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Now, fast-forwarding to 2003...
5. Hardwick
4. Wanganeen
3. Tredrea
2. Carr
1. Paxman
5. Hardwick
4. Lade
3. Wanganeen
2. Cochrane
1. Carr
Others who could have made it were Wilson, Tredrea, Paxman
Macca19
14 Sep 2003, 10:34
5 - Hardwick
4 - Cochrane
3 - Wanganeen
2 - Tredrea
1 - Wakelin
dyertribe
14 Sep 2003, 14:12
5 - Hardwick... Sensational game.
4 - Tredrea... Crawled out of his sickbed and was still a colossus.
3 - Cochrane... James who?
2 - Wangas... Gee-whiz what a game. Scared me sh|tless twice with the Rioli clash and then the shoulder late on.
1 - Carr... Not a backward step against that spastic Barnard all night. Hurt Essendon on and off the ball.
Porthos
14 Sep 2003, 14:26
5. Cochrane
4. Hardwick
3. Wilson
2. Tredrea
1. Wakelin - one of his best for Port, I hope its not a one-off.
Beffery
14 Sep 2003, 15:45
5:- Hardwick - His best game for the club, great to see him playing in the middle and throwing his weight around. He was in his element last night.
4:- Wanganeen - Just like that "Tubthumping" song.. he got knocked down but then got up again and again!! :)
3:- Cochrane - He proved lot of us wrong. Hird could have killed us but he was not to be found last night. Did a fantastic job on such a champion.
2:- Carr - Got the ball into our forward 50 on so many occassions, had a great game.
1:- Wakelin - Like Cochrane, kept the one person that would hurt us on the score board out of the game.
Very, very unlucky - Tredders and Lade
The Floodbuster
14 Sep 2003, 16:06
Originally posted by dyertribe
5 - Hardwick... Sensational game.
4 - Tredrea... Crawled out of his sickbed and was still a colossus.
3 - Cochrane... James who?
2 - Wangas... Gee-whiz what a game. Scared me sh|tless twice with the Rioli clash and then the shoulder late on.
1 - Carr... Not a backward step against that spastic Barnard all night. Hurt Essendon on and off the ball.
Am I wrong in saying that you are started to wander back to your original club in Port Adelaide?
5 - Hardwick
4 - Wanganeen
3 - Tredrea
2 - Lade
1 - Wilson
_espoir
14 Sep 2003, 17:02
Originally posted by dyertribe
4 - Tredrea... Crawled out of his sickbed and was still a colossus.
i'm sure you know how he is feeling ;)
:p
My Votes:
5- Super Gav - what a player.
4- Dimma - He just loves those conditions and loves playing against the Bombers, lets hope his form continues, good move playing him in the midfield.
3- Lade - The glue that kept us together (a bit) lat week was still there this week. Big game Lade?
2- Tredders- great game all things considered, his illness (he sounded terrible in the postmatch interview) and the weather, undoubtable the best forward in the league.
1- Cochrane - shat all over Hird, lets hope he plays more like that rather than his Adam Kingsley impression of last week.
Very Very Very unlucky - The Pax & Carr
Unlucky - Wilbur & Wakes.
Coaching - selection - Crazy IMO but it worked (7/10) still would have liked to seen the Guru or Poults but i guess we cant argue. Gameday - Pretty standard, thought playing Dimma in the middle is the way to go, he has spent a bit of time in there in recent weeks. The tagging of Hird was brilliant but not unexpected. Would like to have seen JT dragged and given a spray. Lade was brilliantly used as was the sickboy. 8/10.
Umpiring - Again perhaps favoured us, but unlike last week it was a pretty decent display (6.5/10).
_espoir
14 Sep 2003, 17:04
Originally posted by The Floodbuster
Am I wrong in saying that you are started to wander back to your original club in Port Adelaide?
he'll feel the teal ;)
one way or another :p
_espoir
14 Sep 2003, 17:08
5 - Hardwick
4 - Tredrea
3 - Wanganeen
2 - Carr
1 - Wakelin
dont think i needa explain why!
dyertribe
14 Sep 2003, 17:50
Originally posted by The Floodbuster
Am I wrong in saying that you are started to wander back to your original club in Port Adelaide?
Call it subtle indifference...
No you lot are my 'second' club for obvious reasons - I want to see you lot win it and considering I watched the full match I thought I'd give my votes ;)
The Floodbuster
14 Sep 2003, 18:47
Originally posted by dyertribe
Call it subtle indifference...
No you lot are my 'second' club for obvious reasons - I want to see you lot win it and considering I watched the full match I thought I'd give my votes ;)
Just get used to the Teal, once you do we will work on the silver.
They were showing these "player rankings" on channel 10 towards the end of the game and James Hird was 38. But Stuart Cochrane was 23. What do they base them on? A bloke who was one of the major reasons for us winning does not even get in the top 10?
Originally posted by mic59
They were showing these "player rankings" on channel 10 towards the end of the game and James Hird was 38. But Stuart Cochrane was 23. What do they base them on? A bloke who was one of the major reasons for us winning does not even get in the top 10?
It based on points for kicks, handballs, marks, goals etc etc, not on actual performance.
PAfolwr
14 Sep 2003, 19:56
5. Hardwick
4. Carr
3. Wanganeen
2. Tredrea
1. Lade
Should have gotten votes Wilson Cochrane, Wakelin Peter Burgoyne.
I thought Hardwick and Carr set the scene for the game that followed, and because of this deserved BOG.
Coaching. I'll give it 9/10. He did some very un-Williams like things that had positive outcomes. Both pro-active and reactive when required as required.
Pagans paddock. Super flooding to stop runs. Key players where the ball was rather than just in their zone waiting for the pill etc. etc.
Is this the dawn of a Supercoach? I hope so. He definitely has always had the ability and dedication required to be one.
Umpiring. Didn't really paid that much notice, so must have been ok. 7/10
Originally posted by Eago77
It based on points for kicks, handballs, marks, goals etc etc, not on actual performance.
Makes the player rankings a bit of a pointless exercise then. Because Nick Stevens and Brendon Lade were probably numbers 1 and 2 last week.
5 - Hardwick
4 - Carr
3 - Wanganeen
2 - Tredrea
1 - Lade
Macca19
14 Sep 2003, 21:40
I just thought id say that Ive decided to make Finals votes count for 1.5 of a normal vote.
Porthos
14 Sep 2003, 23:20
Originally posted by Macca19
I just thought id say that Ive decided to make Finals votes count for 1.5 of a normal vote. Woohoo!
JuniorBurger
15 Sep 2003, 04:17
5 Dimma -always thrives against the Bombers
4 Carry -ran hard all night showed the intensity that was lacking last week
3 Tredders -acting captain's effort Matty would be proud of ya Warren
2 SuperGav -love those rubber limbs of your Gav!!:D
1 Wilbur -kicked the goal of the year (I am a little biased) and followed up trying to take the mark of the year soon after....nice!!!
unlucky -Roach, Ladey, Wakes and ol' Paco.
Sandola
15 Sep 2003, 10:50
5. Tredrea
4. Wanganeen
3. Cochrane
2. Lade -- killed them
1. Hardwick
Also great -- Carr, Wilson, Paxman
Very good -- Dew, P. Burgoyne, Pickett
Did good things -- Kingsley (no real muckups this week!), Che, S. Burgoyne
5 - Tredrea. Out in the long sleeved shirt, vomitting during breaks, pasty faced, looking and sounding like ****, yet still led from the front in a truly inspirational captains game.
4 - Hardwick. Great game and well coached. Good to see Choco realising in finals hardness in the centre becomes more highly rated over pure skill. Should be given a task to intimidate his opponent before the bounce next week. Fired the side up nicely and removed the nerves.
3 - Wanganeen - absolute legend. People complain he gets too many frees - it's because he's targetted by so many opposition players! For some reason they seem to think he's suspectible to being knocked out, but he's always up and punishes them back with blistering play. Again after the human sausage roll (3 weeks please) flattened him crudely he then played a blinder.
2 - Cochrane. Blasted by all here, but I'm happy to eat my words on dropping him. Two more performances like that would push us all the way in my opinion.
1 - Carr. Along with half our midfield targetted by Barnard for extra attention (do I hear apologies from those bombers supporters who thought he was in for anything other then roughing us up?), but like Hardwick relished it and gave back as good and damaged where it counted.
Most Unlucky -
Lade. Another great job - especially timely Lade's stepping up to his best couple of games in years, with Brogan either again suffering finals nerves or carrying a niggling injury.
Also unlucky -Wilbur, Paxman, Wakelin
Umpiring - 8/10. Flagged during the week by both sides would be tough, umpires were a bit whistle happy early due to it, but not against either side particularly. Free kick count was fairly even at half time and blew out in second half when the match was already over and essendon went into sore loser mode so didn't effect result.
Coaching - selection - beforehand - appeared 4/10 - hindsight - 8/10. Still had Kingsley, but kept faith in Roach, which was the right decision.
Match day - 9/10 - Kept closer to our H & A line up - except more hardness in the centre - good to see Choco learning the finals require more hardness. Much better then last weeks effort of taking our best midfielder out of the midfield. Open forward line, maning up and flooding back worked a treat. More of the same required next week.