Review Rd 10 Port vs Collingwood

[edgie]

Just because you want it to happen doesn't mean the opposition are going to roll over.
Collingwood were fired up from the first bounce yesterday and it was apparent with Grundy's goal celebration that they'd come to play.
There's zero evidence that any side would have beat them by 10 goals. It hasn't happened all year.

EVERY team is fired up for us.

North, St Kilda, Adelaide, Collingwood...

It's getting old.

Maybe they fire up for us cause they fancy they have a sniff? Because we always let everyone have a sniff.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Are you certain a 16 game season will guarantee top 4? Usually it would no question but this year I'm not so certain given it appears on the surface to be a 5 team race into those 4 spots. I could be completely wrong on this though given Melbourne play the Dogs and Brisbane the next two games, and if they drop both of those then suddenly the ladder will look a lot different once again.

Its not 2011 and I can't see 2016 repeating.

Fixture - 2021 Fixture

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[Tredz]

He wasn't even really getting hitouts himself but Grundy went from unstoppable monster to manageable after half time. I still don't think Ladhams is the answer in the centre square but for a player who is often criticised for effort and professionalism, that was a VERY professional 2nd half.

On another somewhat related matter - noticed a couple of times in centre square bounces the bounce clearly favoured Grundy but the umpire called play-on. However, later in the game when a bounce clearly favoured the Port ruckman the umpire called it back for a throw up! Things that make you go 'hmmmm'.

 

[backtozero]

EVERY team is fired up for us.

North, St Kilda, Adelaide, Collingwood...

It's getting old.

Maybe they fire up for us cause they fancy they have a sniff? Because we always let everyone have a sniff.

Did you just ignore the bit where I said noone would have beaten them by 10 goals, or the recent history of the two clubs? Did you forget about the whole prison bars thing?
Collingwood haven't lost by more than 5 goals this year. Look at their results.
We also beat the Saints and Crows by 9 goals. Yeah, its not 100 like the Saints got rolled by this week but you're really getting picky in that case.

 

[GremioPower]

That's what if feels like, but in modern footy, intercept defenders take lots of marks because of sh*t kicks coming inside 50 and they are in better position to mark the ball than the forwards they play on.

They move to the forward lines, they will the ones having to try and mark sh*t inside 50 kicks in the wrong position.

Not if they play with a defensive mindset. They would “intercept mark” our own kicks!

 

[PJ Power]

Dixons last quarter was huge, turned the game with his smother creating a goal and then ruck work to Wines.

Didn’t have a great 4 quarter game but get around the big fella for competing and turning it round!

Was much better after HT. Could easily have kicked 3 himself in the third (1.2) and had the goal assist to Marshall also. Then two major goal assists in the last.

 

[tribey]

We all know the origins of it, Prison Bars just sounds better. We've embraced it from oppo SANFL fans.

If you really want to bowl the odd wrong’un, give it some ‘gaolbars’ like you regularly write in to ‘the paper’.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Compare the pair

Boundary throw in early in the first
Ridiculously short
Grundy takes advantage and snaps a goal
Commentators erupt into joyous rapture

Boundary throw in late in the last
Ridiculously short
Dixon clever tap to Wines for a goal
Commentators slam the ump and effectively ask for a recall

The centre bounces were worse.

All went to the right of screen.

Q1. One out of the circle, only Grundy was able to contest. Play on.

Next one just onside the circle. Only Grundy was able to contest. Play on

Q2. Just inside the circle. Only Ladhams was able to contest. Recall!

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[Jack_1870]

At least, there weren’t many people there to see it...

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Short memories,not so long ago those peasants tried to copy us with 'Nothing Else Matters'' by Metalica and got hammered on social media because of it.
What a joke that pathetic mob are.

 

[P4Life]

DBJ reversed free kick was one of the best viewings of an umpire who is bigger than the game.

I'd back him to stand up like that every time. The umpire just should of handed us the ball regardless.

And imagine if a player spoke to him like a 10yo every time he f..... up bouncing in the centre.
The bloke is a rolled gold tosser

 

[backtozero]

Ray seems to have more trouble bouncing the ball than anyone. The guy sucks.

 

[P4Life]

Starts have been poor interstate.

Is he kidding? They've been poor for a few years anywhere.


He's right about how flat we were though. I was ready to throw my remote at the TV in that first term watching DBJ and Houston jog around like they were at training. There was zero intensity or desire in our game early. Zero.

Not sure DBJ was jogging when he ran down Thomas about to kick a goal from the goal square in the first quarter.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

This weeks CD tables. A lot of red for our bottom players compared to Collingwood's and lots of white suggests how average the game was but a lot more Collingwood players did better than their season average than Port's.

We lost just about every stats category. From below and the AFL App we only won Marks I50 10v7, Contested Marks 14v13 and Tackles 56v49.

Farrell and Ladhams racked up at least 30% more disposals than their season average.

Port's XScore 64 v Actual 59
Coll's XScore 68 v Actual 58

Both teams had 21 shots on goal. Port had 3 rushed behinds and Collingwood 1.

Pressure acts were basically the same and ball was effectively in each other's half the same amount, which you would expect in a 1 pt game.

Marks I50
Port 10 for 4.2 with 2 that didn't make the distance Marshall and SPP's and 2 passes inc the Burton **** up 3rd
Coll 7 for 4.2 and 1 did not make distance

Frees inside 50
Port 0 for 0.0
Coll 4 for 0.2 - pretty such McCreery's 2nd goal was an advantage free that I think Mihocek and he ran into goal but not 100% sure. Grundy got a 50m penalty because Ladhams moved one step on a mark and he kick a goal from top of the goal square.

Rucks
Ladhams 58 contests, won 10, to advantage 1
Dixon..... 11 contests, won 1, to advantage 0
Marshall 4,0,0
Wines... 1,0,0

Grundy.. 62 contests, won 33, to advantage 10
Cameron 13 contests, won 9, to advantage 4

Thanks again to Garibaldi Red for digital version of the tables

 

[Boxx]

The centre bounces were worse.

All went to the right of screen.

Q1. One out of the circle, only Grundy was able to contest. Play on.

Next one just onside the circle. Only Grundy was able to contest. Play on

Q2. Just inside the circle. Only Ladhams was able to contest. Recall!

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The Bounce is and has been an absolute jizz stain on the game for years!

No need for it whatsoever!

 

[tribey]

Get a load of this comedic genius in the replies:




On a scale from 1 to proudly rehashing a tired, fourteen-year-old meme for the umpteenth time in the hope Dane Swan will like your tweet, how meaningless is your life?

Crows Twitter is teeming with these types.

The 2007 Grand Final means more to them and who they are than it does to Geelong fans, who subsequently won two more and moved on.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Crows Twitter is teeming with these types.

The 2007 Grand Final means more to them and who they are than it does to Geelong fans, who subsequently won two more and moved on.

It's been the crows only notable achievement this century. Why shouldn't they celebrate it in perpetuity?

 

[finbarr]

The Bounce is and has been an absolute jizz stain on the game for years!

No need for it whatsoever!

If I could rewrite the rules of the game I would -

* Do away with the bounce.
* If the ball is touched, either off the boot, on the line, or shaves the goal posts but still crosses the goal line, it's a goal, not a behind.
* If the ball is kicked out on the full the free kick is taken from the point where the ball is kicked, not where it crosses the line.
* if you're in possession of the ball and your foot is out of bounds but the ball remains in bounds its a boundary throw in.

I know not everyone would agree with these, but it would clean up a lot of the ambiguity.

 

[Power freak 2008]

To be honest, while I know that we are not playing very well, I don't think the way we played last year is sustainable for the entire season. We can press up a bit quicker but that style of play is punishing and for finals. Winning while playing way below our best isn't the worst position to be in. Getting game time into Bergman, Jones, Farrell and Drew is also bonus. Having McKenzie back is brilliant because he adds another big leg into our backline.

It's only a matter of time when the team starts playing the pressure game. We just have to be within striking distance when it's time to play finals football. Not all the teams at the top right now will be able to kick into late season and finals form. We have both gears up our sleeve...

 

[philthy05]

Other players being bad is not a good argument for Marshall being good, so I don't know why you bother putting these posts together.

by other players being bad... you mean every single 2nd and 3rd kf in the league?

Ive already proven beyond a doubt with a list of facts and stats as long as the universe that in comparison to the leagues best kfs his age he stacks up well, and to the leagues key forwards he stacks up well against all but the leagues best #1 key forwards, and he stacks up to and more than most of the leagues 2nd / 3rd kfs (you know, the position he is playing for us)

in key stats for a high chf such as goals, goal assists, score involvements, contested marks, inside 50's and metres gained he is good to elite when compared to like players.


At some stage if you're arguing that everyone else is bad except for the few players (million dollar contracts top 5 draft pick stars) you've got to concede that decent key forwards are so few and far in-between that there just isn't enough for every team to have 2 to 3 superstars.

at the moment our "star" key forward Dixon is to be honest a good honest trier at best (and I shudder to think where we would have been without that honest trier).

Were about to head into our 3rd decade in the league and we've developed 1 key forward from the draft (tredrea) and got lucky there. current draft rules we wouldn't have gotten him.

right now Marshall and georgiades I would already lay claim to our 2nd and 3rd best kfs we've drafted. either were incredibly stupid drafters, or quality key forwards are rare, or its a case of both. Ill put it to you its both.

how a fanbase that's watched their team fail repeatedly and played their worst football to a forward line stacked with players like Brett Ebert, sam gray and so on rather than a proper structure can not understand how important even remotely capable kfs are is beyond me.

 

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[Andre]

Dixons last quarter was huge, turned the game with his smother creating a goal and then ruck work to Wines.

Didn’t have a great 4 quarter game but get around the big fella for competing and turning it round!

This is the second week in a row he hasn't turned up until the last quarter. Last week it got us in a winning position we then blew, this time we didn't. Both games however if he'd turned up the first 3 quarters like the last, then we'd likely have won last week and won by 4 - 6 goals this week.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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[Powertron]

This is the second week in a row he hasn't turned up until the last quarter. Last week it got us in a winning position we then blew, this time we didn't. Both games however if he'd turned up the first 3 quarters like the last, then we'd likely have won last week and won by 4 - 6 goals this week.

I don't disagree. There is something to the change in tactics when we are chasing a game that appears to get him more involved.

Personally I think he's almost unstoppable on the lead but given the slow ball movement too often isn't afforded this opportunity and is getting it bombed on his head which just doesn't work. I also think he doesn't make enough leads and/or has really poor timing on them. It's probably a bit of both, either way when we have quicker ball movement into the forward line he looks a different player.

I'm just a fat old guy who never played and can see this, why it doesn't seem to have sunken in with Kenny after almost a decade I don't know.

 

[Winganeen]

Was much better after HT. Could easily have kicked 3 himself in the third (1.2) and had the goal assist to Marshall also. Then two major goal assists in the last.

I think that's two weeks in a row he hasn't dobbed a goal until the last.
I don't mind it, he doesn't drop his head


(He just repeatedly runs under the ball and then sticks one arm high in the air hoping for a miracle)

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I think that's two weeks in a row he hasn't dobbed a goal until the last.
I don't mind it, he doesn't drop his head


(He just repeatedly runs under the ball and then sticks one arm high in the air hoping for a miracle)

Lol, You need to reread what you quoted. He kicked 1.2 in the 3rd quarter.