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Well, that’s three down. Four to go. Last year we managed to go winless in our last six from memory, or close to it. Can we finish with a lazy 7 on the trot under the master tactician? If we do, will it make a scrap of difference to his standing at the club? P.s. Mods - happy for you to...

Who are the players who most rarely let us down? For me, our most reliable player is Dan Houston. I hardly ever get frustrated with him and am always confident when he is near the contest or the ball. Tom Jonas is a special mention for being reliable through most of his career (couple of years...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/geelong/patrick-dangerfield-didnt-have-a-great-draft-year-but-has-blossomed-into-the-afls-best/news-story/2b89ba92dada02d8f97431247bf4e190 The above is worth a read. It puts Dangerfield's draft year in context, and the fact that he didn't excel in...

Just want to point out the obvious. We do not play Adelaide Oval well. It is too narrow to suit our strengths. Far better football minds can analyse why, but our record at AO since mid 2014 (second Showdown to be precise) is very ordinary. This year we have surrendered halfway through arm...

Title says it all. Can't blame injury any more big fella. Your ruck work and lack of chasing opposition ruckmen around the ground, combined with a remarkable inability to mark a football make you a liability. When I then see you pointing fingers while you let your opponent lead up for an...

I have watched and re-watched our wins against Freo, Geelong and Hawthorn, and I am in awe of what our side is turning into. Weapons aplenty. Grunt, toughness, speed, resilience, discipline, footy smarts and x-factor that oozes everywhere you look. To think we have Neade and Clurey in particular...

Clearly the uncertainty about John Butcher's ability to translate potential to reality is at the core of our coaches' and supporters' desire to bring in a KPF through this off-season process. I am not familiar with the quality available throughout the state leagues, other than having heard...

I want us to play like Sydney do and have done so for the past five years. They are by far the most admirable team, and more importantly club. Players improve out of sight when they join that club, changing from minnows to titans. The players on their list you expect (based on stereotype) to...

The next 12-24 months of progress and development of the injury ravaged draftees from 2009 will play a significant part in our ability to improve in the short and long-term. From the limited exposure we've had to Butcher, Moore and Pittard and considering their recurrent and diverse injury...

Ok, we've probably already got a thread on this guy's amazing fall from grace. But seriously what has happened to him? Is he injured? Today we saw Chaplin play injured and not give a yelp. Trengove has played like this for about 14 rounds now. For a guy who prided himself on aggression, he...

What is most hopeless about our current plight, is that there is no-one in a position to make decisions who we can trust. No-one we can trust to be competent or at least to have the best interests of the club at heart. Rohde and Thomas are probably cut from the same cloth. Duncanson has...

The last quarter showed that we're not completely hopeless, but we're bloody close to it. Just a few positives - the negatives are self-explanatory. Moore - thought his second half was exceptional. He is clearly our strongest player. Unlike Boak and Thomas, he actually can still extract the...

No doubt, people will rightly point out that it is a bloody hard initiation to debut in a team like ours. The kid only played a quarter today, so this is not about putting blame at his feet. But I haven't seen the quality this year that I expected after the hype and after his exciting debut in...

This can probably ultimately go in another recruiting thread, but I can't help but think we've missed the boat over the past few years when it comes to identifying and recruiting good young SANFL players. The few ones we've picked up have been scrappers with not a lot of polish at AFL level...

Our players and coaches let a lot of supporters down tonight. The gap between Hartlett's best and worst, considering HE WAS NOT TAGGED is terrible. He missed countless tackles, was second to so many balls and did not chase. Elite my arse. Droppable performance. Better players: Kane Cornes -...

Pearce and Rodan dropped for their form this year. When will the penny drop for Boak, Hartlett and Cassisi to all be omitted? Three leaders who have been as responsible as anyone for the awful year we're having.

We have improved, no doubt about it. But our matches are following a ridiculously consistent pattern, certainly over the past two weeks and perhaps even the preseason games and in rd 1. We're starting matches off beautifully over the first 5-10 minutes. Our ball movement is quick, our forward...

For 3-4 years now, observers have regularly noted that we lack elite players and are stocked with blue collar types, especially through our midfield. With the additions of McCarthy and Brad Ebert, our midfield depth of B-grade talent (i.e. second tier quality players) is now quite strong...

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6038/newsid/127789/default.aspx Looks like Bobby has a hamstring issue that will set him back a few weeks. Club still confident he can feature in the preseason comp which doesn't start for another 5-6 weeks. January seems to bring...

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6038/newsid/127526/default.aspx A few comments have started to emerge praising the intensity and professionalism that Ebert has brought to the club in his first 8 weeks. I think his running ability (presumably endurance running, not...

Butcher (foot), Thomas (knee), Newton (hip - still!) are the only three players not joining the squad for the 7d camp in NZ. May be a throw-away line, but Primus expects them to resume full training by Christmas.

If the draft order of the top 7 picks remains unchanged, I have a hunch that Sheedy et al. will call our bluff by taking the best available midfielder with pick 5 in the expectation that we will also go midfielder and let Longer slide to pick 7. This might especially be the case if we are hasty...

These three men stand in the centre square more often than not at the start of games and would be the three players who line up there most during the course of matches. Irrespective of the ruck dominance of the opposition, it is incumbent on them to put up a more competitive effort in the...

Chaplin is a major reason why we are so poor and are going nowhere as a footy club. Has failed to develop into a key defender. Has become so soft and unaccountable that when he finally does get matched up on someone, he has no idea how to stay with him. If we want to offload one of our tall...

Broadbent, Thomas, O'Shea, Jacobs and Moore are currently winning places in the team when their form over recent weeks and the season as a whole does not warrant. When does the coach draw the line and demand that there has to be improvement in form to justify young players getting games...

Williams didn't rate him highly at the start of last year. Primus has backed him in for about 15 straight games. What have we learnt about him this year? IMO - fumbly, error-ridden disposal, increasingly soft and lazy efforts at the ball. No where near enough work ethic and by extension...

Indisputably, we are not fit enough. Don't know if too many players are underdone from interrupted pre-seasons or they just haven't trained hard enough in this area over the preseason. When Kane Cornes looks stuffed 20 minutes before the end of the game, you know we're in trouble. Make...

It seems that most external observers realised we had a dud midfield some time before many on here did. I recall last year, our mids being called "blue collar" - at the moment even that description is too complimentary of them. Then we had Dean Laidley in an interview at the end of last year...

Then Daniel Stewart, Danyle Pearce, Paul Stewart, Alipate Carlile, David Rodan, Troy Chaplin, Travis Boak can all have a rest next week. Two poor performances from each of these no-shows. Time for them to be turned over.

Our leadership group players speak to the media a lot, which probably flares the frustration associated with them, as they are generally the kings of talk and the alcoholics of walk. Reckon the 8 (of the 9) who fronted up for round 1 produced mainly C-grade performances or worse today. This...