Game Day Round 4: Ports vs. Essendon

[stokholme]

"Yeah Essendon were really switched on early and we couldn't get our structures in place. Full credit to them."

Ugh, stop it... I just can’t do Kenny and his pressers anymore. I can’t.


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[*PAF]

Positive: Thanks to arse rather than class our percentage is still healthy.

 

[Troopsy]

We’ll get our revenge later this year. We were awful, time to turn it around against... *looks at fixture*

Goddamn it.

 

[Smartys Power]

Well if there’s any positive in this, we were completely out played and only lost by 22 points.

 

[Weez]

Out played and out worked today. Couldn't get anything going, chasing guernsey's all day. Looked like they had 5 more players out there all game. A shadow of the team that played in Sydney.

Still don't understand the reasoning to pass off when you have a set shot from 35m.

 

[PJ Power]

"Yeah Essendon were really switched on early and we couldn't get our structures in place. Full credit to them."

Yep, the word “credit” will get used in the first answer or two.

This coach and group are impossible to trust. The more optimistic posters here, Janus and others, must have been watching a different team play than I have since 2014.

 

[Magus]

They'll win most of their games @ Etihad though.. bookmark it

I really dont think so. We were second to nearly every contest today. Same as last week - always 10 metres behind out opponents.

 

[PJ Power]

Out played and out worked today. Couldn't get anything going, chasing guernsey's all day. Looked like they had 5 more players out there all game. A shadow of the team that played in Sydney.

Still don't understand the reasoning to pass off when you have a set shot from 35m.

Lack of confidence and courage to take responsibility. Symptomatic of mental weakness.

 

[RangaInTeal]

On what planet is Marshall out

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On the planet where team Balance outweighs gold passes, which other tall would you drop?

 

[SimonSpeilberg]

Fuc#ing garbage. Feel sick watching that s**t

 

[Traveling_Power]

stats

Robbie 12 k 2 hb = 39 disposals
Polec 13k 15 hb - 28 disposals
Wines 12k 15hb 27 disposals


hit outs difference .. -5 to the bombers

 

[RossFC]

Felt like we lost by 10 goals. Not in the game at all in any period, Essendon had us at arms length the whole game.

 

[RangaInTeal]

Rockcliff, Amon, McKenzie will definitely get the heave ho.

Houston has been treading water for a few weeks now, would rather give Trent an extra week.

 

[PJ Power]

Well, who now thinks last week was an anomaly from playing in hot weather three weeks in a row?

We had a wake up call but slept through the alarm......again.

PAFC 2017 = PAFC 2018

 

[rogerjames]

Comes into pre season very out of shape.... he doesn’t give a s**t

Is this a fact re starting pre-season out of shape?

 

[PAFC66]

Same s**t slightly different smell..gonna be a long year

 

[PJ Power]

stats

Robbie 12 k 2 hb = 39 disposals
Polec 13k 15 hb - 28 disposals
Wines 12k 15hb 27 disposals


hit outs difference .. -5 to the bombers

Wines was barely ok. Got beaten to a lot of balls by Heppell.

 

[ClintEastwood]

Well Gray and Polec were ok. That was about it. Deplorable efforts from most.

Gray, sure. Polec has been a dead-set liability from where I sit. Maybe I am biased because I don't like soft players.

 

[Visenfest]

Well if there’s any positive in this, we were completely out played and only lost by 22 points.

Yeah, if only we had something called workrate. Been waiting a while.

 

[Shaxx Attaxx]

Is this a fact re starting pre-season out of shape?

Yep. Others more in the know than me would back this up.

 

[stokholme]

Lack of confidence and courage to take responsibility. Symptomatic of mental weakness.

Let’s be honest here, this team will never be anything until all those mentally weak older lads retire and we actually get some fresh legs who don’t have the confidence of a teenage boy on date night on the field... or will they just have the same mental demons passed onto them? Will we ever break this cycle of absolute mental frailty that seems to have stuck with us ever since 2014 EF loss?

 

[PJ Power]

Robbie looked good. Lot of disposals in the last 15 minutes. Was he like that all match?

Turned into traffic too often when clearing out of centre.

 

[LP7_]

My key takeouts:

Severe lack of run off half back. Houston very poor, replaced by Pittard ASAP. McKenzie playing as a lock down defender? Do not like. Surely we want the ball in his hands and using his cannon leg?

Polec’s lack of a right foot is frustratingly evident when we are playing poorly. There’s no excuse to not have some form of opposite leg when you’ve been in the system for this long.

Too much screwing around with our structures was evident. We looked our best in round one and haven’t played that same mix since. Baffling.

Rockliff needs to go back to the twos. We can’t keep carrying him. He’s been absolutely pathetic this year. Pathetic. Don’t defend him. He’s experienced enough and on enough coin that we can not except FOUR consecutive games of zero contribution.

Amon. Lol

 

[Skindy]

If there is one stadium in Australia that we continuously get exposed at it's Etihad. I wouldn't even be confident of beating Carlton on this ground.

Oh yeah also Adelaide Oval. lmao

 

[Matchu]

So frustrating watching us play so poorly. Immediate thoughts are:

• Trent McKenzie on Stringer was stupid.
• Cale Hooker did a good job of injuring our forwards (illegally).
• Umpiring wasn't great at times but that's not why we lost.

Piss poor from the boys today but maybe it's the reality check we need after barely getting over the line against Brisbane last week.