West Coast or Adelaide - Who is better placed?

[1990crow]

Both won't make the 8. Few injuries to the both of them and they are nothing.

What does that make Port then? Less than nothing?

 

[Forward Press]

Breaking news: Injuries to key players causes team's performance to suffer.

More at 11.

 

[lmach]

Haven't read the whole thread but IMO, Adelaide is better placed. West Coast could make the 8 this year but have no chance of a flag with their current list so I wouldn't be surprised if they "plan for the future" a bit and load up for a shot post the retirement of Glass, Cox, etc

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We don't need a rebuild; the majority of our list haven't even hit their prime yet. We're a very young side with a lot of talent. I wouldn't be surprised if we're pushing for a flag in the next few years.

 

[Jay-Z]

We don't need a rebuild; the majority of our list haven't even hit their prime yet. We're a very young side with a lot of talent. I wouldn't be surprised if we're pushing for a flag in the next few years.

That may be true but your push into the top 4 in 2012 was largely off the back of the form of your veterans. Hence I think you'll need to do a mini-rebuild ala Collingwood before challenging again

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[PAFC666]

What does that make Port then? Less than nothing?

Pretty confident we can easily beat both. We have a deeper squad than both of them.

 

[PAFC666]

Breaking news: Injuries to key players causes team's performance to suffer.

More at 11.

Take out your best player say nic nat you'd struggle to beat many. Take out ours like Boak or wingard and we go
deeper..your depth is pretty poor

 

[Forward Press]

Take out your best player say nic nat you'd struggle to beat many. Take out ours like Boak or wingard and we go
deeper..your depth is pretty poor

How did Port go in 2012?

 

[Go the Guts]

Pretty confident we can easily beat both. We have a deeper squad than both of them.

Um...yeah. We'll see.

 

[PAFC666]

How did Port go in 2012?

Terrible.. still very raw and coached terribly. Whole different reasons as to why we were crap other than injuries.

Your 2011 and 2012 years are still coming up. You'll bottom out like everyone.

 

[Forward Press]

Terrible.. still very raw and coached terribly. Whole different reasons as to why we were crap other than injuries.

Your 2011 and 2012 years are still coming up. You'll bottom out like everyone.

Then you have no evidence as to Port having greater depth than West Coast or Adelaide, if you're going to attribute your poorer performance just two years ago to a different coach or being 'raw'. Let's see how 2014 goes, eh?

 

[Go the Guts]

Terrible.. still very raw and coached terribly. Whole different reasons as to why we were crap other than injuries.

Anyway....back on topic. There's a whole board to discuss your mob. We don't care about them in this thread thanks. (or any thread)

 

[Coaster2012]

Take out your best player say nic nat you'd struggle to beat many. Take out ours like Boak or wingard and we go
deeper..your depth is pretty poor

You can't compare losing Boak and Wingard to losing NN. If you lost your key ruck you would suffer greatly too. And to say Port has greater depth is pretty poor, you barely had a starting 22 12 months ago. I personally believe Port over achieved last year, and if you think different start a thread about it cause this ain't it.

 

[PAFC666]

ote="Forward Press, post: 31985106, member: 122334"]Then you have no evidence as to Port having greater depth than West Coast or Adelaide, if you're going to attribute your poorer performance just two years ago to a different coach or being 'raw'. Let's see how 2014 goes, eh?[/quote




Put all three midfields together and I think it's quite obvious who runs deeper. It's not just a different coach mate where have you been? A whole new fitness department, new coaches, more support financially, more confidence and our younger players are clicking at the right time. The whole football club has been revamped.

 

[PAFC666]

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You can't compare losing Boak and Wingard to losing NN. If you lost your key ruck you would suffer greatly too. And to say Port has greater depth is pretty poor, you barely had a starting 22 12 months ago. I personally believe Port over achieved last year, and if you think different start a thread about it cause this ain't it.

Alright we over - achieved. In 2012 we lost like over 10 games by under a few goals with the majority of the list out by halfway through the year. I guess your saying Wines, Wingard, Boak, Westhoff , Hartlett are all over rated then.

Kerr gone , Cox and glass soon ..Gee nit nat will be carrying abit. Hope he's worth the 10 million.. not bad for a guy with terrible disposal.

 

[Coaster2012]

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Alright we over - achieved. In 2012 we lost like over 10 games by under a few goals with the majority of the list out by halfway through the year. I guess your saying Wines, Wingard, Boak, Westhoff , Hartlett are all over rated then.

Kerr gone , Cox and glass soon ..Gee nit nat will be carrying abit. Hope he's worth the 10 million.. not bad for a guy with terrible disposal.

This is going to end well...

 

[mike123]

Adelaide with their better midfield and new forward the J-Pod and Betts

 

[lmach]

Gee nit nat will be carrying abit. Hope he's worth the 10 million.. not bad for a guy with terrible disposal

You just lost all credibility you had left, which wasn't much.

 

[Forward Press]

You just lost all credibility you had left, which wasn't much.

The user won't be able to respond to you for a while.

#biasedmods #weakcoast

 

[ok.crows]

1990crow said: ↑

As are most sides. Even when both sides are missing their best players both are better than Brisbane.​

No they aren't. Last year was a good indicator.

http://finalsiren.com/MatchDetails.asp?GameID=6251&Code=5baa50c08baf1170c3aa025d622d89f5

 

[ok.crows]

West Coast have shown significant improvement this pre season with a 3-0 record.

Adelaide have shown significant improvement this pre season with a 3-0 record.

Last year Adelaide were poor in the preseason games, and they followed it up with a poor year. The year before Adelaide won the preseason cup, and they followed it up by just missing a gf appearance by a kick.

Adelaide's form in the preseason does tend to be a fair predictor for its form in the season proper.

 

[Coaster2012]

The user won't be able to respond to you for a while.

#biasedmods #weakcoast

You didn't suspend him did you? I was really looking forward to how it played out

 

[mattymac]

Put all three midfields together and I think it's quite obvious who runs deeper. It's not just a different coach mate where have you been? A whole new fitness department, new coaches, more support financially, more confidence and our younger players are clicking at the right time. The whole football club has been revamped.

 

[ok.crows]

Pretty confident we can easily beat both. We have a deeper squad than both of them.

Port's reserves side trial game result against South in comparison to Crows' reserves side trial game result against Sturt suggests otherwise.

http://www.afc.com.au/news/2014-03-08/johnston-shines-in-sanfl-trial

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2014-03-08/magpies-draw-first-blood-over-panthers

 

[King Elvis]

We will make the 8, comfortably, if our coaching staff don't completely balls everything up again.

We were fat last year, and unfit. Jacobs was a choad, Porps the same, Reilly a chubbster, Mackay and VB not much better.

Thommo was crippled with hip/groin issues and shouldn't have been playing.

Our selections were baffling. Golden passes all over the shop.

Seriously, everything we could do wrong, we did.

They appear to have learnt from it though, and I think we're looking good for this year.

Expect us to finish around 5/6.

 

[Butler]

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Alright we over - achieved. In 2012 we lost like over 10 games by under a few goals with the majority of the list out by halfway through the year. I guess your saying Wines, Wingard, Boak, Westhoff , Hartlett are all over rated then.

Wait.. what? In 2012 Port lost one game by under 18 points as well as one draw. That's a long way off 10 games and that's even with me being generous and extending a "few goals" out to 3.

http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/tg-port-adelaide-power?year=2012