I think it's cute how people that don't watch us play just rehash the media line of no depth, without realising that our reserves team nearly won the SANFL grand final last year and have started this year with a smashing win, where we had 5 players playing (i.e. not in our current AFL side) that have played AFL finals before (Young, Moore, Colquhoun, Logan, O'Shea), along with AFL standard players in Krakouer, Stewart, and Mitchell who at the very least can come straight into the side and have some impact.
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The minute the Club, players, and supporters stop thinking because something happened last year it means similar will this year we might actually be able to start this year, cause at the moment we are still stuck somewhere far away from now.
We will win when the coaching panel stops playing tactics, when the players stop thinking we are top 4 certainties, and someone has a chat with a handful of our players about some unforgivable soft efforts that seem to go largely unspoken of.
You know you're in trouble when losses are spoken of as 'good efforts'.
Season isn't over but it hasn't started for us as yet. That's our problem and without an urgent 'jump start' it won't be long before the season is too far in front of us to do anything meaningful about it.
We should be worried. Still hopeful but worried too - something is not right.
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They are partially right as we lack depth in the ruck and our proven KPFs are not getting younger.
They are wrong wrt other positions.
Show me a team that does have great depth in key position stocks.
Firstly, nobody includes NAB games.
Secondly, included in that 16 games are two massive finals wins, and one prelim final loss by less than a goal (in which we had 7 more scoring shots).
The average losing margin of those 10 games is 14.7 points, while 3 of those we had more scoring shots. Yes, bad kicking is bad football, but you've got to look at the performance of the team in those games rather than just the result if you want to talk about the current form of Port.
Thirdly, why the sample size of 16 games? At this same point (rnd 2) last year Sydney were 6 losses from 7 games, while we are currently 4 losses from our last 7 games.
I really don't know why we don't experiment with Clurey as a forward. Huge tank and good size. If Essendon can turn Hurley into a defender and Jake Carlisle into a gun forward I don't see what we can't at least give it a go.
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Didn't say anything about other teams, only about us.
Our lack of a break glass in the ruck has already cost us and the sad part is that we've known about it for years.
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I didn't realize this board was like the Essendon board where opposition support
Good points
Well then, if we lack depth in those areas so does everyone else.
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Not sure he was meant to be a break glass in the first half of the season.
Wrt Lobbe and Redden unfortunately the number of times where either one or the other has been injured is greater than when they have both been available.
That is a guess but would be surprised if wrong.
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So in one sentence he's a troll, the next he warrants discussion. I'm not really bothered, but make your mind up. The only reason i'm challenging you is because i remember you as one of the biggest Port trolls on Bay13 back in the day.
We're in the rare position now of starting our season without our first choice ruckman, but at worst we still have a fully fit Ryder to pick up the slack. Where do Sydeny go if Pyke goes down? Where do Adelaide go if Jacobs falls to injury? Our ruck stocks aren't nearly as bad as some people make them out to be.
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Well, when you lost your 2 key defenders last year, you lost however many in a row.
And this year without Lobbe, you be 0-2.
The point I was trying to make is that you could be 1-4, 0-5 and still recover to make the top 6.
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The bay is the bay. He is a troll but the point he made as part of the troll is an interesting observation. Everyone pretends they can predict where teams will go next but in reality we are more than often surprised regardless of how much analysis. I agree you can twist the Port form line by selectively quoting whatever you like (16 games, or the finals or other) to either convince yourself that port are on the up/down.
Anyway I think by now I am intruding so I am going to bow out. Please don't mess my tips for the 3rd week in a row
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We'd seriously be stuffed now without Ryder. Already recruit of the year. We don't even have Renouf to fall back on, no disrespect to Redden, but he is that far off the pace at the moment it's frightening.
And a lot of other teams would be stuffed without their first choice ruckman, let alone his back-up.
North have lost every game this year when Ben Brown hasn't played, therefore Brown is North's only good player and they will lose every single game he doesn't play.
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It seems to me that we will play Redden again this week. I feel this is a big mistake....
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North have lost every game this year when Ben Brown hasn't played, therefore Brown is North's only good player and they will lose every single game he doesn't play.
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You need to relax, you are certainties this week!
We wouldn't tear up the tarps, we donate them to minnow clubs that couldn't average over 25k people to home games last year
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Nth Melbourne supporters all of a sudden showing up, and saying we don't need to worry. We are certainties. As if we don't know our own club
Remind me of why i hate Nth Melbourne again.
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Lol North Melbourne fans bringing up tarps. If not for your crowds being boosted on a weekly basis by opposition supporters of other Melbourne clubs you'd average 7,000 per week.
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