Preview Changes & Preview Thread for 2024 Preliminary Final vs Sydney @ SCG

[Bevoman]

Sydney have a habit of starting slowly but adjusting really well.

Port have to take their chances, kick and apply score board pressure early.

A 4-6 goal lead is nothing for Sydney to overcome.

We have won the last eight games against the Swans.

Charlie will replace Marshall where the very small SCG should help him.
If fit, Burton comes in as another tall forward who can swing down back where we must leave DBJ as a forward.

 

[afl2004]

Is this the 1st hinkley prelim that we're massive underdogs

 

[Bevoman]

The counterpoint to the "they lost it we didn't win it" comment is they got most of their score off dubious frees in the forward to even make it a contest but I agree with the rest.

We know this team is all about how they are fairing mentally so I hope the backs against the wall mindset isn't dropped now we got the finals win. If it is we'll get done in. But if we keep playing with hunger we might be able to keep it up

And the flack against Ken should stir the boys up

 

[True__Believer]

Burton in the forward line that couple of weeks wasn't great but wasn't terrible either. Would probably prefer to play him over Dixon

 

[Ports1870]

Is this the 1st hinkley prelim that we're massive underdogs

14 hawthorn?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Doesn't Burton have a calf injury? That's 3 weeks for a minor one.

 

[Buget]

We have won the last eight games against the Swans.

Charlie will replace Marshall where the very small SCG should help him.
If fit, Burton comes in as another tall forward who can swing down back where we must leave DBJ as a forward.

I agree Port have had a good run against Sydney lately.

It should be a good game. And I don’t think the SCG is as big a factor as it has been for Port in the past, but Sydney play it very well.

But finals are a different beast.

 

[afl2004]

14 hawthorn?

Defs the closest but the bookies only had us 1 ish off the Hawks if I remember

 

[JUSTWORK]

Is this the 1st hinkley prelim that we're massive underdogs

2014 we would have been

 

[SureBuddy]

Dixon for Marshall
Farrell (if fit) for Lorenz
Burton (if fit) for Frankie Evans

 

[Lighthouse End]

Sydney have a habit of starting slowly but adjusting really well.

Port have to take their chances, kick and apply score board pressure early.

A 4-6 goal lead is nothing for Sydney to overcome.

Yes, fair point, but the reason for them steadying and adjusting is usually a carbon copy of what we all saw last night when Hawthorn couldn't buy a goal. Charity free kicks that swing the momentum of the game, usually to staging, showboating flogs like Papley, Parker and Heaney, or umpires ' missing ' obvious scragging tactics from the likes of Rampe or blatant incorrect disposal or holding the ball calls from Rowbottom, Warner, Gulden etc. It's been a pattern for years, substitute the names Goodes, O' Loughlin, Barry, Carter, Kirk, Rhys Jones ad nauseam depending on the era.

Playing in Sydney you have to make allowances for the home town decision factor, and be sharp and precise in disposal and delivery of the ball so as that factor gets mitigated.

 

[klem22]

I would tolerate Ryan Burton

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Ryan Burton

Age

27

Ht

191cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.5

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

6.3

4star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.1

4star

MG

277.3

4star

D

16.8

4star

K

12.3

5star

HB

4.5

3star

M

5.0

5star

T

1.0

2star

MG

277.3

4star

D

13.4

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.4

4star

M

4.8

5star

T

2.2

4star

coming back as a sub. Sinn played well enough to keep his spot but with both him and Jones having some injury history and evans still running on only 12 games of AFL i feel like Burton could work as a sub if one of those needs a chopout or less TOG.

And also because that way he could come on fresh and wouldn't be quite as likely to give up defensive chase as he normally does.

I thought Sinn was fantastic last night to replace him with Burton would be a typical stinkly move, this coach knows how to bastardize anything he touches. Finals needs players who can hit the pack hard and run hard. Burton is not the man!

 

[RossFC]

Saw that the game will be on the Alberton Oval big screen. Hope the sound is decent.

 

[afl2004]

Will be working 1 til 10 , so I'll be doing cleaning when the games on and start 8 am the next day lol

 

[Blinky Nyland]

Does a brain repair itself in the same way other injuries do though? As in, is an extended period away from the game going to "fix" him?

If there is structural damage the chances of healing is both pretty low and slow. There is some plasticity in that the brain can rewire neural pathways to get round problems but that takes time and rehab. If he is just dealing with inflammation, rather than structural damage, his recovery could be both more successful and less prolonged if the inflammation can be treated. I'm not a doctor but I studied neuroscience at uni.

 

[blackholeguns]

Will be working 1 til 10 , so I'll be doing cleaning when the games on lol

9 hours of cleaning is a bloody tough gig.. u must be fit as a fiddle

I could barely manage 5

 

[afl2004]

9 hours of cleaning is a bloody tough gig.. u must be fit as a fiddle

I could barely manage 5

I get an hour and half break , so not the worst

 

[gbear]

If Mrgbear hit you let me know... I'll sort him out

No I fainted at work and hit my head on a door on the way down. Usually I get more warning before I pass out and usually make it to the ground safely.

Thankfully Mrgbear is a giant teddy bear

 

[RossFC]

Could we bring in Visentini, and have Sweet rest forward sometimes? Getting a goal out of both of them would be handy.

 

[dirty2]

No I fainted at work and hit my head on a door on the way down. Usually I get more warning before I pass out and usually make it to the ground safely.

Thankfully Mrgbear is a giant teddy bear

Take care of ya self

 

[SureBuddy]

Could we bring in Visentini, and have Sweet rest forward sometimes? Getting a goal out of both of them would be handy.

Sweet just played the best game of his career by a long way. I got a good idea… let’s bring in a second ruck to mess with it.

 

[RossFC]

Sweet just played the best game of his career by a long way. I got a good idea… let’s bring in a second ruck to mess with it.

Visentini can take Ratugolea and Wines's ruck minutes.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

How are we $3.50 vs a side we beat by 112 last time out lol

 

[blackholeguns]

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Saw that the game will be on the Alberton Oval big screen. Hope the sound is decent.

Forecast is for showers, it even rains on our televised games!