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Looked so competitive in the first game against Adelaide, then injuries and suspensions robbed us of momentum (plus Ewings going backwards) and the season fell apart with close losses. Sadly too much unwatchable football hurt us.
Hoping for a big finish to the season at home and some clear headed decision making on and off field.
Need to nail our off-season recruiting, at least one tall defender would be handy. The good teams all seem to have at least a couple of big strong mobile talls working around the ground.
I still think the Adelaide game showed signs of progress but injury and suspension and lack of depth hurt us, as it would such a new team. Scholz and Saint were strong additions but we didn't add a real immediate game breaker. Scholz should be a star though.
We need midfielders. None of our midfielders would get a game at any of the top teams. Dowrick is the only half decent one we have and even she is blue collar.
We won't get any though because there's no reason for anyone to come play for us unless they have no other option.
We’re favourites to win this
GWS are a better team than us but given they're missing Alyce Parker (their best player) and it's at Alberton there's probably the thought that we're a chance. But still, 2 wins from 19 doesn't inspire too much confidence lol.
All good reasons why we should have gone with an experienced coach and if you haven’t got the ability even more reason to set higher standards with fitness etc.The cold hard fact is that we have access to the smallest talent pool of any team with limited ability to attract established talent. It's going to take a long, long time to get this thing off the ground (you can thank our amazing board and management team for that, by the way).
Imagine if you started the AFL competition today and slowly introduced teams over the years. Imagine if we were the last team introduced. Imagine if we were then asked to build our list from scratch and the only way to build the list was to a) take young and raw SA players from the draft, b) take rejects that none of the other 17 clubs wanted and c) use a relatively small salary cap to attract a handful of players from other teams who happened to be Port supporters and have a connection to the club (Phillips, Saint, Houghton). It would be a complete disaster and you wouldn't hold out much hope of it improving quickly.
I'm sure we can do better than we've been doing but until this competition turns fully professional and the draft becomes a national based one we are effectively operating with both hands tied behind our backs.
Lets see if the W team have inherited the Hinkley FC culture of shitting the bed in tribute gamesWith Erin playing her last game, there’s absolutely no excuse. We should not be losing this game under any circumstance!
Maybe I e missed the conversation but Ewings going backwards has to have something to do with the condition she showed up in at the preseason. She didn’t look fit.Looked so competitive in the first game against Adelaide, then injuries and suspensions robbed us of momentum (plus Ewings going backwards) and the season fell apart with close losses. Sadly too much unwatchable football hurt us.
Hoping for a big finish to the season at home and some clear headed decision making on and off field.
Maybe I e missed the conversation but Ewings going backwards has to have something to do with the condition she showed up in at the preseason. She didn’t look fit.
Missed the two games.Ewings could've gotten herself fitter in half the season but didn't. An attitude problem on her behalf. However she was allowed to play and only given the ol Hinkley one game omission, so we also have a latitude problem too at the club.
All good reasons why we should have gone with an experienced coach and if you haven’t got the ability even more reason to set higher standards with fitness etc.