Review Good/Bad and the Umpiring.

[GrommoT]

Yep the absolute worst from the maggots... pity someone had nuked the replay to try and cover up the fubar!

Better download this ... in case

Spoiler: ..... Hey AFL, nothing to see here, ok? .....

 

[n4sir]

Ok, I've had a bit of time winding down.. after a friends 60th birthday party... a lot of booze (I guess you have already guessed that)... catching up on the replay... and then reflecting here.

The good.. well really good. I ticked every box tonight for who played well. I cannot remember the last time I did that (actually have I ever?)

Basically everyone had their moments for the win.. and it was so satisfying because... we broke them!

Sometimes (in the words of Keyser Soze) "it has nothing to do with money, guns, numbers, it's just the will to do what the other guy won't"

That's what we did tonight. Everyone did their part, their bit... everyone. There are a number of players who will have bugger all numbers in the Superfooty competitions, but the contests, and contests and contests... like Gollant, should have had a goal, but it was played on to advantage. In the end it's a team game, and he did a lot more than the stats.

Murray and Hinge, they were literally the backbone of our defence tonight. I was down on Doedee early, but he came up when challenged.. same with Milera.

Everyone had at least one important cameo. Berry was back to his brilliant tackling pressure cooker for just under three quarters... and then Jones came on and had a huge influence in the last quarter when we had the run on.

Pedlar was just brilliant in our first half and kept us in it... honestly I would still have him BOG for tonight. Laird was just the energizer battery, going and going and going... the last quarter though, Sloane was just HUGE. Anyone here questioning his heart? Just go back and watch that quarter again. I dare you. Seriously, I dare you.

Thilthorpe, Rankine, Rochele - Just brilliant, and our young hearts of this team. You could pick half a dozen of our players tonight who could have got the Showdown medal... and I have not even mentioned Dawson up to now.

It's our first four quarter game this year, and easily our most impressive.

OK Matty Nicks. I threw down the gauntlet last week saying I did not think you had what it take to make this team into a real final (let alone a premiership) contender. This was a very impressive reply. Can we keep this up?

 

[n4sir]

Better download this ... in case

Spoiler: ..... Hey AFL, nothing to see here, ok? .....

Whatever happened to the the protected zone?

For that matter, for any AFL Umpire out there, please explain WTF is the protected zone if this the way you define it (?)

You yell out "Stand!" and a player has to freeze in front of the mark, yet anyone can sneak up right behind to tackle the moment you blow the whistle? Seriously WTF is that BS?

 

[MrBarry]

The kid is overrated. He may be good in the future but he has a long way. Cornes needs settle down about him. Glad we didn't get him.

His kicking technique is really weird - he drops it in slow motion similar to ROB. Will need to change that if he gets to the level.

 

[MrBarry]

Good: Rankine farking hates Port.

100% the kid is one of us - I love it.

 

[Pugsley]

Max is an automated selection.

 

[50BC]

Gg Adelaide

you finally put the heat on our pissweak coach Also fkk Jonas

That spud Jonas being your Captain is almost as embarrasing as when we made VB Captain. Jonas isn't a KPD's a@&%hole, never understood why he keeps getting selected.

 

[50BC]

Some of their fans already calling JHF a spud..

Bit bloody harsh after tonights game I thought.

I mean cripes, the kids is only just starting his 2nd year and he is already better than half their squad, his ceiling is soooo very high.

 

[Milo Cyrus]

I'd actually prefer a more strategic approach with Dawson. I think he should be used all over the ground as required.

I don't think he's a permanent mid, and is much more useful being used to swing or arrest momentum either in defense, middle or wing/forward.

the Architect.

 

[AFC979810]

Good:

Our highest score and Most goals kicked during the Mathew Nicks era. Made all the more impressive that we were missing FOG and Walker kicked a solitary point.
12 Goals between Pick 2, Pick 3 and Pick 11.
CBA's are being mixed up. Laird 79%, Dawson 62% and Rachelle 53% were primary, but we also ran Keays 21%, Sloane 29%, Soligo 18%, Berry 38% through there. Last year our mix was 4 midfielders so its good to see Nicks use a more diverse mix.
Fringe players contributed - Sholl, Hinge, Murphy, Gollant, Jones.
Its already been said about Max.

Bad:

Still too easy for opposition to score from clearances.
Walker looked a shell of himself.
Butts doesn't look himself, but think we will need to keep him in against Freo next week (Amiss, Taberner, Jackson).


Additional thoughts:

TT is a forward who can pitch hit in the ruck. Him and Fogarty need to become our version of Walker&Tippett, Buddy&Roughy, etc. He will be wasted as a ruckman.
Berry has gone backwards significantly. Not sure if opposition coaches put in extra time over the offseason, but looks a shell of the player he was in 2022.

 

[pjcrows]

Did anyone see the free kick and goal that cost GWS the game yesterday?

So we had the protected zone rule completely forgotten about in our game, but then up bobs umpire dissent again from nowhere in their game.

The umpiring is actually funny now.

 

[Milo Cyrus]

Did anyone see the free kick and goal that cost GWS the game yesterday?

So we had the protected zone rule completely forgotten about in our game, but then up bobs umpire dissent again from nowhere in their game.

The umpiring is actually funny now.

more umpires is making it worse IMO.

 

[Crow till I die]

Some comments from down yonder (and this one seems to have evaded their swear filter but i'll edit for them..maybe it was one of their mods making the comment)

Thilthorpe hasn't played a decent game in 2 years. Just about BOG whilst Aliir pretends to be a footballer. Pedlar hasn't looked AFL quality at all. 3 goals no worries. Jonas on Rankine in the first quarter? What d**khead thought that would ever work?

 

[pjcrows]

Port's two biggest "emotion/history/heritage" games in the last 12 months - the Russell Ebert tribute match and the Prison Bars Showdown - resulted in soft humiliating losses.

 

[FR0GGY]

Good:

O’Brien - one of the best games of his career. Absolutely bent Lycett over and went in dry. In our best 3 players on the night.

Thilthorpe - eerily similar to the out of the box amazing performance by Himmelberg in the Showdown win last year. He was excellent. That goal assist to Pedlar was sex.

Rankine - keeping the ball in on the wing and then the outrageous snap goal, both in absolutely key moments which won us the game, were pretty amazing to see. In our best 3 on the night.

Laird - had some key moments, was a clearance beast and had a determined look in his weird munted eyes that I hope I continue to see on a weekly basis.

Murray - regardless of what’s going on with Butts, Nick is now our best key defender by the length of the Flemington straight. Just continues to grow in confidence, and grow as a player. Our most (only) consistent player so far in 2023.

Michalanney - I think I’m Maxsexual. This guy is just ridiculous for a first year player. His ability to not be overawed, to stick to the task and to make composed decisions is not something you come across from a teenage defender very often at all. Ben Hart 2.0.

Murphy - I’m not sure who was more surprised when Murphy converted that key set shot in the 4th quarter - the entire crows supporter base, or Lachie himself? He’s literally missed every single one of those in his career, but maybe that will be the monkey off the back. In all seriousness though, he was nothing short of excellent tonight. A great performance by a player whose effort can never be questioned.

Hinge - I thought this was Mitch’s best AFL game to date. Just held up really well across half back, and made some really good decisions under pressure (not often a strength of his tbh). Thrives on the big stage.

Pedlar’s 2 big set shot bombs were a major highlight. The odds of him converting BOTH of those were 20/1 at best. He will remain a half forward for 2023 but watch out if he can ever build up the tank required to play 50/50 forward and mid because bloody hell, there’s a beast of a player with so many weapons there.

Chayce Jones - this was a brilliant sub performance, from a player that I don’t rate at all. He came on, and did EXACTLY what every team wants their sub to do. He impacted the game, he was tough, he got hold of the ball, and he even capped it off with a brilliant set shot goal, that nobody in the world could possibly have predicted he would kick. Congrats Chayce, you’re in next week’s starting 22.

Lachie Gollant - honestly, I thought he actually had a brilliant 9 possession, 0 goal game. Won a free that directly led to a Soligo snap goal. Nailed a beautiful pass lace out to Murphy for a goal. His tackling was a real highlight. Must play next week regardless of Fog’s status (I don’t think Fog’s playing).

I also thought Doedee was actually really good, without getting much of the ball. His direct opponents certainly didn’t get near it for the vast majority of the night.

Sloane’s 4th quarter was also a real highlight for me. Still has something to offer, despite making the odd howler decision by hand and foot each week.




Bad:

Tex - is a shell of himself at present. Needs a spell either next week or the week after for mine.

Butts - he’s either injured, or just completely devoid of confidence. If you’d told me in late 2021 that by Round 3, 2023, Nick Murray would be better at literally every football skill and attribute than Butts, I would have called you insane. It has happened.

Brodie Smith - it’s just about career over here. He’s a complete and utter liability and provides absolutely nothing defensively or offensively that remotely benefits the team. The fact that he’s in the leadership group is outrageous. I’m sure he’s a great bloke, but holy s**t, his football is diabolical and he needs to be dumped to the twos, now.

Sam Berry - similar to Butts, I’m not sure what’s going on here and maybe it’s all injury-related, but we can’t keep putting up with a full time inside mid who literally can’t get the ball. If you told me that we absolutely had to select one of Berry, Schoenberg or Matt Crouch next week and that my life depended on us winning the game, honestly I’d pick Crouch. I really, really don’t like Crouch.

Sure, Schoenberg dominated the SANFL today but he flat out took the piss in Rounds 1 and 2, and shouldn’t be anywhere near the AFL team for another month based on that alone. Berry must have something wrong with him. In the team selection thread I picked none of these 3, but yeah, that means there’ll be a lot of Keays and Sloane at the coalface which is probably less than ideal. It’s a problem in general for us. Almost like drafting top quality mids in Round 1 should have been a priority since Dangerfield hey?



Ugly:

The ******* holding the ball decision against Sholl where Powell-Pepper just grabbed him, behind the mark, BEFORE THE UMPIRE HAD SIGNALLED PLAY ON. Let’s just forget about protected 5m zones for a moment and focus on the replay which clearly shows the umpire signal play-on, after the tackle commences. Get absolutely ****ed you termites.

Drunk, meth-head teenage pitch invaders at a Port home game. Who’d have thunk it?

The state of S Lycett’s sphinc after the reaming he copped from ROB

J Dawson being awarded the Showdown Medal, despite nobody with a clue who actually watched the game rating him in the best 5 players on the ground. For those playing at home, the best 5 players, by a long way, and in no particular order, were:

Rankine
Thilthorpe
Laird
O’Brien
Rozee

How Dawson wins that medal, nobody will ever know. Do complete nuffies like Rowie and Bicks vote or something? David King correctly gave Dawson 0 votes.

Dawson’s only goal was a completely flukey accident, he also missed an absolute sitter, and other than those two shanks he touched it 16 other times for the night. Yay. He was probably our 6th or 7th best player, he had an influence and all that, but Showdown medal? God no. All 4 of Rankine, Thilthorpe, Laird and ROB would’ve been far more deserving. Tbh I’m not even sure an argument can be made for Dawson outplaying Lachie Murphy tonight, let alone the others. The single most bizarre Showdown Medallist in history.

Great post, you just missed the similar disgraceful htb to hinge that sholl copped.
Also reckon you underrated Dawson, he set the tone and kept us in it in the first.
Can’t remember if it was the first play or close to (as I was working) he burst through the center and took them on almost to the point of being caught holding the ball.
Was great to see a captain lead from the front.
Was he the stand out, probably not but a worthy winner any way imo.

 

[Crow till I die]

Another quality post from foulberton way

A very disappointing result, 3 quarters of that Crows squad wouldn't even make our starting 22 and we dish out that s**t

 

[Moonwatcher]

Was surprised to see TT only had 3 marks last night. Doesn't take many marks inside 50 to influence a game.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Paging WaynesWorld19

Suggest you get my comments Mutineer in context .....the search function works a treat I'm told

 

[Redline]

Thilthorpe pointing directly at Lachie Jones after he choked was my favourite part.

Loved it.

I said in another thread the other week. Jones is really soft which is not something you can say about many guys at AFL level.

He also can't kick. I just don't see what Port see in him.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Goes well with your avatar

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Oh, how good is Max. We have a 250 game player, if he stays healthy, 300.

Sometimes it only takes 3 games to see the poential in a player .....Max is a natural ....makes really good decisions

We're also starting to see why we drafted Pedlar .....just getting better week on week with continuity ....can't wait to see him go into the midfield

 

[Moonwatcher]

Rankine worth every penny.

Unlucky Collingwood.

Did Collingwood want him?

 

[dani_giuls]

Bad: we couldn’t kick 2 more points??


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[BACCS]

Good: This…
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Beat them at their own game

Smashed them by 22 in contested possessions too, after they lost by 57 to Collingwood last week (3rd worst differential in a game of all time). Their very hyped up midfield is getting absolutely smashed in the contest right now.

 

[baldandbroke]

Did Collingwood want him?

Referring to jetty-jumper …