Port Adelaide - Showdown 10 winners!

[Macca19]

YOU BLOOODDYYY BEEAUUUUTTTTYYYY

Not a great match but we came from 6 goals down and ended up with a very strong win. 8 points really doesnt give justice to the Power who totally controlled 2 1/2 quarters of the match.

WELL DONE BOYS - GREAT COMEBACK.
Was the first time the one south australian side has beaten the other twice in one season. Now 3 in a row against the crows and we are gaining ascendency over them!!

Adelaide completly dominated the first quarter and about 5 minutes of the second quarter before Port took over. Altho Adelaide were in control and had 80% of the ball...they could only get a 6 goal lead up before the Power took ascendency of the match. Primus was put forward and kicked 3 second quarter goals while Brogan dominated the ruck.

As soon as Port hit the lead they were never going to give it up and they never did...even when the crows came back in the last quarter their was no real worry about it.

The umpiring...well it seems to get unbelivably worse every week.
The crows had the favour of the umpires all day.
The most pathetic decisions...some which were just amusing in how ridiculous they were.

First quarter Kingsley gets tackled by Mcleod behind the boundary line after the ball went out and its called holding the ball . Thank god the umpire was consistent enough to pay a similar free to Monty (i think) against Matthew Clarke.

In the second quarter Ian Perrie took a mark which went about 5 foot let alone 10 metres, and the mark was paid. Then im not too sure what happened, but he instantly got a 50m penalty for who knows...could ofbeen anything really. THE softest 50m penalty ever paid.

Last quarter Jarman ducks his head and gets a free for it right in front of goal. Not only that, Welsh connects Wanganeen with an albow to the head and not even a bloody free kick!

The only dodgy free kick that went towards the Powers favour was Cocakatoo COllins not being paid deliberate for an obvious deliberate out of bounds.

Enough about the white fukwits and onto the game.

The crows didnt have one real standout player i thought. If i was to pick a best player for the crows i wouldnt be able to say as a number of players equally contributed to the sides 'efforts'. Riccuito had the most touches but had no real effect on the game. Edwards had a number of touches but had no massive effect either. James Gallagher played ok. Smart was busy in the first quarter goalspree as was Johnson, but was about all.

Jarman had no effect on teh game and only got his goal thru a very soft free kick 5m out. Vardy kicked goal of the day but didnt get a touch after that basically. Stevens was thumped by Tredrea who was probably BOG, Mcleod had no great effect on the game either.

Onto Ports best players...they had a number of standouts compared to a team effort. Primus, Tredrea, Cornes, Stevensm Francou and Paxman were the best.

Primus won the ruck all day and also kicked 3 goals in ports second quarter come back. Another amazing effort from the best ruckman in the league. Tredrea had 23 touches and took 10 marks in a strong display, and was probably best on ground. Cornes didnt have a lot of the ball but did the important stuff and took some telling marks and goals at just the right time. Stevens showed again why he is fast becoming one of the best midfielders in teh league with 23 hurting disposals. Francou the same, had a lot of the ball and used it well. Paxman took Jarman out of the game perfectly.

Crows got away to a huge start but mainly due to Port playing the worst they had played all year up to that point. 3 smothers resulted in 3 goals to the Crows and 2 free kicks gave them 2 goals also. Port stayed in touch and struck them hard in the second quarter. The third was all port who kicked 4 goals to nil against the breeze. The last quarter was fairly even with port kicking away early and doing enough to run out the rest of the game.

Not only that, Welsh can look forward to a small break due to the tribunal...that is if they are gonna be consistnent. Welsh connected Wnaganeen with a very crude raised elbow to the face in the last quarter....and after Burgoynes suspension last week you would think he would be reported and suspended for it


A great win to the Power who have shown again that they really are a contender for this years premiership.

The crows...well it looks to be mothballs to them...and the crows supporters...well werent they cocky in the first quarter and a bit...they even threw out that great old line "How many premierships have you won"
Well ill tell you this...we dont have any premierships...but it took Adelaide 7 years to make 2 finals series....we are gonna do it in our 5th season.

With the Power having all winable games from here on in, we are a strong chance to finish top 2 and even top spot with Essendon looking a bit shaky recently.



GO THE POWER!!!!

 

[play on]

This result is great, because as the round has turned out, Collingwood remain in the 8. Collingwood needed this game to be won by Port. And I picked you as well, so that is a bonus.



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Ball says the crowd, play on says the umpire
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[kirky]

Congratulations to the Power however, Macca19, were you at the game. If Port controlled it for 2 1/2 quarters, I fancy the Crows controlled it for 1 1/2 therefore the end result was about right. I bit of humility does not go astray sometimes. But then would we ever expect that from Port supporters. I think not!

Cornes one of the best, you have got to be pulling yourself. Mark Stevens, his immediate opponent, had more possessions, more marks and kicked two goals. Not bad if he was beaten, eh! Riccuito, Mcleod were again great contributors. Perhaps if you weren't so blatantly biased and acknowledge the opposition, but then again that only comes with maturity and knowledge of the game.

BOG was either Tredrea (we could certainly do with him) or Francou.

 

[dee_girl9]

Originally posted by kirky

BOG was either Tredrea (we could certainly do with him) or Francou.

Francou won the west end showdown medal for BOG so u were pretty much right Kirky

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by kirky
Congratulations to the Power however, Macca19, were you at the game. If Port controlled it for 2 1/2 quarters, I fancy the Crows controlled it for 1 1/2 therefore the end result was about right. I bit of humility does not go astray sometimes. But then would we ever expect that from Port supporters. I think not!

Cornes one of the best, you have got to be pulling yourself. Mark Stevens, his immediate opponent, had more possessions, more marks and kicked two goals. Not bad if he was beaten, eh! Riccuito, Mcleod were again great contributors. Perhaps if you weren't so blatantly biased and acknowledge the opposition, but then again that only comes with maturity and knowledge of the game.

BOG was either Tredrea (we could certainly do with him) or Francou.

I congratluated the crows for there efforts. I also said that i couldnt find one standout crow player on the day, but they had 4 or 5 even contributors. Maybe if you learned how to read you would of seen it but then again that comes with age doesnt it.
Blatantly Biased?? Please show me how i was so?

Cornes did very well, kicked 3 goals, took a number of strong marks and got the ball to ground. Yeah Stevens played well too, Cornes still kicked 3 goals and played a good game.
It is of course Opinion if you understand what that means. Opinions are often different between different people.

And yes Port controlled it for 2 1/2 quarters and Adelaide 1 1/2...what exactly was your point in repeating what i said?

At least you arent the crows clown that just rang up 5AA and said that Tredrea wouldnt get a game with another club and that Robran was twice the footballer Tredrea is

 

[ant]

Well Macca, I'm glad you realised that Stevens did not get thumped by Tredrea, because he wasn't his opponent for the day.

Port were just too good around the packs, once you got on top in the ruck you took the ball away far too easily and were able to run forward of the play. From there your forwards were given many good opportunities and were able to make the most of it.

If you reckon the Crows got the best of the umpiring, well, you can have your opinion but I thought they were at their usual pathetic best. Bicks got shoved in the back, no free, Clarke was pulled to the ground, no free, Sugar got tackled high, no free, but this went both ways. The frees paid by ump. no. 27 when the players were tackled over the line, sheesh, were absolutely baffling. They just had no idea at times. No side was favoured by the umps at all in my opinion.

Port did have control for the majority of the match as stated though I thought we hung in there well, but not kicking a goal in the 3rd quarter just wasn't good enough. I couldn't really question the team's efforts because I thought the Power were simply the better balanced team, with more options around the ground. No shame really, Port are top 4 and we're somewhere around the middle.