Game Day Port v Sydney Round 13 2014

[Ford Fairlane]

Port Adelaide v Sydney @ SCG, Round 13 2014, 1.40pm (SA time)



Weather: 18 degrees, cloudy. Areas of rain clearing in the morning. Scattered showers and the chance of thunderstorms during this afternoon and evening. Light winds becoming westerly 15 to 20 km/h in the late evening.

Teams
PORT ADELAIDE
B: Hombsch Carlile Impey
HB: Broadbent Trengove Pittard
C: Monfries Boak Cornes
HF: Hartlett Westhoff White
F: R Gray Schulz Wingard
FOLL: Lobbe Wines Ebert
I/C: Young Mitchell Jonas Cassisi
EMG: Neade S Gray Newton
IN: Monfries White Boak
OUT: S Gray Polec (ankle) Newton

SYDNEY
B: Rampe T Richards Smith
HB: Malceski Grundy Shaw
C: Jetta Kennedy K Jack
HF: McVeigh Reid Parker
F: Cunningham Franklin Goodes
FOLL: Pyke Hannebery Bird
I/C: Derickx B Jack Laidler Lloyd
EMG: Jones Membrey Rohan
IN: Pyke B Jack
OUT: McGlynn (hand) Tippett (knee)

Record v Swans
P22 W7 L15

LAST FIVE TIMES
R13, 2013, Port Adelaide 10.12 (72) d Sydney Swans 8.6 (54) at AAMI Stadium
R3, 2012, Sydney Swans 16.9 (105) d Port Adelaide 12.11 (83) at AAMI Stadium
R8, 2011, Sydney Swans 18.13 (121) d Port Adelaide 9.5 (59) at the SCG
R12, 2010, Sydney Swans 14.9 (93) d Port Adelaide 8.7 (55) at AAMI Stadium
R9, 2009, Sydney Swans 18.15 (123) d Port Adelaide 10.8 (68) at the SCG

A song
Get into that Sydney forward line and give me money!

 

[TheArtfulTodger]

Still raining, but not heavy. Should clear up before the game.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Still raining in Sydney - to our advantage.

 

[Ant Bear]

We're not favorites, but an upset is on the cards. $ydney have lost to teams who attack the contest hard in North, Collingwood and even GWS brought intensity against them. We have shown that we are amongst the fiercest teams in the comp and I hope it rattles them.

 

[Turiyasangitananda]

Side note, how much does Jared's kicking style resemble Johnny Butcher's? Potential kicking coach perhaps?

 

[Jello_B]

Today is going to be the best game this year. Cannot wait!
Port by less than 2 goals.

 

[Changaneen]

Couldnt sleep last night, been up since 5. CMON THA PEAR !!!!

 

[hazard]

Went on a pub crawl last night. As a girl was leaving mine this morning I asked if she's going to watch the game today. "Who's playing?" she said.

I've made a huge mistake...

 

[tangolikelama]

Port by 52. srs

 

[Ant Bear]

Went on a pub crawl last night. As a girl was leaving mine this morning I asked if she's going to watch the game today. "Who's playing?" she said.

I've made a huge mistake...

No you haven't. Marrying her would be a huge mistake

 

[hazard]

No you haven't. Marrying her would be a huge mistake

If she's pregnant I'm calling the kid "Kern". Even if it's a girl.

 

[philreich]

Bring it on - this will be a classic.

 

[Ant Bear]

If she's pregnant I'm calling the kid "Kern". Even if it's a girl.

Don't think of it as a mistake. It is an opportunity to convert a new membership. Consider yourself a missionary.

 

[Chrizzt]

Sydney have fallen apart in the rain recently, so rain should advantage us.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Toots Hibbert would have welcomed Natman onto the Lobbe Lounge, watched the Netherlands destroy Spain 5-1 then declared that's half the job done this weekend.

 

[Kingfish73]

Pumped but my son attending birthday party at 3!!! Wife says my turn as just back from boys lord howe jigging trip on the kings!!

 

[jordz82]

Mrs. Jordz82 is going to a baby shower so just me and the tv have a lunch date. Carn the pear!

 

[PJ Power]

Anyone see David King's preview analysis in the Sun today? Read the print version only. Talks up our luck with the fixture and the injuries of Hawthorn, Freo and Geelong and how we flirted with form against Melbourne and the Saints. Pays credit to our momentum breaking strategies - Hinkley's double green light - and outside run, but then talks up Sydney's ground ball play and contested stuff. Very much talks it up as inside vs outside

 

[Ford Fairlane]

David King's opinion is as disposable as Rucci's. Puffed up master of cliché, runs with the foxes and hunts with the hounds.

Anyone who underrates our contested football under Ken Hinkley has been busy pulling fluff out of their navel during our games instead of watching the match.

Hard ball teams like Freo, Hawthorn and Geelong are counting the bruises still that we handed out to them.

 

[ClintEastwood]

Pumped but my son attending birthday party at 3!!! Wife says my turn as just back from boys lord howe jigging trip on the kings!!

Priorities.

 

[carlfromport]

Is it safe to to say Boak is playing?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Quiet in the match day thread ... too many busy chewing fingernails instead of typing?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Is it safe to to say Boak is playing?

Final teams not released yet but AA commentators at the ground think we will line up as named.

 

[jordz82]

Quiet in the match day thread ... too many busy chewing fingernails instead of typing?

If we get a flying start our lips will loosen

 

[Ford Fairlane]

In that 2 point win in 2002 we trailed at half time 6.8 to 4.7, then had a 6 goal to 3 third quarter to take the three quarter time lead.

Noticed the commentators saying Port looked at their best when they ran and attacked. It's only when we go static on that ground that we struggle. Ken's gameplan will be use our run and attack with pace.