Recent content by La Flama Blanca

Good post. People need to understand that despite the fact that we've supposedly been rebuilding for the best part of a decade, we are only really just beginning now. That sounds grim and it is, but at least we've got one of the greatest coaches of all time in charge and have managed to...

We broke even at the clearances, which sounds strange in a 100 point loss but in modern football isn't really that surprising because scoring is generally from turnovers. Our problem was they would win the ball back and work through our zone with ease. Not in that haphazard style the good teams...

We actually progressively put together this team over years of drafting and trading with the intention of winning the premiership.

If you squint a little it all gets a bit blurry and you can imagine Carey is taking contested marks and stuff like the old days at the MCG.

I don't think it's that simple. The Roos/Lyon coaching model is in my view the best the game has seen. Roos took a club that hadn't won a flag since the 1930s, had relocated to Sydney and was largely irrelevant and created a culture of sustained success that remains 20 years later. He then set a...

We actually spend 3 of our 168 hours every week watching this.

It's boring listening to the interstate sides complaining about all the "home" games Victorian clubs get as if it's 60,000 West Coast fans getting their team over the line at Optus Stadium rather than just 2 local clubs playing in a neutral game at Marvel Stadium. The fixture is odd, but I'm not...

Chad is hotter, was a far superior footballer and probably would've been a better fireman too.

I agree that it's a bit disingenuous to use our relative age and experience as an excuse. There's more to it than that though. Anybody who has ever played a team sport would know the importance of stability. When you have been playing with the same group playing the same roles for years things...

We played far too loose in defence and once they started dominating the midfield it was only going to end one way. Sure we could've made some changes and limited the damage, but to what end? We aren't playing finals this year. The most important thing right now is instilling a solid game plan...

Yep. They are footy fans like the rest of us. They know what the story lines are and it would impact the way they view the game.

It has been that way for the best part of 20 years though.

Similar to us with Brad Scott, he's a serviceable coach but after a certain period without the ultimate success it can all get a bit stale. The problem for Port Adelaide fans if they keep winning is the only AFL coach I can remember getting sacked after making finals had fallen out with his...

I'm not of the view that umpires are intentionally biased against particular sides. I think they go out there with good intentions, they can just get swept up in the narrative at times. For example the narrative of 60,000 feral West Coast fans at Optus Stadium, the narrative of Curnow and McKay...

Ultimately we've been done by the obvious threat of going in undersized against Curnow and McKay. It hasn't helped that the umpires have been looking to pay every small infringement against them.