2017 Non Crows AFL Discussion Thread

[AFC3000]

Looks like Port will be waiting until at least 2018 to rediscover that 2013 form.

 

[fabs33]

Zero possessions for Ryder in a half of football.

Yeah, he's fit...

 

[Iron]

I read somewhere, can't remember if here or on the main board - you can't read into good pre-season form but you can read into the bad.

Port just have no structure except in defence. Not surprising, seeing as their only good coach is Bassett. I'd get him at the crows in a heart beat.

 

[Pdub]

If we can't win the premiership, port getting the wooden spoon when they don't have a 2017 first round draft pick would be the next best thing.

Hoping for both.

 

[footy4ever]

I swear port's teal gets bluer every year.

I have posted this over and over.

 

[Doctor B]

A lot of salty tears on their game day thread, they are well and truly torn apart already.

 

[Pdub]

I read somewhere, can't remember if here or on the main board - you can't read into good pre-season form but you can read into the bad.

Port just have no structure except in defence. Not surprising, seeing as their only good coach is Bassett. I'd get him at the crows in a heart beat.

Nah theres been bad teams in the preseason who are good in the main, just because they don't care. Sydney are notorious for it.

It's usually top 4 teams from the previous year though. Teams who don't make the 8 when they would think they should have, usually give the preseason a red hot crack.

 

[footy4ever]

Pittard has done his hammy pretty badly.

I saw it as a 'tweek', but has there been a medical report yet?

 

[aneale]

Zero possessions for Ryder in a half of football.

Yeah, he's fit...

I reckon they will all have pretty ordinary years after standing out for a year. I don't care how many circle work sessions they did away on their own.

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[Iron]

Nah theres been bad teams in the preseason who are good in the main, just because they don't care. Sydney are notorious for it.

It's usually top 4 teams from the previous year though. Teams who don't make the 8 when they would think they should have, usually give the preseason a red hot crack.

Fair point. No one-size-fits-all rule, just an observation. For what it's worth I think Richmond are this years bad team that play well in the pre-season and get unreasonably excited early.

 

[aneale]

Nah theres been bad teams in the preseason who are good in the main, just because they don't care. Sydney are notorious for it.

It's usually top 4 teams from the previous year though. Teams who don't make the 8 when they would think they should have, usually give the preseason a red hot crack.

Structure and the game style is important. That qtr looked like the qtr against Melbourne at Elizabeth last year where everyone bar the coolade drinkers drew a line through Port for the year.

Hinkley has NFI how to fix this.

Boak should be stripped of the C and dropped to SANFL. He's broken.

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[whattagun07]

If we can't win the premiership, port getting the wooden spoon when they don't have a 2017 first round draft pick would be the next best thing.

Hoping for both.

Remind me who has their 1st this year?

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

Structure and the game style is important. That qtr looked like the qtr against Melbourne at Elizabeth last year where everyone bar the coolade drinkers drew a line through Port for the year.

Hinkley has NFI how to fix this.

Boak should be stripped of the C and dropped to SANFL. He's broken.

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Boak does look cooked

 

[Geoffa32]

Structure and the game style is important. That qtr looked like the qtr against Melbourne at Elizabeth last year where everyone bar the coolade drinkers drew a line through Port for the year.

Hinkley has NFI how to fix this.

Boak should be stripped of the C and dropped to SANFL. He's broken.

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Sydney often lose and get well beaten in scratch natches but you see some method in the way they play.

There is little system in the way Port play either iffensively or defensively.

Great example then of Polec kicking up forward to an empty zone in the right pocket. Four Port forwards all moving to the opposite pocket.

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[Pdub]

Both Ryder and Dixon are the same type of forward, they are ruckman/back-up forwards. The best games they have played in the forward line is when they are playing against ruckman, when they have to play against full-time backmen, they struggle.

 

[jo172]

That handball ...

They'll be bottom 4

 

[aneale]

Great example then of Polec kicking up forward to an empty zone in the right pocket.

Polec is an incredibly dumb footballer. No brains whatsoever. He is the precise example of of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. He can't even work out why he can't kick and address it.



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[jo172]

Who is Ports number 2?

He's abysmal

 

[aneale]

Both Ryder and Dixon are the same type of forward, they are ruckman/back-up forwards. The best games they have played in the forward line is when they are playing against ruckman, when they have to play against full-time backmen, they struggle.

Dixon is a spud. GC stitched Port up beautifully there.

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[Geoffa32]

Polec is an incredibly dumb footballer. No brains whatsoever. He is the precise example of of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. He can't even work out why he can't kick and address it.



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True. But he is not the only one to create such a forward entry.



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[jo172]

Wait number 2 is their great White hope?

Oh god, they're in worse trouble than I thought

 

[PrideOf]

A very melty Port Board at the minute.

In the firing line are Kern, Dixon ("who may be the worst trade we ever made") and even (J)Anus is copping it as Kern's lapdog.

Excellent.

 

[Geoffa32]

Eddy is their best forward.



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[mistylake]

I read somewhere, can't remember if here or on the main board - you can't read into good pre-season form but you can read into the bad.

Port just have no structure except in defence. Not surprising, seeing as their only good coach is Bassett. I'd get him at the crows in a heart beat.

What line?

 

[Paladin]

Fair point. No one-size-fits-all rule, just an observation. For what it's worth I think Richmond are this years bad team that play well in the pre-season and get unreasonably excited early.

Richmond have an excellent midfield with the addition of Caddy Prestia Navkernis and a solid spine.

I put them pushing the 8 maybe 6-10 range.