2016 Non-Crows AFL Discussion - Cont. in Part 2 (link in OP)

[SmegHead]

Tex (allegedly) hasn't done anything all year.

Yet, he's still kicked more goals over the $900,000 man they reunited as the final piece of the puzzle.

#PortLogic

Has only been goalless once this season and on all but 1 occasion has kicked 2 or more goals.
Pretty good for a guy carrying an injury for the first 2 months.

 

[Scorpus]

0.4% of people are idiots

 

[Sam_Malone]

Has only been goalless once this season and on all but 1 occasion has kicked 2 or more goals.
Pretty good for a guy carrying an injury for the first 2 months.

Plus all the work he does between the 50 metre ach. He is a transition player between defence and forward.

 

[PrideOf]

Sliding Doors

If Patrick Dangerfield stayed at Adelaide, would our forward line be as effective with his poor entries into it.


Any correlation between him going and our forwards doing well?

I'm glad you mentioned that Geoffrey - came here to post something similar.

PD's leaving has given us two strengths:

1. We're unpredictable. Look at our entries in Q4 last night. The ball is coming in from Mrouch, Thommo, Seedsman, Smith, Rat - so it's harder to predict where the pill is going. When Paddy was our one and only clearance merchant, it was easier to see how the ball was going inside 50: it was more than likely going to be a jammed on the boot, up and under 8 iron.

2. We're team-oriented. Our defence is good this year because they're a team defence. Our forwards are exciting and efficient because they work together and they hand off. With Paddy, there was a "Patrick and his Technicolour Teammates" feel about our side - mainly driven by Paddy himself.

 

[SmegHead]

0.4% of people are idiots

Lol @ no Darcy BJ. PAP's be salty, they all believe he will win the RS.

 

[hey shorty]

0.4% of people are idiots

Yes they are, probably more considering the poll doesn't even include Jake Lever.

 

[hey shorty]

And there's a bloke called Weitering who goes alright.

 

[Glenno23]

0.4% of people are idiots

0.4% of AFL fans are Port supporters. Which is about right, contrary to their "we have a gajillion members more than the Crows" schtick they go with

If they have more members, they must have better attendances right? Or are they downhill supporters? Which is it Port fans? Downhill or just not as many members?

 

[Crow Envy]

0.4% of people are idiots

Where is Lever?

 

[PrideOf]

Port poster says he can't work out why such an 'average playing group' can play so well.....because Port's playing group is soooo good lol. Knowledge fail....Tex, Talia, Betts, Jenkins, Sloane, Jacobs, Crouch Bros etc etc. yeah pretty average, couldn't possibly get a game at Port.

What do Eddie Betts, Tex Walker, Josh Jenkins, Sam Jacobs, Rory Sloane, Daniel Talia, Brodie Smith, Scott Thompson, Rory Laird and Tom Lynch have in common?

They'd all be a walk-up start in a Port Power 22.

And that's without even stopping to work out who else could go in.

 

[Grooster24]

Schulzenfest posted that Ken is great at giving motivational speeches.

Not when the camera is rolling

I'm yet to hear from kern a clear coherent statement of any significance that displays an intelligent football mind. All we hear is motherhood statements and footy cliches, and even then he's a blubbering mess speaking too quickly to get his answer out.

I thought he was refreshing the first year but F me he's just embarrassing to listen to and watch. I hope powa extend he contract even further, especially after his statement that the fans would be happy with yesterday's game....

 

[Red mist]

0.4% of AFL fans are Port supporters. Which is about right, contrary to their "we have a gajillion members more than the Crows" schtick they go with

If they have more members, they must have better attendances right? Or are they downhill supporters? Which is it Port fans? Downhill or just not as many members?

That revenue model for AO.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

I think it's one player from each club

 

[PrideOf]

Sliding Doors (pay attention Barrett you flog, this is how the Sliding Doors concept actually works):

IF

Our match committee realised North Melbourne's forward line had more tall timber than Mount Gambier and actually picked Kylie Hartigan, and Troy Pannell wasn't a cheating, doggy-style ump ...

THEN

... we'd be sitting equal top right now.

 

[PrideOf]

And, a statistical response to those who continually ask 'Are Adelaide a better side without Dangerfield?'

After 12 matches:

2015: piss-easy draw, Dangerfield playing: 8-4, 109.1%
2016: draw from hell, Dangerfield not playing: 8-4, 127.9%

So, 'Are Adelaide a better side without Dangerfield?'

Yes.

 

[Mego Red]

Ewing theory.

 

[Crow Envy]

And, a statistical response to those who continually ask 'Are Adelaide a better side without Dangerfield?'

After 12 matches:

2015: piss-easy draw, Dangerfield playing: 8-4, 109.1%
2016: draw from hell, Dangerfield not playing: 8-4, 127.9%

So, 'Are Adelaide a better side without Dangerfield?'

Yes.

No chance. With Danger in we would at least be 8:4.

Our improvement has come from other players performing and an unbelievable forward line.

Lever, McGovern, Atkins, Seeds are some that have stepped up.

 

[Pdub]

West coast last year lost all their key defenders including their 2014 B&F winner and became a better side, because it forced them to create the web. Losing Dangerfield has forced us to play a full team game, we don't rely on Dangerfield to give us the midfield battle, so we don't lose when the opposition nullifies him. Would we be a better side if Dangerfield was playing Douglas's role, of course, but the team could just as easily revert into old habits. Teams with a stand out best player often aren't the premiers.

 

[TrainRoo32]

Am I the only one who finds it hilarious, that people are bringing up the whole "better with or without danger shit"
We just kept the Weagles in Perth scoreless in the last qtr and people have the audacity to even consider irrelevant shit

 

[PrideOf]

No chance. With Danger in we would at least be 8:4.

Our improvement has come from other players performing and an unbelievable forward line.

Lever, McGovern, Atkins, Seeds are some that have stepped up.

No chance? It's a statistical comparison.

The thing that's no chance is believing that slotting one midfielder back into our side would retain the same output of the midefielders who have all stepped up in that midfielder's absence.

 

[SmegHead]

Game Day on 7 just said if Cloke doesnt stay with Collingwood, he could be some other team's "last piece of the puzzle"...

Cloke 2 Poort confirmed

 

[Red mist]

Am I the only one who finds it hilarious, that people are bringing up the whole "better with or without danger shit"
We just kept the Weagles in Perth scoreless in the last qtr and people have the audacity to even consider irrelevant shit

You ain't wrong.

 

[Pdub]

Game Day on 7 just said if Cloke doesnt stay with Collingwood, he could be some other team's "last piece of the puzzle"...

Cloke 2 Poort confirmed

Would actually be good for them if they could get him in shape, drop a few kgs to make him more mobile and take some pressure off of Dixon. It wasn't long ago he was the best contested mark in the competition.

 

[PrideOf]

Would actually be good for them if they could get him in shape, drop a few kgs to make him more mobile and take some pressure off of Dixon.

When they were getting Dixon, it was all:

"Would actually be good for them if they could get him in shape, drop a few kgs to make him more mobile and take some pressure off of Schulz."

 

[Crow Envy]

No chance? It's a statistical comparison.

The thing that's no chance is believing that slotting one midfielder back into our side would retain the same output of the midefielders who have all stepped up in that midfielder's absence.

The games we've lost have been when we've lost contested ball and clearances. Dangers two strengths.