Review R23: The Good, Bad and Ugly vs. Port Adelaide

[Crow_Magnon]

Similar-ish Inside 50’s

Smashed clearances
Smashed in tackles
Smashed in inside 50 tackles, with Port recording an incredible 19 tackles inside 50

ANB and his F50 pressure can’t come quick enough, because we’re just letting the opposition walk out

Laird with 24 disposals and with checks notes a whopping 18 handballs.. I know it was wet but FMD. Terrible work rate, terrible fwd entries…

The combination of Berry, Laird and Soligo got absolutely dominated, only Crouch could hold his head up high there. All 3 lads just seemed unable to get separation, and Berry fumbling constantly was just putting everyone on the outside under pressure..

I actually think a huge difference tonight was Gollant. We were almost playing with one less player on the park with him in the side…

Probably with wet conditions we should have gone with Taylor and Gollant as sub, but everyone on here probably would have melted with Gollant not being put on after his 8 goals


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He was gifted most of those goals last week.....found out big time in the big league.

 

[GreyCrow]

Murphy had his best (LOL) game in what is it, 110 we've gifted him?

2nd time this season he has made 16 disposals

12 in 2023 over 16 and 22 his best
4 in 2022 with 19 again being his best
3 in 2021 with 17 the best
1 in 2020 and that was 16
2 in 2019 with 17 again
0 in 2018

114 games with 22 or 1/5th being 16 disposals or better and 22 his high watermark only once

Thats not even sustainable in a rebuild

 

[GROTTO]

David King - 8 weeks for Houston.

If Port go out in straight sets, he will serve 5 of those weeks with his new club in 2025.

 

[Clayton Lamb]

Wonder what's being said here!

 

[Jcpdragonx]

End of the day

Tonight is the highlight of every Port supporter for 2024.


Deep down they all know it.

Think they have a real shot at making a GF. Lot of fraudlent teams in the 8 this year. Only the Giants and Hawks are in better form.

 

[CrowTownRoad]

Also 8 tackles inside our forward 50 is horrid. We desperately need more speed and pressure to hold the ball in there and force turn overs

 

[Geoffa32]

Murphy

1 disposal in the last qtr....

 

[GreyCrow]

Go thru all the tall forwards on the ground, list their disposals, marks, shots on goal and the score they kicked. Where does Gollant sit in the list? I don't think it will be terrible compared to the others, except the poor conversion of shots, which is what I already said.

RT with 11 Fogarty and Gollant 7 each

Fog 2 goals RT 1 and Gollant 0

 

[jbanger]

Good: Dawson, Worrell, Hinge, TT, Crouch (bonus points for flying the flag after Rankine incident)
Bad: no one belted Houston, Butters or that Rioli flog. Murphy, Keane's brain fades
Ugly: Umpiring, Nicks' lack of tactical nous

 

[GROTTO]

Think they have a real shot at making a GF. Lot of fraudlent teams in the 8 this year. Only the Giants and Hawks are in better form.

Agree this is not wetting the bet stuff either.

All the teams in the 8 are choking in games they should be winning. No team in 2024 has been a clear standout.

Port playing a non-Victorian team in a GF at the G would be a massive advantage for them.

 

[Crow_Magnon]

Wouldnt surprise if there were some bans incoming. I've heard what they say to indigenous crows players

Twitter has something from one of our fans tonight towards Rioli (I won't post it here - but it's pretty bad)....so even we have these deadsh*t supporters apparently.

 

[cleanhands]

Murphy

1 disposal in the last qtr....

Interesting what his stats in the last quarter for the season would be

 

[Brookster]

We weren't the dirtier side. We folded like a deck of cards and went to water.

We played right into their hands after Rankine. We lacked discipline and control. They knew it and fronted us all the more.
We folded/lost our way because we did not know how to handle it all as a team. All this stuff is part of a tough Coaches job. It wasn’t just a minor skirmish/blip and team regroup. No we failed badly after Rankine.

 

[Slippery Pete]

End of the day

Tonight is the highlight of every Port supporter for 2024.


Deep down they all know it.

Wouldn’t be getting ahead of yourself with comments like that.

 

[GROTTO]

David King - 8 weeks for Houston.

Ever since JHF, King tries to tear apart Port at every chance he gets.

He will be leading the campaign for him to get 8+

 

[SugarShane]

If we can get anything Berry, take it and run. Absolutely not up to scratch.

Laird and Smith are such close friends that someone said "If Smith's form jumped off a cliff would yours too?" Just so bad tonight.

If Keane wants to go, let him. He has cost us precious momentum in the past with his tendency to get fired up at the wrong time and let it out in the wrong way. Just dumb.

Seen enough of Gollant. Doesn't have it. Would've rathered concrete hands Himmelberg out there.

I think either way they were probably going to run over us in the end, but hell, there's not much more "Pwadelaide Fooball" than KO'ing your best player. Unfortunately it worked two fold, took him out, and rattled us to the point where we just couldn't regain any composure.

 

[Tex Danger]

David King - 8 weeks for Houston.

Goes harder on head high penalties than anyone

 

[Crow_68]

Twitter has something from one of our fans tonight towards Rioli (I won't post it here - but it's pretty bad)....so even we have these deadsh*t supporters apparently.

Yep, have a copy and it’s disgusting. If he’s a member, life ban.

 

[Slippery Pete]

We played right into their hands after Rankine. We lacked discipline and control. They knew it and fronted us all the more.
We folded/lost our way because we did not know how to handle it all as a team. All this stuff is part of a tough Coaches job. It wasn’t just a minor skirmish/blip and team regroup. No we failed badly after Rankine.

All true but the writing was on the wall prior to that.

When the going gets tough Nicks’ teams are never able to find a pathway to score.

 

[GameofSloanes]

Wonder what's being said here!

'Turn it up Nicksy, there was nothing in it'

 

[xFuzZBaLL]

Looked at the Houston bump in slow motion and he was lining that up from a mile away. Had every intention to hit Rankine. Players were clearly tasked with roughing up Rankine from the beginning of the game

 

[Moonwatcher]

I said on here before our next flag chance wont be till the 2030s.

Takes a decade to draft and develop a premiership squad. We probably started drafting them 2 years ago so 2032 would be an optimistic timeline for contending again.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Because it works against shit teams.

F*ckin’ embarrassing.

I got absolutely piled on recently for criticizing this selfish bastard.

Now everybody sees that I was right.

 

[kirky]

Gives it to the crowd and then proceeds to do nothing for two and a half quarters, as his team goes under.

Yeah, this bloke really walks the walk.

Selfish pr*ck.

Ok, we get it, you don’t like Rachele.

Believe or not, he is the least of our problems.

 

[GameofSloanes]

All true but the writing was on the wall prior to that.

When the going gets tough Nicks’ teams are never able to find a pathway to score.

We'd have 9 of the previous 11 inside 50s before that and 3 scoring shots to zero for the quarter. And were 2 goals up. Was 5.3 to 0.1 for the 30 minutes after it happened when we completely lost our minds