Port Adelaide Best Team of Last 15 Years

[menzel case]

1999-2014.

FB: T.CHAPLIN D.WAKELIN M.WILSON

HB: G.WANGANEEN C.CORNES B.MONTGOMERY

C: P.BURGOYNE D.CASSISI S.BURGOYNE

HF: R.GRAY* W.TREDREA (c) J.WESTHOFF*

FF: C.WINGARD* J.SCHULZ* D.MOTLOP

RR: M.PRIMUS (vc) K.CORNES* T.BOAK*

INT: B.LADE N.STEVENS J.CARR A.CARLILE*

COACH: MARK WILLIAMS

thoughts?

 

[dinger]

I'm assuming the T. Chaplin is a troll and to be quite frank its working very very well.

 

[wayb2912]

1999-2014.

FB: T.CHAPLIN D.WAKELIN M.WILSON

HB: G.WANGANEEN C.CORNES B.MONTGOMERY

C: P.BURGOYNE D.CASSISI S.BURGOYNE

HF: R.GRAY* W.TREDREA (c) J.WESTHOFF*

FF: C.WINGARD* J.SCHULZ* D.MOTLOP

RR: M.PRIMUS (vc) K.CORNES* T.BOAK*

INT: B.LADE N.STEVENS J.CARR A.CARLILE*

COACH: MARK WILLIAMS

thoughts?

no Dew?? Pickett??

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I'm assuming the T. Chaplin is a troll and to be quite frank its working very very well.

First player named too.

Subtle.

 

[elsler]

HAHAHA T Chaplin is he farkin serious jane should be no where near any of our best teams

 

[Marmozet]

Darcy Byrne-Jones would be more deserving of a spot in that team than Charlie Chaplin.

 

[menzel case]

no Dew?? Pickett??

who would you bring them in for? forwards are bloody good in this team

 

[Phhht]

Motlop, cassisi and chaplin wouldnt make my team

 

[Dalphonso]

Didn't we have this thread only a few weeks ago?

 

[mic59]

Seriously, Chaplin was not the worst defender we ever had. Myself, I would have put Paxman and Bishop before him but to listen to some people on this board both he and Mark Williams knew nothing about football. I have heard it said he gave away 3 or 4 goals a game. Do you think Mark Williams would allow someone who did that to be continually selected? He was blamed for a lot of goals he had no chance of stopping or even responsibility for. There were some direct turnovers from his kicks but that happens. And seems to when the whole teams going through a bad patch, which 2011/2012 certainly was.
Similarly he got the same at the ground. There were occasions when the opposition would sweep the ball away from the centre bounce and get it to the full forward, who Chaplin was not even standing, and suddenly it was all his fault that a goal was scored against us. He was actually quite good for us for a long period early in his career. He was taken apart by his opponent in the 2007 GF but who wasn't. If Mark Williams hadn't tried to make him into something he wasn't, a sweeping defender, we could have had something there. A few "un-Port-like" incidents such as his drawing out of a tackle on Luke Power and finally his departure and comments didn't endear him.
I would have liked to have seen what Ken Hinkley could have made of him, as if we could have had Trengove helping out Lobbe just a bit and releasing Westhoff more to the forwards that could have been the difference between losing the PF by 3 points and making the GF.

But to get back to the choice of defender. Yes, I think Paxman. Kingsley was always a bit to much deer-in-the-headlights to be a deep defender. Possibly he could be placed on Wanganeen's HBF, Wanganeen in the forward pocket and Motlop on the bench. Carlile would be omitted.

 

[stanmack]

We have two key defenders playing right now who I rate higher than Chaplin.

 

[x_les_x]

Daniel Stewart/Cameron Hitchcock/BIG D BASS would be more deserving of a spot in that team than Charlie Chaplin.

FTFY

 

[Marmozet]

Seriously, Chaplin was not the worst defender we ever had. Myself, I would have put Paxman and Bishop before him but to listen to some people on this board both he and Mark Williams knew nothing about football. I have heard it said he gave away 3 or 4 goals a game. Do you think Mark Williams would allow someone who did that to be continually selected? He was blamed for a lot of goals he had no chance of stopping or even responsibility for. There were some direct turnovers from his kicks but that happens. And seems to when the whole teams going through a bad patch, which 2011/2012 certainly was.
Similarly he got the same at the ground. There were occasions when the opposition would sweep the ball away from the centre bounce and get it to the full forward, who Chaplin was not even standing, and suddenly it was all his fault that a goal was scored against us. He was actually quite good for us for a long period early in his career. He was taken apart by Steve Johnson in the 2007 GF but who wasn't. If Mark Williams hadn't tried to make him into something he wasn't, a sweeping defender, we could have had something there. A few "un-Port-like" incidents such as his drawing out of a tackle on Luke Power and finally his departure and comments didn't endear him.

But to get back to the choice of defender. Yes, I think Paxman. Kingsley was always a bit to much deer-in-the-headlights to be a deep defender. Possibly he could be placed on Wanganeen's HBF, Wanganeen in the forward pocket and Motlop on the bench. Carlile would be omitted.

Remember that breath-taking first quarter of the Elimination Final, when we all but put the game beyond doubt within 20 minutes? Chaplin could have prevented 3-4 of those goals, but didn't with those spaghetti-arm tackle attempts and going to ground near the goal square.

 

[mic59]

Remember that breath-taking first quarter of the Elimination Final, when we all but put the game beyond doubt within 20 minutes? Chaplin could have prevented 3-4 of those goals, but didn't with those spaghetti-arm tackle attempts and going to ground near the goal square.

There is a huge difference between could and should. Your reaction just serves to prove my point.

 

[tangolikelama]

Chaplin pls... Hombsch has already over taken him in 24 games

 

[finbarr]

Hombsch is already on a whole other level to anything Chaplin ever reached.

 

[tangolikelama]

Hombsch is already on a whole other level to anything Chaplin ever reached.

Yep.. actually i don't understand why there isn't more hype over Hombsch. He is 21 and has played 24 games, what he did to buddy wasn't just a fluke this kid will be something special.

lol GWS just lol

 

[tribey]

Remember that breath-taking first quarter of the Elimination Final, when we all but put the game beyond doubt within 20 minutes? Chaplin could have prevented 3-4 of those goals, but didn't with those spaghetti-arm tackle attempts and going to ground near the goal square.

It was comical how practically every goal in that first quarter avalanche went through him.

The text messages.
"Xavier the Saviour".
The aeroplane.

Got what he deserved.

 

[Marmozet]

There is a huge difference between could and should. Your reaction just serves to prove my point.

He most definitely should have prevented them as well as could have, because his team conceded the first 7 goals of the match in under 20 minutes.

 

[Marmozet]

It was comical how practically every goal in that first quarter avalanche went through him.

The text messages.
"Xavier the Saviour".
The aeroplane.

Got what he deserved.

Hhahaha I loved Ollie's goal in the first quarter

"Wines....Chaplin didn't keep his feet. Wines goals, they've got 6!!! Not 1, not 2,3,4,5. They've got...SIX!" - Bruce

 

[Contested Marx]

I think the Chaplin selection was a decoy to let N.Stevens in.

 

[Powerade 08]

We have two key defenders playing right now who I rate higher than Chaplin.

We have at least 4 - Trengove, Carlile, Hombsch, Jonas

and me personally I'd have Stewart, O'Shea, Schulz, Butcher, Ryder over him too.

 

[Powerstufff]

1999-2014.

FB: T.CHAPLIN D.WAKELIN M.WILSON

HB: G.WANGANEEN C.CORNES B.MONTGOMERY

C: P.BURGOYNE D.CASSISI S.BURGOYNE

HF: R.GRAY* W.TREDREA (c) J.WESTHOFF*

FF: C.WINGARD* J.SCHULZ* D.MOTLOP

RR: M.PRIMUS (vc) K.CORNES* T.BOAK*

INT: B.LADE N.STEVENS J.CARR A.CARLILE*

COACH: MARK WILLIAMS

thoughts?

I think while some might not like to have said their age in 1997 we should at least say if we were old enough to vote. I was, and Paxman isn't there after which point I lost interest.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Chaplin lol

 

[TheFVK]

Divvy