Game Day Vs GWS - the Primus Game, 2022

[TeeKray]

Can we get a 'Caligula' tag for our game day threads Chief?

 

[Steve Dore]

Can a ticket effectively be transferred just be sending screenshot of the barcode?

Yes

 

[wannabejack]

Fans are excited for the big 12th vs 13th clash of the titans at the PORTRESS!

If gws win maybe someone will get the hint that they improved when they sacked their stale coach. But I doubt it.

Carn gws. But we'll probably win this one.

 

[Chewy316]

Home game against the Giants with the season practically dead, just like 2015.

This time around there's less feeling that this was simply a down year and that we'll easily bounce back with Hinkley in charge.
Also, no Johnny Butcher.

How did Ah Chee not make it at this level?! He had all the traits you could want in a hybrid midfielder/half forward. His late 2015 form had me certain he would be a really good midfielder, alas, wasn't to be.

On the subject of tonight's game, this is a big one. The pressure has started to increase on Ken Hinkley's future. Whilst it is far from boiling point, the temperature has indeed been rising after last Sunday's loss to Fremantle. For all intents and purposes, finals are off the table unless Port go undefeated the rest of the season. The odds of that are slim to none, and I would suggest slim has already left the building.

A win today, and that will keep the hyenas in check for at least 1 more week. However, a loss tonight would be absolutely devastating for Ken Hinkley's future. Whilst I don't think today will be his "Primus game," a loss today would be the start of a losing streak that could be as many as 4 losses in a row (at a minimum) given the next two games are against Melbourne and Geelong. Then with Collingwood at the G and Richmond the week thereafter, one could suggest there's not a single game past this one that anyone would seriously suggest Port "should" be winning. And that's a big problem for Hinkley.

I think the pressure is going to reach boiling point soon enough, but a loss tonight will only accelerate that. A loss tonight and it will only be a matter of when, not if Hinkley is removed as senior coach. A win however offers little outside of keeping a mathematical chance of finals alive.

Based on that, one can consider this is quite a "pressure" game for Hinkley. Very little to gain, a ton to lose. Usually in these types of matchups the club seems to stink it up. Maybe a stinker tonight will be his Primus game after all...

 

[RossFC]

Duursma and Lord playing SANFL.

One of Mayes or McEntee to be the sub.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

Fine with those two being held over. They are both being delisted at the end of the year. Give full games to the other guys.

 

[Jonts]

Duursma and Lord playing SANFL.

One of Mayes or McEntee to be the sub.

Good
Waste the sub on older players

Mayes to sub Mcentee to emerg youd think

 

[Greasyrhys]

I hope der-wayne isn’t calling a 4th port game in a row

 

[Capital Power]

Isn't it always Draino and Roo for our home games? I dunno I've watched in silence all year.

 

[TeeKray]

I hope der-wayne isn’t calling a 4th port game in a row

Yep, isn't calling either other game for Fox today so he'll be ready to go, ready to cheer on the Giants.

 

[Del165198]

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The latest "banger" from our media team

Looks AI generated

 

[Del165198]

Yep, isn't calling either other game for Fox today so he'll be ready to go, ready to cheer on the Giants.

Could the AFL product be any more shit?

 

[TazD]

Looks AI generated

Sometimes I think our gameplan and selection are AI generated

 

[Del165198]

Sometimes I think our gameplan and selection are AI generated

That would imply there is some intelligence involved

 

[El Zorro]

Fine with those two being held over. They are both being delisted at the end of the year. Give full games to the other guys.

Duursma delisted?

 

[JimmyBC]

Pretty sure selection is done with the dishlickers on the big screen.

 

[afl2004]

Still 2 hours before the game even starts , if hinkley is coach in 2023 I'm not going , going to the footy takes up way too much time on my weekends

 

[Capital Power]

With Richmond looking likely, even if we win tonight we'll be 2 games and 10% out of the eight.

Yeah, pumped

(another thing I don't understand about us - why do we treat percentage as irrelevant? Even in games when we're on top we coast to much smaller wins than we could)

 

[Greasyrhys]

Yep, isn't calling either other game for Fox today so he'll be ready to go, ready to cheer on the Giants.

Of course. Whoever is responsible for assigning the commentators certain games is an absolute donkey. At least we won’t have the turncoat Sunday week

 

[WintersPort]

Been an less than average week at work, few Rare Breed Wild Turkeys deep already want Hinkley gone but F it, let’s smash the campaigners!!

 

[Del165198]

We need a streaker to run out onto the ground with sack Hinkley written on their body

 

[klem22]

Season was over a long time ago only those who believe the piss and dribble coming out of the hierarchy would have thought otherwise

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

Duursma delisted?

McEntee and Mayes are the sub/emergency. They are gonna be delisted

 

[bomberclifford]

That Ah Chee handball that led to the last goal of the first half

...;and the mark in the 3rd. How he didn't jump to the next level is beyond me.

 

[Papa G]

A win tonight is not unexpected. We should win. It keeps the wolves from Hinkley's door another week.

We've got 4 finalists in the next 4 weeks meaning we're done as soon as next week.

But if Clarkson is watching.... and thinking which squad is the way forward... then maybe winning and winning well isn't such a bad thing?

GWS by 17 points.