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  1. PJ Power

    MVP Votes R8 vs Crows

    5. Aliir 4. Wines 3. Evans 2. Jones 1. Bergman
  2. PJ Power

    Player Watch Pick #18 (2019) - Mitch Georgiades

    The thing is that if he kicks 4.2 instead of 3.3, we win. Same against Hawthorn. Maybe against WCE. No-one is asking him to convert 100% of his setshots, but he seems to be going at 50-50 at the moment, with the ones he's missing the technically easier shots. If he can get it to 65-35, it...
  3. PJ Power

    Our Midfield In Big Games

    Couldn’t agree more. Wines is playing his best footy since 2021. Re Butters and JHF, this is why we need more options coming through the midfield. Even a kid like Moraes when he gets up to speed could provide a point of difference there.
  4. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    Two big positives from the last three weeks are: 1) the way we are defending. Against Geelong we defended the whole ground very well. Against the Crows we defended the back 50 well. 2) Efficiency of getting scores for inside 50 entries. Goal conversion would bolster this further. Tackling to...
  5. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    Just need to turn the close losses into wins before the end of the season. Make sure that close losses don't become too associated with this playing/coaching group.
  6. PJ Power

    Player Watch Welcome to Port Adelaide Jacob Wehr - Unrestricted Free Agent (GWS)

    I'm with you. The suggestion that he is a good kick is off the mark. He's got what looks like a straight, neatish left-foot kick, but it lacks penetration and we haven't seen any evidence that he kick reliably beyond 45 m. He has been better the past two weeks, but his direct opponent today...
  7. PJ Power

    Player Watch Pick #15 (2024) - Joe Berry

    Those two goals will do his confidence the world of good. The snap on his left was a thing of real beauty. Happy he stood up when it mattered. He needs to be careful though playing on from marks in the goal-square. More than one very good player has got caught doing that in big games before.
  8. PJ Power

    Player Watch Rookie Pick #13 (2023) - Xavier Walsh

    3 goals is another good effort. I'd just let him stay up forward the rest of the year. Let's see if he can kick 20-25 goals from his next 10 games. If he can, then maybe there's something there to persist with as a forward. We have next to no depth in tall forwards.
  9. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    If we take the longterm view of finishing lower to optimise our draft hand while building a strong game plan and resilient culture, then it’s probably ok. I just don’t think Showdowns where the cards fall our way should be the games we accept losing, by whatever margin.
  10. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    Statistically we had a lot of guys below their best: JHF 20 disposals Farrell 12 Richards 10 Burgoyne 14 MacKinlay 5 If Farrell, Burgoyne and Richards are not finding the footy then we’re not linking up well enough to take it inside 50.
  11. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    This is how I see it. We went into this game with momentum and playing the stronger footy. We looked classier until Soligo and Murray had their minute of glory to set up and kick 2 late in the third. I doubt we get Adelaide again where Thilthorpe and Curtin are ineffective, Dawson missing...
  12. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    Would have been great if someone like Mead could get the most out of himself as a mid like Berry does. He’s their new Crouch.
  13. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    The patch to kick 4 goals in a row, including 3 that involved special things from Whitlock (2x in the same play) and Berry (2x) is worth re-watching.
  14. PJ Power

    Player Watch Pick #18 (2019) - Mitch Georgiades

    Very pleased to see Whitlock (and Berry) stand up late to support him.
  15. PJ Power

    Coach Josh Carr - AFL Senior Coach

    Agree. Game plan’s in good shape. Cattle needs a bit of time to mature and 2-3 quality players to come in.
  16. PJ Power

    Coach Josh Carr - AFL Senior Coach

    It's early days, but Josh has now overseen a 1 pt loss, 2 pt loss and 3 pt loss this year. We've not been up to it in close games under him. It may become a habit losing close ones.
  17. PJ Power

    Player Watch SSP (2025) - Josh Lai

    The one thing he's doing best at the moment is his intercept marking. The rest of his game is not quite in order yet at AFL level. He's not bad, but he's not showing the other traits that he has based on SANFL exposure.
  18. PJ Power

    Coach Welcome Back Stuey Dew - Midfield Coach

    Perfect summation.
  19. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    19 tackles from a midfielder, in a game when Butters and JHF got caught every time they took possession, was pretty influential from Berry. My top 3 would have been: 1. Milera 2. Aliir 3. Berry
  20. PJ Power

    Our Midfield In Big Games

    Not a trend, just a fact. Butters, Rozee and JHF can't respond to intense congestion. They don't fight their way through it. We do need a plan B. It wasn't coincidental that late in the game the only midfielders who were getting anywhere near the clearance for us were Wines and Drew. Wines...
  21. PJ Power

    Player Watch Pick #18 (2019) - Mitch Georgiades

    He's become our lest reliable kick for goal. Absolute myth that he's a good kick. Not sure what frustrates more: the misses from straight out in front, or the stupid unrealistic flies in the pack that he goes for to concede unnecessary free kicks.
  22. PJ Power

    Coach Welcome Back Stuey Dew - Midfield Coach

    We've been smoked by the Crows midfield for the best part of Ollie Wines' career. It's nothing new.
  23. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    His good is good. If his opponent was Milera tonight, then he probably cost us the game though. The fact that he trailed Milera to that last bouncing ball that came out of defensive 50 and couldn't effectively pin the tackle is evidence of that. Cost us the game as much as any play.
  24. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    What hurts is that we got Adelaide at a very good time. It wasn't Thilthorpe who killed us, it wasn't Worrell. It was Berry, Soligo, Cook, Milera, Rachelle, Keays and Rankine. Our similar players should have been able to get the better of that group. We didn't.
  25. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    I don't think it's that, but his record in recent Showdowns is not of a big game player. It's the same in finals. He can't fight his way through the congestion. Almost becomes unrecognisable in the way he goes about it, and when he does get a hint of space, he rarely kicks efficiently.
  26. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    Has been for a fair while. I'm surprised that no-one at the club has called him out on it. He's become a Crows sycophant. Really commentates against us. Don't think he does so against other teams.
  27. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    I felt we lost it in quarters 2 and 3. We started getting out hunted around the ground. They were ostensibly more ferocious than us both in tackling and getting their arms free in tackles, and they got their spread back, often getting multiple numbers around the perimeter to receive the handball...
  28. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    Agree. Evans was strong too.
  29. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    He's been a solid performed for them this year. He and Soligo just tough it out against us more often than not. THey are JHF and Butters' kryptonite. Neither of our guys stay in the fight long enough against them. Wines and Drew did their best.
  30. PJ Power

    Review Showdown 59

    Our rucks couldn't get our midfielders into it. But I swear I've never seen Butters outworked so obviously. Just didn't will himself into the game after HT at all.

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