Port Adelaide [vs] West Coast - QUALIFYING FINAL DISCUSSION THREAD

[Power King]

Port Adelaide [vs] West Coast @ AAMI Stadium

The winner gets a much-desired home preliminary final, the loser gets a home semi final, which if won would mean playing an away preliminary final.

Discuss anything and everything about the match.

I say let's start off with how you think we will and how we should match up on the eagles key players, and how they you think they will match up on ours.

Also, how would you approach the start of this game to give us the best possible first quarter performance?

FORZA PORT

 

[Delroy]

*Walks in*

*Makes two hands to throat gesture*

That is all

 

[dbiz]

points to injury list

 

[BWST]

We need to have numbers at stoppages and tackle hard. For every single quarter. Breakaway and do what we do best....run, run, run.

Then we will win the game. I'd rather us not go in as favourites.

Its now time to get down and dirty.

 

[Delroy]

points to injury list

*cries*

 

[tribey]

*cries*

a/s/l? lol

 

[Macca19]

Bring it home Port Adelaide!

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

Play Shaun up forward while rotating the midfield, if needed. I think the more headaches we can cause West Coast up forward the better chance it gives us of winning.

 

[Andre]

Play Shaun up forward while rotating the midfield, if needed. I think the more headaches we can cause West Coast up forward the better chance it gives us of winning.

Add in rotating Chad up forward in bursts, though both mainly in the guts. Senior B. rotate through the centre for a few minutes each quarter.

Cox is the key for them, let Thurstans do some rucking for 5 minutes each quarter with instructions to crash into him hard, to try and wear him down for when he faces Lade and Brogan.

Kane to tag Cousins (since Judd will be half fit), Cassisi to get Judd. Otherwise back our guys to beat their's.

Chaplin to start on Lynch down back.

 

[PJ Power]

Pity that Toby and Pearcey in particular aren't in peak form for the leadup to this game.

Kane must get the job on Cousins.
Agree with Cassisi on Judd, although I'd like for Dom to be in the midfield when Judd goes forward. Earlier in the year Wilbur played on Judd in defence and struggled a bit in a couple of one-on-ones.
Presumably Stenglein will get Chad and Selwood will get JB.
Thruster let in a few easy goals at odd times against Lynch when we played them last. Don't mind Chappy on him, but it still seems less than perfect.

Surjan for LeCras.
Pettigrew for Wirrapanda if he plays forward.

Their midfield has still got some good peripheral players who work bloody hard: Fletcher, Braun, Rosa, while Priddis and Embley are ball magnets.

The key IMO is Brogan - I reckon he is our MVP at the moment. He inspires us enormously when he's in the middle, his tackling has been excellent all around the ground and he has had a settling effect on us in defence. If he doesn't come up for this game, we are stuffed bigtime.

Tredders needs to get to more contests. He was like a lame duck after quarter-time yesterday. Completely lacked intensity and looked like someone who felt sorry for himself. Needs to reproduce the form he showed against the Eagles when we flogged them earlier in the year.


As a side-note, I think a day game would have suited us better than Friday night. Statistically we do better during the day and look more switched on.

 

[wce4premiership]

Glass on ebert, he would be wasted on tredrea.

Cousins again needs to be the general in the middle hopefully priddis and judd pull up well enough to give him support and looking for stinger and selwood to try and stop motlop (selwood??) and possibly burgoyne.

 

[Geoffa32]

You may sell out this week....A few Crows people may head down to support Power. You winning is good for us. Puts WCE out of our side of the finals....


GO POWER

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

You may sell out this week....A few Crows people may head down to support Power. You winning is good for us. Puts WCE out of our side of the finals....


GO POWER

Just like that moron in bay 119 last night who was waving his crows flag when Freo kicked goals ...

 

[Portia]

Glass on ebert, he would be wasted on tredrea.

 

[Geoffa32]

Just like that moron in bay 119 last night who was waving his crows flag when Freo kicked goals ...

That was stupid of him... a win last night was good for us..

 

[Ported]

Geez i hope so.

 

[tribey]

Just like that moron in bay 119 last night who was waving his crows flag when Freo kicked goals ...

Did you see the David Hutton lookalike (behind you, in front of me and someone else...) with the Crows polo and scarfe?

I thought he was gonna get Alistaired. Would've had to use his two pr0t daughters as human shields had the unthinkable happened.

I mean, I'm brave, but there's no way I'd have wr0n my Rob Shirley dufflecoat last night. No way, no how.

 

[Russian]

Cousins - Kane
Judd - Surj
Dom - Embley if he plays, if not Priddis if he plays, probably Fletcher if they both miss

Bob - Q
Chappy - whoever plays CHF, whether that's Staker, Brown or Jones
Thrust - resting ruckman, anyone else who goes down there, Q if Bob has too much trouble
Grew - LeCras

I'd play Chad mostly up forward, just doesn't seem quite right in the midfield and he can fire up the cheer squad better from the goal square (at least for half the game). Stenglein's probably going to get JB, and he's perfectly capable of playing FB, so JB at FF probably won't be as successful this time.

 

[morell]

Bring in Willits for Boak.

Tell Willits that if he takes out Cox, Cousins and Glass any way he can he will be guaranteed a two year contract, regardless of the suspensions.

 

[Geoffa32]

You guys will jsut outplay them, WCE holds no fear for Port...5-1 even when WCE in good form...

 

[finbarr]

Just like that moron in bay 119 last night who was waving his crows flag when Freo kicked goals ...

They're a strange lot. As i was leaving the stadium i walked past a guy decked out head to toe in his Crows gear, with his Crow season ticket (not AAMI membership) hanging on a lanyard around his neck. Why?

 

[Geoffa32]

I dont get it either...two rows behnind me there is lady wearing her Port gear every week to Crows games....Every week I walk past and wonder, why??? She does'nt yell anything or barely makes a sound.

She pays 230odd bucks to sit there, she must enjoy the show.....

 

[spEKTre]

Port will paste us this week and hopefully give the boys a reality check and kick them into second gear for next week. West Coast have been like a v8 firing on 3 cylinders for most of the season not being able to finish off sides properly, losing easy home games, winning with only one decent quarter of footy and not to mention all the "alledged" drug allegations disrupting their flow.

I always maintain that you need your best 22 out there to have a chance at the flag and they need to be 100% fit....sadly we are way off the mark and have been all year.

Go Eagles in 2008

 

[Captain Wacky]

They're a strange lot. As i was leaving the stadium i walked past a guy decked out head to toe in his Crows gear, with his Crow season ticket (not AAMI membership) hanging on a lanyard around his neck. Why?

There was a girl sitting a couple of rows behind me wearing a Crows scarf and cheering Freo's goals... it didn't bother me too much though, since she was with a group of friends who seemed to be behind Port. And also she was hot.

 

[shaz63]

They're a strange lot. As i was leaving the stadium i walked past a guy decked out head to toe in his Crows gear, with his Crow season ticket (not AAMI membership) hanging on a lanyard around his neck. Why?

We had a bunch of young guys sitting in the same row as us in crows gear cheering on Freo in the first quarter.. They left during the break carrying on how pathetic Freo were playing and werent impressed we were beating them.. (not going to post the actual words as it will be deleted by the mods and I'll be yellow carded for it)