Review Port V Melb: Review

Discussion in 'Port Adelaide - Est. 1870' started by SilenceOz, Jul 20, 2014.

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  1. Powerstufff

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  2. Hardcore

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    From where I see it we have hit a bit of a wall especially as our midfield is coming up against some bigger bodied players, the likes of Wingard, Polec, young are still young in the football sense and their bodies aren't able to handle it atm. Our poor disposal kills us because we aren't running with confidence into space and creating because if we turn it over we get caught out badly. This also comes from not having the chop out defender in hombsch who previously would be able to dish off to runners. You can see we are lacking confidence when we switch and we also don't have the confidence to go down the line due our lack of talls, everyone is having to work harder in defending instead of attacking.

    don't panic Ken knows we are ahead of where we should be as our list is still developing physically and mentally for this point of the year.
     
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    Probably for punch to Dunn where he gave away the free kick. He has 80 carry over points from striking Jetta late in a marking contest in the Alice Springs game 7 weeks ago.
     
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    But the thought of the tough draw could galvanise us mentally?
    Roko's basilisk is a bit of a leap to link to, but I think in the context of footy the break and a tough draw could strengthen our resolve.
     
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    Schulz setting the scene for the forced selection of Butcher (or perhaps Shaw).

    INB4 Cam Hitchcock named as FF.
     
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    exactly , reported for hit on dunn
     
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    Why did Margetts only pay the free once Dunn doubled over in pain? He saw the incident as it happened but only blew his whistle a few seconds later once Dunn staged for the free kick. Terrible umpiring!
     
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    where is the link for this? as i thought i read only one report and it wasnt schulz rest cleared?
     
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    Thanks.
     
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    Thank god for that!
     
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    This was mentioned at the after-match actually.
    Ken said Boaky or Kane had queried it with one of the Melb players, took it to the umpires who gave it the all-clear.

    Did notice he took off a couple of minutes early at half-time with one of the physios, he's definitely not right.
     
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    They did change the ball over on a boundary throw-in during the third quarter if I remember correctly

    It was just after a couple of ugly "flat wobbly" kicks
     
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    See, this is what irks me. Vince made an intentional high strike behind play. I don't care about force, this sort of shit needs to be taken out of the game.
     
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    So not a top 8 contender, doesn't sell our player down the toilet. I'm sure the AFL will continue to blindly ignore that clubs in contention put the worse spin on those opponents also in the running for finals.
     
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    yet Cornes copped a reprimand last week for pushing someone over
     
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    Yes I'd like to thank Dunn & their medical team for not being pathetic bitches like a certain other mob last week that got Kornes a reprimand for the softest 'strike' i.e push in the back ever.

    Dan Jackson being said little bitch should take a hard look at himself.
     
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    The thing with Schulz is that he is going to get himself reported with something that sticks and probably soon. He dishes out a little something he shouldn't every second game. I guess he might as well get done and clean up his backlog before the H&A finishes. I wish he wouldn't do the undisciplined stuff but if that's what we have to accept to have his cold reliability in front of the big sticks so be it.
     
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    What that mutt Bernie did to Kane didn't seem all that much different to what Kane did to Daniel Jackson, infact it was a higher strike. What a bunch of shit.
     
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    Which makes the medical report in the Cornes report last week all the more intriguing.
     
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    It's interesting to see the comments about the ball yesterday. We were joking that the ball must have had a seam on it, like a cricket ball, because there were at least 3 shots at goal (Paul Stewart's goal in the second quarter was one, from memory) that curved dramatically through the air as if there was a gale force win pushing it.

    That may explain some of the poor disposal yesterday. I love reading Macca's reviews each week, and I find them generally accurate. I'd have to say he has been a bit harsh on Brad Ebert over the last 4 or 5 weeks though. I agree he has been below his best, and he looked a little lacking in confidence yesterday. But the issue about the ball may put his disposal in some context - we noticed the disposal from Ebert yesterday simply because he was getting it more than the others! It wasn't his best game but he got a lot of the ball. Giving him a "0" rating wasn't really fair in my opinion. He was in the top half of our team yesterday, I would have thought.

    Was great to see Cam O'Shea play a really good game.
     
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    The Ebert 0 was probably harsh but he has been an absolute liability for weeks. His hardrunning, solid marking, long and accurate kicking game style is absolutely non existent and has been so for weeks. He's been dropping marks and shanking kicks for weeks.

    Talk that there might have been something wrong with the ball is a minor excuse for this week, but not for the last month. We bragged about our midfield depth for 10 weeks and now the likes of Ebert and Polec have totally lost their mojo. Only Boak and Gray have been consistently good.
     
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    There was one where Hartlett on the Members' wing was trying to centre the ball to about 3 Port players running forward and it curved behind them to pinpoint a trailing Melbourne player. It defined the game for me. I'd so love to believe it was the ball that caused that.
     
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    Similar happened to Ebert last year, hopefully he can re find form as he did in 2013. Polec I'm not as confident in, as he hasn't really had form like he had this year before, so he may straight up be cooked. Hopefully the team can lift as one as quite a few guys have been underperforming lately, even the likes of Jack Hombsch who has been ridiculously reliable in the backline until the last week or two.
     
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    we can't expect a 20 year to play full back consistently. without Trengove + Carlile probably shows Hombsch's true level.
     
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