Review SHOWDOWN 55

[Ford Fairlane]

Last year

As I said before, end of 2017 but here we are.

 

[Soggy2112]

Hindsight says Rozee shouldn't have been captain but the footage of him looking genuinely sad that he's not out there sitting next to Hinkley who frankly didn't interact with him at all and dare I say looked disappointed at Rozee was telling.

He's a very young captain that's been thrown in to fix a weak culture and system. A manager supports their team members. What are you doing Ken?

Hope I’m not intruding but I genuinely felt bad for Rozee tonight. Can completely understand a young captain in his first year wanting to get himself up for a big game and set an example for his team. Sometimes players need to be protected from themselves and I reckon this was one of those times. Medical staff and Hinkley definitely knew they were rolling the dice IMO.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Hope I’m not intruding but I genuinely felt bad for Rozee tonight. Can completely understand a young captain in his first year wanting to get himself up for a big game and set an example for his team. Sometimes players need to be protected from themselves and I reckon this was one of those times. Medical staff and Hinkley definitely knew they were rolling the dice IMO.

Absolutely, you can never blame a player for wanting to play. The coach needs to make the decision, but we've got a coach who makes every single decision to serve himself and himself only.

 

[Rash]

can someone please drop the link of kens presser, i cant find it anywhere, cheers.

 

[ClintEastwood]

can someone please drop the link of kens presser, i cant find it anywhere, cheers.

Full post-match, R8: Power

Watch Port Adelaide’s press conference after round eight’s match against Adelaide

www.afl.com.au

 

[PortPortPort]

It's not the first time Hinkley has overruled to play injured players that aren't ready to come back from injury.

I remember him arguing with Burgess in 2014 for rushing players back.

 

[ctpower]

We’re stuck in no mans land waiting for a bunch of stubborn blokes who run our club to do what should have been years ago.
What’s so frustrating is that there is no end in sight.

 

[PJ Power]

We’re stuck in no mans land waiting for a bunch of stubborn blokes who run our club to do what should have been years ago.
What’s so frustrating is that there is no end in sight.

It also needs 5-6 people to leave at the same time. That will never happen.

 

[Ningo]

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[ctpower]

It also needs 5-6 people to leave at the same time. That will never happen.

The longer it goes on then that number is likely to increase to 7-8 people (who must go) as more yes men are brought in to positions of power ie cassisi.

 

[PAFC66]

What don’t we know about Jed McEntee? What am I missing? He’s possibly the worst player to play for our club and he just walks in each week. Anyone?

I'd say he's possibly worse than Ian Downsborough

 

[PAFC66]

Even blind Freddy knew Rozee should have been rested: the carnage of injuries this year and knowing something isn’t right in the fitness department we throw one of our best players out there who is not at 100%.

Await the bullshit that it was his other leg.

This club is so rotten right now, Koch appointment is the worst thing to ever evolve at Alberton. Followed by Ken & Chris Davies who are so inept that our depth is sub-optimal and bottoming out we have a lack of picks anyway.

Tonight was our GWS 2012 moment, it wasn’t who we lost to but how we lost: the only difference is Cam Hitchcock is now Jed McEntee and we have an inferior coach in Ken Hinkley: I would have rather we kept Primus for 12 more years.

Hitchcock looks like Harley Reid compared to Jed.

 

[gtrxuone]

The loss of SPP,Allir ,Finlayson +Rozee playing.
Digging really deep to hang on vs St kilda.
Bombing the ball fwd, moving the ball too slowly fwd..
Bad defensive matchups.We where already 4 goals down when we moved Jones of Fogarty.
We never really looked like it tonight.
Is this loss really a surprise.The Crows have been in the box seat to win this Showdown.For a couple of weeks now.

 

[Ljc_86]

Has anyone else lost interest in even watching port play anymore? like that spark or care factor is gone. watching us play this year has been depressing

Port, saints and freo. Yuck yuck yuck.

Loving the giants though

 

[Macca19]

Has anyone else lost interest in even watching port play anymore? like that spark or care factor is gone. watching us play this year has been depressing

I watched 8 seconds of this before rewatching House of the Dragon episodes.

 

[Coobk001]

Has anyone else lost interest in even watching port play anymore? like that spark or care factor is gone. watching us play this year has been depressing

Yep, didn't enjoy any part of that game. Just found every single moment depressing.

 

[JimmyBC]

Hitchcock looks like Harley Reid compared to Jed.

Boyd Woodcock even.

 

[all seeing eye]

Everyones worked out gameplan, flood numbers back, congest, contest and rapid rebound to catch out high press. Get us with speed over the top.

 

[wannabejack]

I watched 8 seconds of this before rewatching House of the Dragon episodes.

It was Suits for me.

 

[Tibbs]

.......... I was under the impression that the only reason we were playing McEntee over Finlayson was because we were going to play a chaos ball style of game to exploit the height that Adelaide was bringing in. I never in my wildest dreams expected us to run with exactly the same game style when we saw them go in that tall.

You either exploit the agility of their talls with your small forwards (as we finally started to do when we played Horne-Francis) OR you play an extra tall so their tall can't screen off and they are forced to defend, which allows your small forwards to get to work. We did neither until it was too late.

Just get off!!!!!!

Did you seriously expect Ken Hinkley to enter the game with a calculated game plan?

You IDIOT!!

 

[Handyandy]

Is it possible to organise a mass boycott/ strike
Literally have the stadium empty next home game
Board only cares about $$$ so hit em where they hurt

 

[El_Scorcho]

Sat in the cheer squad bay with my mates scrolling my phone for 3 hours.

 

[Incarnate]

Toothless effort from the top down.

 

[StickerMan]

Full post-match, R8: Power

Watch Port Adelaide’s press conference after round eight’s match against Adelaide

www.afl.com.au

Sorry to intrude, and not starting anything you blokes don't know, but faark me that was a train wreck.

Everyone knew Rozee shouldn't play, but Ken "win at all costs" Hinkley thought otherwise.

Basically, sounds like he convinced the docs that the damage down on the scan wasn't bad, and said that by playing, Rozee hasn't made it worse.

But, then in the next breath, he says that he will get another scan to see how much further damage there is and won't play next week.

 

[Handyandy]

I spent 2 hours racing around the fabled city of Hangzhou in public holiday crowds/ traffic to hunt down a sports bar that had the game on. Never again.

Dixon/ rozee/ mcentee/ jones shouldn’t have played. Full stop. At least play fit players you dumb arse. Anasta, mead, whoever

Cornes isn’t a fwd coaches arse hole

I noticed the crows isolate Jones at ff cause they know he is a spud. Got their early lead
They ran off big dumbarse Dixon all night exploiting him. Reinforcing their lead
Mcentees man just zoned off him cause they know he is trash & incapable of doing anything
That’s on the coaches

Everyone in the afl knows the game plan to beat us.