R2: Port v Sydney review

[DazzaTys]

Those people leaving early were a disgrace. What bandwagoners. They make me rock up at 5 so I can get a decent seat, then a heap of them left with 15mins left

Yeah it was disgusting. It got pretty ugly for a while in bay 123 with people leaving.

 

[rogerjames]

We flirted with form in the pre-season. Nicksy as head coach was a bit too cute i reckon. We should've been going full gas with the start we had, and now we are being found out.

Very tough to win a Premiership without a genuine key forward. Unfortunately we don't have one (hey - not many do). We look very much the 5-6 side we finished the minor round as last year. Never did understand why people had us as Premiership favorites...

Agree re key forward. Roughie has average day we were into a GF. Our forward line has looked non-existent in 5 games now. Midfield is badly out of form. We looked so slow against Swans it took me by surprise

 

[*PAF]

Our forward line is fine if not top notch. Schulz is our main KPF and whilst he may not be a Franklin or Walker he is certainly in the next group. Most teams would love to have Ryder and Westhoff as their 2nd and 3rd KPFs. Some would even give their lefties for that.
Once you add Wingard and Gray f me. How can that not be considered to be half decent is beyond me.
For that matter so too are our backline and midfield.

The ruck is and has been our Achilles heel for a while. As Ford and many others have said we could have done with a minimum of a break glass in emergency player.

IMO the Sydney game is being over analysed. Broadbent didnt provide any of his usual drive from the backline as he was on one leg from very early in the game, and it even looked as if he was going to be subbed out just as Impey did a hammy. We took a risk with Redden and no doubt the plan was to only play him for 2 1/2 to 3 quarters max but he had to play the whole game as we used our sub in the first quarter.

We lost. We regroup, come up with a plan C if needed and move on.
The team is not shit, the coaching group is not shit and as a minimum we will be in the top half of the competition for a number of years to come.

 

[FishingRick04]

http://www.portfanradio.com.au/port-v-sydney-review/

"So the power has completed round 2 and its first home game of the season. How did it start?"

http://www.portfanradio.com.au/port-v-sydney-review/

 

[Zakk Wylde]

I got there at 3:15 too one of the first in line & I nearly lost my seat because a Swan supporter troll in a wheelchair rocked up 5 minutes before the bounce with his carer, loved his 'banter' about how we choked in a GF the guy obviously must have a selective memory.

The increase in reserved seats has sure made it a little trickier to find a decent seat, going to have to get there pretty early for the big matches to avoid missing out at all as the unreserved section filled up really quick.

Should've punched the dude in the chair in the head.

 

[bringbackbucky]

Double up games against Sydney, Freo, Crows and Hawks. Going to be very tough to make top 4...

 

[MrMeaner]

When Lobbe comes back a lot of this will be forgotten. But until then we simply must stop the dam from bursting at all costs. An extra big body blocking and bullocking at stoppages (Andrew Moore) would also be a big help.

The thing with Lobbe, is you get a ruck and that extra bullocking big body.

 

[Trewth]

I've seen enough miraculous Buddy Franklin goals live to last me a lifetime.

 

[Stryke]

That new blonde headed Mick Fanning dude looks like a 7th year player.

WTF

 

[Pedro59]

But how.
That was built around one less tall and one more runner. We want to play an extra tall in Ryder plus we lost Impey and you could say Broadbent as well. Sydney had numbers back and when we bombed it they just bounced straight back.

I think the problem is cetrainly winning the clearances effectively and then that play on at all costs BEFORE the forward entry

it seems this year we are being too cute ( and painstakingly slow) with the transitions after the clearance and before the forward entry

If the bombers played that way they wouldn't have caught up and overtaken similar how we done it last year

Even miliseconds seem to give enough time for the opposition to flow back

Yes we can't just bomb it down there -but if we "bomb it down there' faster ( like essendon against the Hawks and us in the prelim ) the odds will chgange drmataically that a Gray, Wingard, Shultzy, monfries or westy will get too it

OR....get possession and slow down and count to three whilst kicking perfect little chippys ...and then the opportunity to bomb long is gone

 

[Changaneen]

Those people leaving early were a disgrace. What bandwagoners. They make me rock up at 5 so I can get a decent seat, then a heap of them left with 15mins left

Disgrace.

 

[edgie]

You swap our front 6 with Hawthorns, we would be marginally better, but they would be would same. They just have a better system, better structure.

Agree re key forward. Roughie has average day we were into a GF. Our forward line has looked non-existent in 5 games now. Midfield is badly out of form. We looked so slow against Swans it took me by surprise

Bloody Roughead, choosing to play his first dominant final against us after years of mediocre.

 

[Janey]

I've seen enough miraculous Buddy Franklin goals live to last me a lifetime.

Right In Front Of Me!

 

[RUNVS]

That new blonde headed Mick Fanning dude looks like a 7th year player.

WTF

Isaac Heeney?

 

[manureid]

My son proclaimed halfway through the third qtr after another swans goal, 'that's it, I am done' lol. Made the poor bugger wait until the final siren, but did leg it once it went!

 

[*PAF]

I think the problem is cetrainly winning the clearances effectively and then that play on at all costs BEFORE the forward entry

it seems this year we are being too cute ( and painstakingly slow) with the transitions after the clearance and before the forward entry

If the bombers played that way they wouldn't have caught up and overtaken similar how we done it last year

Even miliseconds seem to give enough time for the opposition to flow back

Yes we can't just bomb it down there -but if we "bomb it down there' faster ( like essendon against the Hawks and us in the prelim ) the odds will chgange drmataically that a Gray, Wingard, Shultzy, monfries or westy will get too it

OR....get possession and slow down and count to three whilst kicking perfect little chippys ...and then the opportunity to bomb long is gone

Yeah but first we need to win clearances. Not sure that was happening IIRC Redden had 0 HO at half time and we got smashed by the Freo rucks.
Anyway both game are in the past.

 

[bringbackbucky]

I've got no problem with people leaving early**. You pay your money. Stay for as much or as little as you like. Never understood why anyone is interested as to who stays and who leaves. Every single club has supporters who like to beat the rush, yet the tv crews hiughlight them like its not something that happens every week, at every sporting event in the world. Get over it I say.

**I've never done it. Prefer to beat the rush by having 15 beers somewhere.

 

[manureid]

Also, some people leave when we are winning. Seemed a few older people in my area, and it could be they do that every game no matter what to avoid the bridge crush.

 

[finbarr]

That bridge is ****ing nuts after a game.

 

[finbarr]

And those escalators in the Riverbank Stand. The One-Way Southern Expressway of escalators that is.

 

[manureid]

That bridge is ******* nuts after a game.

Absolutely. Can understand older patrons leaving 5 minutes early if the game is over either way to avoid it.

 

[tribey]

That bridge is ******* nuts after a game.

Especially with an array of gawkers milling around at its mouth, seemingly enthralled by the most submediocre buskers known to man.

 

[RossFC]

That new blonde headed Mick Fanning dude looks like a 7th year player.

WTF

Sydney needs 2 legs up on the comp. COLA & Academy selections.

 

[finbarr]

Especially with an array of gawkers milling around at its mouth, seemingly enthralled by the most submediocre buskers known to man.

They're probably SANFL buskers too.

"I don't take coins, only notes".

 

[Zakk Wylde]

That bridge is ******* nuts after a game.

Yep - Only reason I left early was to get an incubating Mrs Wylde across that thing with the least amount of chaos as possible.