AFLW Port Adelaide vs Sydney - Round 6 @ Alberton

[Ford Fairlane]

I thought we turned the corner after the pre-season matches, the competitive first half against Adelaide and the win over St Kilda

Same here. Thought we would win 4 or 5 this year. Gone backwards since the Saints game.

 

[Coobk001]

What's stark is Sydney's turnaround. We've made the most incremental of improvements, a very Hinkley like change, whilst another team has flown past us.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

Arnell should be sacked. Zero structure or strategy in the way we play. It's just hardery for longery nonsense. Standards are poor. Poor discipline. Poor fitness standards.


Naomi Maidment should be sacked. Absolutely bungled the list build. Too slow, too unskilled, too old.

 

[Jojay]

We beat this mob by 10 goals and kept them goalless last year.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Arnell should be sacked. Zero structure or strategy in the way we play. It's just hardery for longery nonsense. Standards are poor. Poor discipline. Poor fitness standards.


Naomi Maidment should be sacked. Absolutely bungled the list build. Too slow, too unskilled, too old.

Too small

 

[philreich]

Do ya reckon Kenny is watching in the bunker?

He was probably on the phone to the coach, telling her that she shouldn't change a thing.

 

[Grave Danger]

Since the win against StKilda they've scored 12.33

 

[Jojay]

Just looking at some vision of the Brisbane girls warming up... the body shape difference is stark

 

[PA88]

I'm so sick of watching any Port Adelaide team play with lesser method than the opposition.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Wooden spoon it is then

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

Kock would never get rid of Arnell though. Imagine the PR! The optics!

We are on this ride to the end unfortunately.

 

[philreich]

If Hinkley gets 13 years, then Arnell should get the same - right?

 

[PA88]

Koch described last season as fantastic. That's our standard lol

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Rd 4 at Alberton last season we beat these Bozos 10.8 vs 0.2 in the rain and windy conditions.

The swans finished 18th 0 wins and 35.9% and we finished 17th 1 win and 1 draw and 70.6%, % was better than 11th, 12th, 15th and 16th.

Both clubs got extra help via the draft from the AFL.

We have gone backwards and Swans have taken a big step forward.

 

[TeeKray]

I think most of you have a serious misunderstanding of the limitations we are operating under.

It's impossible to attract on and off field talent from interstate to play in a semi professional competition where the pay is not great. This means we have to make do with locals and players from interstate who are unwanted anywhere else. The draft is not a national draft, it's a local draft. We are based in the smallest city in the league with the lowest number of female footballers. And all of this is in the context of the fact that the Crows had a 6 season head start on us to cherry pick every female footballer in South Australia of all ages. They did this so successfully that they had won 3 premierships and played in 4 grand finals before we had even entered the competition. Due to this head start and subsequent success, we've been able to recruit very few players from their squad, which would theoretically be our quickest and easiest way to accumulate some established talent.

Look at West Coast if you want evidence for how difficult it is. For all of their money and power, they haven't been able to launch their AFLW team any better than we have as the second team in. They've gone 1-5, 2-7, 1-9, 2-8 and 1-5. That's 7 wins and 34 losses from 41 games - 2 of those wins being narrow wins at home against us with their 3 season head start. And that's West Coast who should be expected to be better than us at every pursuit imaginable.

You look at this season and we were blown away by Brisbane and had competitive halves against Adelaide and Geelong whilst being soundly beaten overall. Nobody should be under any illusions that these teams are streets ahead of us and there's nothing we could've done about that. Against like types we beat St Kilda away from home, lost narrowly to West Coast away and lost to Sydney at home in a game where we kicked 3.12 and were in it until the last few minutes. It's disappointing that we haven't been able to get over the line the last two weeks but let's stop short of pretending that we've been miles off the pace.

If you want to blame anyone for the situation we are in, blame our short sighted administrators who failed to see the importance of entering this competition at the earliest stage and instead left us as the last dog at the bowl to get slaughtered for years.

 

[PA88]

Even though we have some experienced players that are average, the younger players should be showing improvement and they're not ... which is either the draft decisions were wrong or Arnell is not capable.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

I think most of you have a serious misunderstanding of the limitations we are operating under.

It's impossible to attract on and off field talent from interstate to play in a semi professional competition where the pay is not great. This means we have to make do with locals and players from interstate who are unwanted anywhere else. The draft is not a national draft, it's a local draft. We are based in the smallest city in the league with the lowest number of female footballers. And all of this is in the context of the fact that the Crows had a 6 season head start on us to cherry pick every female footballer in South Australia of all ages. They did this so successfully that they had won 3 premierships and played in 4 grand finals before we had even entered the competition. Due to this head start and subsequent success, we've been able to recruit very few players from their squad, which would theoretically be our quickest and easiest way to accumulate some established talent.

Look at West Coast if you want evidence for how difficult it is. For all of their money and power, they haven't been able to launch their AFLW team any better than we have as the second team in. They've gone 1-5, 2-7, 1-9, 2-8 and 1-5. That's 7 wins and 34 losses from 41 games - 2 of those wins being narrow wins at home against us with their 3 season head start. And that's West Coast who should be expected to be better than us at every pursuit imaginable.

You look at this season and we were blown away by Brisbane and had competitive halves against Adelaide and Geelong whilst being soundly beaten overall. Nobody should be under any illusions that these teams are streets ahead of us and there's nothing we could've done about that. Against like types we beat St Kilda away from home, lost narrowly to West Coast away and lost to Sydney at home in a game where we kicked 3.12 and were in it until the last few minutes. It's disappointing that we haven't been able to get over the line the last two weeks but let's stop short of pretending that we've been miles off the pace.

If you want to blame anyone for the situation we are in, blame our short sighted administrators who failed to see the importance of entering this competition at the earliest stage and instead left us as the last dog at the bowl to get slaughtered for years.

Thats fine but we just lost to West Coast and Sydney.

 

[TeeKray]

Thats fine but we just lost to West Coast and Sydney.

We were very competitive in both games and in with a chance to win until very late. Do you actually expect us to be at the point where we comfortably account for teams like West Coast and Sydney? That would amount to delusion.

 

[Portwon]

Progress is never linear they say and we have some constraints that contribute to where we find ourselves but....

Today's effort and last week were very poor playing against teams I would think we would measure ourselves against but we were completely smashed in important parts of the game for large parts of this game and the last against teams we should not be.

Much like our other teams we seem to rely on individual brilliance rather than actual structure to build our game on.

Much like our other teams we look smaller, less fit and make poor decisions.

Kochhead would see a good crowd, a "close" result and think what is your problem.

Not baby and bathwater times but some concerns I would think if we are honest.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

We were very competitive in both games and in with a chance to win until very late. Do you actually expect us to be at the point where we comfortably account for teams like West Coast and Sydney? That would amount to delusion.

I'd expect us to win those games. West Coast are complete s**t and we should beat a team like the Swans at home.

Completely disagree with you on the list build as well. The crows being strong should've helped us. We had the opportunity to take if not their very best, at the very least the next tier. Instead we have a bunch of retirement home players.

 

[240volt]

In all sports the sad truth is some teams are going to be shyt.
In this woman’s game we are definitely one shyt side.
You just don’t accept it or you will forever be shyt, changes need to be made from top to bottom including coaching and players.
How long you stay at the bottom depends on how fast you accept change.
It’s not rocket science.

 

[PA88]

We were very competitive in both games and in with a chance to win until very late. Do you actually expect us to be at the point where we comfortably account for teams like West Coast and Sydney? That would amount to delusion.

They beat those teams last year quite comfortably. This year we added a better ruck and forward but our midfield is bad. We have one decent midfielder. Nevertheless, last season we were not good but this season we are already horrid. No excuse for regressing.

 

[Portmagpies36]

I think most of you have a serious misunderstanding of the limitations we are operating under.

It's impossible to attract on and off field talent from interstate to play in a semi professional competition where the pay is not great. This means we have to make do with locals and players from interstate who are unwanted anywhere else. The draft is not a national draft, it's a local draft. We are based in the smallest city in the league with the lowest number of female footballers. And all of this is in the context of the fact that the Crows had a 6 season head start on us to cherry pick every female footballer in South Australia of all ages. They did this so successfully that they had won 3 premierships and played in 4 grand finals before we had even entered the competition. Due to this head start and subsequent success, we've been able to recruit very few players from their squad, which would theoretically be our quickest and easiest way to accumulate some established talent.

Look at West Coast if you want evidence for how difficult it is. For all of their money and power, they haven't been able to launch their AFLW team any better than we have as the second team in. They've gone 1-5, 2-7, 1-9, 2-8 and 1-5. That's 7 wins and 34 losses from 41 games - 2 of those wins being narrow wins at home against us with their 3 season head start. And that's West Coast who should be expected to be better than us at every pursuit imaginable.

You look at this season and we were blown away by Brisbane and had competitive halves against Adelaide and Geelong whilst being soundly beaten overall. Nobody should be under any illusions that these teams are streets ahead of us and there's nothing we could've done about that. Against like types we beat St Kilda away from home, lost narrowly to West Coast away and lost to Sydney at home in a game where we kicked 3.12 and were in it until the last few minutes. It's disappointing that we haven't been able to get over the line the last two weeks but let's stop short of pretending that we've been miles off the pace.

If you want to blame anyone for the situation we are in, blame our short sighted administrators who failed to see the importance of entering this competition at the earliest stage and instead left us as the last dog at the bowl to get slaughtered for years.

All valid points however there is also having standards, the lack of fitness is quite obvious and the lack of discipline in the last 2 weeks is also very disappointing. I would also question appointing a first time coach with a new side.

 

[raptalia]

We were very competitive in both games and in with a chance to win until very late. Do you actually expect us to be at the point where we comfortably account for teams like West Coast and Sydney? That would amount to delusion.

Take a look at the last time we played Sydney.

Port Adelaide were never satisfied with being competitive the only satisfaction we took away was from winning. You have to be taking the piss, either that or it is you who are deluded.

But it isn't just about winning or losing it is the way we loose. It is hard enough to live with losing thirteen times in fifteen outings but it would be easier from my perspective if I could see improvement but as many other posters have posted we have not improved. In fact some of last year's better performers have gone backward.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

He was probably on the phone to the coach, telling her that she shouldn't change a thing.

Lol as if Kenny would even care.