Review Round 9, 2026 vs Western Bulldogs

[rogerjames]

Has all the physical attributes but can't apply it constantly to make full use of his ability.

His kicking accuracy is poor. When in form the rest of his game is good.

 

[all seeing eye]

Not so upset more so just frustrated by skill errors and attitude. Not sure where there heads were at tonight, so many mixed efforts and inconsistencies. Just werent on but at least ground away, but a few looked really lethargic and tired. Fear for next week against GC , might be time to refresh with untried newbies.

 

[portforever]

This is exactly where we thought we'd be? If anything we're clearly over performing. Carr definitely has this team playing better than what we saw last year. They still dont have whats required though and weve known that about our list for several years, let alone what is now a very weak list filled with a lot of local league players.

Its ultimately why losing and securing the highest draft pick possible is so important for us, we need a talent injection.

Totally agree. AFL has changed the rules to try to stop Port getting all the likely players in the near future. But Port really needs some high end talent to add to the list. The only way forward is to get around the rules being set by the AFL to grab these players Port so badly needs. If you look back to other teams that have bottomed out securing the high end talent has jump started their rise up the ladder to challenge for the ultimate prize. Think Geelong or Hawthorn with Father/Son or extra picks while at the bottom. Massive advantage having elite talent.

 

[Windy Cindy]

It's like as soon as we get close to goal, we find some way to mess it up.

I’ve seen that movie before..

 

[x_les_x]

Way too much emphasis on George here. Hes doing what he can with next to no tall support in the forward line hes pretty much shouldering the whole thing besides durds bobbing up. Second ruck isnt giving him a chop out. Cops the best defender every week and is often getting smashed 2-3 players against. He has always been a 1 goal 1 behind player much of his career the spotlight is more on him because he is our only real viable threat these days. No hiding behind dixon or willie rioli

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Willie Rioli

Age

30

Ht

175cm

Wt

78kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.0

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.8

4star

G

1.2

4star

No current season stats available

D

11.0

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

3.6

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.6

3star

to kick a few.

Yeah Whitlock is coming on here and there but is still getting out bodied and being late to the ball for no fault of his own just needs more time and experience. If you replace George with Lord do you think we get within 50 points of most of these close games? Absolutely not.

Only thing that impressed me tonight was Moraes standing up in the tackle and being able to dish out balls which he wasnt able to in his first season; give these blokes like whitlock berry lai the same time and patience to build and it will pay dividends

 

[MALTSY]

A lot of players had absolute shockers. Richards, Evans, Wines, JHF, Aliir, JHF, Dante, Drew, DBJ.

Thought Lai was solid. Mackinlay had a few moments. Moraes had a few moments. Jones was great. Berry gets a bit better each week.

Thought Evans was pretty good

 

[Kickpuncher]

Aliir does a lot of good but I feel like he consistently gives up al least 2 goals a game from brain dead plays

 

[pastmyprimus]

The Bulldogs were more polished most of the night. Our regular clangers during the game killed us. I was surprised we got so close

 

[PortAdelFC1997]

Port had the chance to be 7 wins and 2 losses.

 

[MALTSY]

Way too much emphasis on George here. Hes doing what he can with next to no tall support in the forward line hes pretty much shouldering the whole thing besides durds bobbing up. Second ruck isnt giving him a chop out. Cops the best defender every week and is often getting smashed 2-3 players against. He has always been a 1 goal 1 behind player much of his career the spotlight is more on him because he is our only real viable threat these days. No hiding behind dixon or willie rioli to kick a few.

Yeah Whitlock is coming on here and there but is still getting out bodied and being late to the ball for no fault of his own just needs more time and experience. If you replace George with Lord do you think we get within 50 points of most of these close games? Absolutely not.

Only thing that impressed me tonight was Moraes standing up in the tackle and being able to dish out balls which he wasnt able to in his first season; give these blokes like whitlock berry lai the same time and patience to build and it will pay dividends

Moraes by hand was good. Moraes by foot… not good

 

[ibd77]

Carr has taught them to defend, and stay in the wrestle. It's kept us in every game bar round 1, but when we continually lose with the game on the line and in our grasp with 1-2 minutes to go, there have to be some questions asked.

Why couldn't any of our midfielders, wingmen or flankers get the ball moving our way with one minute to go?

There were repeat stoppages in the last minute and only one team was ever going to score from them.

We only have 2 quality mids and the rest are plodders who can't win a ground ball. That's where they monstered us all night.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Staggering we got as close as we did.

We basically gave them almost every one of their goals..

Not sure we could play worse and were level with 2 mins to go..

 

[rogerjames]

Corey Durdin is quickly becoming one of my favourite players. Goes in very hard, flogs through like a cannon ball at times, makes great decisions with the ball, and converts important goals.

Would luv him to get more ball but he's a smart player & generally kicks the goals he should unlike most of our other players.

 

[Sewer de Lance]

We’re the Alex De Minaur of football, always there a-bouts, but never good enough when it matters most.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Dunno about you guys, but not capitulating every time we are challenged or get a few goals down is enough evidence alone that Carr is on the right track. Even I am still trying to break the habit of "here we go again" as soon as we get 3 down.

 

[PAFC66]

Aliir does a lot of good but I feel like he consistently gives up al least 2 goals a game from brain dead plays

Because he has literally no support down there . Can't do it all.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Depth player. Can Farrell just play as a winger? He is poor defensively, why not just play him on the wing to make full use of his kicking?

Saw him win a one on one early in the game and couldn’t believe it..

He could be a good winger with the style of the game these days

 

[PAFC66]

Dunno about you guys, but not capitulating every time we are challenged or get a few goals down is enough evidence alone that Carr is on the right track. Even I am still trying to break the habit of "here we go again" as soon as we get 3 down.

Defensively he is, we are playing it super safe but at the same time butters is doing his bit to keeping us competitive which we won't have next year so it's early days. The method is right though. Atleast we are watchable til the end even if we're losing.

 

[PJ Power]

Dunno about you guys, but not capitulating every time we are challenged or get a few goals down is enough evidence alone that Carr is on the right track. Even I am still trying to break the habit of "here we go again" as soon as we get 3 down.

I’m replacing it with the “here we go again” when the margin is less than a goal with a minute to play.

 

[240volt]

Would luv him to get more ball but he's a smart player & generally kicks the goals he should unlike most of our other players.

Yep he’s become a fav of mine.
It might surprise some there is players in our side I like and see a future.

 

[rogerjames]

We only have 2 quality mids and the rest are plodders who can't win a ground ball. That's where they monstered us all night.

Missing Rozee. We put a lot of draft capital into our mids at the expense of our defense so it should be our key strength.

 

[Windy Cindy]

We love giving away cheap last minute goals.. we are a bomb scare with the ball in our hands and 60secs left

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Looking at a replay was Arty not out of bounds?>

 

[edgie]

How can so many technically sound looking kicks go straight to the opposition?

I mean at least if they were shanks you would understand, but they are almost all proper looking drop punts...

 

[Coobk001]

Does anyone else's AFL app get stuck on like 1 qtr old stats? Happens all the bloody time. Kills me.