Both teams were pretty poor. But this felt like the type of game we'd normally lose. So I'm happy we took the 4 points.
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Review R9: The Good, Bad and the Ugly vs. Port Adelaide
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Both teams were pretty poor. But this felt like the type of game we'd normally lose. So I'm happy we took the 4 points.
And yet we still had a chance to win easily by 6+ goals with 10 minutes to play in the 4th and more Port Power players playing well compared to our.
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If we kept going and did win by 6 goals then the only real criticism comes from not guarding Rozee and Butters early - but we would allow that because we won
Then the blame is directed at the mistakes players made and the confusing umpiring and Nicks escapes nearly scott free
We probably deserved to win against GC
Felt port completely outplayed us tonight and we got one back
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Worrell is consistently in our best 3 players
He’s AA top 40 level
Rankine was freakish when we needed him
And Keane / Laird were huge all game
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Yep, apparently if Billy Brownless’ boy was a bit better he could have been lining up for the Dees
The kick out go long to the right flank is genius.
Nobody will ever figure it out.
Nobody will ever figure it out.
When Keane goes rogue and hits one’s down middle people complain too
So we might as well go back to peak conservative
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I like Lairds kick to the opposition
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Can't agree with too many - most teams would have run over Port - a mostly poor performance - Too many were absent for the whole game or at least half - Hinge, MicL, Dawson, Rankine, Soligo was so so, Rachelle - Keays started hot - maybe he should have tagged Butters? - Nicks final qtr PROVED HE CAN NOT COACH - at least he is the worst tactical coach going. Port were harder at the ball - had we matched that - comfortable win. Wasn't that good a game as many say. Been plenty better showdowns.
Played v well overall
Rankine is our most talented player and obviously stood up with two important goals in the last. That's exactly what my post said.
Problem is our most talented player only had about 6 good plays for an entire game and coughed the ball up on multiple occasions. Against good sides 2 goals in the last qtr won't matter.
You need to either watch the game again or give it up , find new hobbies etc
I mean, he’s stood up against great sides before, it’s barely a concern
Need to change your name to Johncena, you’ve turned heel
Him and Thilthorpe won us the game
Nothing surer
Our defence kept us in it and those 2 won it
Weird game, those two + Peatling, Worrell and Keane carried us to the win IMO (ROB, Butts and Keays also good)
Quite a few that had a poor game otherwise. But that’s the beauty of having multiple match winners
Peatling v good re pressure and ground ball , amazing recruit
Worrell plays same every week , one of best defenders in comp
Keays 2nd half huge
Keane very good , been great most games
TT and Rankine match winners
ROB solid
We lost mid easily and won game , need to win mid and we could smash pies if so
Peatling up there with B Smith, Macrae and M Kennedy for recruit of the year
Two of our best mids (Dawson and Soligo) had very down games and we still won - don’t think that’s happened yet this year, for us
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I would prob look at Soligo managed for a week after pies game
Draper in
Soligo doesn’t look as dynamic as early year
Still love him
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Don't agree with Lairds game. Don't think he was huge at all.
Played a steady game with a couple of Laird howlers. Think he has been important across HB this season, but didnt rate his game.
You ready for Cumming to swap back to HBF yet or still wanting him to waste away on a wing.
I thought we were a bit cute all night and just expected our class to do the job. Very strange we didn't rotate the mids as much as we did last week, especially given how badly we were beaten at clearance. I waited all night for them to send Dawson forward (or back) to break the tag. Maybe they figured it was more advantageous to have Bergman in there as opposed to one of their better mids. A head scratcher.
That early patch early in the last was sublime, especially the Fog goal and the soccered Rankine goal. Only for the coaches to turn a likely 10 goal win into a 5 point win. What's the point of having the best forward line in the comp, especially one where RT looks unstoppable against one of the worst defenses, if you're afraid to bang it in there and trust them to win more contests than they lose?
We have the cattle to play a much more attacking brand of football, like we did against Carlton. It's time to play to our strengths and let the chips fall where they may. There's no way we beat Collingwood if we play it safe again. Hopefully those last 10 minutes were a wake up call that we can't afford to do it again.
That early patch early in the last was sublime, especially the Fog goal and the soccered Rankine goal. Only for the coaches to turn a likely 10 goal win into a 5 point win. What's the point of having the best forward line in the comp, especially one where RT looks unstoppable against one of the worst defenses, if you're afraid to bang it in there and trust them to win more contests than they lose?
We have the cattle to play a much more attacking brand of football, like we did against Carlton. It's time to play to our strengths and let the chips fall where they may. There's no way we beat Collingwood if we play it safe again. Hopefully those last 10 minutes were a wake up call that we can't afford to do it again.
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Absolutely. IMO - we have played one bad game (Freo) and one bad quarter (4th against Geelong) all year.
I dont actually think we played that bad tonight. We had some bad patches, but Port showed up.
Port got smoked in round 1 by Collingwood and rebounded with a 72 point win the next week. They were heavy favs against the Saints and lost by 12 and came out firing and beat the Hawks by 30. They were insipid against the Doggies and were always going to come out absolutely firing. We held up and got the all important 4 points.
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