Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 31

[jackag24]

Nas will be better for it, first time he's ever been tagged i reckon.

 

[Powerade 08]

We could have done with him

Hes 30 and never shown he can play ruck or forward

 

[It Just Is]

TDK and Marshall not looking like working at the moment. Marshall wanted to go and they kept him so...

Trade Marshall and keep Steele. Close watch on that sliding doors this season.

 

[240volt]

Nas will be better for it, first time he's ever been tagged i reckon.

Getting big money now so expect a big amount of attention on him by opposition sides this year.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Nas will be better for it, first time he's ever been tagged i reckon.

Nah he was tagged through the back end of last year. Sam Mitchell tried everyone on him, but he didn't have Chatgpt then.

 

[Lefti93]

Kane’s burner has gone into overdrive

I agree. He's worth a second rounder at best.

 

[1954]

The only thing I noticed across Round nothing is that scooping the ball up with an open hand does not seem to attract a free kick (until Port does it) anymore.

There were also the double handball attempts where a player would have the ball dislodged in a tackle and then would either grab it and try to handball it again, or knock it away with his free hand.
Either of those situations have been paid as a free kick to the tackler since Moses played full back for Jerusalem, but in round O they were let go numerous times.

I also suspect that after the AFL review of round zero the umps will be instructed to tighten up on their adjudicating of both the above, and the open hand scoop!

 

[Interstater]

All I learnt from Round Oh was that the AFL are still prepared to give Collingwood wins for the $$'s.

 

[VineValerian]

The only thing I noticed across Round nothing is that scooping the ball up with an open hand does not seem to attract a free kick (until Port does it) anymore.

Also, all teams are doing a lot more soccering off the ground, instead of picking the ball up.

Several of which last year would have been umpired as kicking in danger.

Guess the AWFUL have decided it keeps the game flowing, so leave the clubs do it?

 

[tribey]

Yet, they’ll bring up playing the 2004 Prelim at the MCG at every turn. Sorest losers.

Akermanis was still whinging about it on Jon Ralph’s SACKED podcast a few years ago, and made the claim that Demetriou brought the MCG rule in specifically to curtail their dominance.

Zero pushback or fact-checking from Ralph or the other bloke.

Also claimed that he’d ‘spoken to Port supporters’ who admitted Brisbane would’ve won if not for them having to play the Prelim away.

Just laughable.

 

[tribey]

I think they should call him Roller.

Pure Zwelve

 

[240volt]

Akermanis was still whinging about it on Jon Ralph’s SACKED podcast a few years ago, and made the claim that Demetriou brought the MCG rule in specifically to curtail their dominance.

Zero pushback or fact-checking from Ralph or the other bloke.

Also claimed that he’d ‘spoken to Port supporters’ who admitted Brisbane would’ve won if not for them having to play the Prelim away.

Just laughable.

They never bring up the extra salary cap they got from the AFL in those years to help keep there star players.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Opening round absolutely sucks. All the excitement of round 1 but your team isn't playing so actually none of the excitement. Haven't watched a game and I'm genuinely excited about the footy this season.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[240volt]

Opening round absolutely sucks. All the excitement of round 1 but your team isn't playing so actually none of the excitement. Haven't watched a game and I'm genuinely excited about the footy this season.

Yeah it’s a snooze for SA and WA like we don’t even exist.
The idea of kicking off a new season is to get all teams and fans involved.
All this does is reinforce the fact it’s a corrupt competition.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Opening round absolutely sucks. All the excitement of round 1 but your team isn't playing so actually none of the excitement. Haven't watched a game and I'm genuinely excited about the footy this season.

Like I can normally stomach things like this if there is clear reasoning that seems pragmatic enough even if I don't agree with it.

This is just what the **** are they even trying to do tier

 

[melanChronic]

Yeah OR is beyond just being another stupid zero foresight decision from the AFL, it's really disrespectful to the fans of 8 clubs.

All the pent up excitement of the new season dissipates and it sets you up to disengage right from the start. Ludicrous and stubborn bullshit from an inept inbred regime.

 

[Lefti93]

Like I can normally stomach things like this if there is clear reasoning that seems pragmatic enough even if I don't agree with it.

This is just what the **** are they even trying to do tier

Take money from NRL surely.

 

[PatientMental]

Take money from NRL surely.

It was to compete with eyes on their opening fixture extravaganza

Except that was last week this year, which completely negates the whole point of the ****ing experiment

 

[HINKLEY OUT]

Akermanis was still whinging about it on Jon Ralph’s SACKED podcast a few years ago, and made the claim that Demetriou brought the MCG rule in specifically to curtail their dominance.

Zero pushback or fact-checking from Ralph or the other bloke.

Also claimed that he’d ‘spoken to Port supporters’ who admitted Brisbane would’ve won if not for them having to play the Prelim away.

Just laughable.

He's not wrong though, if we were victims of it, we'd still be sooking.

 

[tribey]

He's not wrong though, if we were victims of it, we'd still be sooking.

He is though. The so-called MCG Rule had existed long before then. Sydney, Adelaide and West Coast had all run afoul of it.

Specifically brought in to curtail the Lions, it was not.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Akermanis was still whinging about it on Jon Ralph’s SACKED podcast a few years ago, and made the claim that Demetriou brought the MCG rule in specifically to curtail their dominance.

Zero pushback or fact-checking from Ralph or the other bloke.

Also claimed that he’d ‘spoken to Port supporters’ who admitted Brisbane would’ve won if not for them having to play the Prelim away.

Just laughable.

Needs to be reminded we did it without the comps premier ruckman and one of the top mids in the game.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Akermanis was still whinging about it on Jon Ralph’s SACKED podcast a few years ago, and made the claim that Demetriou brought the MCG rule in specifically to curtail their dominance.

Zero pushback or fact-checking from Ralph or the other bloke.

Also claimed that he’d ‘spoken to Port supporters’ who admitted Brisbane would’ve won if not for them having to play the Prelim away.

Just laughable.

FFS Ralph knew the rule came in as part of the AFL's long sighted visionary 1992 contract with MCC, give us a 23,000 afl members reserve and there will be a final at the MCG every week for the next 40 years BS. They never though non Vic clubs would finish above Vic clubs and if so, bad luck.

Later the contract was changed to a certain amount of finals in week 1 and 2 combined over a 5 year period, but an MCG PF stayed, even when they invented a second one in 1994.

Demetriou is to blame for the 2004 PF not being a day game, so they could fly home on Saturday night, but that's it. Port gave Brisbane 2 home PF games in 2002 and 2003 because we stuffed up our QFs at Footy Park.

Edit we gave Brisbane a home PF in 2002 and Sydney one in 2003, and Brisbane played them at Stadium Australia after losing their QF to Collingwood at the MCG and then won their home SF.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Carlton and Port Adelaide are bracing to give up a record amount of draft capital to acquire top father-son and academy prospects this year as the AFL fine-tunes measures to increase the number of top-rated players available to clubs that finish near the bottom of the ladder.
Under the system being refined following last Wednesday’s AFL Commission meeting, the amount of points a club has to hand over under the recently revised draft-value index (DVI) is likely to be weighted according to where a club finishes on the ladder.
Clubs will also only be allowed to use two picks to find enough points to match the bid under the complicated bidding system, although the proposed changes have an option for them to go into deficit. The intent is to protect the integrity of the draft, which has moved away from the most talented youngsters being available to the clubs finishing on the bottom rungs of the ladder.
The system will make it extremely difficult for teams that finish high on the ladder to have enough points to secure players who attract bids at the top of the draft – unless they have given up existing talent. The move is an attempt to decrease the likelihood of clubs being able to win a premiership and acquire a top six selection in the next draft.
The Brisbane Lions have done so in the past two seasons when father-son Levi Ashcroft and academy prospect Daniel Annable joined their list after the Lions matched bids at picks five and six respectively. If the proposed weighting had been in place in 2025, the Lions might have had 25 per cent extra in points added to Annable’s price, making it harder for them to match the bid that came for him at pick six. They may have had to therefore trade out a good player to get another high draft pick to have enough points to add him to the list.

The AFL is about to shake up the draft, and it’s set to cost the Blues a record price

The AFL is preparing to change draft rules to force top teams to cough up established players if they want to get the points required to draft the best young talent each year, and the teams that will be immediately affected are Carlton and Port Adelaide.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Rash]

lol