Player Watch Pick #49 (2020) - Ollie Lord

[Lefti93]

Port vs St kilda matchups (last 4 games) Port have won all 4 by 10 points or less.

They must flipping hate us lol

2024	R16	St Kilda	(60)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(62)	2 pts
2024	R7	Port Adelaide	(82)	dftd	St Kilda	(72)	10 pts
2023	R7	St Kilda	(76)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(83)	7 pts
2022	R7	St Kilda	(42)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(43)	1 pt

With the exception of their rd 7 form in 2023 they've absolutely sucked in all of those encounters.

 

[ElectricG]

Port vs St kilda matchups (last 4 games) Port have won all 4 by 10 points or less.

They must flipping hate us lol

2024	R16	St Kilda	(60)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(62)	2 pts
2024	R7	Port Adelaide	(82)	dftd	St Kilda	(72)	10 pts
2023	R7	St Kilda	(76)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(83)	7 pts
2022	R7	St Kilda	(42)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(43)	1 pt

To them we’re like a shitty version of Collingwood

 

[240volt]

Port vs St kilda matchups (last 4 games) Port have won all 4 by 10 points or less.

They must flipping hate us lol

2024	R16	St Kilda	(60)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(62)	2 pts
2024	R7	Port Adelaide	(82)	dftd	St Kilda	(72)	10 pts
2023	R7	St Kilda	(76)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(83)	7 pts
2022	R7	St Kilda	(42)	lost to	Port Adelaide	(43)	1 pt

That round 7 2022 game would have been a rip snorter, 43-42.

 

[ElectricG]

That round 7 2022 game would have been a rip snorter, 43-42.

Clutch behind from Robbie Gray in the dying minutes. Very MOIST game from memory. Scrappy but somehow not as shit as yesterday.

 

[Willsy10]

Probably has one last chance to do something this weekend, I sense we will bring Dixon straight back in particularly since lord has been so poor.


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[Portwon]

Plays to instructions (so from behind to bring the ball to ground).

Shits me to tears given his body shape and potential.

 

[afl2004]

Not super talented but coming off an acl and playing for a horrible game plan that sucks key forwards soul's away.

We do need him for depth in the future tbh , might as well play him until daddy dip shit leaves

 

[Rash]

last chance buddy, before we send you back to the magoos.

 

[Chrizzt]

last chance buddy, before we send you back to the magoos.

To be replaced by who?

 

[simba_]

can we stop pretending its 2001 and sending players to the SANFL is a good thing? just play anyone we rate and that's that, the SANFL is where people go to die

 

[Schulzenfest]

Oh good I see we've reached the 'this tall player who had a very promising start to their career is in poor form now so they must be a spud' period of Ollie's 'development' at Ken Hinkley FC. So weird how this has happened to every KPP we've drafted for the last 12 years. What a crazy coincidence.

 

[Willsy10]

To be replaced by who?

Dixon. He will come straight back in if Lord plays poorly again.

 

[True__Believer]

Not super talented but coming off an acl and playing for a horrible game plan that sucks key forwards soul's away.

We do need him for depth in the future tbh , might as well play him until daddy dip shit leaves

Ok give me a list of key position forwards 21 years old or younger who have kicked 4 goals or more in a final. Hint: the list is very, very small. So the 'not super talented' call is one of more bizarre things I have seen in this thread

 

[Duckimus Prime]

That round 7 2022 game would have been a rip snorter, 43-42.

St Kilda kicked 4-18 and we kicked 5-13. Scintillating game.

Yeah it was wet in Cairns, but not really that wet.

 

[afl2004]

Ok give me a list of key position forwards 21 years old or younger who have kicked 4 goals or more in a final. Hint: the list is very, very small. So the 'not super talented' call is one of more bizarre things I have seen in this thread

No its isn't, one game doesn't mean your 10x better

 

[Rash]

To be replaced by who?

dixon on one leg

 

[raptalia]

Ollie is one of many players on our list who need to step up. I don't buy this game plan shite. OK we all know Ken's forward strategy is stuffed but that has not stopped the likes of Dixon, Marshall, Georgiades and even Olllie himself from producing spasmodically. We also know that Ollie booted 4 goals in last year's Qualifying Final and all that proves is he has the ability to make an impact despite Hinkley's fractured game plan.

Time for Ollie to stand up and be counted.

As to who replaces Ollie if he takes the drop, Dixon still has a couple of weeks and Ratugolea is out this week and Todd Marshall

4

Todd Marshall

Age

25

Ht

198cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.0

2star

K

6.4

3star

HB

2.5

2star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.5

4star

G

1.1

4star

D

8.9

2star

K

7.1

3star

HB

1.8

1star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.0

4star

G

1.1

5star

D

9.6

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.6

5star

remains in doubt so Ollie stays by default but when one of those two is available and if Ollie has not improved either of them could take his spot. The press have come to the sudden realisation that Port may only need two tall key defenders so that makes Ratugolea surplus to needs in defence and there has been a suggestion that he may slot into a forward/ruck role.

Hinkley has a lot to answer for but we should not avoid putting some onus on the players to make an impact. Seventeen disposals for 3 goals over three games is simply not good enough.

 

[TeeKray]

Already having more impact than Marshall. Take out the North game and they both average 1 goal a game but Lord actually competes and doesn't let his opponent dominate him so he's ahead of Marshall. Persist with Lord.

 

[bringbackbucky]

Persist with Lord. Delist Dixon.

 

[Sewer de Lance]

It’s laughable people are willing to write off Lord so prematurely when he’s playing under one of the most dysfunctional forward set ups in the entire competition.

He’s one of the few players on our list that shows some aggression & hunger for the contest. Get some more games into him, get the structures right, & get some decent smalls hovering around his feet, then judge him.

 

[240volt]

Already having more impact than Marshall. Take out the North game and they both average 1 goal a game but Lord actually competes and doesn't let his opponent dominate him so he's ahead of Marshall. Persist with Lord.

8 years of Marshall is enough to judge his ability’s.
Not sure if it’s the head knocks or what but it’s just not happening with him.

 

[ClintEastwood]

last chance buddy, before we send you back to the magoos.

Pffft. Only after Marshall. Lord has 100x the upside Marshall does. And shoulders.

 

[snozulu]

He only gets better if we pump games into him, back him in and hopefully he repays the faith as the years go on

He's no John Butcher but you don't kick 4 goals in a losing final unless you have some sort of talent.

 

[ClintEastwood]

Ollie is one of many players on our list who need to step up. I don't buy this game plan shite. OK we all know Ken's forward strategy is stuffed but that has not stopped the likes of Dixon, Marshall, Georgiades and even Olllie himself from producing spasmodically

After having a ton of games under each of their belts. Lord's will get, hold your horses.

 

[Jello_B]

Ollie is one of many players on our list who need to step up. I don't buy this game plan shite. OK we all know Ken's forward strategy is stuffed but that has not stopped the likes of Dixon, Marshall, Georgiades and even Olllie himself from producing spasmodically. We also know that Ollie booted 4 goals in last year's Qualifying Final and all that proves is he has the ability to make an impact despite Hinkley's fractured game plan.

Time for Ollie to stand up and be counted.

As to who replaces Ollie if he takes the drop, Dixon still has a couple of weeks and Ratugolea is out this week and Todd Marshall remains in doubt so Ollie stays by default but when one of those two is available and if Ollie has not improved either of them could take his spot. The press have come to the sudden realisation that Port may only need two tall key defenders so that makes Ratugolea surplus to needs in defence and there has been a suggestion that he may slot into a forward/ruck role.

Hinkley has a lot to answer for but we should not avoid putting some onus on the players to make an impact. Seventeen disposals for 3 goals over three games is simply not good enough.

Personally I’m entirely comfortable excusing our young players and accounting their underperformance to Hinkley.