Preview Round 10 - Geelong Cats v Port Adelaide Power, Simonds Stadium, Thursday 25th May 7:20pm

[RossFC]

Move Sam Gray to the middle so he can get 35 disposals and 0 bottles in front of goal.

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

Won't beat the cats at skilled. Would love it if we could and if we did it would change my opinion of us, I am just longing for us to really knock off a top 8 team in some powerful fashion! I still see us as a mid-rung team with a full list.

Will be another frustrating night of multiple f50 entries for **** all result.

 

[Papa G]

If we just bomb it into the forward and the likes of Mackie, Henderson and Lonergran pick off marks with gay abandon, I WILL SPEW UP!

 

[tribey]

Move Sam Gray to the middle so he can get 35 disposals and 0 bottles in front of goal.

A ballsy move would be to drop him for someone like Jesse Palmer (mobility, marking power, scoreboard threat, defensive pressure etc) on top of the obvious move in replacing Chad with Guus. Impey forward has made Sam Gray redundant in his current role.

Won't happen though.

 

[actiongreggars]

Young will come straight.back in

As much as I love Young I hope not. His form this year hasn't been up to it.

 

[Americanpies]

I still think your guys can win without the Chad. 2 week break vs 6 days I can see Port running away with this after halftime. There are a few other factors that will help Port get over the line..

Firstly the Bulldogs are a hard hitting team. They don't play soft. If you look at their record the majority of teams they play lose or only win in a tight one the following week. There were 238 tackles in that game, which is an insane amount. No other game in the round went even close to that amount...

Secondly, Zac Smith had a field day against Tom Boyd.. not being a natural ruckman. This is why Dangerwood got so much of the ball.. Smith was shoving it down their throats. You guys have a very good ruckman in Ryder, so Dangerwood won't get that easy first use of the ball this time around.

The only advantage for Geelong is the home ground - there is no other reason I can find why they should win this game. Because it's a narrow kind of ground they can block up space and stop run. This is what they did to the Dogs. So you will be kicking to a lot of contests and I think you have the height and strength to out-mark them.

I think Port will win this game quite easily. with the above personal analysis, I just can't see Geelong doing the same thing they did last week. Actually.. there is one thing that could work against Port, and that's if they come along still in holiday mode. If they are turned on, Port should win this one.

 

[charcolechaddy]

Move Sam Gray to the middle so he can get 35 disposals and 0 bottles in front of goal.

Its Angus time.

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[Marmozet]

Sorry to dig up shit from 2007 again but, when people compare our last gasp win over them at Kardina to the Grand Final, it seems to be forgotten that Geelong did maul us at Footy Park early in the season.

That 'forgotten Port/Geelong game of 2007' proves to me personally that Geelong were the better team in 2007. They went 2-1 against us.

The reason I'm saying this is because I know somebody who has been going on for a while now about how Geelong destroyed us just a few weeks after we beat them at their home ground (without 4-5 players that played in the Grand Final). I think the reality was just that we were beaten by a better side at AAMI in Round 9, 2007, got lucky when they were missing a few players in Round 21, and then beaten by a better side again in the Grand Final.

 

[Janus]

We'll win this easily. It won't even be close. Whatever Geelong does, we do better.

Remember in 2015 when we were missing Wines and Gray against the reigning premiers in Hawthorn and no one gave us a chance? Just like that. I'd play Gus, put him in the midfield, and let him get to work. Don't underestimate the lift that him being back in the side will bring to the rest of the team. He can rotate with Gray up forward. It will be the greatest comeback story since Lazarus said he felt tired and needed a nap.

 

[drazah]

I very much want to see Monfries back in.

I think they might bring in Aidyn Johnson though.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Need a player who can play forward and midfield.

And has a mature body.

 

[Papa G]

We'll win this easily. It won't even be close. Whatever Geelong does, we do better.

Remember in 2015 when we were missing Wines and Gray against the reigning premiers in Hawthorn and no one gave us a chance? Just like that. I'd play Gus, put him in the midfield, and let him get to work. Don't underestimate the lift that him being back in the side will bring to the rest of the team. He can rotate with Gray up forward. It will be the greatest comeback story since Lazarus said he felt tired and needed a nap.

Remember in 2015 when we lost games to lots of shit teams..... remember losing all those games bar 1 against Geelong in the last 10 years... remember. Remember??

 

[chachi11]

Monfries has been in great form. Can go forward, rotate in midfield with Gray and AhChee.
Plus he provides niggle which is entertaining.

 

[Janus]

Remember in 2015 when we lost games to lots of shit teams..... remember losing all those games bar 1 against Geelong in the last 10 years... remember. Remember??

You can't nitpick every little thing...

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

MONF

 

[Jonts]

Wingard out

Monfries in
R Gray to the middle

 

[TeeKray]

Sorry to dig up shit from 2007 again but, when people compare our last gasp win over them at Kardina to the Grand Final, it seems to be forgotten that Geelong did maul us at Footy Park early in the season.

That 'forgotten Port/Geelong game of 2007' proves to me personally that Geelong were the better team in 2007. They went 2-1 against us.

The reason I'm saying this is because I know somebody who has been going on for a while now about how Geelong destroyed us just a few weeks after we beat them at their home ground (without 4-5 players that played in the Grand Final). I think the reality was just that we were beaten by a better side at AAMI in Round 9, 2007, got lucky when they were missing a few players in Round 21, and then beaten by a better side again in the Grand Final.

I don't think there's anyone in the world that thinks Port were better or even close to as good as Geelong were in 2007.

 

[Marmozet]

I don't think there's anyone in the world that thinks Port were better or even close to as good as Geelong were in 2007.

This bloke is adamant Geelong had some form of an unfair advantage in the Grand Final and wants to know how they could outrun and destroy us just a few weeks after we beat them.

Next time I will mention that Round 9 game at AAMI where they also smashed us to him.

 

[Killer Power]

Gus in. Gray and Ah Chee to spend time through the guts.

 

[Coobk001]

Eddy in

Geelong by 17

Port to go 0-9 in our last 9 games decided by 20 or less.

 

[Americanpies]

I have a feeling Monfries is going to go off (if he comes in for you guys).

Just thinking about it... all those Essendon players including the ones that moved clubs that have come back after that ban have been in top form. Think they have a lot of hunger and even rage inside them.....

 

[snozulu]

http://www.austadiums.com/sport/event.php?eventid=14034
Saturday 10th August 2013
TIME 2:10 PM *local time
VENUE Simonds Stadium


PORT ADELAIDE: 1.3, 4.4, 10.5, 16.8 (104)
GOALS:Port Adelaide: Monfries 7, Schulz 2, Boak, Hartlett, Ebert, Lobbe, Colquhoun, Wingard, Moore


Monfries, monfries! He's our man
If he can't do it no-one can!!

 

[70sDinosaur]

I don't think there's anyone in the world that thinks Port were better or even close to as good as Geelong were in 2007.

I always thought Port's best chance to win the 2007 GF was for Collingwood to pull off the upset the week before.

 

[tribey]

I always thought Port's best chance to win the 2007 GF was for Collingwood to pull off the upset the week before.

If Collingwood fell over the line against them in that Prelim we'd have obliterated them the week after. They'd have been utterly exhausted after 3 consecutive wins including the overtime victory at Subiaco, they lost Buckley to his reinjured hammy late against the Cats leaving them without their talisman and their VFL-calibre ruck division of Guy Richards and Chris Bryan would've been destroyed by Lade and Brogan, giving our vastly superior midfield silver service all day.

It's the ultimate sliding doors. Moreso than the lost opportunities of 2002/3/5 & 2014.

 

[tribey]

This bloke is adamant Geelong had some form of an unfair advantage in the Grand Final and wants to know how they could outrun and destroy us just a few weeks after we beat them.

Next time I will mention that Round 9 game at AAMI where they also smashed us to him.

They had 9 All-Australians, the Brownlow Medallist, the Rising Star and the whole of Australia behind them after the hatchet job the media did on us after our Prelim.

We had the Cornes brothers, the Burgoyne brothers, Brendon Lade, a one-legged Tredrea and Choco and Phil Walsh committing treason for the good of the nation's barbecues or something.

That said, we were on the receiving end of the most rarified results, where everything went right for them and literally nothing went our way. I managed to watch half of the 'all the goals' YouTube in the relevant nostalgia thread on their board and a handful of their goals during the Q2 avalanche were incredibly dubious, with ducks and bodywork paid against us (high/push), while GAJ was caught cold running into goal, only for it to be called play-on with a Geelong goal immediately afterward. And to think that with 5 minutes of gametime gone in Q1 we were leading 2-1 in what was shaping to be a dour, nervy struggle - if Brett Ebert nails that early shot, who knows. Maybe our free-flowing, confident game kicks in and the Cats tighten up and get the shivers. C'est la vie.

Bottom line, if you played that game 100 times we get beaten in such a fashion once or twice. The perfect storm.