Game Day 2024 Non-Swans Game Day

[Kbroome]

2.9 between the sides on set shots is horrific and some

 

[SM]

i reckon port will end up winning this by 6-8 goals ... and geelong will be gone after next week
of course, i could be wrong

Ooft

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Geelong should be flag favourites after this.

Nah, the winner of the other QF should be.

 

[caesar88]

Not that I think he's ever had a flag-worthy list to work with, but Hinkley has surely gotta go. His teams simply can't do anything in finals.

 

[Olian]

I’m glad the AFL thought this would be a good way to open the finals series.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Goes to show how irrelevant form translates to finals, Port entered this winning 8 of their last 9.

 

[GoTheSwannies]

I’m there already….oh the humanity!

Quote from the thread: "It's his effeminate little walk that gets me. He's like Mr Humphries on Are You Being Served?"

They're hitting him from every angle.

 

[Kbroome]

Goes to show how irrelevant form translates to finals, Port entered this winning 8 of their last 9.

Yep thats why i would be worried about Hawks being a young side think they might loose to Bulldogs who have been there and done it before

 

[RilesMacca]

Port look so lost, when teams ball movement is ordinary it plays into the cats hands cause they set up so well.

 

[swanssince2002]

I told you guys the Sack Hinkley thread is the best thread on BigFooty for their memes and one liners!

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Nah, the winner of the other QF should be.

Nup both QF have suffered massive GF defeats in the last few seasons at the MCG

Geelong should be 100% favourite.

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Not that I think he's ever had a flag-worthy list to work with, but Hinkley has surely gotta go. His teams simply can't do anything in finals.

Hypothetically, if we swap the blokes in the coaching box would the result be different?

Port certainly have more talent than this Geelong team.

 

[wolftone57]

I agree watching Port here tonight I also wonder how bad we were. Rare. Port were good but we were worse than poor.

We had checked out & our players were all in protect mode. Too many Port players are not picking up their men. Too many like to run forward but not back. Horne- Francis is great if he has a chance at a possession but as soon as he loses the ball he stops. Rioli, and several mids the same. Wines can't keep up with his opponent. Scott managed the match ups well & got what he wanted. He must have been jumping for joy when Wines matched up on Holmes. Holmes is just running off him. They decided not to tag Danger. That is baffling. But maybe due to getting flogged on turnover.

Geelong are not that talented but they play a system that doesn't need overly talented players. It's all about moving the ball quickly on turnover. They will often be second to the ball at a centre bounce but they will hassle the Port player out of the ball & cause turnover. They run the ball like an NRL team, in a line across the ground. If you want to stop that you don't target the player with the ball you shut down his options like a good NRL team does. Forwards & mids have to get back to cover.

If you put them under lots of pressure they will give the ball up. But Port's pressure is third rate. They live a lot of keepings off. So do the Cats. Neither like true pressure. Our game against Port was our worst pressure game of the season. We were well under AFL average of 180, only 164 average for the game.



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[Kbroome]

Drew won't get suspended but man that is so dumb

 

[Kbroome]

2.8 and a miss for Geelong from set shots

 

[Olian]

Nup both QF have suffered massive GF defeats in the last few seasons at the MCG

Geelong should be 100% favourite.

Call of the finals series then?

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

Rested players - never underestimate the impact they can have.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Call of the finals series then?

??

No i just said why Geelong should be favourite.

 

[Zevon]

All year I haven’t rated Geelong at all and they’ve kept on proving me wrong. Now they’re steamrolling Port and yet for some reason I’m STILL not convinced.

Am I this bad of a judge?

 

[wolftone57]

When is Hinkley going to realise Charlie is finished. They were always going to have defensive problems, so their forwards & mids had to stand up. Not much of that happening.

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[GoTheSwannies]

Cats making Port look like the way Port made us look. They have no answers.

 

[liz]

We were in a slump and we also knew that for the last 6 weeks we only needed a couple of wins to lock up top 2. So didn't really try

We were awful, sure, but it started with a complete inability to cope with the pressure Port applied. They were manic and never let up.

 

[wolftone57]

Oh and Burgoyne on Dempsey is stupid. Dempsey just jumps over him every time because his teammates know he has over 10cm extra height.

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[Olian]

Ports issues are similar to ours. They don’t have a key forward who can take a few marks and break the game open. Cameron did the damage in the first half. Game over.

 

[Kbroome]

We were awful, sure, but it started with a complete inability to cope with the pressure Port applied. They were manic and never let up.

We were also keeping Hinkley in the job longer just so they would have another finals embarrassment