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Review Round 1, 2023 vs Brisbane
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Give Lycett a break, he set it up in the third quarter; being his first AFL game in nearly a year.
Both he Fanta and Charlie will be much better for the run.
Bergman may morph into a Mr Fixit go-anywhere-player; we have Sinn + others waiting in the wings.
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I must say it’s good to be back at the Adelaide oval after giving up the my membership last year. I’m glad I took advantage of that $145 general admission membership they had going last week. What a win, Port hasn’t entertained me like that in a long time and the core of the team is so young! Bright future ahead
We owe a lot to Dunkley; had he said yeah (to us), we would have burnt our trade chips but more importantly, it resurrected our long term interest in JHF to a short term need.
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It's an easy mistake to make, I myself mistook my wife for Jason Horne-Francis last night
At the ground, from the stand, it was difficult until I realised that Bergman was socks down, whilst JHF wore his socks up.
Perhaps Miles pulled his socks up after the game, thereby completely confusing the Advertiser?
Good team have about 10 players going into their mid-field; players like Boak & SPP will supplement our mid-field at times.
As it turns out, ice was one of the worst treatments (for JHFs vascular blockages leg problem).
Dunkley 29 meters gained. Last thing our midfield needed.
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I was happy for Lycett, he played well, I just hope he keeps it up.
Rubbish: Drew is our only defensive mid-field and a tagger; strategetly, he should always be picked.
Whem Lycett went berserk in the third quarter, Drew was on the bench.
Murdoch press is anti Labour and the working class, Will always print some rubbish story about the Crows.
It was Butters who did the defensive midfield job in the third quarter. He moved onto Dunkley and shutdown his clearances.
Agree - but I refuse to 'like' anything Graham Cornes says on principle
You don't think 3 time all australian, runner up in the brownlow medal and a part of our core midfield for at least 8 years, top 2 in the best and fairest as a midfielder for the last 4 years (where has Drew finished in the last 2 years?) would be a better STRATEGIC option able to switch defensively and offensively as the situation required? And don't say defensive run with midfielders don't win Best and Fairests because Kane Cornes won four of them.
I can think of three players of the top of my head who IMO would be at least as effective defensive midfielders as Drew interchanging through the midfield (Butters, Houston, Dumont, SPP and possibly Jones) Additionally, how often is Drew lauded for his tagging performances??? Drew only spent 75% TOG over the last 2 years. What did we do for the other quarter of a game? Throw our hands up in the air and cry "oh no, STRATEGICALLY we are ****ed" and capitulate (finishing second in 2021 minor round). Did somebody do at least as good a job?
It might be that we don't need a pure defensive midfielder if we have Boak, JHC, Butters, Rozee and Wines all available as first line midfielders with others filling the role at times. If you get the ball first, win the clearances and the contested possessions, one has to wonder what use a defensive run with player is unless they are elite which Drew is not or the midfield is rucking to Finlayson.
To put it another way, "the best defense is a good offense..." Or quoting Hardwick in 2020 "We don't usually use run with roles, we trust our game plan". Seems to have worked well enough for them during their three premierships.
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I’ll be excited to read how brave the crows were in Sydney tommorow.
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"The crows lost because of El Nino".
This happens every round in the AFL, because it's Port they make a big deal out of it. What about the lop sided free kick count that favoured the visiting team?
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AFL score review system lashed after woeful error: 'What's the point?'
Port Adelaide benefited from an AFL score review error, with a camera angle showing a goal was clearly touched unused.
'What's the point': AFL fans left raging over 'disgraceful' scenes
The Power thumped Brisbane, but the simple score review mistake left footy fans fuming. Read more here.
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This happens every round in the AFL, because it's Port they make a big deal out of it. What about the lop sided free kick count that favoured the visiting team?
AFL score review system lashed after woeful error: 'What's the point?'
Port Adelaide benefited from an AFL score review error, with a camera angle showing a goal was clearly touched unused.
'What's the point': AFL fans left raging over 'disgraceful' scenes
The Power thumped Brisbane, but the simple score review mistake left footy fans fuming. Read more here.
How anyone can say that it was “clearly touched” is beyond me. Inconclusive so it goes to umpires call.
Exactly.
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It was always going to take Port getting the benefit of a dodgy call for them to make a big deal about it. Remember when Jenkins shot clearly hit the post?This happens every round in the AFL, because it's Port they make a big deal out of it. What about the lop sided free kick count that favoured the visiting team?
AFL score review system lashed after woeful error: 'What's the point?'
Port Adelaide benefited from an AFL score review error, with a camera angle showing a goal was clearly touched unused.
'What's the point': AFL fans left raging over 'disgraceful' scenes
The Power thumped Brisbane, but the simple score review mistake left footy fans fuming. Read more here.
Funny you mention that, it's the example I used when explaining it to the Misso.
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I definitely have been surprised at the posts on here about Burton's game and I'm usually the #1 member of the Ryan Burton fan club.
Had a shocker in the first, and gave up an early goal. Redeemed himself but there were quite a few players that had a better four quarter performance in my eyes.
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Overall a strong performance. Plenty to like, plenty to improve upon and plenty to read into, ie maybe the players are still on the Ken bandwagon, maybe the injuries and a lack of momentum last year really took their toll and, perhaps, a full off season to build fitness, unity and tweak some elements of the gameplan has paid off. Of course it’s still only week one.
Brisbane were lacklustre, even in that second quarter, they were helped significantly by some poor umpiring and a drop in our intensity (although I don’t think we were as bad as many have suggested). Had we taken 3/4 of our chances rather than about 40%, we would have been up at quarter and half time.
This was a confident, rested and high quality Brisbane outfit that hasn’t quite gelled and has a Port level deficiency in their back lines. That fact they didn’t respond or fire a shot was really surprising. Whether that says more about us or them, it’s hard to know.
Regardless footy is back. Port won. I appreciate that’s not what the ‘sack Hinkley’ crew want but hopefully enough of them can join my approach of back him and the club in until a flag or gf is out of the question, ie outside top four finish, then call for his axing. Footy is too hard, sad and depressing if this negative BS drags the whole year. Enjoy the win. Enjoy the club and players. Enjoy the footy and we will know soon enough what needs to happen with the coach.
Brisbane were lacklustre, even in that second quarter, they were helped significantly by some poor umpiring and a drop in our intensity (although I don’t think we were as bad as many have suggested). Had we taken 3/4 of our chances rather than about 40%, we would have been up at quarter and half time.
This was a confident, rested and high quality Brisbane outfit that hasn’t quite gelled and has a Port level deficiency in their back lines. That fact they didn’t respond or fire a shot was really surprising. Whether that says more about us or them, it’s hard to know.
Regardless footy is back. Port won. I appreciate that’s not what the ‘sack Hinkley’ crew want but hopefully enough of them can join my approach of back him and the club in until a flag or gf is out of the question, ie outside top four finish, then call for his axing. Footy is too hard, sad and depressing if this negative BS drags the whole year. Enjoy the win. Enjoy the club and players. Enjoy the footy and we will know soon enough what needs to happen with the coach.
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