there to hit, just didn't execute properly
Thats a technique fault NOT a brain dead F******d shot as some suggest.
Of course we're all disappointed when the Sth Aussie fails but batsmen on this pitch are on a hiding to nothing.
Potter around and leave every ball and dont take risks and dont score b4 getting out to a jaffa and everyone bags them for not playing positively.
Play positively and get away with taking a few risks everyone applauds their efforts but get out doing that you're a twat.
Cant have it both ways.

I do agree with that, but when the opposition set a trap for you with a plan to put a fielder in a certain spot and bowl in a certain spot with the hope you’ll hit it down the fielders throat, and you go and do just that, that’s stupid batting. I don’t care if the ball was there to hit. The ball was there to hit with the hope you’d be dumb enough to hit it

Get Slater out of the commentary box....

The weather for Boxing Day. Not for here, that’s irrelevant. The important Boxing Day weather - Melbourne. Partly cloudy and 32 degrees.

Booney wrote:Who has time in the morning for TV?

If you have time to watch 10 minutes of morning tv then you’ve set your alarm 10 minutes too early

Still done a fair bit on the tennis circuit. Has won $17 million, a Grand Slam, 13 singles titles and 36 doubles titles. Most people don’t get close to that.


I’d be happy with that.

I’ll take the $17 mill, you can have the rest!

Unfortunately for her most people only watch and remember her for her Aussie Open performances.

Lucky for Hewitt they don’t hold him to the same Australian Open standards. A losing final once is all that separates his AO results from hers

150 up for Head. Keep going mate, make it a big one!

RustyCage wrote:Sam, you poor bastard....

Ok yeah, saying she is fat and needs to get out of bed early for a run, they can have each other

Amazing stuff

“Dave from Alberton” not just getting an off the cuff mention during the live reading of a Port ad by David and Will, but they then went on and used his full name [emoji1787]

Booney wrote:

RustyCage wrote:“Dave from Alberton” not just getting an off the cuff mention during the live reading of a Port ad by David and Will, but they then went on and used his full name

Best get that bloke on the payroll I reckon.

They’d be crazy not to. Hell, if KG can get a pay check from them, anyone can

Work on a Friday is always more enjoyable when the Crows have lost on a Thursday night

Frustrating game last night. We had more than enough chances, especially in that second quarter where the likes of Westhoff, RobbieG and Ebo butchered it in front of goal. Once we got in front that was it, we stopped and it was all Brisbane from there. Rozee all class, Butters played very well again though will come under scrutiny from the MRO, Boak’s brilliant form continues, and SPP was great. Wines was a liability in his first game back, DBJ made some very costly errors, and losing Rocky in the third hurt us.

A game we could and probably should have won, only have ourselves to blame that we didn’t

Lunch at Cascade Brewery

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“Warrant Officer Quinn was ordered to take command of the 10th platoon and blow up a barbed-wire barrier and attack an enemy post from which a machine gun was inflicting heavy casualties...To blow up the barbed wire they had to jump out of a trench and lay a Bangalore torpedo, an explosive charge placed on the end of a long, extendable tube. Under an unrelenting hail of fire, Quinn looked at his men in the trench and told them they were probably facing death, and how he would lay the last pipe, the most difficult of all because it was the closest to the machine gun. One by one, Quinn ordered his men to jump from the trench and place a pipe under the wire. Only three of the seven came back. It was then Quinn's turn, and he was hit by shrapnel which put a hole in the top of his right thigh, but he still put the last pipe down, which ultimately made this crucial mission successful. On his way back to the trench, Quinn picked up a wounded mate, and was hit again, this time in the face, prompting another to say: "Hell, Bob, half your face is blown away." Quinn responded: "Any change would be a … improvement."

If you haven’t been to one of these nights they are a lot of fun

With how poor the umpiring has been all series, why did we waste our last review? That last LBW was absolutely plumb and the umpire is incompetent for not giving it, but that’s why you have reviews.

Hats off to Stokes though, absolutely amazing innings

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Lehmann 107no

Knocking on the door for national duties.

Knocking on the door for state duties maybe

Marshall has put on a lot of muscle this preseason. A good sign

Inside the old canteen under the Alberton scoreboard. Would be many a year since you could get cigarettes at the kiosk of an SANFL ground

The plan was to lose 10kg this year. Just 10.3 to go...