Game Day Round 4 - Port Adelaide v Essendon, Adelaide Oval, Friday 5/4/24, 8.10pm AEDST

[kelvin_sheedy]

It took McGrath a few seconds to realise he needed to sprint

 

[rumply]

#sackbrad

 

[Don_Gia]

Can’t stand it when oppo players waltz around with no pressure…

It’s like we’re the only team that lets it happen.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Think we'll never be comfortable with team defence until we've got our back 6 on the park, including Ridley, Reid. Lav isn't up to it and Heppell is a liability.

We also need to stop kidding ourselves and realise that we should play the kids. If we're gonna get smashed then at least it'd be worth it if we were blooding games into Caddy, Tsatas and Reid.

Draper to the 2's.

 

[quotemokc]

Never watched Soldo before but what a plodder, makes no effort to ever get rid of the ball and is happy getting tackled

 

[andleanback]

Parish just do the basics

 

[yodellinhank]

Which idiot let Rioli go spare

Whoever it was, they didn't pick Rioli

 

[windyhill]

Usual interstate effort, just urging the clock to tick quicker.

 

[bacon buster]

The problem with talking about the “edge” and committing to be hard at the contest for 4 quarters, is the assessment when we don’t play that way

We did for 1.25 quarters. Since then, some of the efforts have been downright embarrassing. Not too many to hold their head up.

 

[rumply]

Think we'll never be comfortable with team defence until we've got our back 6 on the park, including Ridley, Reid. Lav isn't up to it and Heppell is a liability.

We also need to stop kidding ourselves and realise that we should play the kids. If we're gonna get smashed then at least it'd be worth it if we were blooding games into Caddy, Tsatas and Reid.

If ever there was a wake up moment, this needs to be it. If they keep going the same old same old, then damn them all to hell.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Not sure Cox is even looking when he kicks it.

 

[SpeckieMcVeigh]

Swing the ****ing axe next week Brad. Too many ****ing useless campaigners getting gifted games.

 

[sameolds33]

Been tested and found wanting

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Parish just do the basics

Anyone in the league have a worse left foot than Darc?

 

[ghostdog]

It's so embarrassing seeing so many players failing to tackle a third year player in JHF.
And is there a directive to allow Rozee to do whatever he wishes?

On the upside, when he's ready, Tsatas should be running away from stoppages like that. We could do with another.

 

[Old man fletch]

Yeh Nic nat was a terrible footballer like Draper. But he made up for it with elite ruck work. Draper doesn’t have that

Draper has had some great ruck games (and some terrible) like nic Nat did early in his career. We haven't structured our game to cover his deficiencies (like Richmond did for Martin). Draper might develop into an elite ruck (or might not). Harsh to compare a player at the end of his career to one closer to his start than his end

 

[Old Campaigner]

i think the lack of genuine pace is what consistently hurts us week in week out

That combo of speed, ball use and toughness that port have through the middle is really showing us up.

I don’t know how we go from the capabilities of Parish, Merrett, Perkins, Caldwell and Setterfield to anything approaching Butters, Boak, Rozee and Drew without moving on a few. Tsatas will help but we definitely need more.

 

[brain taylor]

Never watched Soldo before but what a plodder, makes no effort to ever get rid of the ball and is happy getting tackled

i thought he pretty gracefully evaded rozee’s attempt to feed him a goal in the first

 

[wichidi]

Lacking leaders (amongst many things) tonight

 

[andleanback]

Anyone in the league have a worse left foot than Darc?

And he keeps trying to use it. Turnover every time

 

[yodellinhank]

Usual interstate effort, just urging the clock to tick quicker.

Bloody game finishes 30 mins late

 

[JayJ20]

On the upside, when he's ready, Tsatas should be running away from stoppages like that. We could do with another.

But he's not playing. Instead, we're "developing" Hind.

 

[SpeckieMcVeigh]

Never watched Soldo before but what a plodder, makes no effort to ever get rid of the ball and is happy getting tackled

He's also smashed us in the ruck so what does that say about us?

 

[andleanback]

Draper has had some great ruck games (and some terrible) like nic Nat did early in his career. We haven't structured our game to cover his deficiencies (like Richmond did for Martin). Draper might develop into an elite ruck (or might not). Harsh to compare a player at the end of his career to one closer to his start than his end

No he hasn’t. He’s a half decent centre bounce ruck, around the ground he’s average as.

 

[BomberManU]

We look a long way off tonight but a few more games and we shpuld get to see more roberts, caddy, byran, tsatas and what else we have.

We have a bit if deadwood on the list and in our best 22 and if there's one positive results like this mean Scott has to get a bit more adventurous at selection.

Didn't see our current mid range approach resulting in finals success anytime soon anyway. So some poor results .might be a good wake up.

That's a very positive, unemotional take, given the circumstances. But I'm just not convinced we'll see anything adventurous, just more of the same. If the last two rounds of last year weren't a wake up call, I don't know what is.