Review Fremantle vs Port Adelaide - Trial Match 2 @ Fremantle

[RossFC]

Thursday 2nd of March. On Kayo 6:30pm SA time. Game starts 6:40pm. At Fremantle Oval.

https://kayosports.com.au/fixture/sport!afl/series-afl-pre-season!2/fixture-fremantle-dockers-vs-port-adelaide-power!4084

Looks like it will be back to 4 quarters. 26 man squad.

Assume all the depth players that played the 5th and 6th quarters will drop out.

Nathan Bassett

Nathan Bassett

Age

47

Ht

190cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

5.1

4star

M

4.5

4star

T

1.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

9.0

3star

K

5.8

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

1.2

3star

confirmed that Dixon, Butters and Byrne-Jones will be back in the side. Finlayson still ruled out, and pending the injury list, Boak (back/rib bruising), Dumont (calf soreness), Lord (lacerated kidney) and Sinn (hamstring) all will probably miss out.

Changes:
IN: Dixon, Butters, Byrne-Jones, Evans
OUT: Boak (back/rib bruising), Rioli (throat soreness), Williams, Visentini, Hayes, Mead
Clurey, Pasini, Scully, Jackson, K.Marshall, McCallum, Barkla, Hagan (all not part of main game last week, drop out)

Team:
F: Teakle - Dixon - Fantasia
HF: Powell-Pepper - T.Marshall - Butters
C: Bonner - Wines - Duursma
HB: Bergman - Aliir - Burgoyne
B: Burton - Jonas (C) - Houston
R: Lycett - Horne-Francis - Rozee
INT FROM: Byrne-Jones - McEntee - Drew - Jones - Farrell - Georgaides - McKenzie - Evans
EMERG: Clurey - Williams - Pasini - Visentini

 

[Jonts]

If we lose this we better sack Hinkley

 

[JimmyBC]

We'll play better against Freo imo.

As I've been saying for the last umpteen years I need to see fluency & return in our style of play to get any sense of it going somewhere.

 

[Grave Danger]

 

[Sir Watchalot]

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Tredrea talks about being one of the extended list over there then. I think 17yo. Turned up for a beach training session. Ginever and a few others wandered in in suits having partied all night and not yet gone to bed.

 

[all seeing eye]

Thursday 2nd of March. On Kayo 6:30pm SA time. Game starts 6:40pm. At Fremantle Oval.

https://kayosports.com.au/fixture/sport!afl/series-afl-pre-season!2/fixture-fremantle-dockers-vs-port-adelaide-power!4084

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Looks like it will be back to 4 quarters. Yet to be seen if we go with a 23 man squad or go as many as 30.

Assume all the depth players that played the 5th and 6th quarters will drop out.

Nathan Bassett confirmed that Dixon, Butters and Byrne-Jones will be back in the side. Finlayson still ruled out, and pending the injury list, Boak (back/rib bruising), Dumont (calf soreness), Lord (lacerated kidney) and Sinn (hamstring) all will probably miss out.

Predicted Changes: (Squad of 23 or as many as 30? TBA)
IN: Dixon, Butters, Byrne-Jones
OUT: Boak (back/rib bruising), possibly 1-7 more based on squad size TBA
Clurey, Pasini, Evans, Scully, Jackson, K.Marshall, McCallum, Barkla, Hagan (all not part of main game last week, should drop out)

Predicted Side:
F: Powell-Pepper - Dixon - Rioli
HF: Butters - T.Marshall - Fantasia
C: Bonner - Wines - Duursma
HB: Bergman - Aliir - Burgoyne
B: Burton - Jonas (C) - Houston
R: Lycett - Horne-Francis - Rozee
INT FROM: Byrne-Jones - McEntee - Drew - Jones - Farrell - Georgaides - Teakle - Visentini - Mead - Hayes - McKenzie - Williams

I do like that predicted side, keen to see Bonner on a wing and that mix of Butters,Rioli and Fanta forward should be very dynamic. However on paper aint performing on field. Dixon back should free up Marshall and straighten us up. MG's form is our greatest worry at the moment. Apart from coach

 

[Alyx]

Fremantle by 119.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Play Pansini

 

[Sir Watchalot]

Play Pansini

Eat a panini

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Flagmantle by 233

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Eat a panini

Drive a Lamborghini

 

[Sir Watchalot]

.... Dixon back should free up Marshall and straighten us up ....

I was thinking about that last night. Dixon's role changed last year to a more mobile one. When not rucking he was no longer staying 'at home' as a double-teamed CHF but pushing out to the flank/wing. He was more effective there than he'd been for ages. Surely we don't want to go back to locking him into patrolling CHF for some largely mythical taps and spills?

 

[Sir Watchalot]

.... MG's form is our greatest worry at the moment ....

Only if we play him in the AFL team. Georgiades has done SFA since 2021 and if anything looks worse this pre-season. Couldn't run into an open goal against West Coast yesterday.
We carried an uncompetitive Todd Marshall for years before he magically transformed in R2 last year. Do we expect lightning to strike twice in the same place?

 

[Duck Farmer]

Play Pansini

Play Vincent Teeny

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

Did they actually come back to Adelaide, or stay over there?

 

[VineValerian]

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Some names there:
Crothers
Ambrose
Poole
Mead.

 

[TeeKray]

Did they actually come back to Adelaide, or stay over there?

They're staying over.

No doubt it's being treated as a holiday rather than a serious football trip to prepare for the imminent season (see Jonas' comments at the season launch about training loads coming off and looking forward to going on Georgiades' yacht).

 

[dirty2]

They're staying over.

No doubt it's being treated as a holiday rather than a serious football trip to prepare for the imminent season (see Jonas' comments at the season launch about training loads coming off and looking forward to going on Georgiades' yacht).

Got to get the work/life balance right.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Are we carbon neutral yet?

 

[afl2004]

Freo might win this game but they won't get within touching distance of our teams mate ship and general level of being great humans

 

[Sir Watchalot]

Freo might win this game but they won't get within touching distance of our teams mate ship ....

Nor, with regard to the Georgiadis yacht mentioned earlier, the Port player's teammate's ship.

 

[Tibbs]

Freo might win this game but they won't get within touching distance of our teams mate ship and general level of being great humans

And their community wont be nearly as proud!

 

[Sir Watchalot]

Whatever happened to the Dockside trophy or whatever it was called that Port and Freo played for early after we entered the AFL? If I recall correctly it was going to be like the Ashes urn and be held by whoever had last won.

 

[VineValerian]

Are we carbon neutral yet?

We exist to get our work/life balance right, to be carbon neutral and to be grateful to be a run of the mill team in this elite competition.

 

[PowerBaz]

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Love the phone advert