Review R15: Port v Brisbane Review

[Northalives]

I reckon Brett Ebert would be the best player to have as a sub.

 

[BigBroMike]

The sub was probably pre-conceived but the coaching panel should use more instinctiveness when they think of using the sub. They should've realized Moore was having a purple match and left him on the ground. Don't use the sub. Or if they had to use the sub why couldn't they use it to take someone else like daniel 'no impact' stewart off the field? The answers probably lies within 'structures' or whatever, which brings me back to my original point of not using the sub!
I don't see the club winning a game for the rest of the season at this rate. Looking towards the future the club should sack Laidley, Rhode and Cripps.

 

[Pedro59]

Maybe the sub should be viewed as our weakest link he he..ie someone we can hide and only bring out if we have to for injury no 3 or something..but preferably just the last 60 seconds

..I dunno but our subs aint really done much

for an impact type sub I would have thought of Rodan

 

[swanriver]

Phillips: Probably the best game he's played for the club. Only fumbled once that I can remember, kicked a nice clean goal and got a fair bit of the ball.

Unfortuantely dislocated shoulder very upset in the rooms after the game

 

[WHOME]

A few things:
Dean Brogan should get 1 farewell game and that's it, Lobbe is showing enough to ensure that happens.
Agree with previous comments on Troy Chaplin, we will NEVER be a decent side while we have a key defender that can only sleep with the light on. Continually talks the talk but refuses to walk the walk. SOFT.
Jacobs should get back to the SANFL and learn to hit a target.
For the good of both Kane Cornes and the PAFC he should be traded to a club that can use and appreciate his abilities - because we do neither.
Matt Thomas is a good/ordinary SANFL footballer, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I must admit I dont always agree with Northa on Chaplin but he is dead right this week. He was just soft when we needed him most. Since Brogan is now effectively a coach I think he should be the one to eyeball him and give him a good dressing down in fron of the whole team.

I think the calls on Trengove have been very harsh. I thought he did a good job on Brown who is after all a very good player and was unlucky to give away a few pretty soft free kicks. The one right in front of goal where Brown initiated the holding then got a free was a prime example.

Lobbe was superb. A real shining light today and thought it was Hartlett's best game in a while.

Well done Jay Shulz.

 

[Power Raid]

Looking towards the future the club should sack Laidley, Rhode and Cripps.

This is a wise man! Good call BigBroMike

 

[FishingRick04]

This is a wise man! Good call BigBroMike

I was asking for the last two sacked last year and I wad getting bashed good to. See people getting on the wagon lol

 

[Waspy79]

I didn't see the game due to other committments but to me the result affirms in my mind that we are the worst team in the league.

Gold Coast beat us, and beat Brisbane and now Brisbane has beaten us.

Is there any point tapeing the replay on foxsports?

 

[D_One]

And once again, this ever predictable Port Adelaide group loses the match thanks to a ridiculous error. We had all the momentum, were well on top in general play until Brett Ebert drops a simple chest mark and Kane Cornes follows up trying a pin point pass with a degree of difficulty of about 210%, turns it over and they goal. Then they goal again. Then they goal again. This happens with such regularity, you really need to put into question just what would make this playing group stick to task for more than 10 minutes at a time.

Yep this was the turning point. That and Chaplin's half arsed attempt to spoil Luke Power.

We had a lot of kids make some really poor decisions ... but the mistakes by the senior players hurt us big time.

 

[DonDraper]

Thought Hartlett was fantastic today, as was Jay obviously. I genuinely thought when we were 20 points up today that we were going to go on with it. Then Kane got subbed on. Then Ebert dropped that mark. Game over.

I actually thought Trengove did alright. 3/4 of Brown's goals were from outside 50 correct? Thought Browny had his measure when pushing up the ground but inside 50 Jackson did alright, and was able to force a contest and at times win that contest. Would like to see him have a crack at Riewoldt on Sunday.

 

[GinnyT]

Chaplins headline this week could be "I"ll Halt Riewolt". Seriously the bloke wouldnt put a dent in a kitchener bun!

 

[brogan2motlop]

We smashed them in the clearance in the first quarter and ended up only leading by 1 point...

We are unfixable

 

[JMint]

Still jagged. This rebuild will take longer than the Le Cornu site.

But that site is still ... ahhh never mind !

 

[Honeyboy Wilson]

Our players are weak and scared and do not want to put in any effort. They ALWAYS take the easy option and do the absolute BARE MINIMUM required in any given situation. It's as simple as that. I don't think the coaches have done anything to stop this either. They look just as disinterested as the players do.

Some glaring examples:

O'Shea grabs the ball, running back towards towards the opposition goal, plenty of time, surrounded by Port players... and he takes what he thinks is the easy option by rushing a behind.

Late in the fourth quarter, Danyle Pearce roves the ball off a pack near the boundary. Although he has plenty of space to keep running, wheel around on to his left and deliver it into the forward 50, he merely jogs it over the boundary line. Not 2 minutes later, he does the EXACT SAME THING, only this time he's pinged for deliberate out of bounds.

It's disgusting to watch. Absolutely disgusting.

 

[manureid]

Actually thought Trengove was pretty good on Brown. Hell, if either of the 'marshmallow' brothers (Chappy/Bobby) had been on him he would have kicked a BAG!

As for other turning points, Ebert was an obvious one, but Chaplin had 2 in the last. The obvious one where he was scared he might run into the post if he touched the ball, but another in the middle where he either could not or would not bend over to pick the ball up and let the Lions player gather and go forward and score had me eyeing off the aerodynamics of my remote control!

 

[El_Scorcho]

I liked Trengove's game as well. Brown is an experienced campaigner and knows how to draw free kicks. For Trengove, who was giving up a fair bit of strength to man him as well as he did was admirable. These are the kinds of jobs we need to give him. Let him learn from playing against the best.

 

[wallumi]

Our players are weak and scared and do not want to put in any effort. They ALWAYS take the easy option and do the absolute BARE MINIMUM required in any given situation.

Late in the fourth quarter, Danyle Pearce roves the ball off a pack near the boundary. Although he has plenty of space to keep running, wheel around on to his left and deliver it into the forward 50, he merely jogs it over the boundary line. Not 2 minutes later, he does the EXACT SAME THING, only this time he's pinged for deliberate out of bounds.

It's disgusting to watch. Absolutely disgusting.

This.
When Danyle got pinged the second time he presented the perfect cameo of all that is wrong with the club - no desire, no ambition, no effort!
The team was behind at that point and had to remain behind if taking the ball out of bounds was the option of choice.

Imagine Peter Burgoyne, at any time of his career, with the ball ahead of him and a couple of metres break. What are the odds he'd take the ball out? Simply non-existant.

 

[SupportMe]

Actually thought Trengove was pretty good on Brown. Hell, if either of the 'marshmallow' brothers (Chappy/Bobby) had been on him he would have kicked a BAG!

As for other turning points, Ebert was an obvious one, but Chaplin had 2 in the last. The obvious one where he was scared he might run into the post if he touched the ball, but another in the middle where he either could not or would not bend over to pick the ball up and let the Lions player gather and go forward and score had me eyeing off the aerodynamics of my remote control!

I believe my words at the time were "PICK UP THE F****** BALL!!!"

Similar words came out when Matt Thomas stood there claiming a mark 40 from goal.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Similar words came out when Matt Thomas stood there claiming a mark 40 from goal.

Another Mr. Bean fresh off of the mothership moment from Thomas. I'd probably be red-carded if I posted what I was screaming at the TV at that point.

 

[S.Patrol.G]

This.
When Danyle got pinged the second time he presented the perfect cameo of all that is wrong with the club - no desire, no ambition, no effort!
The team was behind at that point and had to remain behind if taking the ball out of bounds was the option of choice.

Imagine Peter Burgoyne, at any time of his career, with the ball ahead of him and a couple of metres break. What are the odds he'd take the ball out? Simply non-existant.

Kardinia Park. 2007. Wouldn't have won that game if he'd taken it out.

 

[tribey]

Another Mr. Bean fresh off of the mothership moment from Thomas. I'd probably be red-carded if I posted what I was screaming at the TV at that point.

Especially given he had time to go to the carnival with a found baby, throw a turd of a New Year's party, go to the beach and painstakingly change into his bathers without getting naked in front of a blind man and turn around and have an uncontested shot for goal in the time he stood there like a mannequin waiting for a whistle that never came.

 

[Hellgood]

I now remember a piece of play in the second quarter where Rodan sharked the ball dashed out of the pack through the centre of the ground with big Leuenberger on his tail, our players just assumed he would break away, but he couldn't and the kick he got away was ineffective. I think I remember Pearce running alongside him waiting for the handball rather than getting in Leuenberger's path allowing Rodan to kick the ball deep inside 50. Just sums us up at the moment.

 

[tribey]

^There was a similar moment in the 3rd quarter(?) when we had the run of play and a 3-4 goal lead and we won the ball in the centre of the ground with Dom flanked by Boak and another, and instead of circumventing the one Brisbane player in their path with a handball to a teammate, Dom kicked one of his mongrels straight into him resulting in a turnover and goal.

Our poise in close has plummetted from the Lade2Burgoyne days.

 

[Powerade 08]

Especially given he had time to go to the carnival with a found baby, throw a turd of a New Year's party, go to the beach and painstakingly change into his bathers without getting naked in front of a blind man and turn around and have an uncontested shot for goal in the time he stood there like a mannequin waiting for a whistle that never came.

lol, bit harsh though I reckon most players would have done the same thing. Only someone like S.Burgoyne would have had the poise to get out of that mess.

I now remember a piece of play in the second quarter where Rodan sharked the ball dashed out of the pack through the centre of the ground with big Leuenberger on his tail, our players just assumed he would break away, but he couldn't and the kick he got away was ineffective. I think I remember Pearce running alongside him waiting for the handball rather than getting in Leuenberger's path allowing Rodan to kick the ball deep inside 50. Just sums us up at the moment.

Nah, pretty sure Pearce wasn't even in a position for a handball, just jogging with a Brisbane player next to him. Wasn't switched on.