Preview Trial game - Crows V Port - 5pm Friday 23 Feb at Alberton Oval
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Not prime Buddy, he was a one of a kind freak speed wise for his size
Bryce Gibbs with the slow trot toward goal.....if he read the play better and put in effort he could have got to the goal line.
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That was old Buddy though. 2007 Buddy was something even greater. There's a reason he kicked the century.
While it’s really just a matter of opinions, I think Port has a strong case for being a benchmark:
- Rozee and Butters, both chosen in the AA last year, and either could be potential Brownlow medallists in the next few years.
- Horne-Francis, still learning his craft after only 2 seasons, but from what I’ve seen of him, it’s not too ridiculous to think he may well win a Brownlow if he keeps this trajectory.
- Wines, a prior Brownlow medallist. Likely to be on the decline, but he’s still no slouch with the bullocking work
- Drew not attacking as the others but probably one of the best taggers in the game, I really rate his defensive work with the tackling.
The fact we can match it with Port’s mids in the recent trial match is a good sign of our improving midfield.
Disagree. Keane had both his arms free and was spinning himself. Hard to tell what would have happened.
SPP had other options and chose to lean his shoulder in.
Both butters and Rozee still not at their peak last year remember. Look at butters on the weekend. He's a freak who almost just does whatever he likes.
I'm confident they will have the best midfield in the comp by the end of the year with Horne's improvement. That's a midfield we can only dream of having.
This is underrating their 2023. Butters was already playing like that last year.
Butters already was clearly BOG in many games, Rozee not far behind. Both were All-Australian.
How much better do you expect them to get?
I don’t think we won those 2 games from necessarily the better midfield, but more likely from a stronger forward threat, and our defenders had matched well with their forwards.
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Butters was awesome last season.
For much of it he was one of the best players in the competition.
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Imo, we have more midfield depth.
Given our respective forward lines, we just need similar forward entries & we should score more.
Probably not much better, relatively speaking. But we gotta look at how long they both can sustain their peak, and at this stage, it could easily be the next 5 years or more.
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He was much better when he worked with Sammy J
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Proceed with caution my friend. I was glowing of Port’s midfield a few years ago and this board assumed I had to be a Port fan.
Agree with this. RT has such great speed and endurance which he should be using to his advantage. He is such a threat when leading up the wings and provides a great avenue when we are coming out of defence. I don't want him confined only to the forward 50. Let him roam up the ground and run his defender into the ground.
Powa deliberately taking the pi$$ on their official website match report? Or just typical Alberton IQ levels perhaps.
A couple of late goals to Ned McHenry and Josh Rechelle had the Crows back to within ten points at the second break.
The sides continued to trade goals, including a second for Burton from an identical position 55 metres out and a neat set shot by Jeremy Finlayson getting his first minutes of the pre-season after missing the intra club a week earlier with shin soreness.
A controversial late goal to Izaak Rankine,
A couple of late goals to Ned McHenry and Josh Rechelle had the Crows back to within ten points at the second break.
The sides continued to trade goals, including a second for Burton from an identical position 55 metres out and a neat set shot by Jeremy Finlayson getting his first minutes of the pre-season after missing the intra club a week earlier with shin soreness.
A controversial late goal to Izaak Rankine,
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No one would ever accuse John of being a port fan.
Not sure why they’d accuse me either.
That’s the nature of online, haters will say and accuse you of whatever. Sometimes they use dislikes and laughing emojis too.
Their posts will be a tangent to whatever you say, because they frankly won’t care what you say but interested in stirring drama. That’s my pro-tip on this forum.
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