Review Round 6, 2024 vs Collingwood

[JimmyBC]

I mean, it is totally irrational to care about a sports team but you quickly stop feeling stupid about it when you realise this sports team is being paid $13 million between them precisely because you care so they can go f*** themselves and win something.

I give less shits about the players themselves than I ever have

• If you want out nick off
• If you can't win us something after a number of years nick off
• If other things are more important than football to you then fukc off and do them & stop taking the money
• If you can't get on the park fukc off and do something else

It's all meaningless in the grand scheme of things however let us enjoy our little distractions from death, war & disease by shutting the fukc up and doing what you are grossly overpaid for.. tora tora tora

 

[JUSTWORK]

Yep that was my point.

Yet Kenny recons he can't doing anything to impact games on game day

 

[Bump Bailey]

Let whoever wants to walk with Ken go (except JHF)

Don’t care who it is and build the club back up with blokes who actually care

Fancy hitching your wagon to Ken hinkley.. don’t let the door hit you on the way out

Bunch of absolute losers. Rozee & JHF ain’t going nowhere, the rest are expendable.

 

[PAFC66]

Rozee said the other week football is his last priority in life however when it's the weekend it's business time.

 

[Bump Bailey]

So you want Hinkley to start throwing things around on the boundary line? That makes him a better coach? I’d rather hear him talk about what went wrong and tell us how they’re going to fix it.

Yeah except he can’t do that either.

 

[Expat power]

Bunch of absolute losers. Rozee & JHF ain’t going nowhere, the rest are expendable.

Calling Butters expendable after today’s effort is perhaps a little bit of an over-reaction

 

[Poo Eckert]

Calling Butters expendable after today’s effort is perhaps a little bit of an over-reaction

It may not be his fault but he had 15 possessions at 1/4 time and 20 at 3/4 time, where did he go in the half that mattered?

 

[JUSTWORK]

Rozee said the other week football is his last priority in life however when it's the weekend it's business time.

Surely not?

 

[Sewer de Lance]

He didn’t play scared. He just played s**t. There is big difference. His worst game in a long time. He just fumbled everything. It happens. Everyone has a s**t game, even the best. This is a massive overreaction by you. He has been incredible all year.

No, when Collingwood started to gain momentum, he failed to fire a single shot. If Connor’s going to progress as a leader, then he needs to dig deep, & find a way to pick his team up when it’s all going to ****. I think most of his fumbles were a direct result of being more concerned about the oppositions incoming body contact, then winning the actual ball.




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[TeeKray]

Rozee said the other week football is his last priority in life however when it's the weekend it's business time.

Well you can't say his actions don't reflect his words!

 

[Long live PAFC]

Sigh





Any opposition club, wounded, out of form, pressure mounting. It’s a great opportunity for Port to make a statement. Show the football world that we are the real deal, that we will be a serious finals contender. Make a blow against a fellow contender. Whole football world is watching and backing us. Anddddd we choke.



Then rinse and repeat.



This is the Hinkley era. This is the Koch and AFL board era. This will be the Carr era. Etc etc



Alright well let’s look at this game for whatever good that is.



Head to head it’s actually pretty even, hell Port are probably better player for player in several areas. Collingwood’s game is built on hard work and out numbering at every contest. They want Darcy Moore

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Darcy Moore

Age

28

Ht

203cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.1

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

169.1

3star

D

13.9

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

4.9

5star

T

0.7

1star

MG

182.0

3star

D

6.8

2star

K

4.2

2star

HB

2.6

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.8

4star

MG

87.4

2star

intercepting and they make the ground long through their half forwards. Their tall players are required to compete and keep the ball in the area to allow for the out number. Essentially they want to force you to kick to one spot, ensure you don’t mark at that spot, outnumber you there so that they win the ball and then use those extra numbers to flood forward so they catch your defence wrong footed. It relies on hard work and speed.



Port relies on winning it at the centre or stoppage and getting it forward and locking it in for repeat entries until a goal is scored. We’ve added a lot more overlap and use of half backs as attacking weapons this year but very much rely on the corridor.



The rucks:

Port were without Dixon and Finlayson. So no part time ruck. So we added Sweet. Bearing in mind that Sweet and Soldo are both slow, stoppage focused rucks who are best when used as the sole ruck for the majority of the game. We made the mistake last year of not playing a tall back and seem to have taken the lesson as needing to maintain some kind of structure. In theory there is merit. In reality this was never going to work and we should have used Marshall or Wines or SPP or some such option. What eventuated was a ruck mauling where their rucks beat us in the middle and around the ground. Our rucks couldn’t defend, couldn’t kick a goal and couldn’t take a relieving mark. And neither could prevent Moore from dominating and weren’t agile enough when the ball hit the deck to be useful.



Our midfield: this is bad from Carr.

Collingwood want to keep the ball in tight where their numbers can win the ball and then move it forward quickly. Collingwood basically blocked our mids from using their pace and agility and gang tackled anyone who got the ball. Hit outs were predictable. And we tried nothing different. They bullied us off it. Mead, Rozee, Bergmann, Burgoyne, and others, all got pushed off it and gave up meekly.



Defence: not heaps that can be done with fast, repeat inside fifties but gees it doesn’t help when we drop marks, fumble balls, don’t contest marks hard enough and basically lose the plot. This performance was terrible.



Forward: what an opportunity. This is your forward line Todd. Make it yours. Enforcer SPP, this team embarrassed us last year, your time to crunch some pies. Andddd nothing.

Once again no changes. No creative coaching. Maybe flood back and clog the midfield. Leave Rioli one out up front. Or Mitch. Give Marshall a run on the ball. Put Burton forward. Would have like if McKenzie came in and played on Moore.



But dumb selections, dumb tactics that played straight into their hands and a complete lack of creativity or ability to adapt aside, what really killed us was mindset. We were timid. We let them bully us. They out worked us. They were tougher and harder. We lost all confidence and belief. And amazingly it happened after a brilliant, confidence boasting first quarter. The drop in form, belief and confidence mid game is almost unbelievable. Doesn’t make sense. Anndddd then you remember, We are Port Adelaide. We exist to get struggling contenders back into form and to take pressure off them. We exist to provide the backs against the wall victory for other teams. We are weak and soft and are getting what we deserve.

 

[dirty2]

So you want Hinkley to start throwing things around on the boundary line? That makes him a better coach? I’d rather hear him talk about what went wrong and tell us how they’re going to fix it.

Ya what now? Kenny™ I wouldn't change a thing Hinkley fix things? Bahahahaha.. **** me.. if Donna didn't remind him he wouldn't change his fuc.king undies.

 

[Doctor Feel]

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[PAFC66]

Surely not?

Yeah it was family Yada Yada.. work life balance then football on the weekend

 

[JUSTWORK]

Well you can't say his actions don't reflect his words!

He didn't turn up to do his job today, so you kinda can.

 

[Poo Eckert]

Yeah it was family Yada Yada.. work life balance then football on the weekend

He just had a child didn’t he?

 

[PAFC66]

It was the tone and the way he said it.
Work life balanceeee

 

[JUSTWORK]

Yeah it was family Yada Yada.. work life balance then football on the weekend

Just what you want from the captain. He's a professional footballer FFS, not running around in the SANFL or Ammo's.
Not good enough, that the mindset of the group under Hinkley.

As we know, we desperately need a culture change.

 

[PAFC66]

Bring back Dom he was a GOAT of a captain

 

[LittleLika]

It's simple,

The whole team is a bunch of confidence players that think with their dick about who they're going to **** after the game + play golf/video games in their off time.

The players that have partners do the same minus the middle part.

 

[Janus]

Thanks for this. -21 contested possessions in the midfield is really interesting for how our midfield has performed previously.

We’ll see that’s the thing. It’s not like we were super shit at contested possession - we had 120 for the game. It’s just that Collingwood had 161. Our average is around 126. Collingwood is 133 for the year.

Now reconcile that with the fact that we were leading contested possession by 1 at quarter time. Let’s say it was 30-29.

It means that in the remaining three quarters of football, Collingwood generated 222 contests and won 60% of them. 222 contests on a sunny day at the MCG. Oh, and their pressure was elite at the same time.

It’s exactly like the same performance that prelim final teams used to have when they were the only side that got a week off at the end of the year.

 

[Port01]

Jed is the worst sub idea ever.
Yeah let’s have a pressure forward with zero actual impact in a full game to come in in q4.
I struggle to actuallly see what our coaches think.

I’d like to think they are trying a few things out to be ready for finals, but, we know through 13 years of evidence that it just isn’t true.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Let the Sweet thing go man, I knew you’d come out beating your chest saying, I told you so. We would have got flogged regardless of players picked.
Out of curiosity, who would you have picked instead of Sweet, to of actually made a difference on the score board ?


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Why would I let it go after I was immediately and emphatically proven right lol

 

[Duck Farmer]

So you want Hinkley to start throwing things around on the boundary line? That makes him a better coach? I’d rather hear him talk about what went wrong and tell us how they’re going to fix it.

When has he ever managed to do that?

 

[Bump Bailey]

Calling Butters expendable after today’s effort is perhaps a little bit of an over-reaction

Did you actually watch the game? Was a non-factor after 1/4 time and went missing when the game was there to be won. Why apologise for these flakes?