Biggest disappointment this year

[Powerstufff]

I was furious for you on Prelim day, you guys were absolutely shafted by umpiring ....

I honestly can't tell. I find it too difficult watching our games even-handedly. Most neutrals seemed to think it was a little from column A and a little from column B.
Ken Hinkley says "You get what you deserve," and that goes both ways. We owned that 1st quarter and failed to convert so that's it. We were happy to accept the win when Freo failed to convert the week before.

 

[cmpower]

The Nachos at AO, cold Salsa. No Gauc and no Sour Cream. Really? So devs

 

[u2uabrs]

How 'bout the deplorable performance of Ticketek for our home final!
I ended up with great seats for me and my family in the Western Stand but really disappointed for the "true believers" that paid out their hard earned for good season tickets and got screwed.
I guess we hadn't had a home final for a few years so next year should be better - crossed fingers!

 

[philreich]

I was furious for you on Prelim day, you guys were absolutely shafted by umpiring.

We've got a team that just went back to back that wouldn't have even been there had the game been called fairly.

That's only true to an extent. If Port had kicked 9:3 instead of 3:9 in that first quarter, the umpiring decisions would have been irrelevant. Bad kicking is bad footy, and we've only got ourselves to blame!!!

 

[FishingRick04]

Realizing my bogga doesn't taste like it use too. Opps this is the reminisce our childhood forum.

 

[MALTSY]

Reddens continuing injury curse
Moore and Stewart still underacheiving...

 

[FishingRick04]

That's only true to an extent. If Port had kicked 9:3 instead of 3:9 in that first quarter, the umpiring decisions would have been irrelevant. Bad kicking is bad footy, and we've only got ourselves to blame!!!

That cheating maggot would have paid 20 in the second to reverse the momentum

 

[Andre]

That's only true to an extent. If Port had kicked 9:3 instead of 3:9 in that first quarter, the umpiring decisions would have been irrelevant. Bad kicking is bad footy, and we've only got ourselves to blame!!!

It wouldn't have been 9:3 even if we'd kicked straight. If we'd kicked straight it'd have been something like 7:3, we would have been going back to the centre, not staying forward peppering over and over. Still that'd have been 27 points up, not 9 and the Hawks looking to lock the game down, not try to out shoot us.

The story of our second half of the year.

 

[Powerstufff]

It wouldn't have been 9:3 even if we'd kicked straight. If we'd kicked straight it'd have been something like 7:3 .....

Over-thinking it there son, if we're going to fantasise a better result let's go for easy analysis. Personally I'd have liked 12:0.

 

[ozph1870]

watching the grand final, realising how much better we were and how we totally blew a golden opportunity. definitely the season that we let slip away, no doubt about it. so frustrating.

 

[Powerstufff]

watching the grand final, realising how much better we were ....

... than Sydney? I'll save you some angst there, footy doesn't work that way. If team A whips team B after which team B whips team C then why when I do my footy tips does team C often turn around and whip team A? It's entirely possible that had we kicked another goal in the PF that it would have been us copping a 10 goal loss to Sydney last weekend.

 

[Hellgood]

... than Sydney? I'll save you some angst there, footy doesn't work that way. If team A whips team B after which team B whips team C then why when I do my footy tips does team C often turn around and whip team A? It's entirely possible that had we kicked another goal in the PF that it would have been us copping a 10 goal loss to Sydney last weekend.

This times a thousand. Reading Collingwood fans saying that if they'd managed to sneak past the in 2007 that they would have accounted for us easily frustrated

North Melbourne. No matter what other great stuff we were to do in the following months that hung over us.

Geez watching that Wingard goal again is such a bittersweet moment. How he managed to kick I'll never know, but at the cost of being injured... ****! Just seemed so futile that day that whenever we'd look like gaining momentum with a goal we'd get another bloody injury. Ah well.

From a personal perspective, going over to Adelaide for the Essendon game was pretty disappointing. Rain? Check. Depressingly mediocre performance? Check. Shitty gimmicks like the noise meter and radio personalities? Check. Still managed to nearly pinch it, but ugh.

 

[Powerstufff]

.... Reading Collingwood fans saying that if they'd managed to sneak past the in 2007 that they would have accounted for us .....

Ditto Saints fans in 2004.

 

[ash_78]

The most disappointing thing this year wasn't caused by the PAFC, except by being the PAFC and not a Victorian club.

There is no Vic-driven conspiracy against Port. We copped a couple of rotten decisions at the wrong time of the prelim - get over it.

 

[Portia]

lol

 

[Forzaport]

There is no Vic-driven conspiracy against Port. We copped a couple of rotten decisions at the wrong time of the prelim - get over it.

Wasn't it 9 decisions against us in a quarter by the same umpire?

 

[ash_78]

Wasn't it 9 decisions against us in a quarter by the same umpire?

How many were wrong? And was it because we are not Victorian?

 

[Forzaport]

How many were wrong? And was it because we are not Victorian?

I'd say at least half were 50/50s that weren't paid the other way. I don't know if it was because we weren't Victorian.

 

[ash_78]

I'd say at least half were 50/50s that weren't paid the other way.

I was angry at the time, but on reflection and re-watching it, it really only was a couple. We got a couple of dubious ones ourselves.

I don't know if it was because we weren't Victorian.

This doesn't even justify being pointed out, but I'm bored at work so here we go anyway...

Why would a competition which invests so heavily in equalisation, promotion of its success across multiple states and expansion want non-Victorian teams to lose? Is it a single individual whose sentiment we are talking about, or is it a shady group of co-conspirators who hold clandestine meetings about bringing down "the non-Vics"?

Let's be real. Teams (including us on occasions) get a good ride sometimes - for portions of a game, or even for an entire game. We all love a good gripe about the umps, and every sports fan in the world thinks their team is shafted by officiators. We remember the bad ones and forget the 50/50s that go our way.

I hate the anti-Vic conspiracy crap, possibly because I live in Melbourne and it just seems like a load of small minded horseshit that can make South Australians appear to have an inferiority complex.

 

[Forzaport]

I probably should clarify, I don't give the vic conspiracy theory much thought.

I just felt we got reamed by 1 umpire in that 2nd quarter.

We still had our chances to win and if we were better we would have.

 

[bomberclifford]

I hate the anti-Vic conspiracy crap, possibly because I live in Melbourne and it just seems like a load of small minded horseshit that can make South Australians appear to have an inferiority complex.

While I do agree with the sentiment, have you ever ventured onto a Melbourne team's board after they've played away in Perth or Adelaide?

It's not just people from SA that do it.

 

[SgtSchulz]

Not having a teal clash jumper .
Seriously though.Not having an extra high marking forward available when we were screaming out for one.

Haha mine was not wearing the Prison Bars against Fremantle in the Semi.

 

[ash_78]

While I do agree with the sentiment, have you ever ventured onto a Melbourne team's board after they've played away in Perth or Adelaide?

It's not just people from SA that do it.

Agree - we all feel shafted in the heat of the moment. But surely after cooling down, rational thought takes over.

There's no way to objectively measure this but my observation is that we South Aussies, more than any other state, are overly obsessed with another state (namely Victorians) supposedly dudding us all the time. Fact is most Vics don't give a shit about SA, besides liking our wines and thinking that beers at the Grand @ Glenelg are a good way to spend a summer evening.

 

[Capital Power]

Finally getting over to AO, and seeing our biggest loss of the year, after that campaigner Franklin uses his own version of the rule book to get over Hombschy. Happened right in front of us it did, too

 

[Marmozet]

Finally getting over to AO, and seeing our biggest loss of the year, after that campaigner Franklin uses his own version of the rule book to get over Hombschy. Happened right in front of us it did, too

..and that was only 26 points! Shows how good we really were this season, did not get smashed once.