Game Day Port vs. Naarm - Ruckless in Alice

[Ford Fairlane]

Hot, stifling, players dropping from heat exhaustion but perfect for footy.

Thanks BT.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Can't fathom how we are behind?
We seem to be running rings around them - fast, open, free flowing footy, cutting them to ribbons, whereas Malbun are a fumbling, bumbling rabble.

Petracca has shanked every one of his kicks bar one!
Our rucks aren't being smashed at all.
We're kicking goals out of our backside.
Players running in waves and hunting in numbers.
A few clangers, but we look far the better side.
Lever and May no influence.
Pickett keeping them in it.

And they're ahead??????

Still, Dees have folded in the last half almost every game the past two months, so we should still surge away in the last stanza.

If lever is sore, then we need to smash him in a tackle.. be bloody ruthless

 

[JUSTWORK]

Melbourne tackle us without the ball non stop and no frees

But gee we have shot ourself in the foot a few times with rubbish turnovers

They're also not getting done for HTB when they should, just dropping it in the tackle constantly.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Can't fathom how we are behind?
We seem to be running rings around them - fast, open, free flowing footy, cutting them to ribbons, whereas Malbun are a fumbling, bumbling rabble.

Petracca has shanked every one of his kicks bar one!
Our rucks aren't being smashed at all.
We're kicking goals out of our backside.
Players running in waves and hunting in numbers.
A few clangers, but we look far the better side.
Lever and May no influence.
Pickett keeping them in it.

And they're ahead??????

Still, Dees have folded in the last half almost every game the past two months, so we should still surge away in the last stanza.

We are fumbling and bumbling more than them - a pandemic of fumbles I called it in another post. Bonner, Farrell, Amon in particular.

 

[Byrons Firen]

What did I miss?

Just the usual 'us'. Specialising in giving the oppo a chance or 2 or 3. Basically however many chances it takes for us to be unnecessarily struggling.

I like Drew but like Trav and Ollie kicking is not really his go. If Pickett kicks one more out of his arse i'll scream.

 

[MrMeaner]

Hot, stifling, players dropping from heat exhaustion but perfect for footy.

Thanks BT.

At least he’s not making racist comments about the locals, so far.

 

[Black 18]

So many scared guys, all the usual suspects too.

Mead isn't AFL standard at all. Not sure why we persist.

Bonner can play really good AFL footy but when you have a player capable of turning in efforts like he is today then that will always come back to bite you. Scared beyond reason.

Butters needs to work out if he's going to be a good player or not. He's had enough time to be able to impose himself on the game to a higher standard.

Georgiades just hasn't a football brain at all. Great hands (mostly) and a decent kick at goal from 30m but apart from that he hasn't a clue whats going on at all.

Senior guys jogging to a contest as they swoop and goal, a captain just pushing the ball out of bounds, a complete lack of intent from most highlighted by our embarrassing tackle numbers, fumbles, u/12 decison making - its total footy - yay!!!

Yet somehow we're still in it.

My god, Hinkley has let standards completely evaporate during his time at Port.

Try, but if it gets too hard that's cool. We'll have a connection session during the week and share our thoughts and move on to next week asap.

 

[ExpectToWin]

They're also not getting done for HTB when they should, just dropping it in the tackle constantly.

The frees we are not getting is killing us

 

[Del165198]

Hot, stifling, players dropping from heat exhaustion but perfect for footy.

Thanks BT.

It's 23 degrees and 0 humidity.

 

[PJ Power]

What did I miss?

Wasted opportunity. Melbourne were ripe for the picking. Instead we picked ourselves apart with error after error. Skill errors, slipping over, dropped sitters, handball and kicking turnovers, dreadful spoils to the opposition. The last twenty minutes have been a feast of dumb and/or panic ridden football. Four players especially have stood out for their lack of output combined with errors:
Georgiades, Farrell, Mead and Bonner.

The captain has also let us down with two mega brain fades at the end of that half.

We should have been leading this off the back of an inspired performance from Dixon.

 

[Del165198]

At least he’s not making racist comments about the locals, so far.

Yes, unusual for BT so far. But there's still a half to go

 

[ROBBBO]

If lever is sore, then we need to smash him in a tackle.. be bloody ruthless

Paging SPP

 

[ROBBBO]

Errors killing us. Get that right and we win ️

 

[Sewer de Lance]

Has a someone played a worse half of football then Bonner? It’s literally 17 v 19 with him out there.

 

[Saltiga]

Did Bonner smoke a Joint just before the game? Should be dropped for the remainder of the year for the pathetic efforts that cost us 2 goals.

 

[JimmyBC]

Farrell's gap between his best & worst is too big however I'd just keep plugging games into him. Still a sub 50 gamer.

 

[TeeKray]

I'd like to see us come out and actually make them earn this win. They're barely trying and still beating us no problem. It's embarrassing.

 

[PJ Power]

So many scared guys, all the usual suspects too.

Mead isn't AFL standard at all. Not sure why we persist.

Bonner can play really good AFL footy but when you have a player capable of turning in efforts like he is today then that will always come back to bite you. Scared beyond reason.

Butters needs to work out if he's going to be a good player or not. He's had enough time to be able to impose himself on the game to a higher standard.

Georgiades just hasn't a football brain at all. Great hands (mostly) and a decent kick at goal from 30m but apart from that he hasn't a clue whats going on at all.

Senior guys jogging to a contest as they swoop and goal, a captain just pushing the ball out of bounds, a complete lack of intent from most highlighted by our embarrassing tackle numbers, fumbles, u/12 decison making - its total footy - yay!!!

Yet somehow we're still in it.

My god, Hinkley has let standards completely evaporate during his time at Port.

Try, but if it gets too hard that's cool. We'll have a connection session during the week and share our thoughts and move on to next week asap.

Great post.

 

[Del165198]

Butters jogging around like it's a training run

 

[Coobk001]

Ridiculous to say we are playing as well as we can and then go on to list how poor our mistakes are. Need to tidy them up.

We've been doing those for years. Years and years. Our best performances have been littered with them.

Our ability to win the ball, move it around and execute our game plan right now is reclining. Unfortunately as always, we don't have the class to maintain the level required and we consistently make costly mistakes.

 

[RustyCage]

No need to chase, Butters, that’s ok

 

[JUSTWORK]

flipping mark those Aliir

 

[philthy05]

Ffs

This drop down ad covers the Tab with the alerts etc is the worst addition I’ve ever seen on this site.

It should be used to obtain confessions at Guantanamo.

 

[Del165198]

Aliir fists an uncontested mark.

Hinkley must have Zoomed in at half time for a quick pep talk with how we've started here

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Why are we so content with just getting to the boundary this game.

There's like no desire at all to go forward