Review Round 2, 2023 vs Collingwood

[Pt Augusta Power]

Drop yourself Tom if you really believe these words

We’re going to get smashed this week.

 

[Voter Colonel]

Yeah, I simply didn’t understand this. Why would they do that? It makes no sense to me and as a Collingwood supporter I thought it very poor form indeed. Just not necessary. Anyway, good luck for the rest of the season

 

[GremioPower]

Message received.

And you should ignore it.

Why giving the umps what they want?

 

[PJ Power]

Also, why do we have no hopers as our deputy assistant line coaches?
Luke Kelly
Hamish Hartlett

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Hamish Hartlett

Age

34

Ht

185cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.4

5star

K

11.6

4star

HB

7.9

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

3.7

5star

MG

272.8

4star

D

14.2

3star

K

9.4

4star

HB

4.8

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.8

4star

MG

272.8

4star

D

16.4

4star

K

11.8

5star

HB

4.6

4star

M

6.0

5star

T

0.6

3star

Matt Lobbe
Tyson Goldsack

Is that the best we can do?

 

[ElectricG]

Who is a top four side other than Collingwood? Sydney?

Melbourne looked as bad as we did yesterday against Brisbane and was assisted by that blackout where Brisbane had shut up shop.

Carlton struggled against a completely crocked Geelong while Richmond struggled against Adelaide who probably would have won if they didn’t play in oppressive conditions the week before. Neither team gives confidence that they would have done any better against Collingwood than we did.

Fremantle and Western Bulldogs are 0-2 after both lost to St Kilda and Fremantle lost to North Melbourne (the Dogs lost to Melbourne which isn’t that big a deal).

If this team is decent it won’t let what happened against Collingwood in contested possession happen again. You can lose contested possession but losing it by 50+ is a complete disgrace and shows that our boys got ahead of themselves after beating Brisbane. I’m confident it won’t happen again.

Was fully with you until that last sentence

 

[Mayes2Gray]

I am completely emotionally uninvested In This Club I watched live yesterday more interested in the score of a basketball game on my phone, enjoying every collingwood goal.

Don’t turn into one of those supporters. You sound like a WCE fan

 

[Macca19]

What do you think was happening in the midfield Macca? Lack of concentration, effort, intensity or just outplayed by much better opposition?

All of the above. Shit positioning, shit attitude, shit effort

 

[Duck Farmer]

"Wet behind the ears" coach who we could've got if we'd pulled the trigger after the 2021 PF debacle instead of doubling down on Donuts, tears him a new one on the big stage despite Hinkley assembling the best squad he's ever had over his 11 year unquestioned incumbency.

BuT wHo ArE yOu GoNnA gEt !?!?!?!

YoU'rE nOt A tRuE bElIeVeR !!??!??!

Go SuPpOrT tHe TiNgLeS !!!?!??!

 

[Big Bryza]

Nobody has looked as bad as we did yesterday in any game this season.

Forget the media wank about Collingwood. They aren't some super team. They beat an undermanned, underdone Geelong at home by a few goals.

We got beaten by 71 because we suck. It's that simple.

Lol.

 

[afl2004]

Our captain had 0 tackles yesterday dbj 1 and wines 3

Last week wines 0 tackles Jonas 1 dbj 1

Tackles after rd 2

Jonas: 1 dbj 2 wines 3 our leadership averages 3 tackles a week combined

LOL

 

[Jojay]

Nah.

This tackle was called high in the first quarter:
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Now in this passage of play, this tackle didn’t make a difference as Collingwood had the advantage…but in the wider picture calling this tackle as “high” when it clearly wasn’t set a precedent for the game that said “Don’t bother trying to tackle Collingwood players, we will just give them a free kick.”

Message received.

Don't want to burst your bubble, but the same tackle from a different angle:

 

[bacharach]

I was at the game and said to my mate that the players efforts were so bad, you expect to find out the next day that half the team had gastro or the flu the night before. We know Ken's no tactician but I thought he was a guru man motivater? My ass.
when it's a handful of players off, that's on them, if it's the majority of the team, that's on the coach/es. If you think otherwise, you are thick as two bricks.

Clearly, we beat Brisbane, exhaled a huge sigh of relief and then played in our own bath water all week long. Nothing surer.

 

[TeeKray]

Lol.

I was not saying that Collingwood aren't a good team. They clearly are. Maybe even the best in it.

But the pro Hinkley mafia will use that as a reason to tick off on there being nothing wrong with that performance yesterday, as though everyone will lose to Collingwood by 71 points. Don't worry, Hinkley is still amazing, Port are still amazing. We aren't, we're terrible and he's terrible.

 

[bacharach]

Don't want to burst your bubble, but the same tackle from a different angle:
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Ouch. Wouldn't want to poke holes in the "it's the umpires fault we lost by 70 points " narrative . Given we have a full strength list, it's almost as if there won't be anyone left to blame.

 

[Macca19]

Umpiring wasnt bad. We were sloppy, desperate and made mistakes tackling

 

[EskimoPAFC]

"We aren't quite there yet"

~Port Adelaide, 2013-2023.

 

[LittleLika]

The anti vaxxers will have a field day with this post.

Covid is like, so 2020 maaan

 

[afl2004]

Just need to work harder or some other cliche shit

 

[MrMeaner]

What I particularly like is that we apparently have a lot to learn from a team coached by a bloke who has been in the seat 2/11ths of the time of our bloke.

 

[dirty2]

Yeah, I simply didn’t understand this. Why would they do that? It makes no sense to me and as a Collingwood supporter I thought it very poor form indeed. Just not necessary. Anyway, good luck for the rest of the season

It would be like us booing some player cos he left the crows?

****... Would be booing people nearly every week lol

 

[Janus]

Don't want to burst your bubble, but the same tackle from a different angle:
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At this point?


Fair enough - couldn't see it cause Horne-Francis' head is in the way.

 

[elpirate]

We win the showdown.

 

[afl2004]

Our captain had 0 tackles yesterday dbj 1 and wines 3

Last week wines 0 tackles Jonas 1 dbj 1

Tackles after rd 2

Jonas: 1 dbj 2 wines 3 our leadership averages 3 tackles a week combined

LOL

William drew 9 tackles btw

 

[Coobk001]

We are what we all thought we were.

We are a soft team. We don't like playing at max throttle. We like to play low pressure, outside footy. Our team for years has wanted to take the foot off the throttle whenever the opportunity arises, it's just our style. Lots of players that play with a calm lack of intensity that when they try and match an opponents rise, they just can't, they go to water, make bad decisions, look reactive and fumble under the pressure.

We have a really poor defence. Forget the ball coming in easy, even when it isn't we are just to easy to score against. Our forward press style, where we do usually control a lot of territory, masks a defensive group that is just not good at defending. And when we play good sides like Collingwood, they transition the ball through our press with ease. Whenever our press is broken through easily we basically give up goals every time.

We struggle to score. 43% of entries scored, they had 61%.
We've seen it all preseason as well, and saw it in the first half against Brisbane.

I'm not going to hold back on that umpiring though, can't remember seeing anything like it, just anything even possibly open to interpretation was given to them. Many, many of them should've been let go, but ah well, we still wouldve lost.


What I've learnt so far is that there's been zero change from last year. It's the same partially motivated team with a poor game style that won't take us anywhere. We've played one really good quarter all season, the 3rd against the Lions, apart from that there are real concerns emerging everywhere.

Right now I would think the showdown is truly 50/50. The Crows have shown more good signs through the last few weeks than we have. They've shown some holes, but they've put on more than 1 good quarter like we have.

 

[PJ Power]

William drew 9 tackles btw

His effort stood out because of it.

No-one needs a bigger rocket than Wines and Butters. They entered the season with recent injuries behind them and it shows.