Preview Round 13 Port vs Pussies, Adelaide Oval, Thursday June 10 7.10pm

[Power Raid]

Win this game and we wont leave the top 4 for the rest of the year with top 2 still a distinct possibility.

I'd love to see a return to high intensity footy like we delivered against the tigers

If we find that form, we will win

 

[ElectricG]

LICK THOSE PUSSIES

 

[bomberclifford]

Geelong are notoriously slow to restart after a bye,

They do more testing during the bye don't they?

 

[Ant Bear]

Looks like Geelong will get a FIFO exemption from the SA government, so game will be here.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Commissioner dick cheese will have the state locked down by next Thursday...
We will win in Sydney and Adelaide..
Comfortably actually

 

[Pickett4GOAT]

If we can sort out our defensive press against slow build up teams, we will win.

 

[VineValerian]

If we can sort out our defensive press against slow build up teams, we will win.

The operative word in this scenario is "IF".

 

[Chrizzt]

We can take them. Only the rain saved them from getting pumped by us in last year's final.

They had 4 more scoring shots. We were a little lucky to win that tbh

 

[malcheski]

They had 4 more scoring shots. We were a little lucky to win that tbh

Fremantle had the same amount of scoring shots on the weekend, we got out by the skin of our teeth in that one.

 

[tribey]

Port vs Freo Possessions

• Bonner: 0 contested/19 uncontested
• Burton: 1 / 8
• Georgiades: 2 / 8
• DBJ: 2 / 16
• Jonas: 3 / 12
• Farrell: 3 / 14
• Amon: 3 / 22
• Houston: 5 / 20
• Motlop: 6 / 18

Say what you like about the Cats’ premiership chances, there is no way they allow a repeat of last week’s Toumpaspalooza.

 

[Jonts]

Will miss Lycett

Cats by 25

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

Even by with our outs, I still think we have too much in our wheels for these guys. It might be a case of our quick legs making their quick ball movement look slow.

If Cam Guthrie is out, they’ll miss him.

 

[Astronema]

Port vs Freo Possessions

• Bonner: 0 contested/19 uncontested
• Burton: 1 / 8
• Georgiades: 2 / 8
• DBJ: 2 / 16
• Jonas: 3 / 12
• Farrell: 3 / 14
• Amon: 3 / 22
• Houston: 5 / 20
• Motlop: 6 / 18

Say what you like about the Cats’ premiership chances, there is no way they allow a repeat of last week’s Toumpaspalooza.

If ever a stat showed the absolute witches hats that Fremantle were for parts of that game, gosh

 

[Arintaraj]

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Thursday June 10, 7.10 pm
Adelaide Oval (probably)
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Should be a cracking game, both teams at 8/3 going into the bye rounds and sitting at 5th and 4th respectively. Recent form for both teams involve wasting an afternoon trying to conquer Mt Collingwood, with similar results. Geelong are on a 4 game winning streak, with their last loss to Sydney, and they have also lost to Adelaide and Melbourne. However, they have solid results against the better teams, with demolitions of the Eagles and Tigers on their resume.

Geelong are expecting several changes to their most recent team, with Dangerfield, Duncan, Guthrie, Miers, O'Connor and Blicavs headlining their potential inclusions after overcoming injuries. It would be a massive slab of changes, and maybe they will also look to their R14 game against the Bulldogs to stagger the inclusions. In fact, they have a terrifying month ahead, with us, Bulldogs and Brisbane on their immediate agenda, so if we can win it might be the impetus for us to stake our claim on the top 4 spot that we are contesting.

For us, it seems like the cavalry is still over the hill. Butters is expected to return to running this week, and Duursma is on the track already; Lycett will serve out his suspension in this game and Clurey is still eating through a straw. Fantasia had minor surgery this morning and will miss against Geelong, so perhaps Woodcock or Bergman will replace him, and we know that Hartlett will be considered for an instant return. Burton is being managed, but has started every game this year, much to the surprise of all!

Geelong play a similar style to Collingwood, except with better players - they like to play a measured, careful game but have the capacity to explode to their big forwards Cameron and Hawkins, who make the likes of Rohan, Close and Higgins dangerous. McKenzie played Tomahawk expertly in the Qualifying Final last year, pushing him wide and playing him tight. We have countered their recruitment of Cameron with the inclusion of Aliir, which shapes as a great contest, and Burton, DBJ, Bonner and Jonas will be our other defenders.

In our attacking half, Dixon showed signs of improvement against the Dockers, and Marshall and Georgiades have been reliable sidekicks (if slightly inconsistent). The small forward stocks are being tested, but we still have Robbie Gray, Motlop, Rozee and SPP down there, so there is plenty of offensive threats for the Cats to worry about. Their defence is undersized, with Henderson the biggest and likely to ge the task on Charlie(unless Blicavs plays back). Stewart, Tuohy, Kolodjashjnij and Henry are all similar types - they will probably send Henry and Kolo to Marshall and Georgi, and Stewart to Gray.

However, it is in the midfield that this game will be decided. We know that, in the short-circuits against the Eagles, Lions and Dogs, our midfield was beaten badly early, and the team is fully aware of this and should be on guard against similar lapses. Ladhams will be up against Ratugolea, or possibly Stanley, and Pistol Pete has been in fairly good form; however, he is an inexperienced player still who still strives for consistency. At his best, he will lose or break even on hitouts but provide a level of ground level skills that few ruckmen possess. Wines and Boak are carrying the can for the midfielders, and both have been superb throughout this season, but they will encounter a strong Cats midfield of Selwood, Dangerfield, Guthrie, Parfitt and Isaac Smith. The likes of Drew, SPP, Houston and Amon will need to pay due diligence to the defensive aspects of their games to prevent quick ball movement to the Geelong forwards, and also be prepared to spread hard when it goes our way to prevent Geelong from setting their zones up.

Geelong are notoriously slow to restart after a bye, and playing in Adelaide has been kryptonite for them lately, losing their past 2 games here. They also have to deal with their statewide lockdown, whereas we have fairly full freedoms at this stage. As long as we can hang tough early, we have shown that we are a good team, building towards finals and reasonably settled.

I tip the Ports, by 10 points. Lots of cobras.

Thanks for the effort put into writing this preview.
I'm almost cautiously optimistic, but am keeping my expectations lows.

 

[Grave Danger]

 

[tribey]

I’ll add it to the second mile of the ‘things that are Port’s fault’ list.

 

[fpm84]

If Cam Guthrie is out, they’ll miss him.

Guthrie, Duncan and Blicavs are apparently certain starters (all three missed our win v Collingwood) with Dangerfield and O'Connor likely to be available, so we could have up to five unforced changes.

Who is missing from your best 22? Lycett, Duursma, Butters?

 

[Marmozet]

Guthrie, Duncan and Blicavs are apparently certain starters (all three missed our win v Collingwood) with Dangerfield and O'Connor likely to be available, so we could have up to five unforced changes.

Who is missing from your best 22? Lycett, Duursma, Butters?

Clurey

 

[fpm84]

Clurey

Ah yeah, forgot about him. So Jonas will take one of Hawkins/Cameron, who will take the other?

 

[tribey]

Ah yeah, forgot about him. So Jonas will take one of Hawkins/Cameron, who will take the other?

McKenzie with Aliir as the Jake Leveresque floater/chop-out.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Guthrie, Duncan and Blicavs are apparently certain starters (all three missed our win v Collingwood) with Dangerfield and O'Connor likely to be available, so we could have up to five unforced changes.

Who is missing from your best 22? Lycett, Duursma, Butters?

Fantasia as well.

 

[fpm84]

Fantasia as well.

Yeah wow, that's quite a few. Fantasia always used to trouble us when he played for Essendon.

We've generally been without 3-6 of our best 22 every week this year, this will actually be the first game all season where we have close to a full squad.

I still reckon the home ground/crowd tips this in your favour, hopefully it's a great game though.

 

[Arsene Wenger]

Danger prob the least likely to be back out of the 5. Would that be accurate?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[finbarr]

I wish Lycett was playing. Funny how the AFL gave him that extra week to coincide with this game.