Autopsy Swans end our 2024 season

[LeoMessi]

These players just need a new coach.

 

[Winganeen]

You sure they won't be around coz I'm not. We are talking PA & not the other 17 teams who would 100% pull the plug. There's no way Longmire or Chris Scott pick Dixon in that final. NO WAY.

What irks me is Schulz and R.Gray going a year too soon while other boneheads play on.

 

[Coobk001]

I agree with all this but I still feel that our run into the finals was a quality performance against good sides. To then put in 2 pathetic efforts in 3 of the finals is so PA under Hinkles.

SACK HINKLEY.

Yeah that's definitely the bit that hurts the most. We were rolling, and winning in games and ways we hadn't in years, and then the big lights came and we reverted straight to Hinkleyball.

 

[Teal Leviathan]

Could be I'm just projecting, but I think it's telling how muted the responses are here and elsewhere. Despite some superficial pre-game optimism, it feels like we could all see this coming, recognised it immediately as it was beginning to unfold, and knew how it was going to end. Even Ken was relaxed and waxing philosophical in his post-loss press conference. Everything that needs to be said was said weeks, months, years ago. Just going through the motions.

 

[FishingRick04]

Okay I have some more time to write this in detail.

During the Hawks game I noticed when they kicked a goal, Maccas’s came up, replay and music.

When we kicked a goal, there was no Macca’s promo or music, atmosphere for our goals to theirs was chalk and cheese.

At the Sydney game I noticed the exact same thing.

Is it a big deal probably not but it did pump up the crowd, atmosphere and would have charged the Sydney players post a goal.

However, I thought the finals being an AFl controlled game provided equality to both teams in this environment?

I thought it was a bit bogus didn’t happen for our goals, probably not something noticed if watched TV.

The overall experience was good however. DJ, singer, a lot of razz and dazzle.

 

[PAFC66]

I noticed Fraser and Richo on my flight were in casual clothes on my flight home today, no Port merch to be seen anywhere, whereas all us supporters!!!

Because they've clocked off , season is done.

 

[ctpower]

I agree that our list is pretty poor, but when your best 5 players don’t give a yelp every single final they play, it’s particularly galling.

Not often we disagree PJ but we do on this occasion.
I think our list is pretty good. It does have some holes in it but so do all teams.
The game plan and coach are our biggest flaws.

 

[PAFC66]

Okay I have some more time to write this in detail.

During the Hawks game I noticed when they kicked a goal, Maccas’s came up, replay and music.

When we kicked a goal, there was no Macca’s promo or music, atmosphere for our goals to theirs was chalk and cheese.

At the Sydney game I noticed the exact same thing.

Is it a big deal probably not but it did pump up the crowd, atmosphere and would have charged the Sydney players post a goal.

However, I thought the finals being an AFl controlled game provided equality to both teams in this environment?

I thought it was a bit bogus didn’t happen for our goals, probably not something noticed if watched TV.

The overall experience was good however. DJ, singer, a lot of razz and dazzle.

We used to do this at our home finals and opposition would complain. It is what it is. How much motivation do we need ffs

 

[FishingRick04]

We used to do this at our home finals and opposition would complain. It is what it is. How much motivation do we need ffs

I know but the AFl came over the top and made it equal.

Hell it happened at our home game.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

I thought we played OK but the gameplan and especially the forward bombing just continually killed us all game.

We had a fair amount of bad turnovers which resulted in goals

Overall our midfield was outclassed and they just stuck to their system and exploited us whenever they could.

 

[PAFC66]

If they wanted to be completely neutral they wouldn't have let us play NTUA over the speakers?

 

[ahneadearut]

Not often we disagree PJ but we do on this occasion.
I think our list is pretty good. It does have some holes in it but so do all teams.
The game plan and coach are our biggest flaws.

Na. Give me the holes in the GWS, Bris, Sydney or Geelong teams right now as they stand. I don't see any Narkles,Rats,Dixons,Jed's,Frankie's on their playing lists that are competing in these finals.
Having said that, I agree that we do have issues with a certain coach.

 

[tribey]

Okay I have some more time to write this in detail.

During the Hawks game I noticed when they kicked a goal, Maccas’s came up, replay and music.

When we kicked a goal, there was no Macca’s promo or music, atmosphere for our goals to theirs was chalk and cheese.

At the Sydney game I noticed the exact same thing.

Is it a big deal probably not but it did pump up the crowd, atmosphere and would have charged the Sydney players post a goal.

However, I thought the finals being an AFl controlled game provided equality to both teams in this environment?

I thought it was a bit bogus didn’t happen for our goals, probably not something noticed if watched TV.

The overall experience was good however. DJ, singer, a lot of razz and dazzle.

1) Why do we need to play music after goals? We’re not a Queensland club or a Melbourne minnow forcing ‘atmosphere’ in an echoing cavern that’s too big for them.

2) They scrapped the finals stadium neutrality after we got special dispensation to play NTUA before the 2014 Elimination Final and they realised how stupid the prior rule was.

 

[melanChronic]

Biggest worry from the last two finals series is the way the team seems to give up prematurely. Half time in both the QF and the PF we were still in with a sniff but the body language and resultant third quarter shellackings were of a team that had already checked out.

Unless everything is perfect and the game is played on Port's terms, we are shot. There is no way for things to turn around as the system is completely inflexible and we rely on individual brilliance to change momentum. I thought Rozee's goal in the second quarter could do that but noone was able to follow that up. When our stars are down (or subbed out as with Butters in the QF) then the team loses their bundle and the emotion sags out of the contest.

 

[PJ Power]

Not often we disagree PJ but we do on this occasion.
I think our list is pretty good. It does have some holes in it but so do all teams.
The game plan and coach are our biggest flaws.

No doubt the game plan and coaches are THE recurring issue. Equally, I don’t want to see a finals forward line with any of Dixon, Ratugolea, Evans and Narkle in it again.

Even Mead, whom I haven’t given up all hope on, needs to pose something of a scoreboard threat. He played half forward all year and I can’t remember the last goal he kicked. The set shot snap from the boundary line in the second quarter was an amateur attempt at goal. Embarrassing for a so-called highly skilled player.

 

[PA88]

Because they've clocked off , season is done.

Because they've gone stealth

 

[FishingRick04]

1) Why do we need to play music after goals? We’re not a Queensland club or a Melbourne minnow forcing ‘atmosphere’ in an echoing cavern that’s too big for them.

2) They scrapped the finals stadium neutrality after we got special dispensation to play NTUA before the 2014 Elimination Final and they realised how stupid the prior rule was.

So why were Hawks getting. Music here after their goals but not ours?

 

[Waspy79]

I feel bad for the people that wasted their money going across. I was never prepared to do something like that knowing the near inevitable failure was always so likely, but those people were sucked in again and wasted thousands.

*hundreds

And I did get to meet BigFooty poster Lefti (?). That was probably the highlight of an otherwise miserable night at the footy surrounded by South Melbourne fans thinking they support a club from Sydney.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Rampe gets away with a fine for a very clear elbow to Butter's face

 

[Brian McGee]

Rampe gets away with a fine for a very clear elbow to Butter's face

The problem here is that he did everything wrong that Houston didn’t do, except cause a concussion. Late hit to the head of a guy who had already disposed of the ball and bumped with a raised elbow vs a tucked in arm to a player that had the ball. There is no argument that they don’t suspend on outcome now. If he did this same action to Marshall it’s 4-5 weeks because the result would be different.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

The problem here is that he did everything wrong that Houston didn’t do, except cause a concussion. Late hit to the head of a guy who had already disposed of the ball and bumped with a raised elbow vs a tucked in arm to a player that had the ball. There is no argument that they don’t suspend on outcome now. If he did this same action to Marshall it’s 4-5 weeks because the result would be different.

Butters being able to react to it helped Rampe.

Which is ironic because Sydney and other teams are clearly instructed to rough up Butters.

 

[rogerjames]

With the quotes from our captain I feel like our club is running a child care centre. It's so embarassing.

 

[Interstater]

Haven’t you worked it out ye, you are the perennial runner ups

WAIT

Port has become the

GLENELG. OF THE AFL

Not surprised with the Cornes boys so entrenched at the club with Kochie and Kenny

At least you will always be competitive




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And you are South Adelaide.

I'm much more pissed off today than yesterday.

Was pissed off when I heard that Koch had dribbled shit not once but twice.
During the game I had no expectations, and could tell a few minutes in that the intensity was way below the Hawthorn game.

Frustrated that the same single shitty gameplan is rolled out again.
Frustrated that our forward line is TRASH.
Shitty that I already know that a Ken coached 2025 is more of the same.
Pissed off that this clown has exceeded Mark Williams games with zero premierships and is still cockroaching it.

So done with being gaslit by Melbourne media to love Kenny.
Annoyed that Rozee sounds like Cassisi, absolutely soft.
Don't want to hear about how proud you are, you lost.

The club is so divorced from the expectations of generations of supporters, its mind rotting.

Reap what you sow fkwits.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Biggest worry from the last two finals series is the way the team seems to give up prematurely. Half time in both the QF and the PF we were still in with a sniff but the body language and resultant third quarter shellackings were of a team that had already checked out.

Unless everything is perfect and the game is played on Port's terms, we are shot. There is no way for things to turn around as the system is completely inflexible and we rely on individual brilliance to change momentum. I thought Rozee's goal in the second quarter could do that but noone was able to follow that up. When our stars are down (or subbed out as with Butters in the QF) then the team loses their bundle and the emotion sags out of the contest.

I am still getting over the second half against Geelong, 20 points down in a home final against one of the weaker teams in the 8 and we just give up.
That is all about a shit culture.

 

[kranky al]

Do you guys maybe think that it’s not just the team and Ken Hinkley might hold some responsibility for the fact that you guys don’t do well in finals?