Autopsy Swans end our 2024 season

[Lighthouse End]

If they can bring some of that flair next week they'll give Geelong a shake.

Err.. no.
Champagne's already in the cooler ready to go in readiness for Groundhog Day. Easy kill.
In the extremely unlikely event that Brisbane get up, same result.
Whoever wins will rip them a new one.

Really sad end for Port tonight. Deserved better. Seems to me that the biggest issue is delivery into the forward line - the high bombs give the forwards no hope and there seems to be no structure going forward.

 

[Coobk001]

Ken:

All the prelims are so far apart, you can't draw a correlation, we had 11 different players from our last prelim, we had a whole new coaching group, etc.


Well I guess that means the reason why we keep losing in the same manner, despite all the change must be the coach then? Hey Ken?

What a ****ing numbnut. You can replace all the parts in an old car, but if you're still running with the samecar at the end of the day nothing is changing. We need to park the old piece of shit, and try something new.

 

[Kenny_Powers]

Really, a lot of people got behind this game, but the warning signs were there. Rozees interview after the Hawks win, Kens "we need a bit of luck" comment about winning a prelim. Koch telling Niall Kens locked in for next year.

The teams mentality would've been all over the place.




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[PAFC66]

Ken shifting the blame. It's "all our fault" hahaha

I don't kick it for them

 

[ClintEastwood]

Such a pleasure to listen to an intelligent, measured coach like Longmire, Scott, etc, even after a loss.

What a contrast to our bumbling, mumbling, waste of space.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Random but why was Boak playing at half back lmao

As highlighted by fox footy 2 weeks ago, sides are dragging him into defence and watching him squeeze, fumble, fall over or panic kick.

They realize he’s cooked, everybody does except for kenny and trav

 

[PAFC66]

Butters in the post match just now “Kenny also said to be proud with the season”

Just **** off you pissweak loser

That's ****ing gross.

 

[gtrxuone]

Couldn't believe the ball just kept landing in Boakes, hands
And he just kept kicking it to Sydney's players.

 

[Chrizzt]

Zac is a downhill skier.

Don’t want him traded yet but I’d like another coach to try and turn it around.

Can only play one of him and Rozee in the midfield. One of them either needs to shift up forward or get traded out.

 

[PAFC66]

Butters was shit.

 

[Lighthouse End]

Sydney is so shit.

Edited for accuracy.
Absolute rat race of a place, transport links are atrocious, funnel web spiders in your bed, everything costs and arm and a leg, the weather sucks, the beer is crap, the wine is worse, and the people are arrogant, self assured flogs. That's not even mentioning the AFL club that is a national disgrace.

 

[Powerage]

It might not be at the core of our issues and yes this stat is caused partly because of the snaps and shots we have to take as a result of Hinkleyball. Still it is an unacceptable stat if you expect to win finals. It kills us time and time again and has done for years

Most importantly it is something that could be improved if we got in someone qualified NOT Chad Cornes and actually worked on it.

 

[Bay62]

Ken:

All the prelims are so far apart, you can't draw a correlation, we had 11 different players from our last prelim, we had a whole new coaching group, etc.


Well I guess that means the reason why we keep losing in the same manner, despite all the change must be the coach then? Hey Ken?

What a ****ing numbnut. You can replace all the parts in an old car, but if you're still running with the samecar at the end of the day nothing is changing. We need to park the old piece of shit, and try something new.

If only a journo would think to ask “So the only things that haven’t changed are 1. Losing and 2. You - right Ken?”

 

[Windy Cindy]

You can predict what will happen

They will talk the year up as a success and make no chances to the staff, keep the gameplan and double down on the hacks we have in our team..

We won’t see this prick for the next 3 months..

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

**** I hate the club we’ve become.

I hate who runs it. Absolute C graders in their respective roles.

 

[GremioPower]

No one that Hinkley has touched should be trusted.

We need a full clean out.

The next chairman needs to “wander through the desert for 40 years”, until everyone who had played under Hinkley is gone.

We cannot reach the “Promised Land” otherwise.

 

[x_les_x]

Thought for some reason that this year would be different, that this year we would finally make it to the granny. We have JHF but even that is not enough

Dixon
Ratugolea
Mead
Narkle
Boak
Burton
Francis Evans

all dont belong on a list and we are stuck with at least 4-5 of them for another 2-3 years

Perryman Luko Cumming Richards
SPP Farrell Finlayson ?Marshall

Those names dont really stick out on paper to bring us that extra step forward when the midfield of Wines/Rozee/Butters/JHF (he gets a bit of leeway because it was his first final) just dont stack up again Heeney/Warner/Gulden/Rowbottom who are in the same age brackets

 

[Coobk001]

Longmire calling out the fact their method was good and what won it. That's precisely correct. 1 team had a quality game plan the other went back to our old failing gameplan that has failed for 10 years.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

So we're shit in finals as the favourite and as the underdogs.

Glad we got the clarification.

 

[Sewer de Lance]

Just not good enough in so many departments. From the moment Boak did what he normally does, Sydney took full control & seemed to have another gear in reserve.

We all know what the problems are & until the club finds the courage to bring in meaningful change we’ll never surpass this level.

President, Coaching panel, & list depth just not good enough.

 

[powerrrrrrrrrrrr]

Watching Rozee live, he’s not a midfielder. He’s a forward.

He is weak in the contest. Has no defensive ability and leaves his man free every contest. Unless he gets the ball, he absolutely kills us.

Needs to play forward.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Watching Rozee live, he’s not a midfielder. He’s a forward.

He is weak in the contest. Has no defensive ability and leaves his man free every contest. Unless he gets the ball, he absolutely kills us.

Needs to play forward.

Aaand then back to what everyone complained about him when he did play forward

 

[TeeKray]

Sydney just worked the ball from end to end with short kicks to absolute perfection. It was almost beautiful to watch how precise their kicking was and how clean their marking was. We had no answers and they just pulled us apart.

Basically everyone was below par but there were a few who were truly horrendous. Zerk-Thatcher was just a disaster. Bergman played arguably his worst game ever. Fumbly, couldn't break a tackle, couldn't spoil or hold a mark. Where did that rubbish come from? Mead, Ratugolea and Byrne-Jones gave us absolutely nothing (14 possessions between that trio).

Aliir pretty much the only player who enhanced his reputation in any way.

And so ends another disastrous finals campaign that has practically come to define the essence of what our club is all about. Minor round heroes, major round flops.

 

[Coobk001]

Apparently we came with the same intent as Sydney. Lol

Could see 5 mins in we came in with zero intensity.

 

[Portmagpies36]

If only a journo would think to ask “So the only things that haven’t changed are 1. Losing and 2. You - right Ken?”

A cows supporter commenting on losing, give me a spell.