Ford Fairlane
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- Feb 21, 2002
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Paul Roos was our Darth Vader in 2014. He showed the rest of the competition that if you jammed up our midfield we couldn't play our free-wheeling high scoring football. After scraping home against Melbourne at Traeger Park our season unravelled for the next couple of months.
We came back to life in finals, mainly playing teams that didn't sacrifice their game to nullify ours, but in the end kicked ourselves out of the prelim final.
Then Phil Walsh moved on from Port and left to his own devices Hinkley tried to invent a new defensive game plan that couldn't be undone by Roos-type tactics. And didn't that turn out well?
2014 was great fun up til that game against Melbourne, even for a few weeks after.
We came back to life in finals, mainly playing teams that didn't sacrifice their game to nullify ours, but in the end kicked ourselves out of the prelim final.
Then Phil Walsh moved on from Port and left to his own devices Hinkley tried to invent a new defensive game plan that couldn't be undone by Roos-type tactics. And didn't that turn out well?
2014 was great fun up til that game against Melbourne, even for a few weeks after.