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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby UK Fan » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:41 pm

LMA wrote:
UK Fan wrote:
Jim05 wrote:I know Port keep saying they can’t afford to pay out Ken’s final 2 years but surely they can’t afford 26k to home games on a perfect night when break even at AO is 30k?
Maybe they can’t sack Ken otherwise the board would have to admit their mistakes and fall on their swords too


40000 break even due to poor big bash crowds for the strikers this season

27k on a Saturday night.

Who else apart from those of us who did could of predicted ports crowds would drop off so dramatically.




Again.


Your obsession of PA’s shithouse crowds is embarrassing.



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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Jim05 » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:48 pm

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Jim05 wrote:Our blokes are dropping like flies, need reinforcements ASAP. Port a sneaky chance if we aren’t switched on


Essendon $4.33 40+ take it now.

You didn’t see yesterday’s game?
We are just going ATM, a lot depends on how a couple of guys pull up from yesterday
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Lightning McQueen » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:49 pm

Jim05 wrote:Our blokes are dropping like flies, need reinforcements ASAP. Port a sneaky chance if we aren’t switched on

Our coaching staff isn't dropping like flies, neither is Sutcliffe, I think you guys are more than safe.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Lightning McQueen » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:50 pm

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Jim05 wrote:Our blokes are dropping like flies, need reinforcements ASAP. Port a sneaky chance if we aren’t switched on


Essendon $4.33 40+ take it now.

Port are 13's, we have no chance so I might take a bite of that today.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby UK Fan » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:59 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:
UK Fan wrote:
Jim05 wrote:I know Port keep saying they can’t afford to pay out Ken’s final 2 years but surely they can’t afford 26k to home games on a perfect night when break even at AO is 30k?
Maybe they can’t sack Ken otherwise the board would have to admit their mistakes and fall on their swords too


40000 break even due to poor big bash crowds for the strikers this season

27k on a Saturday night.

Who else apart from those of us who did could of predicted ports crowds would drop off so dramatically.




Again.

You're f****** correct.



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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Booney » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:03 pm

Jim05 wrote:
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Jim05 wrote:Our blokes are dropping like flies, need reinforcements ASAP. Port a sneaky chance if we aren’t switched on


Essendon $4.33 40+ take it now.

You didn’t see yesterday’s game?
We are just going ATM, a lot depends on how a couple of guys pull up from yesterday


Gold Coast were playing, you think I'm tuning into that? :lol:

I watched about 40 seconds as I sat down for tea and checked the scores. Tippa broke free, baulked, bounced, hit Hooker, game over so I turned it off.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Jim05 » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:14 pm

Booney wrote:
Jim05 wrote:
Booney wrote:
Jim05 wrote:Our blokes are dropping like flies, need reinforcements ASAP. Port a sneaky chance if we aren’t switched on


Essendon $4.33 40+ take it now.

You didn’t see yesterday’s game?
We are just going ATM, a lot depends on how a couple of guys pull up from yesterday


Gold Coast were playing, you think I'm tuning into that? :lol:

I watched about 40 seconds as I sat down for tea and checked the scores. Tippa broke free, baulked, bounced, hit Hooker, game over so I turned it off.

We were 27 points down during the third quarter to a SANFL standard side.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby MW » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:26 pm

don't tell me we're going to get a week of "we're shitter than your mob"
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Jim05 » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:29 pm

MW wrote:don't tell me we're going to get a week of "we're shitter than your mob"

Embrace the shitness!
Makes the wins much more enjoyable [emoji3]
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby MW » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:29 pm

Jim05 wrote:
MW wrote:don't tell me we're going to get a week of "we're shitter than your mob"

Embrace the shitness!
Makes the wins much more enjoyable [emoji3]


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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby LMA » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:40 pm

UK Fan wrote:
LMA wrote:
UK Fan wrote:
Jim05 wrote:I know Port keep saying they can’t afford to pay out Ken’s final 2 years but surely they can’t afford 26k to home games on a perfect night when break even at AO is 30k?
Maybe they can’t sack Ken otherwise the board would have to admit their mistakes and fall on their swords too


40000 break even due to poor big bash crowds for the strikers this season

27k on a Saturday night.

Who else apart from those of us who did could of predicted ports crowds would drop off so dramatically.




Again.


Your obsession of PA’s shithouse crowds is embarrassing.



EFA


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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Booney » Mon Jul 29, 2019 5:15 pm

With 1 solitary point separating Port Adelaide and GWS on Saturday night season 2019 officially comes to an end for Port Adelaide. Don’t believe the “1 win out the 8” chat coming from the club, this season is over with no finals on the horizon this September. With 8 wins from 18 matches and the likelihood of 12 wins being the pass mark for finals football Port Adelaide would have to beat Essendon, Sydney, North Melbourne and Fremantle to give ourselves a look at 8th spot. In our current form, on the back of 3 losses, it’s hard to see where our next win comes from let alone winning 4 on the trot. With 9 wins from our last 25 matches we’re not only undeserving of a finals berth we’re in far more distress than many of us would like to admit.

Admirably we kept the third highest scoring side in the competition to 56 points, alas, with our disjointed forward movement we were only able to muster up 55 points ourselves, from 53 I50 entries. In the last 5 weeks Port have scored 7,9,6,15 and 5 goals, the 15 against Adelaide being the exception to a side struggling to hit the scoreboard. With our forward line struggling for answers the match committee dropped Dixon after some poor form, they say. For several weeks we have bombed the ball onto Dixon’s head where opposition defensive units have been able to assemble 2 or 3 defenders on him to ensure not only is he unlikely to mark the ball but influence the fall of the ball or direct it to our smalls. The same approach was used on the weekend, this time to Robbie Gray. Are you as surprised as I am that it didn’t work?

Again a slow start cost us, GWS kicked the first 2 goals to lead by 17 points at ¼ time and we eventually lose by 1 point. Poor starts have killed us in 5 games this year. Something stinks. Players aren’t entering the field with the right mindset, they aren’t (gulp) ready to play. This says plenty about the mindset of the group for mine. At amateur level a coach probably needs to “switch on” his team, work, family, all those things cloud a players mind and before he/she knows it he/she is in a cold shed smelling of Deep Heat about to go into battle with his/her mates. He/she needs to be woken up. Professionals, I don’t think they do. They shouldn’t, anyway.

One who was ready to play early on Saturday night was Justin Westhoff, he thwarted either in the air or on the ground several GWS forward thrusts and if not for his efforts early, those of Lycett, Boak and to some extent SPP (who I thought was ok early) things could have been much worse. What couldn’t be any worse was half way through the first quarter we were going at 0% disposal efficiency in the forward 50. 0. Zero. In case you missed that, ZERO. Some of this was GWS midfield pressure, some of it was the leading pattern of the forwards, all of it was rubbish.

Gray, Gray and Rozee goaled in the second quarter and somehow, I don’t know how, we go into half time just 1 goal down. Two posters from the Giants helped, as did a welcome return to form for Tom Jonas who, by his standards, had had a fairly ordinary 3 weeks. No lone soldier there, but his second quarter was solid and he looked to have the back half set up as we like, zoned, rolling across, pushing up.

After half time Port managed to again win the territory game, but as was the story of the night the third term went the Giants way as Ports 2.3 was over run by the Giants 3.1 and the lead was extended to 10 points at ¾ time.

Now, if at this point you told me we’d keep the Giants to 1.1 for the last quarter, with the possession we had forward of the ball and just a 10 point deficit I’d have said we win an unlikely victory and keep our season alive, just. Alas, not so. We had 6 scoring shots, 5 of them from GWS turnovers, the type of turnovers that must simply result in goals. Nope. 2.4 for the last quarter and we go down by the barest or margins.

It was an odd feeling walking out the ground, hollow, empty, not shattered or angry like I was after the Brisbane loss. We had every chance to win on the night, we didn’t help ourselves from the moment match committee sat down to the moment we plundered one shot after another on goal. Simple misses that cost you games and on the weekend, it did.

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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby MW » Mon Jul 29, 2019 5:50 pm

GWS without Kelly, Ward and Congnillio and one less in rotation for 3 quarters
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby UK Fan » Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:14 pm

9 wins from the last 25 games.


That’s a good stat and great write up Mr Boon.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Sheik Yerbouti » Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:20 pm

Booney wrote:
Jim05 wrote:Our blokes are dropping like flies, need reinforcements ASAP. Port a sneaky chance if we aren’t switched on


Essendon $4.33 40+ take it now.


Jim05 wrote:We ain’t winning this and the worst part is most of us saw this coming

That was the exact time I knew my 9/9 was as safe as houses.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Booney » Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:28 pm

MW wrote:GWS without Kelly, Ward and Congnillio and one less in rotation for 3 quarters


Wines, Ebert and Burton makes us a better side too.
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby MW » Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:41 pm

That's like pulling up to the lights in a corolla to drag race a Ferrari
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Brodlach » Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:49 pm

MW wrote:That's like pulling up to the lights in a corolla to drag race a Ferrari

:lol:
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Jim05 » Mon Jul 29, 2019 7:59 pm

Sheik Yerbouti wrote:
Booney wrote:
Jim05 wrote:Our blokes are dropping like flies, need reinforcements ASAP. Port a sneaky chance if we aren’t switched on


Essendon $4.33 40+ take it now.


Jim05 wrote:We ain’t winning this and the worst part is most of us saw this coming

That was the exact time I knew my 9/9 was as safe as houses.

Bet you were a little worried with 35 seconds to go when we trailed [emoji23]
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Re: Port Adelaide 2019

Postby Booney » Mon Jul 29, 2019 8:57 pm

MW wrote:That's like pulling up to the lights in a corolla to drag race a Ferrari


Irrespective, if you're saying they're not full strength then neither are we.
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