No back-to-back for Port.

[bringbackbucky]

No hangover yet - i reckon most of them are still drunk!

 

[missionpossible]

Yes we looked shocking on the weekend.

Most premiership sides are built around a stable back 6.

Taking this into account Bishop, Burgoyne missing and wilson first game back. All should be back shortly so this area should be fixed but we have benefitted in exposing pettigrew and chaplin to some action.

Midfield to get back Burgoyne, Salopek (yes he is in our best team as part of the midfield), Pickett add to the midfield which allows players like kingsley to go to a flank they belong on. Also James and francou will slowly find more form.

Chad Cornes does not have a premiership hangover, he is however struggling with his game after recieving a bath from riewoldt, bradshaw and pavlich is 3 consecutive games which has a lot to do with learning how to balance attack and defence.

Josh Carr, well I have said for ages he would be the first player I would pick, ahead of tredrea and the others. This is obviously going to leave a hole which the players have to adjust to.

In conclusion yes we can go back-to-back but it is not in the bag and the team has the challenge of improving on last year so that they can.

Finally I think this year is the most open the premiership race has been for ages, port and brisbane ageing lists, saints and geelong struggling to find form, freo and eagles on the up but are they there yet. Could melbourne, sydney,kangaroos or collingwood get on a role and steal a flag with questionable lists.

 

[The Hobo]

c+p from another thread that i posted

t's rather funny that people are writing port off... considering this time last year, we were 1 win 2 losses... we finished minor premiers, AND won the premiership. We lost to the roos by 92 points as well.

the year before we lost our first 2, and one our 3rd so again ,1 win 2 losses

the year before that, after round 3, we were 1 win 2 losses.

We finished minor premiers all those times.


and zeke, it's rather funny that you never made the scotland and pick 17 comment at all last year..and all of a sudden, he is madly posting it everywhere. And scotland would be no help for us now either, he is not playing this week for the blues.

 

[thegezman]

all i know is that carlton are up for a flogging of a life time this week.

power will bonce back hard

 

[hotpie]

c+p from another thread that i posted

t's rather funny that people are writing port off... considering this time last year, we were 1 win 2 losses...

So were a lot of teams. Big deal. Its the way you have played the past three games that is the issue, playing poorly in Round 1, fading terribly in Round 2 and not coming out to play at all in Round 3. Plus your list has changed in a few key areas. You are not written off, you are just "back in the pack".

 

[Portia]

Yeah, I'd agree that we're back in the pack right now.

 

[ok.crows]

not coming out to play at all in Round 3.

A lot of people want to believe this of Port because:

1. It brings hope of bringing back the "choker" tag, and

2. It avoids the unpalatable idea that the Crows might be getting the hang of their new gameplan and putting in a fair game, and

3. allows people to keep the Crows in their "bottom 4" selections - every fan has to have a little list of four sides (that doesn't include their own team) predicted for the bottom four.

 

[hotpie]

The Crows are an ordinary side and will not make the finals. They have played two shocking games, same number as Port. They also played with far closer to a full list than Port had on the weekend.

They are relying on the same old same old to carry them.

 

[Portia]

ok.crows, it is obvious that we didn't come out to play at all in Round 3.

That doesn't mean it wasn't an excellent performance from the Crows.

Port have not come out to play for numerous games in the past and not been comprehensively flogged...they've even won a couple. Quality sides do that.

Congrats to the Crows for the win, but gee ok.crows, you seem to go from Crow are zeros to Crow are heros quickly these days.

 

[MarkT]

No me ok.crows. I hope Adelaide are the best team in the comp. because that makes our pathetic effort the week before not pathetic. Unfortunately I think we were just pathetic and Adelaide were a bit less so.

 

[Exeter]

Writing the Power off after 3 rounds is a very, very rash thing to do.

The loss to the Crows certainly puts a bit of perspective on the Dockers win over the Power too.

Crows simply don't have the squad to threaten this year IMO.

 

[hotpie]

No me ok.crows. I hope Adelaide are the best team in the comp. because that makes our pathetic effort the week before not pathetic. Unfortunately I think we were just pathetic and Adelaide were a bit less so.

Collingwood-Crows Grand Final sounds good to me. What odds can I get Ian Perrie for Norm Smith?

 

[ok.crows]

Crows simply don't have the squad to threaten this year IMO.

That is a fair call.

The flipside is - the Crows possibly do have the capability to improve a few places this year.

 

[ok.crows]

ok.crows, it is obvious that we didn't come out to play at all in Round 3.

That doesn't mean it wasn't an excellent performance from the Crows.

Port have not come out to play for numerous games in the past and not been comprehensively flogged...they've even won a couple. Quality sides do that.

Congrats to the Crows for the win, but gee ok.crows, you seem to go from Crow are zeros to Crow are heros quickly these days.

"Crows are heroes" compared to "Crows might not be bottom 4".

Seems like we have a bit of a failure to read the same message here.

 

[hotpie]

The flipside is - the Crows possibly do have the capability to improve a few places this year.

So does every team in the comp. Possibles are different from probables. I've seen nothing from the Crows to see them any differently placed on the ladder than last year.

 

[ok.crows]

ok.crows, it is obvious that we didn't come out to play at all in Round 3.

That doesn't mean it wasn't an excellent performance from the Crows.

Port have not come out to play for numerous games in the past and not been comprehensively flogged...they've even won a couple. Quality sides do that.

Congrats to the Crows for the win, but gee ok.crows, you seem to go from Crow are zeros to Crow are heros quickly these days.

So I take it this means you prefer the "chokers" theory ?

 

[Portia]

Thats not exactly relevant either. It was just a pathetic effort...every team in the league puts them in.

Adelaide in Brisbane last year is a classic example...yeah, the Lions were good, but that good?

 

[ok.crows]

I've seen nothing from the Crows to see them any differently placed on the ladder than last year.

... apart from the better percentage, the better start to the season, beating a side we haven't beaten in ages, the new first-choice players, a percetible lift in confidence, a much lower average age, the new coach and the new gameplan of course ... or perhaps you can't see any of those either?

 

[The Hobo]

ppl still think brisbane are a good chance... why is that? they have lost 2 and won 1 as well, and WE beat them.

 

[hotpie]

... apart from the better percentage, the better start to the season, beating a side we haven't beaten in ages, the new first-choice players, a percetible lift in confidence, a much lower average age, the new coach and the new gameplan of course ... or perhaps you can't see any of those either?

Not really. I saw Goodwin McLeod and Riccutto carry the team (as usual) against a hapless and undermanned and disinterested Port Adelaide. The week before I saw the worst game of football I have ever seen. No discernable gameplan there, I'll take your word for it on it that it exists.

Percentage - round 3 - pfft.
New players - a couple. Not before time.

 

[ok.crows]

Collingwood-Crows Grand Final sounds good to me. What odds can I get Ian Perrie for Norm Smith?

There were people on Bigfooty predicting Crows to start 0-7.

What odds could you have got for 2-1 after round 3 and 4th spot on the ladder?

 

[ok.crows]

ppl still think brisbane are a good chance... why is that? they have lost 2 and won 1 as well, and WE beat them.

Exactly. Port aren't that bad.

 

[hotpie]

There were people on Bigfooty predicting Crows to start 0-7.

Yes and they were wrong. Tippings a tough sport. But you have played just one good game this year out of three, the same as many other sides in the competition. The Collingwood-Adelaide result should be removed from the records and both clubs fined for bringing the game into disrepute.

 

[footyfreak]

Don't get me wrong. I have a great admiration for Port Adelaide Power. Called into Alberton Oval a couple of years back for a family / guernsey presentation day coming away thinking what a great honorable club of tradition with wonderful family people.

But, sadly, I am comfortable in predicting that there will be no back-to-back premierships this year unless they turn things around dramatically.

I know there are injuries and a suspension but if I have ever seen a bad case of premiership hangover I saw it against the Crows on Sunday.

One of the main causes of a hangover is players, who were daredevils and full of guts and determination last season, being half hearted and waiting for someone else to do the work and something to happen to turn around a game, not to mention a slipping-up of football skills.

Just a thought.

FFS. it's round 3!!!! They got flogged last year by the roos by something like 92 points and went on to win the flag. I hope their odds go right out with this kind of thinking coz i'll be getting on em.

Right them off at your own peril.

 

[dA Crow]

Not really. I saw Goodwin McLeod and Riccutto carry the team (as usual) against a hapless and undermanned and disinterested Port Adelaide.

Yes, those two players carried the whole team.

The week before I saw the worst game of football I have ever seen.

Which I do believe YOUR coach said that your team dragged the Crows down.

No discernable gameplan there, I'll take your word for it on it that it exists.

Then I suggest maybe watching it? There again I wouldnt expect you to be able to analysis a game of footy; you just do what Eddie tells you

On topic though, after 3 rounds you really cant write anyone off, especially with the close results that the games this year are providing. These type of threads always seem to have the ability to return to bite people on the butt.