Autopsy Swans end our 2024 season

[powerrrrrrrrrrrr]

Dixon is a flipping disgrace now. Hope he never plays another game. Not even an sanfl standard player now. He’s just embarrassing.

 

[Coobk001]

That loss was every bit as bad as the Geelong loss.


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100%.

 

[TeeKray]

As a club 0-4 in away prelims, 56, 44, 36 point losses and 1 really brilliant 3 point loss. Just shows how near impossible it is to win an away prelim, yet we've coughed up 2 of them.

This is wrong. It shows how near impossible it is for us to win an away prelim, others have no problem. For example ...

'03 Brisbane d Sydney
'04 Brisbane d Geelong
'05 Sydney d St Kilda
'06 West Coast d Adelaide
'15 Hawthorn d Fremantle
'16 Sydney d Geelong
'16 Bulldogs d GWS
'19 GWS d Collingwood
'20 Richmond d Port
'20 Geelong d Brisbane
'21 Bulldogs d Port

11 times in 22 seasons with the strong possibility of another tomorrow. A very high number considering that plenty of prelims are neutral games between two Victorian teams. Our inability to win finals of any sort against any opposition at any venue with any coach and any group of players is unique and stark.

 

[Ported]

If only we had a bit of luck

 

[gbear]

Yet another wasted season

 

[PAFC66]

G'day, I come in peace, I hope you don't mind me sharing a view..

I don't reckon Hinkley's Port teams are far off Glory at all - but Ken himself needs to recognize when and where he should be backing his experienced players.

Charlie Dixon hasn't been quite the AFL mean for a KF for a while now.
Not sure why he is being persisted with.

Ollie Wines/Travis Boak - time to move on.

I'm not sure what the club is doing with Ratugolea; I see the potential just like Chris Scott and Kenny H have seen, but he needs to be deployed very specifically, much like Blicavs (who was questioned heavily prior to his 2022 Premiership medal).

Can't have the likes of Frank Evans as your sub in a Preliminary Final moving forward; that's just poor list management.

We're gonna get pumped in a GF and you guys can come on our board and humbly suggest means of improvement.

You won't even make the GF

 

[Coobk001]

Off of the Boak turnovers, and onto Mead. I mean Mead has been terrible the whole back part of the year, what I don't get, is for such a natural footballer, that's probably grown up kicking balls in his sleep, how is he such a BAD kick! The amount of balls that slide off his boot is just ridiculous. He's supposed to be a good kick and if he wants to play, he needs to be far more effective. Right now he is nowhere near it.

 

[hammo24]

Never want to see Burton and boak in the side again, literally killed the momentum at the start and they never looked back.

forward line has some serious issues also

 

[MrMeaner]

If only we had a bit of luck

I think it’s a bit off to wish for lightning to hit Koch and Hinkley.

 

[FishingRick04]

Nice night to sit and watch footy for the first time at the SCG, nice oval. I can see higher up is better.

Boak and Dixon rubbish. I may cop this but Drew lacks a bit in finals. But so do a lot.

Sydney played 4 forwards high and cleared out their 50, they also collapsed deep back into our 50 knowing we would bomb it.

Once again, why didn’t we have music and athmosphere on our goals like Sydney? Same with Hawks last week! Strange.

It’s a real shame we are a Vic club where we get 10 free ins row and frees infront of goals to help us reclaim momentum.

Sydney’s dead eye conversion put the first nail in our coffin.

Alir a beast, you will still my girlfriend I suspect, she loves you!

 

[JUSTWORK]

Yet another wasted season

We get to do it all again next year

 

[Coobk001]

Not a port supporter but thought Boak was clearly Sydney's best

Fixed for you

 

[johnnysix]

This is what we do. We loose. We know the coach sucks and the reason we lost is his dumbarse game plan that he keeps flogging like the ghost of phar lap, but because we all know that there'll be no change there we start going in on players who have been great players for us even though there's ample evidence that the "system" we played tonight hasn't worked with squads of different players over the years and would make Gary Abblett Jnr look ordinary. I can't judge anyone until Ken is gone.

 

[Cursed Cat]

4000% disagree on Boak and Wines.
Your comment is clearly based on 1 game, not the whole season

100% agree with the rest of your post

You think Boak should go on?

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Off of the Boak turnovers, and onto Mead. I mean Mead has been terrible the whole back part of the year, what I don't get, is for such a natural footballer, that's probably grown up kicking balls in his sleep, how is he such a BAD kick! The amount of balls that slide off his boot is just ridiculous. He's supposed to be a good kick and if he wants to play, he needs to be far more effective. Right now he is nowhere near it.

Inaccurate, loopy kicks, and has no distance. I just don't get it.

And it's not like his kicking technique is cooked like Esava.

 

[Willsy10]

Imagine thinking boak played well, have another look in the replay and come back to us. I’ve always liked boak but you can’t play any worse than he did.


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[Cursed Cat]

You won't even make the GF

probably not - we've rolled Brisbane twice in PF's; a third time with a pretty thin list would be pushing it/

 

[Willsy10]

And other contenders for Wog, BZT wtf was that from him? Jesus Christ he was useless.


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[Doctor Feel]

Thank **** thats the last we'll see of Dixon. Hope we change enough around the club that he never comes back. **** Chadbro off too. Guess the fans were right after all.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Thank ** thats the last we'll see of Dixon. Hope we change enough around the club that he never comes back. ** Chadbro off too.

Dixon and Chad being best mates outside the club is a conflict that no one talks about

 

[Coobk001]

As much as I am pissed off, there are some positives. Sweet has been massive in the ruck as the year has gone on, Jase Burgoyne been great, Jones improving and George has had a great season. With a decent coach and game plan, we have the core of a good young side.

We made a prelim on the back of talent, not game plan.

We clearly have talent.

 

[MALTSY]

Off of the Boak turnovers, and onto Mead. I mean Mead has been terrible the whole back part of the year, what I don't get, is for such a natural footballer, that's probably grown up kicking balls in his sleep, how is he such a BAD kick! The amount of balls that slide off his boot is just ridiculous. He's supposed to be a good kick and if he wants to play, he needs to be far more effective. Right now he is nowhere near it.

Lorenz would have offered more tonight

 

[Willsy10]

Thank ** thats the last we'll see of Dixon. Hope we change enough around the club that he never comes back. ** Chadbro off too. Guess the fans were right after all.

Dixon wasn’t even in our top 10 worst players on the ground. But yeah it’s time, but there were far worse players than him out there tonight.


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[Lefti93]

That did not feel like a 36 point loss. **** me we were aids.

 

[Teal Leviathan]

I love Boak and he's been a solid contributor this year, including tonight, but those horrible turnovers and failure to convert opportunities are consistent features of his game that again reared their ugly head tonight, and again raise the question of whether it's time for him and the club to move on. But if we were to move past Boak, who are we putting games into in his place? How many young players are really knocking on the door demanding selection?