Let's talk Ports! Part 2

[Sleezy]

Youssa get wotta youssa deserves - Ken Ken Hinks.

"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Schofield

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Marmozet]

 

[chiwigi]

Catching up on the games, have watched the two wins so far.

Lycett is Great!
Rozee will be better than Wingard.
We need Broadbent and Hartlett in the team ASAP.
Butters is sexy.
SPP will have his best season.
Ebert isn’t a forward.

 

[Teal Plums]

Now imagine if Troy Olsen was there...

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Rozee will be better than Wingard.

If thats after the first two games, after the Brisbane game you're going to make Bruce McAvenay look calm and collected when Cyril gets a touch.

 

[GoPorts]

Should be on triple figure likes by now

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[El_Scorcho]

I have something in my eye

 

[RossFC]

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Loved the Hoon.

 

[Pappagallo]

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Nah he missed that shot for goal directly in front at the start of the Geelong Semi it cost us the game and probably the flag plus that surname is an absolute cnut to spell nothing but bad energies for mine jk he’s alright.

 

[StuMan]

 

[CharlieKelly]

 

[PAFC66]

Tommy trying to pickup another possession even after the siren.
Not there's there's anything wrong with it..

 

[tangolikelama]

Thats Houston

 

[PAFC66]

Thats Houston

Is too

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Not sure which one of the threads this was best to put in, so it goes into this generic thread. Cut and paste to whichever on you think is more appropriate but this was in today's Advertiser about the impact the 4 new players have made so far this year.

 

[Chrizzt]

Not sure which one of the threads this was best to put in, so it goes into this generic thread. Cut and paste to whichever on you think is more appropriate but this was in today's Advertiser about the impact the 4 new players have made so far this year.


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This just makes me more anxious about our inevitable mid-season slump when winter really hits and the kids start tiring

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Article that goes with the graphics


Kids key to much improved attack
At the end of last season, Port Adelaide, boasting the 13th-ranked attack in the competition, traded two players — Chad Wingard and Jared Polec — who accounted for 16 per cent of its goal assists and 12 per cent of its total goals. With key forward Charlie Dixon, who was the club’s second-leading goal-kicker in 2018, recovering from a serious leg injury, where was the improvement forward-of-centre going to come from? There’s no doubt Power fans were asking themselves this question over summer. But with the emergence of four young guns — three of them in their first year on the list and two who were drafted as a direct result of the Wingard and Polect trades — the question has been answered very quickly.

Draftees Connor Rozee (8 goals), Xavier Duursma (3) and Zak Butters (3), along with 21-year-old third-year midfielder Willem Drew (2) — who all made their debut in Round 1 — have contributed 25 per cent of the Power’s goals in 2019.

And they’re not only kicking them off their own boot. With four each, Butters and Drew rank second at the club for goal-assists, while Duursma isn’t far behind with three. In fact, Champion Data stats reveal the quarter all sit inside the top-nine at Port Adelaide for scoreboard impact, which takes in goals, behinds and score assists.
Rozee, taken at pick No. 5 in last year’s draft, has been the standout. ..... The 19-year-old, who starred with a 21-disposal, five-goal performance against the Lions in Round 3, ranks equal-first for goals, second for tackles inside 50, third for score involvements and forward-50 groundball-gets and fourth for marks inside 50 and pressure acts at Port Adelaide.
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https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...9/news-story/c7ed1f340c34f1b66a60fb5abac6cf5e

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

This just makes me more anxious about our inevitable mid-season slump when winter really hits and the kids start tiring

That's why you want the older big bodied players in good form with the Maggies and ready to pounce when they get an opportunity in that mid season slog ie Hartlett, Mayes, Amon, Broadbent, Trengove, Motlop, Lienert, or some of the younger guys eager to impress ie Farrell, Garner, Johnson, Woodcock, Atley etc.

The key is the older guys playing well so that Rozee, Butters, Duursma and Drew are able to get good opportunities and not have to bash and crash all game and try and carry the team.

Boak, Wines, Rockliff, Ebo, SPP, Robbie, Sam, Hoff, Lycett, Ryder, Jonas, Burton, Houston etc playing well and near career best season, keeps the pressure off the young 4 and means they have less chance of burning out. If Rozee has to do the sort of what Boak and Ebo are doing, then he will naturally drop off. If not he can stay relatively fresh.

 

[Chrizzt]

That's why you want the older big bodied players in good form with the Maggies and ready to pounce when they get an opportunity in that mid season slog ie Hartlett, Mayes, Amon, Broadbent, Trengove, Motlop, Lienert, or some of the younger guys eager to impress ie Farrell, Garner, Johnson, Woodcock, Atley etc.

The key is the older guys playing well so that Rozee, Butters, Duursma and Drew are able to get good opportunities and not have to bash and crash all game and try and carry the team.

Boak, Wines, Rockliff, Ebo, SPP, Robbie, Sam, Hoff, Lycett, Ryder, Jonas, Burton, Houston etc playing well and near career best season, keeps the pressure off the young 4 and means they have less chance of burning out. If Rozee has to do the sort of what Boak and Ebo are doing, then he will naturally drop off. If not he can stay relatively fresh.

Sure. I'm guessing (hoping) our high performance team have a good plan for managing them through a long season, but I wouldn't mind seeing a couple get a week off before the bye then a couple getting a week off after the bye to get a good two week recovery in. Then as you mentioned the guys in the Maggies have a chance to step up and push their case for a permanent spot.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

REWIND TO 2016, and Port Adelaide was staring down the barrel of mediocrity. After a 10th-place finish with an ageing list, something had to change.

Of the 44 players on that 2016 list, just 19 remain this season. Of the 22 players that defeated reigning premiers West Coast last weekend, nine had moved to the club over the past three off-seasons.

A three-year plan was put in place after failing to make the 2016 finals, with one theme staying consistent throughout. Recruiting can be pot-luck at times, but a successful department needs to take as many bites of the cherry as possible.

The Power would begin by hitting the draft hard in 2016, topping up through free agency and trades in 2017, and then acquiring elite talent at the top end of the draft again in 2018. It was a quantitative approach from a club that had previously traded away bounties for established talents.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-04-26/powers-threeyear-plan-paying-dividends

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Geelong has already rested Jordan Clark and Charlie Constable this season.

 

[TheFVK]

Article that goes with the graphics


Kids key to much improved attack
At the end of last season, Port Adelaide, boasting the 13th-ranked attack in the competition, traded two players — Chad Wingard and Jared Polec — who accounted for 16 per cent of its goal assists and 12 per cent of its total goals. With key forward Charlie Dixon, who was the club’s second-leading goal-kicker in 2018, recovering from a serious leg injury, where was the improvement forward-of-centre going to come from? There’s no doubt Power fans were asking themselves this question over summer. But with the emergence of four young guns — three of them in their first year on the list and two who were drafted as a direct result of the Wingard and Polect trades — the question has been answered very quickly.

Draftees Connor Rozee (8 goals), Xavier Duursma (3) and Zak Butters (3), along with 21-year-old third-year midfielder Willem Drew (2) — who all made their debut in Round 1 — have contributed 25 per cent of the Power’s goals in 2019.

And they’re not only kicking them off their own boot. With four each, Butters and Drew rank second at the club for goal-assists, while Duursma isn’t far behind with three. In fact, Champion Data stats reveal the quarter all sit inside the top-nine at Port Adelaide for scoreboard impact, which takes in goals, behinds and score assists.
Rozee, taken at pick No. 5 in last year’s draft, has been the standout. ..... The 19-year-old, who starred with a 21-disposal, five-goal performance against the Lions in Round 3, ranks equal-first for goals, second for tackles inside 50, third for score involvements and forward-50 groundball-gets and fourth for marks inside 50 and pressure acts at Port Adelaide.
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https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...9/news-story/c7ed1f340c34f1b66a60fb5abac6cf5e

Jared Polect

Article should read that three of them came directly from the trade. The pick 6 for pick 5 swap that came with the Wingard trade gave us access to Rozee (who would have been picked by Gold Coast to go with Rankine and Lukosius) instead of Ben King.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Brian's commentary can be questionable at times, but Roaming Brian is good content.

 

[Memphis]

Loved the reception for old mate jasper every time he touched the ball.