Game Day 2021 Finals Matchday Supernova End of days thread

[footy4ever]

He’s giving them sh*t about their so called “port Adelaide football”

Ooooooh. Sarcasm. …

 

[jenny61_99]

Unpopular opinion, can’t stand Dylan Alcott

Why?

 

[jenny61_99]

They're almost bang on average - they have the 8th oldest list, only 0.1 months older than the 10th oldest list:
https://www.draftguru.com.au/lists/2021

Geelong has the oldest list, at 25.4 years.
Adelaide has the youngest, at 23.6 years.
Port's is 24.4 years.

** Not sure what the measurement date was - but all teams have aged equally since then.

Our demographics would have changed a fair bit after the loss of Gibbs, Talia, Lynch and DMac.

 

[GROTTO]

Can't really see Port surviving in a post pandemic world.

 

[GROTTO]

He’s giving them sh*t about their so called “port Adelaide football”

Surely after Saturday's night game, the supporters must believe that this is "Port Adelaide football", choking in major games.

They have a rich history in the AFL of choking.

Go through their history that begun in 1997, they choked many times on big occasions when favorites especially.

 

[whattagun07]

Port Win - 'We played the Port Adelaide way'
Port Lose - 'We didn't play the Port Adelaide way'

 

[GROTTO]

Port Win - 'We played the Port Adelaide way'
Port Lose - 'We didn't play the Port Adelaide way'

Playing Port Adelaide way is beating up on Bottom 8 sides.

Its how they roll. Like street thugs.

 

[GROTTO]

Lets never forget that infamous "Dream Final" in 2005, where the Crows tore them a new one in the Showdown Semi Final.

 

[chrisso crow]

Has there ever been a better weekend in sporting history?

Port smashed in a home final.
Geelong smashed in the finals, ensuring Dangerflog never wins a flag.
Djokovic smashed in the final of the US Open, ensuring he doesn't achieve the Grand Slam.

...

and Daniel Ricciardo wins the Monza GP.

Does it ever get any better than this? Not since 1998, in my memory.

It was all going well up until Sunday, my kids basketball teams both won, Melb won, WB won, and then I watched my Roosters get booted out of the SANFL finals.

At least I had free drinks to drown my sorrows with.

 

[chrisso crow]

You sure they didn’t say Hinkley did nothing Saturday night?

Did anyone notice any positional changes during the game?

I know Ken talked some BS after the game about 'putting it on the line to try and get the win' (suggesting that if it was a minor round game they would have limited the damage, but that sounds like a cop out to me) but I didn't notice anything obvious.

To me he just sat on his hands and hoped it would right itself.

 

[FR0GGY]

Did anyone notice any positional changes during the game?

I know Ken talked some BS after the game about 'putting it on the line to try and get the win' (suggesting that if it was a minor round game they would have limited the damage, but that sounds like a cop out to me) but I didn't notice anything obvious.

To me he just sat on his hands and hoped it would right itself.

He’s a bit hamstrung without Westhoff now.

 

[chrisso crow]

They simply won’t acknowledge their gifted fixture and hence their artificial ladder position. They’re also in denial about their flakey list.

Long may they live in denial. Long may Ken rein. Long may Koch lead them into oblivion chasing rainbows in China.

Any chance they can actually get a fixture that is representative of their finishing position?

Things could actually go very pear shaped (see what I did there) if we could start beating them regularly (some time away yet)

 

[flashcrow]

To me he just sat on his hands and hoped it would right itself.

He would have to sit on his face, that's where his hands were most of the game.

 

[footy4ever]

Any chance they can actually get a fixture that is representative of their finishing position?

Things could actually go very pear shaped (see what I did there) if we could start beating them regularly (some time away yet)

Beating Port again isn’t so far away. One ounce of luck and it would have happened not so many weeks ago.

 

[Tadpole]

Schofield's fault they lost now.

WCE talking to him distracted the players.

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Far out, they’re grasping hard now.

 

[Vader]

Our demographics would have changed a fair bit after the loss of Gibbs, Talia, Lynch and DMac.

The point was about Port's list being middle-of-the-road in terms of average age, not so much about Adelaide's.

That said, you are 100% correct. In 2022 our list demographics will closely resemble that of the GWS/GC start-up teams, with the departure of so many senior players (and you can add Kelly to the list too).

Gibbs is 32
Mackay is 33
Lynch is 31 (tomorrow)
Talia will be 30 in 3 weeks
Kelly is 26
Stengle is 23 next month

On the other side of the coin

Murray is 20
Gollant is 19

If the outgoing players are all replaced by 18yo draftees, then that's a drop of 64 years. Given that all of the other (42) players will have aged a year, that still drops our average by almost 0.5 years.

 

[hey shorty]

It just occurred to me that I may be disappointed with the GF this year.

Nothing can compare to what happened last weekend

 

[thebirdman 24]

It just occurred to me that I may be disappointed with the GF this year.

Nothing can compare to what happened last weekend

I wish Brisbane made it instead of the Dogs. Need some interstate flavour (not Port).

I'm confident Brisbane would have beaten up on Port in the prelim as well.

My care factor for the GF is super low. I dislike both teams but if you held a gun to my head I'd say go Dogs. Dees have that smug, privileged, rich private school aura about them I can't stand.

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[hey shorty]

I wish Brisbane made it instead of the Dogs. Need some interstate flavour (not Port).

I'm confident Brisbane would have beaten up on Port in the prelim as well.

My care factor for the GF is super low. I dislike both teams but if you held a gun to my head I'd say go Dogs. Dees have that smug, privileged, rich private school aura about them I can't stand.

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I think they DID have that, but its slowly being left behind.

 

[Bearded Clam]

Surely after Saturday's night game, the supporters must believe that this is "Port Adelaide football", choking in major games.

They have a rich history in the AFL of choking.

Go through their history that begun in 1997, they choked many times on big occasions when favorites especially.

Late 90’s/Early 2000’s they also had a period where they choked in the finals..

I swear I can still remember a finals game back then between port an i think the tigers where they were getting beaten and had no chance of coming back.. and when a power player took a mark in the dying minutes of the game the tigers player manning the mark
Had his hands around his own throat in a mock choking motion…

 

[chrisso crow]

Beating Port again isn’t so far away. One ounce of luck and it would have happened not so many weeks ago.

I said regularly, not once here and there. Going on a run against them like they are now against us.

 

[Soggy2112]

I wish Brisbane made it instead of the Dogs. Need some interstate flavour (not Port).

I'm confident Brisbane would have beaten up on Port in the prelim as well.

My care factor for the GF is super low. I dislike both teams but if you held a gun to my head I'd say go Dogs. Dees have that smug, privileged, rich private school aura about them I can't stand.

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I’m backing Melbourne for Goodwin’s sake.

Plus I love the way Max Gawn goes about things.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

I’m backing Melbourne for Goodwin’s sake.

Plus I love the way Max Gawn goes about things.

Lever?

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Hate both teams in the GF so I've accepted the fact one of them wins it, at least it'll be a shit load less stressful now that Port are done

 

[Soggy2112]

Lever?

Water under the bridge for mine, given everything that’s transpired since it’s clear we weren’t exactly angels in that situation either.