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[pastmyprimus]

A small forward line of Evans, McEntee and Darcy is inspiring not

 

[Wargreymon90]

Ollie Lord killed his career at docklands stadium 2 weeks ago. Unless he makes it as a defender I have little faith in his future

What utter garbage

 

[afl2004]

You're upset their better players aren't on show?

Obviously not in terms of winning.

But In terms of the contest there's a lot of slow duds playing , not the flashiest showdown on sat night.

 

[WillemDaDrew]

Dante has good ruck statue.
Once those shoulders start to fill out he’ll be a beast.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Butters, Rozee, JHF, and Wines vs Laird, Crouch, Sloane, and Keays.

If we lose this Hinkley needs to be fired into the sun.

But Carr is the mids coach

 

[Hardcore]

Port need to play a ruck for structure.
Lycett - injured
Hayes - injured
Teakle - played 1 game in 2 months so not fit
Visentini - next in line. Young, but the future.

Best available selection.

Sorry forgot to add the sarcasm indicator


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[captain ebert]

But Carr is the mids coach

No Carr’s coaching the whole group mate.

 

[Phar Ted]

Really like that Dante is getting a proper chance to see how he's tracking rather than his last minute call up. He can't do any worse than Hayes who really isn't playing this week due to his emphysema.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Imagine finals with no ruck

 

[Buget]

Is he better than a Lord Finlayson combo?

Good rucks have figured out Finlayson, he is alright as a pinch hitting ruck, but not full time in the middle. And Lord isn’t a ruck.

So…. yes, I would say an actual ruck is better than no ruck. At the very least, the midfield will rover to Obrien and should even the contest in clearances.

 

[MrMeaner]

Him repeatedly going to soccer off the ground instead of pick up loose balls is a canary in the coalmine. Either his agility’s going, or McGovern rattling his ribcage has made him reluctant to invite contact, or both.

As per my reference a few weeks ago, if you watch vision of Marc Murphy’s final season, he was doing the exact same thing.

Anyone can come in and hack the ball or fresh-airy off the deck, if that’s what you’re bringing to the table.

Hopefully it is just related to his battered torso and there’s still enough juice left in the orange to keep going with rest, or we might see a redux of the mid-season ‘gone to live on a farm with Dom’ manoeuvre.

I think it is a bit of his battered body and him playing on the wing.

On the fist point, he copped a hard hits in the back from the other McGovern and some other bloke in the Carlton game. I think that was kind of what we were seeing last week.

Yep, he’s getting old and his end as a player is nearing. But he’s definitely been playing hurt most of the season. He’s not the only one. Just look at Dixon and Lycett, amongst others

 

[Mr Sharp]

If Lycett is carrying an injury that's gonna hang around all season, we need Visentini to be selected for the rest of the season. It won't be Sam Hayes. Dixon and Finlaysin will play their role, but so must Dante. Look forward to seeing the fabulous Dante Visentini play for Port on Saturday night.

 

[Valentino]

How about backing the young guy in instead of just continued negativity. I for one am looking forward to seeing Dante again

You're in the wrong place to make a comment like this among the bet wetters and the pants poopers.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Really like that Dante is getting a proper chance to see how he's tracking rather than his last minute call up. He can't do any worse than Hayes who really isn't playing this week due to his emphysema.

He can do significantly worse than Hayes, and in fact he has already has done significantly worse than Hayes.

 

[Mr Sharp]

He can do significantly worse than Hayes, and in fact he has already has done significantly worse than Hayes.

He can do significantly worse than Hayes, and in fact he has already has done significantly worse than Hayes.

The Sam Hayes thing is silly. Not as silly as sack the coach campaign.

 

[Phar Ted]

He can do significantly worse than Hayes, and in fact he has already has done significantly worse than Hayes.

Hayes is crap, play Dante and he will come up to speed much quicker which can only be a good thing. Hayes in injured anyway so discussion about his non-inclusion this week is moot.

 

[FutureShock]

No other options, but I expect to see us getting so monstered in ruck and clearances that Dixon and Finlayson will be pushed into more rucking, get more banged up, hurting us going forward. Hope our mids can adapt.

 

[x_les_x]

Pretty funny how we’ve become the “oh he may be young/old/small but we know one thing he will give it his best effort club” ala the kane mitchell nathan blee

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hard worker types that are in reality shit balls AFL players. Dante falls into the same category.

And the last time multiple people said “its fine we should beat this mob regardless” it was a 50 point loss to carlton where silvagni and motlop kicked 4+ each. Crouch Laird and Sloane easy finals bound revival for the crows

Also Narkle seemed to coast during the sanfl game last week not surprising he didnt get the call up. Hugh Jackson has put together a solid last few months

 

[Expat power]

No Carr’s coaching the whole group mate.

in that case he has to go, two losses in a row.

 

[Expat power]

Poor Hayes. Genuinely feel sorry for the bloke. Could have had a career if he'd been drafted to a club that makes indefensible decisions not to play him over objectively worse players.

Haven't we tried to trade him for the past two years? Apologies but which club has put in an offer? I missed it.

 

[blackholeguns]

Haven't we tried to trade him for the past two years? Apologies but which club has put in an offer? I missed it.

Seaton Ramblers

 

[davesnothere]

Dante will out leap OBrien
Size the issue OBrien being heavier going to be hard to move him around.
Still see the ball coming to ground most of the time and if that happens and Dante can do a bit around the ground he'll have had a good night.

He should also ignore flat footed senior players who call for the ball after he gets a free or takes a mark.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Haven't we tried to trade him for the past two years? Apologies but which club has put in an offer? I missed it.

If you were a supporter of another club and you knew nothing about Sam Hayes' actual ability but knew that his coach had played Brynn Teakle or even no ruck at all ahead of him, would you want your club to trade for him?

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. His value has been tanked because of the way we've treated him.

 

[Young Gun #6]

Whats O’Brien paying for the medal?

Searching for this myself. Not sure it’s opened (likely today or tomorrow) but I’ll be all over it.

Great hedge for us losing at probably $10+ with a chance of still getting it even in a loss with how dominant he’ll be.

If anyone sees the market could you please tag myself and Macca.

 

[Young Gun #6]

Dante will out leap OBrien
Size the issue OBrien being heavier going to be hard to move him around.
Still see the ball coming to ground most of the time and if that happens and Dante can do a bit around the ground he'll have had a good night.

He should also ignore flat footed senior players who call for the ball after he gets a free or takes a mark.

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Phillips is 201/103 so a tiny bit smaller than ROB and (although Dante was a late call up) absolutely monstered Dante.

ROB is a far better ruck than Phillips too so hopefully it isn’t a repeat performance.