Player Watch Welcome to Port Adelaide Brandon Zerk-Thatcher

[Launchpad McQuack]

He seems ok.

Settle down. He was only playing a Hinkley-coached Port Adelaide.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Played a blinder by the looks, and held out Charlie one on one.

 

[Jello_B]

Settle down. He was only playing a Hinkley-coached Port Adelaide.

Yer I’m really unsettled with “he seems ok”

 

[shewho]

Also he has a basketball background and his dad kicked 9 goals on debut.

Well, one dad got 5 on debut and the other got 4.

 

[1954]

Same feedback we're getting for Esava. The same issue we already have with Aliir. We already have about 5 others capable of playing on the 3rd tall. Looks like our list management team have done a cracking job of fixing our biggest list hole

You would hope Ratogulea will be able to at least body up against the gorillas and bring the ball to ground.
Some good defensive coaching may help, but that is assuming the club is going to appoint some one `good' to the role, and not just another in house leftover.

Obviously no guarantees with either him or BZT but at least we do have some height in defence now, unlike the bad old days when Carlile was our tallest defender in a game against geebung, and Podsiadly who was playing the 3rd tall fwd role in that game could have rested his chin on the top of Tom Clurey's head.

 

[pstew2dstew]

You would hope Ratogulea will be able to at least body up against the gorillas and bring the ball to ground.
Some good defensive coaching may help, but that is assuming the club is going to appoint some one `good' to the role, and not just another in house leftover.

Obviously no guarantees with either him or BZT but at least we do have some height in defence now, unlike the bad old days when Carlile was our tallest defender in a game against geebung, and Podsiadly who was playing the 3rd tall fwd role in that game could have rested his chin on the top of Tom Clurey's head.

Esa is 108kg my man's a beast.

I didn't realise he was that big. For reference I believe Hawkins is 103kg

Jonas 84kgs

 

[RossFC]

Lmao he destroyed Dixon in those highlights haha

Dixon's 2 goals on BZT in a minute on the day.

 

[Coobk001]

BZT vs Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval this year.

Must be missing any bad moments, because if that was his entire game then he was outstanding.

 

[Coobk001]

Dixon's 2 goals on BZT in a minute on the day.

#balance

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Dixon's 2 goals on BZT in a minute on the day.

Sure, buddy.

 

[RossFC]

Must be missing any bad moments, because if that was his entire game then he was outstanding.

It was highlights, not total game.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Heated discussion Dodo and Player manager

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/extremely-heated-incident-behind-closed-doors-at-afl-trade-period-meeting/news-story/c8515214af4a287b77e0b7a394120304?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=news.com.au+Sport&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers&mibextid=2JQ9oc#lnxx7c4r5e5zex1y2e

 

[1954]

Esa is 108kg my man's a beast.

I didn't realise he was that big. For reference I believe Hawkins is 103kg

Jonas 84kgs

Agreed, 108 kgs is a very good size, particularly for someone with Esava's height and athleticism.

The 84 kgs for Jonas can't be right, I would have thought he was mid 90's at least, by comparison I'm about 4 or 5 cms shorter than him and at 93 kgs about average size.

 

[pstew2dstew]

Agreed, 108 kgs is a very good size, particularly for someone with Esava's height and athleticism.

The 84 kgs for Jonas can't be right, I would have thought he was mid 90's at least, by comparison I'm about 4 or 5 cms shorter than him and at 93 kgs about average size.

Hmm you're right wiki has Jonas at 89kgs?

Aliir is 90kg which seems off
Charlie is at 107kgs

But if Esa is 108kg I do believe we have been lacking that type in our backing for a long time

 

[Grave Danger]

Heated discussion Dodo and Player manager

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/extremely-heated-incident-behind-closed-doors-at-afl-trade-period-meeting/news-story/c8515214af4a287b77e0b7a394120304?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=news.com.au+Sport&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers&mibextid=2JQ9oc#lnxx7c4r5e5zex1y2e

CEO intervention: How Essendon & Port Adelaide trade talks almost fell away

“In the end, Port just said give us whatever else you’ve got… that got the deal done.”

www.sen.com.au

 

[Finest of Wines]

BZT vs Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval this year.

He is going to terrorise a few forwards I reckon

 

[Duck Farmer]

Not sure if it has been mentioned here at all but Zerk won the reverse coleman.

Would've come second if Georgiades' dad didn't kick 8 on him in the same game that Boak broke the PAFC AFL games record.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

his nickname is Margaret if anyone is wondering

Perhaps we could switch it up a bit and call him Falklands.

 

[SC_Power]

Not sure if it has been mentioned here at all but Zerk won the reverse coleman.

Commonly known as the Name Loc.

 

[afl2004]

Margaret Roller Thatcher

 

[SC_Power]

Defensive one on one contests per game vs percentage of contests lost:

Exhibit A

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vs

Exhibit B

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Of course, Exhibit B is Aliir, Zerk-Thatcher and Ratugolea. Exhibit A is 2017 Richmond (Rance et al).

Richmond's defence went at a ratio of losing one contest in every 5. In their teams, our new defence went at a clip of losing one contest every 3, but I'm expecting that to fall to 1 in every 4.

How does that extrapolate to a game average?

Adding up the Richmond tallies indicate 15 one on ones per game.
Losing 1 in 5 (Richmond) means losing 3 per game
Losing 1 in 4 (Port Adel) means losing slightly under 4 per game.
Negligible really.

I'm less concerned with where we lose them, which I suspect is more central on the field than on the boundary, and hence far more costly.

 

[SC_Power]

Margaret Roller Thatcher

Definitely a Roller.

 

[simba_]

Welcome Random Jerk-Dispatcher hahahahahahfafa

 

[jakey]

CEO intervention: How Essendon & Port Adelaide trade talks almost fell away

“In the end, Port just said give us whatever else you’ve got… that got the deal done.”

www.sen.com.au

So we held the cards, there was a stalemate and we caved. FMD we're so soft in trade week.

 

[longdonkey]

I understand that Zerk-Thatcher is an improvement on 2023 Jonas but is he going to be better than peak Jonas (when of course we couldn't win a premiership) ditto Lycett v Soldo and Hayes v Sweet and we are minus X.

So I am afraid you are mistaken about this being the missing piece.