Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 16

[robbo1981]

Huh?

Grimes plays as a lock-down defender!

Better of Cameron

 

[philreich]

Normally I would say yes but I got some money riding on a west coast win.
Magpies are a very average team mate lucky to make the 8.

You got that right - the Pies got smashed by 10 goals by MELBOURNE. How embarrassment.

 

[finbarr]

I’m not sure why Fox Footy don’t just do a call independent of 7...

It really baffles me too. Fox League do game calls independent of Channel 9, even the grand final, which they aren't allowed to screen live.

 

[PatientMental]

I’m not sure why Fox Footy don’t just do a call independent of 7...

Because contracts are a thing.

 

[LeoMessi]

The only bearable commentator on 7 is Daisy Pearce. She has regularly called things as she has seen them without the VFL glasses on.

 

[LeoMessi]

Offficial VFL website refuses to accept it still...

 

[Footy Matt]

Hopefully Saints can get the job done today. They match up much better against Richmond than the Dogs do and even beat them earlier in the year.

Not sure why the Dogs are such heavy favourites in what is popularly considered a 50/50 game? Bookies must know something we don’t.

 

[RossFC]

Hopefully Saints can get the job done today. They match up much better against Richmond than the Dogs do and even beat them earlier in the year.

Not sure why the Dogs are such heavy favourites in what is generally considered a 50/50 game? Bookies must know something we don’t.

Would be pretty neat to play (and beat) the St Kilda and Brisbane. 04 journey + it would mean we've beaten everyone to get the flag.

 

[philreich]

Would be pretty neat to play (and beat) the St Kilda and Brisbane. 04 journey + it would mean we've beaten everyone to get the flag.

And if we do play the Saints, surely they'll miss some goals this time - their accuracy last time was insane.

 

[Granny Duurs is Lovely]

It looked like Martin of the dusty variety had brought his own footy for the for the 1st qtr and half of that game, but for some reason he just disappeared about 7 or 8 minutes before half time and he was never a real factor after that.
I couldn't see if he was tagged out of it, spent too much time on the bench, copped an injury, or a combination of all 3, but his influence definitely waned when the game was on the line and the commentators gave us 3 parts of sfa as to what had happened to change that.

One thing for sure though is any team will struggle to beat brisvegas, particularly up there if their main method of attack is to bang the ball in high to a pack, and we have often been guilty of doing just that.

Any team that plays them must put their defence under pressure with the marking forwards getting separation, and if we do make it to a gf against them and go crazy banging it high to Charlie, he will need to have a huge game or it could just play into their hands.

A large theme of the best teams this year has been secondary midfield rotations. Clubs like Geelong and Richmond that rely on their best player dominating forward and in the midfield have really been found out.

There was a great analysis last night on Fox showing that after Stanley kicked his second goal to give the cats life their centre bounce was Stanley, Duncan, Atkins and Dahlhaus who got pantsed by Lycett, rockliff, Wines and SPP and led to an instant reply.

It's ridiculous to think that this year our second midfield rotation includes Gray, SPP, Butters, Rozee and Ebert for when Rocky, Wines or Boak aren't in there. This is where we beat teams and why we can win games in short bursts - our second midfield is so nuch better than the oppositions that we just wear them down and can score heavily when they're too tired to match us.

 

[70sDinosaur]

Surprised that they wouldn't nominate the Gabba to get more experience on the GF venue.

Maybe Gillon told them they're not playing in the GF this year.

 

[Waspy79]

Offficial VFL website refuses to accept it still...

I prefer this version

 

[Dav]

****, why does this board hate Fagan so much?

 

[_VXV]

And if we do play the Saints, surely they'll miss some goals this time - their accuracy last time was insane.

They’ll never score like that again for as long as they exist.

 

[70sDinosaur]

fu**, why does this board hate Fagan so much?

Which one?

The Adelaide one, the Brisbane one or the Charles Dickens one?

 

[TheFVK]

Mathematically, it would be like 24. The game is 20% shorter.

20% of 20 is 4.

25 to be exact.. 20 ÷ 0.8 = 25

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

The AFL's strong ratings results have continued into the finals with Friday night's qualifying final comfortably eclipsing the NRL final it went head-to-head with.

Almost 950,000 people in Australian capital cities watched the Brisbane Lions defeat Richmond on free-to-air, compared with just under 445,000 for the Penrith v Sydney NRL qualifying final.

 

[finbarr]

I want St Kilda to win this game, then i want them to beat Richmond and meet us in a Preliminary Final. I like the symmetry of Port beating Geelong, St Kilda and Brisbane, the only teams we couldn't beat in the minor round, to win the premiership.

 

[tangolikelama]

Carn the Saints

 

[backtozero]

I reckon the Saints have been sucked off by the umpiring fraternity all year. Interested to see if that continues against the Bravedogs.

 

[Marmozet]

I prefer this version

Mine had us winning 143-81

 

[Marat]

Who thinks he's revving a motorbike?

I’m an innocent - if he is not revving a motorbike what is he doing...

 

[Marmozet]

I want St Kilda to win this game, then i want them to beat Richmond and meet us in a Preliminary Final. I like the symmetry of Port beating Geelong, St Kilda and Brisbane, the only teams we couldn't beat in the minor round, to win the premiership.

And it’s the exact same as the 2004 finals.

 

[ibd77]

I reckon the Saints have been sucked off by the umpiring fraternity all year. Interested to see if that continues against the Bravedogs.

The umpires would be deeply conflicted in this match. Both clubs give great umpire gobbies.

 

[240volt]

I reckon the Saints have been sucked off by the umpiring fraternity all year. Interested to see if that continues against the Bravedogs.

Gee it be something special for freekickbullfrogs to lose the free kick count.