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So....When was the last close game we won?
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Dalphonso
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- Oct 10, 2009
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It is always said that good sides win the close ones.Therefore I can say that we are not a good side
Rowd072
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We have a few players tha you just know wouldn't be able to kick the winning goal in a tight match. Guys like Trengove, S Gray, Hoff all play forward.
raman
Kind of a Jagger-Tarzan
Charlie Dixon sure could though. But we don't have to worry about that happening. Or rather, the opposition doesn't have to worry about that happening.
Reckon 2015 against gws at home was last game. When Wingard kicked those 2 in a row...
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2017 - 28 points vs Swans R1
2016 - 23 points vs Suns R23
2015 - 3 points vs Collingwood R15
http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_match_statistics?mid=6081
2016 - 23 points vs Suns R23
2015 - 3 points vs Collingwood R15
http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_match_statistics?mid=6081
- Apr 10, 2014
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Collingwood 2015
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When Hodges put us into the grand final ... well it feels like that. We certainly lack a mentality like his though ... or like the coach that built him that way.
- Jul 1, 2014
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Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on M-T-V
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
'Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on M-T-V
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
'Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
RussellEbertHandball
Flick pass expert
The Phil Walsh game. We have chocked since then. Did it take the murder of a club life member to toughen us up enough to hang on?? If so that's pathetic.
- Apr 27, 2008
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North 2015
Hawks 2015
Crows 2015 (it felt closer than the scores let on)
Collingwood 2015
The choke had already started. We were saved by the clock.
Hawks 2015
Crows 2015 (it felt closer than the scores let on)
Collingwood 2015
The choke had already started. We were saved by the clock.
This was a close game ......
And was our best comeback ever...........
Honestly my thought is that if we can't lift another 10-15% to scrap close wins in ordinary regular season games, then we don't have the mentality to win finals games.
TRashtalk
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It's a really worrying trend that we haven't been able to win any close games in such a long time...
On the flipside, we've lost FAR TOO MANY!!
Other sides must look at this recent trend and know that if it's tight...we'll some how find a way to lose.
When the game is up for grabs, our players will either :
Not stick a crucial tackle,
Needlessly go to ground on the last line of defence to allow a forward to waltz into goal,
Slip over,
Create a fatal turnover through a basic skill error or....
Miss an easy set shot for goal.
It's amazing how far the modern game has come yet kicking for goal has dead-set gone backwards.
All the resources spent on fitness/dietitians/travel arrangements/tactics but teams still kick appallingly for goals when it counts.
It cost Port on Thursday against Geelong,
It cost them again against West Coast,
It cost them again against the Crows.
Imagine what our win/loss ratio would be if we'd won these excruciatingly tight games by just getting our kicking for goals right.
NFL kickers must look at our shots for goal and just laugh.
They have all the pressure in the world on them when lining up for goals...often to win the game for their team.
(Their goals are a lot narrower than ours too.)
Maybe time to copy whatever methods they use to train their kickers.
Just gut-wrenching watching it happen week in, week out...
On the flipside, we've lost FAR TOO MANY!!
Other sides must look at this recent trend and know that if it's tight...we'll some how find a way to lose.
When the game is up for grabs, our players will either :
Not stick a crucial tackle,
Needlessly go to ground on the last line of defence to allow a forward to waltz into goal,
Slip over,
Create a fatal turnover through a basic skill error or....
Miss an easy set shot for goal.
It's amazing how far the modern game has come yet kicking for goal has dead-set gone backwards.
All the resources spent on fitness/dietitians/travel arrangements/tactics but teams still kick appallingly for goals when it counts.
It cost Port on Thursday against Geelong,
It cost them again against West Coast,
It cost them again against the Crows.
Imagine what our win/loss ratio would be if we'd won these excruciatingly tight games by just getting our kicking for goals right.
NFL kickers must look at our shots for goal and just laugh.
They have all the pressure in the world on them when lining up for goals...often to win the game for their team.
(Their goals are a lot narrower than ours too.)
Maybe time to copy whatever methods they use to train their kickers.
Just gut-wrenching watching it happen week in, week out...
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Collingwood R15 2015 at AO by 3 points was the last one we won that was under 1 goal. The game after that we lost to Adelaide by 3 points.
Overall our record of winning and losing close games is nearly exactly 50/50.
In the last 10 years we have won 15 games by less than a goal and lost 15 games by less than a goal(including Thursday).
In the last 10 years we have won 23 games by 1-3 goals and lost 22 game by 1-3 goals.
Overall our record of winning and losing close games is nearly exactly 50/50.
In the last 10 years we have won 15 games by less than a goal and lost 15 games by less than a goal(including Thursday).
In the last 10 years we have won 23 games by 1-3 goals and lost 22 game by 1-3 goals.
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If we won against Geelong we still wouldn't have won a close game for 2 years before that.
Why worry about the past? It's not going to change.
All players make a shitload of mistakes when the game has been going for 120 minutes, and there is less than a goal in it. It's so easy to focus on all our mistakes and cry about how we didn't take our chances, but did Geelong? Selwood missed from 10 metres out with a minute to go and was lucky that Dangerfield had a second chance. Touhy didn't score from a spot that he nailed a goal the same night. Whoever the **** was on Robbie Gray gave away about 40 free kicks every time the ball went near him.
Losing ****ing hurts, I felt like I'd had my stomach ripped out after that shit ****ing game, but you know what we were right in that game, even with 30 seconds to go and with only 2 midfielders we managed to get a forward entry that barely missed Robbie Gray.
We fell short this time, but we will get more chances, and we've got another close game worth of experience into 22 of our players.
Courage, and shuffle the cards Port Adelaide.
Why worry about the past? It's not going to change.
All players make a shitload of mistakes when the game has been going for 120 minutes, and there is less than a goal in it. It's so easy to focus on all our mistakes and cry about how we didn't take our chances, but did Geelong? Selwood missed from 10 metres out with a minute to go and was lucky that Dangerfield had a second chance. Touhy didn't score from a spot that he nailed a goal the same night. Whoever the **** was on Robbie Gray gave away about 40 free kicks every time the ball went near him.
Losing ****ing hurts, I felt like I'd had my stomach ripped out after that shit ****ing game, but you know what we were right in that game, even with 30 seconds to go and with only 2 midfielders we managed to get a forward entry that barely missed Robbie Gray.
We fell short this time, but we will get more chances, and we've got another close game worth of experience into 22 of our players.
Courage, and shuffle the cards Port Adelaide.
- Apr 1, 2009
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After close losses Hinkley is always "If we keep bringing that effort, we'll win more than we lose". Well the stats clearly say otherwise.
