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As it has been said already tonight, an honourable result, and loss. Unfortunatly, honourable defeats don't mean much on the AFL ladder, and in the fight for the flag. I thought the lads did well for a team that is missing about 7/8 of its regular starting 18. And then lost Tredders and yeah yeah early on.
Port will just have to dig deeper, and cover the losses.
It will be nice to have sniper, carr and maybe kingsley back next week. Then Burgers the week after, and maybe Wilbur too.
Something tells me Port are going to have to grind out a few wins until about Rd 6/7, and then when they have their best side out there (bar Josh), start to really kick up a gear. if they can tread water until then, and still pick up 3/4 wins, then they will be on target to come home with a wet sail.
having said all that, and even with the injury hassles of tonight, straight kicking wins games. We missed 3/4 easyish shots, that should have been taken. We kick them we win, we dont, and we lose. Its that simple. Good sides kick them. The umpires didnt help, by not rewarding good tackling, and paying soft ones in front of goal for brisbane.but, that happens every week. we should be use to it.
hawks wont be easy, but is a must win. if not just for premiership points, but for some long lost winning confidence.
dreamkillers
6 Apr 2003, 03:33
Originally posted by chris17
As it has been said already tonight, an honourable result, and loss. Unfortunatly, honourable defeats don't mean much on the AFL ladder, and in the fight for the flag. I thought the lads did well for a team that is missing about 7/8 of its regular starting 18. And then lost Tredders and yeah yeah early on.
Port will just have to dig deeper, and cover the losses.
It will be nice to have sniper, carr and maybe kingsley back next week. Then Burgers the week after, and maybe Wilbur too.
Something tells me Port are going to have to grind out a few wins until about Rd 6/7, and then when they have their best side out there (bar Josh), start to really kick up a gear. if they can tread water until then, and still pick up 3/4 wins, then they will be on target to come home with a wet sail.
having said all that, and even with the injury hassles of tonight, straight kicking wins games. We missed 3/4 easyish shots, that should have been taken. We kick them we win, we dont, and we lose. Its that simple. Good sides kick them. The umpires didnt help, by not rewarding good tackling, and paying soft ones in front of goal for brisbane.but, that happens every week. we should be use to it.
hawks wont be easy, but is a must win. if not just for premiership points, but for some long lost winning confidence.
I think after tonight's effort I'm quite confident of the team's ability to come out and notch some wins against Hawthorn, Carlton, Adelaide and Richmond.
After a slow start to the season we did enough tonight to show things have turned around and if we were playing any other side tonight it would have been a different result.
The umpires were ordinary again but no-where near as one sided as last week.
Mudholian
6 Apr 2003, 09:34
I thought everyone had a real go and I see nothing wrong with the attitude. I see a lot of mistakes that cannnot be accounted for by pressure. The errors are symptomatic of the losing mentality.
Most players could get on the "acceptable/promising" to "outstanding" list, but a couple of disapp0pointments.
Surely Guerra must so more now that he's had the experience. To see new players work harder and get more ball is a worry. And Pickett, much hustle and bustle when involved but there's not enough involvement
Good, in fact a great effort by Nick Stevens and a great start by Chad Cornes tonight. Good showings from Poulton, ****y, S.Burgoyne and Primus. Thurstans did well in defence except for that one kick in the second. On the plus side was the character, pressure and raised skill level. On the downside,the kicking and the injuries. Even with the season-ending injury to Zappa, had Tredrea not been injured, Cornes could have continued to wield his influence, as Leppitsch would have been otherwise occupied. But I don't want Port to be a team of coodabeen champions. The last 8 minutes we had a chance and we blew it. Not just bad kicking but from about 23 minutes the ball stayed in the Lions forward line. And as has been the case for at least all of the games I've seen a short period blew it for us. In this case it was two, early in the second quarter when Brisbane picked up 3 cheap goals, and later in that same quarter when they ran us ragged for 4 unanswered goals.
Poulton has heart, and games like last night's is the #1 reason to keep him in the 22.
Guerra's game I would've needed to see at the game to appreciate fully, but when he came on onto Luke Power, didn't Power suddenly stop doing much at all?
Pickett has been disappointing, maybe a preseason heavy on developing physical aspects of the game has been wasted on him, when he really needed to be getting his fitness levels a lot higher.
Ford Fairlane
6 Apr 2003, 13:48
Originally posted by Porthos
Poulton has heart, and games like last night's is the #1 reason to keep him in the 22.
Absolutely! Poults suffers cos everyone sweats on him making a mistake and when he does they (we :o) all say "See, he's done it again!" ... while his 10-15 disposals beforehand that hit a target are all forgotten. Lyle turned the ball over a lot more than Poults but seems to be almost universally adored ...
i agree about Lyle..
Poults is a definite in our starting 18. He has earnt that with last year's effort.
When port dropped Poults i think it was a wake up call to him, he has improved so much since then. I would keep him in the 22..