Review Port v Bulldogs post-match discussion thread

[Ford Fairlane]

Here you are - go your hardest.

 

[Lightning_Rod]

not much has changed, but didnt expect it to in one week.

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in: boak, gray, lobbe, thomas

out: motlop, salopek, davenport, nash,

boak to inject a little class.

matty thomas to play along side carr as the two main enforcers.

move trengove to the defence, move salter up forward.

leave westhoff in the square.

its all makes sense to most of us, but why doesnt it happen on match day?

opening centre square combination of, thomas, gray, boak with lobbe tapping to them. a view into our future midfield.

 

[Peck]

Carr out forever!

Salopek to surgery!!

predicting 6 changes next week

 

[Schulzenfest]

We're shit.

Feel free to go into more detail if you want, but I think I've pretty much summed up everything that will be said in this thread.

 

[PortBrillance]

we are still crap, it wont change for a while me thinks.

But we'll win next week, I dont rate the crows

 

[Portia]

Business as usual.

The busiest team at the trade table this year should be us, not Gold Coast. We have too many players with obvious and uncorrectable deficiencies in build/playstyle.

 

[tribey]

"Port, you're as dumb as a mule and twice as ugly. If a strange man offers you a ride, I say take it!"​

 

[Total Power]

Carr out forever!

Salopek to surgery!!

predicting 6 changes next week

play the kids, we got nothing to lose now anyway.We will get belted anyway, so why not play the kids then????

 

[Surjan]

We ll be ok once logan nash davenport carr motlop are all gone

 

[SupportMe]

We have too many fumblers, too many "nearly" marks, too man handballs to the opposition and too many players going to ground.

Carr and Harding were empty shirts out there and Motlop and Hitchcock were a liability.

I could go on and on but the reality is, it's not worth bothering.

 

[Portia]

add ebert to that list. sick of seeing him try to be inspector gadget without extendable limbs.

 

[Powerade 08]

We're shit.

Feel free to go into more detail if you want, but I think I've pretty much summed up everything that will be said in this thread.

The details have been discussed as far back as 3 years ago. Nothing has changed for a long, long time, and unfortunately Primus looks Choco'd as well.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Also,

OUT: Salopek (inj) Carr (retire), Davenport, Westhoff, Nash.
IN: Stewart, Meyer, Boak, Thomas, Moore.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

All too predictable. Choco's legacy is to leave us a side with no system. So we try hard, but for little reward. That won't change in 7 weeks, so results are going to look pretty similar until we catch up with another cellar dweller or two.

Matty hasn't got much to work with, they tried for him, but I don't know if he is the guy to bring in some real system. The sort of system that makes us a side capable of going on and really beating an opponent, and a system that holds up under pressure so that losses don't blow out.

 

[Andre]

I wonder what Primus will say post-match? After shit selections and poor structure / match-ups, can he complete the trifecta of bullshit and rule himself out of the running for head coach in one go by blaming everything, except saying the players are shit?

Or will he show some 'intensity' and say the likes of Westhoff and Motlop won't get games next after being useless?

 

[FishingRick04]

Ford how was your picked on man Rodan tonight?

 

[PatientMental]

Not a half bad game played from a lot of B/C/D grade players, far from our best. But I did enjoy making Mots accountable for his crap form, might force him to htfu (incredibly doubtful).

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Ford how was your picked on man Rodan tonight?

You must have been holding onto that one like a full bladder in gay bar. Had a bad one tonight, but had plenty of mates.

Pretty ordinary selection night for Matty's first team, and backed up on the field.

Going with no ruck support for an already struggling Brogan in the Darwin humidity is just bizarre. Can't have hurt to have played Cloke tonight.

And overall while I thought we did alright with the umpies, Dean Brogan must be the only guy I have seen go off twice bleeding from head wounds and give away the free kick both times.

 

[kaysee]

we have pretty much the worst list in the AFL!

Acceptable AFL Level
Salter (doing all he can)
Pearce (1 man band)
Stewart (busting his arse)
Chaplin (tries but still has odd fumbles)
Brogan (tries but needs support)
Cornes (not elite by any stretch... just passable)
Rodan (inconsistant... needs midfield help)
Banner (young)
Broadbent (young)

Not AFL Level
Cassisi (pathetic... piss poor Captain)
Salopek (injured and overrated)
Trengove (overrated)
Harding (young)
Westhoff (will never get there)
Motlop (disinterestd)
Schulz (will never get there)
Davenport (will never get there)
Ebert (not our key forward)
Logan (pathetic)
Hitchcock (pathetic... and not used correctly)
Nash (pathetic)
Carr (past it)

 

[FishingRick04]

Bit of self gloating here, I called it 6 weeks ago we should be playing youth

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=714703

 

[The Smaller Warrior]

If I see a single person bag:

Nash or Harding after tonights game I will be very very sad face.

They both had pretty decent 'first' games, and deserve another chance.

Westhoff had a horrible game.
Motlop should get a couple of weeks.
Carr needs to go.
Hitchcock is struggling massively.
Davenport was far from our worse, and am not sold on him being dropped.
Salter needs to be played in the forward lines.
Primus hasnt changed a thing.

 

[thurmanmunson]

Cassissi a pisspoor captain?? Don't think so.

 

[SupportMe]

we have pretty much the worst list in the AFL!

Acceptable AFL Level
Salter (doing all he can)
Pearce (1 man band)
Stewart (busting his arse)
Chaplin (tries but still has odd fumbles)
Brogan (tries but needs support)
Cornes (not elite by any stretch... just passable)
Rodan (inconsistant... needs midfield help)
Banner (young)
Broadbent (young)

Not AFL Level
Cassisi (pathetic... piss poor Captain)
Salopek (injured and overrated)
Trengove (overrated)
Harding (young)
Westhoff (will never get there)
Motlop (disinterestd)
Schulz (will never get there)
Davenport (will never get there)
Ebert (not our key forward)
Logan (pathetic)
Hitchcock (pathetic... and not used correctly)
Nash (pathetic)
Carr (past it)

So Trengove and Salopek are overrated yet Harding is just "Young"?

 

[tribey]

Harding (young)

24 years old, 2 clubs, 50 gamer actually.

The epitome of just how putrid our post-Premiership list management has been.

 

[HugeJohnson]

we have pretty much the worst list in the AFL!

Acceptable AFL Level
Salter (doing all he can)
Pearce (1 man band)
Stewart (busting his arse)
Chaplin (tries but still has odd fumbles)
Brogan (tries but needs support)
Cornes (not elite by any stretch... just passable)
Rodan (inconsistant... needs midfield help)
Banner (young)
Broadbent (young)

Not AFL Level
Cassisi (pathetic... piss poor Captain)
Salopek (injured and overrated)
Trengove (overrated)
Harding (young)
Westhoff (will never get there)
Motlop (disinterestd)
Schulz (will never get there)
Davenport (will never get there)
Ebert (not our key forward)
Logan (pathetic)
Hitchcock (pathetic... and not used correctly)
Nash (pathetic)
Carr (past it)

Disagree with the bolded ones, just need to give them more time and/or play them correctly!