Review R1: Port v St kilda Review

[BIG BILLY F]

I have burnt my membership.....




To the pittard haters club

 

[PepeSilvia]

Was that not the most valued bet ever?

Hugely grateful to you for posting the tip!

 

[Portia]

I think star player from home today was the player numbers, there wasn't a single time that I couldn't immediately tell which was the Port player and who they were from that alone.

Petition to bring back those numbers full time

 

[hazard]

ROBBIE ******* GRAY I WILL SUCK YOUR DICK

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Brilliant

 

[Power Girl]

Neadey was a ****en corker btw

Why is he he our only player who is hungry all game and the only guy who can make a friggen tackle stick

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Pittard is becoming the intercept marker we have missed for years

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[tim cotrill]

I can see a lot of teams not handling the 90 cap...saints got absolutely destroyed in the last quarter.

also I loved BIG DIX he struggled holding the ball on a few occasions but holy shit! I can't wait to see him in more games.

 

[raman]

Easy game to review. We played an insanely high risk forward press for the first 3/4 and St. Kilda were good enough to punish a very high percentage of our mistakes.

In the last quarter we turned off the kamikaze and our defenders actually played on or behind their forwards.

Also, fitness.

 

[hazard]

Voice is hoarse from yelling and booing and cheering but **** I love having footy back

 

[AlbertonBloke]

I was disappointed with Dixon when things weren't going his way and then he really stepped up and imposed himself on the game. I thought Pittard played one of his best games for us. Hombsch is going to be one of the all time great defenders. Our midfield seemed to disappear at times and looked hesitant during ball ups due to our inability to win the hitouts. And the usual suspects of R Gray and Wingard were outstanding and looked a class above.

 

[SilenceOz]

I'm happy with the 440 I made

 

[Dylan8]

Jasper has turned into an absolute bully of a player. 2013 at the Etihad, he gets thrown to the ground by Riewoldt resulting in a bit of jumper punching by Boak and Nick. 2016 at the Adelaide Oval, Jasper just runs through Nick Riewoldt as if he was a small child.

Sam Gray is a very impressive footballer which will take me several years to get my head around. He's not had a bad game since the first half of 2015. His one gear is elite.

Dixon's inaccuracy could have really cost us - actually, it did, as twice his misses resulted in end to end goals. Obviously not all his fault, but it shows how important an accurate shot at goal is.

Rob and Chad are just top of the line footballers. Their performances will make or break out games this year.

Broady good. Westhoff good.

Lobbe bad, bad man. Like, stand out bad. Our defense as a whole was awful for a long time too.

 

[Kickpuncher]

Dixon is a freak of nature.

 

[Smithy7]

PORT ADELAIDE 4.1 9.2 13.9 20.13 (133)
ST KILDA 4.4 9.8 14.9 15.10 (100)

GOALS
Port Adelaide: R.Gray 4, Ebert 3, Wingard 3, Dixon 3, Westhoff 2, Boak, Broadbent, Schulz, Wines, Ah Chee
St Kilda: Lonie 3, Weller 2, Bruce 2, Riewoldt 2, Gresham, Steven, Gilbert, Newnes, Acres, Armitage

BEST
Port Adelaide: R.Gray, Wingard, Hartlett, Ebert, Westhoff, S.Gray
St Kilda: Steven, Armitage, Hickey, Ross, Weller, Fisher, Newnes

INJURIES
Port Adelaide: White (pectoral)
St Kilda: Dempster (head)

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Don't think we can ignore that silly press we did for the first 3 quarters. Never seen so many over the back goals in an AFL game, ever. And this is against a side that isn't known for their ball use.

 

[raman]

Also when assessing Dixon's performance it's important to remember that this is the first meaningful AFL game he's played in.

 

[hazard]

Dixon taking great marks but some poor shots on goal. We have another key forward like that!

 

[FallingLiefs]

we had a lot of nervous players out there early today. Game wore on and we worked into it.

Dixon easily the most nervous .

 

[*PAF]

Turns out Dixon doesn't get shorter as the game goes on

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Was the case when there were subs and no interchange and will make somewhat of a comeback now with reduced number of interchanges.

 

[Portia]

Easy game to review. We played an insanely high risk forward press for the first 3/4 and St. Kilda were good enough to punish a very high percentage of our mistakes.

In the last quarter we turned off the kamikaze and our defenders actually played on or behind their forwards.

Also, fitness.

Hmmmmmmmmm no I don't agree that its a bad thing. We observed in preseason that with reduced rotation, whoever scores big early can be hard to claw back for fitness reasons, so playing a forward press is not insane in itself.

Its a bit like what happened in one-day cricket where the traditional view of being conservative early in the order was flipped on its head (I think by Sri Lanka?), when the top batsman started off slogging and taking chances to set up the game, where in test the early order were there to bat much more defensively.

As a rule we need to be super risk tasking early, then we can get conservative when we are asserting control.

 

[Andy_B]

less turnovers in the first qtr should help confidence.

turnovers are like quick sand.

the more turnovers you make the more you second guess yourself. the more you second guess the more turnovers you make.

 

[BIG BILLY F]

5 goals they scored by really bad turnovers....then the rest by our bulls*** set up allowing easy goals out the back...

Thinking about it our backline was good....did saints score any goals from a mark inside 50....i cant remember....or just even a conventional beating us one on one

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Dixon's first 3 quarters felt like a more consistent John Butcher, in that he did mostly everything right, clearly had an impact in contests but the finish wasn't here.

But Far Kern, he needs to kick those goals.

 

[Concussion]

Jasper bog

Starts thread, doesn't read thread.

 

[glitch01]

Can I just say that if ever Telstra or the AFL offer Livepass for free, knock it back. It ain't worth it, I spent all game trying to sort players by blocky beard textures and non-blocky beard textures, and the Peter Burgoyne shaped Wingard head

Interesting - the video for the International feed was good. Obviously Telstra maintain their low standards for their captive Australian audience.