Preview Round 2 - Port Adelaide vs Fremantle

[simpsonwillo]

good luck tomorrow, i hope we avenge the shame of last year, i dont like seeing Freo losing but tomorrow is the exception

Be prepared for the ambush

 

[holy diver]

No changes.

That is insanity. Cannon fodder for Port and their partisan home crowd. It will be very ugly.

 

[ydraw]

Luckily and probably in part due to Pav we now have Fyfe who appears to be just as professional.

Coincidentally both players were playing AFL a month into their first season after being drafted

 

[MrPortAdelaide]

Be prepared for the ambush

i know, tell me about it

 

[Big Animal]

Coincidentally both players were playing AFL a month into their first season after being drafted

but but but but but...they wouldn't have been AFL ready!!!!!

 

[youmewe]

but but but but but...they wouldn't have been AFL ready!!!!!

Or was it case of...the AFL wasn't ready for them?

 

[Lach72]

All the best tomorrow lads!

Just wondering, will Fyfe wait to see who replaces Lyon or will he walk out before?

Good luck!

Just wondering huh?

 

[Lach72]

Yes, have been thinking about it for a while actually

For a while actually with your newly minted account...

 

[holy diver]

All the best tomorrow lads!

Just wondering, will Fyfe wait to see who replaces Lyon or will he walk out before?

Good luck!

Decided to sign up to BF after Ports win over Sydney?

 

[igon value]

Geelong and Hawthorn don't tend to debut their draftees until they're ready.

I don't think that's correct - Hawthorn debuted a host of draftees early in Clarkson's tenure, from 2005-2008. From the top of my head, Roughead, Franklin, Lewis, Birchall, Bailey and Rioli all played in their first year on the list. Even those who didn't end up playing in their premierships and were quickly sent to scrap heap got a go. They were an exceedingly young footy side, which is why when they upset the Cats in 2008 they were expected to form a dynasty.

They haven't in later years simply because it has been too good a side to break in. But when they were going through a full rebuild they threw their young kids into the deep end.

 

[wayToGo_]

As much I think quite a lot of us are disappointed in our team selection Port generally don't do very well when they are expected to win (which they seem to a lot more than they actually do). We could still win this. We just need our top 12 players or so to have a cracker game. Unlikely but possible. If we do, Port will for the third year in a row, realise that they aren't very good. They are almost as good as Richmond at building up hope - they are just better at coming up with excuses for their sub-standard performances.

 

[Lach72]

Well, since I woke this morning and thought I'd create an account.

Good luck tomorrow friend

Of course you did.
Hit the road

 

[Allikat]

Of course you did.
Hit the road

All good I hit it for him

 

[Allikat]

Or hit him into the road?

 

[heavho]

Good to see the players in good spirits. Hopefully it turns into total focus for a win

 

[E Shed]

The dual narrative that Ross has been speaking about is rubbish. Compared to what the Dogs displayed tonight we are miles away from competing. I thought we realised we were in a rebuild last year. Holding out hope that we aren't is just delaying the inevitable. Loosen the shackles a bit and our players might play some intuitive football and win a few games.

This is the bit I've been ranting about since 2015. A fearless young kid like Logue might grab the ball and take the game on the way Hill & Mora did in their first years & hopefully inspire/embarrass some of the established players who have been paralysed with doubt for nearly 2 years. He might not but its the endless repeating of the same thing over and over and expecting it to change thats killing me.

 

[meima]

Freo win by 11 point. All the star players fire .

 

[Nothing]

I don't think that's correct - Hawthorn debuted a host of draftees early in Clarkson's tenure, from 2005-2008. From the top of my head, Roughead, Franklin, Lewis, Birchall, Bailey and Rioli all played in their first year on the list. Even those who didn't end up playing in their premierships and were quickly sent to scrap heap got a go. They were an exceedingly young footy side, which is why when they upset the Cats in 2008 they were expected to form a dynasty.

They haven't in later years simply because it has been too good a side to break in. But when they were going through a full rebuild they threw their young kids into the deep end.

The game has changed a lot since 2005. Remember McCartney's comeback from the Bali bombings? He sat on the bench until the 3rd quarter. That was in 2003. Can you imagine a coach keeping a player on the bench until the 3rd quarter (voluntarily)? Rookies in the mid 2000s could be benched and only play late in the game. Sometimes not at all.

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Perhaps the selection process that the players asked for was that if you are in the team you get a chance. Not in 1 week out the next. Maybe integrity in selection is about getting a few games.

 

[igon value]

The game has changed a lot since 2005. Remember McCartney's comeback from the Bali bombings? He sat on the bench until the 3rd quarter. That was in 2003. Can you imagine a coach keeping a player on the bench until the 3rd quarter (voluntarily)? Rookies in the mid 2000s could be benched and only play late in the game. Sometimes not at all.

I'm not sure what a single game in 2003 in a unique circumstance has to do with games under a different coach in 2005. Or that coach's methods in 2008 (when he debuted Rioli).

 

[Scham]

The game has changed a lot since 2005. Remember McCartney's comeback from the Bali bombings? He sat on the bench until the 3rd quarter. That was in 2003. Can you imagine a coach keeping a player on the bench until the 3rd quarter (voluntarily)? Rookies in the mid 2000s could be benched and only play late in the game. Sometimes not at all.

____

Perhaps the selection process that the players asked for was that if you are in the team you get a chance. Not in 1 week out the next. Maybe integrity in selection is about getting a few games.

So the tail wagging the dog then?

 

[Nothing]

I'm not sure what a single game in 2003 in a unique circumstance has to do with games under a different coach in 2005. Or that coach's methods in 2008 (when he debuted Rioli).

You were talking about Hawks debuting a host of draftees in 2005-8. I was pointing out (by way of example) that the game is very different to a decade ago.

Hawthorn debuted a host of draftees early in Clarkson's tenure, from 2005-2008. From the top of my head, Roughead, Franklin, Lewis, Birchall, Bailey and Rioli all played in their first year on the list.

 

[igon value]

You were talking about Hawks debuting a host of draftees in 2005-8. I was pointing out (by way of example) that the game is very different to a decade ago.

By way of comparison, Lyon began his coaching career in 07. How often has he fielded a side younger than the Hawks 2008 side? He was a Clarkson contemporary at the time Clarkson won his first premiership. What was Lyon's view then?

Was he as permissive towards playing young and inexperienced players as Clarkson?

 

[Alfred_]

All good I hit it for him

Poor old Porky. He just can't seem to fit in on bigfooty anymore

 

[Righteo]

Poor old Porky. He just can't seem to fit in on bigfooty anymore

Your alt accounts are really, really lame.

 

[wayToGo_]

Your alt accounts are really, really lame.

Just his accounts?