Port Adelaide v Melbourne NAB Cup Week 4

[wattsup 470]

sylvia got taken out by butcher he has been reported

[jumbo returns 6,538]

Doubtful Jack will win the 8th at Moonee Valley tonight - 5 mins, get on!

[dees189227 10,994]

How did Bate go?

[Diablo Deemon 220]

Sylvia is the player who was crunched

[mrtwister 650]

sylvia got taken out by butcher he has been reported

My bad. 5AA commentators originally said Davis. They seem to think Butcher did nothing wrong yet seem quite happy that there's only 1 camera at the game.

[Diablo Deemon 220]

Bate had 8 possessions but may have been subbed

[dee-luded 2,958]

Why would he.. He's not a quitter, nor even a pessimist.

[The Backyard Charizard 1,178]

How did Bate go?

Well.... I wouldn't go rushing him into your dreamteam...

[Dee-licious 1,867]

How did Bate go?

Started well but in and out of play. Sub in second half just came on for Sylvia. 8d 5t

[Dee Fan 3,247]

I don't know if it's the wrong mindset or the fact they're just not good enough. Our recruiting over the past 6 or 7 years appears to have been a total failure. Dunn, Bate, Morton, Maric, Strauss, Blease, Bennell, Jetta - Maric has already gone (and was a bust) and the rest of them will likely play out their careers at Melbourne in the VFL before being delisted, traded at the age of 25-26. This is 25% of our list and is only off the top of my head.

Others like Grimes and Gawn are perputually injured so anything out of them is a bonus.

Then you have guys like Davey & Sylvia who have what it takes but don't have the desire to become elite and will just plod along for the rest of their careers showing brilliane three or four games a year and making supporters pull out their hair for the other 18 games.

I mentioned some time ago that our recruiting had been appalling and was shouted down; I wonder if those that did the majority of the shouting would care to comment now. They know who they are.

[jumbo returns 6,538]

Doubtful Jack will win the 8th at Moonee Valley tonight - 5 mins, get on!

Oops....

[Bimbo 911]

I have an unhappy memory of Sylvia against West Coast in a previous preseason game with limited camera's

[dee-luded 2,958]

Mate I would tell you to take off the rose coloured glass but it is 10.09 at night

well my glasses are tinted mostly for glare but they could have some rose in them.

But I can't help your mood problems Bluey. Unless you want to take some uppers. Like the Maca Power, it'll do you wonders mate.

[demon-4-life 467]

so what do we read into this game? if anything?

[Demon Disciple 11,108]

so what do we read into this game? if anything?

That we are [censored] deplorable.

[The Backyard Charizard 1,178]

I have an unhappy memory of Sylvia against West Coast in a previous preseason game with limited camera's

I have unhappy memories from most of Sylvia's games

[Macca 16,173]

[Dee-licious 1,867]

Tonight.

Goals: Clark 3; Blease, Jones 2; Davey, Petterd 1.

Best: Jones (22d 2g 4t); Jamar (11d 44ho); Frawley (22d); Clark (13d 3g).

DT: Jones 99; Jamar 85; Frawley 83; Maloney 77.

Edited March 16, 2012 by Dee-licious

[The Backyard Charizard 1,178]

Wow....

If Jamar gets injured we are screwed

3 hitouts to Stef Martin.... That is all she wrote folks

Edited March 16, 2012 by KrazyJay

[Hells Gates 505]

The honest truth is we are all living in hope.

We have recruited so poorly in the last so many years.

We are so far off the mark that we need a thorough clean out of mentally fragile players.

We are years away from success and even thats not guaranteed.

It is only the NAB cup but I have seen enough in 4 weeks to warrant saying that we are in a lot of trouble.

Everyone, including me needs to wake up and smell the roses and stop dreaming, our players arent as good as we think. They are good B graders.

[Jaded No More 58,887]

[waynewussell 4,095]

I hate this competitive stuff. Why can't we just play amongst ourselves at Gosch's paddock? Anyone care to review the Daniher years?

[mrtwister 650]

I mentioned some time ago that our recruiting had been appalling and was shouted down; I wonder if those that did the majority of the shouting would care to comment now. They know who they are.

This is a hard one to judge. You would assume that recruiters were looking for what was needed according to Bailey's game plan. Well, what now? New game plan probably means that many of the recruits no longer fit. And they probably never came on in Bailey's system because of the short time span.

I would imagine Neeld's upheaval will take quite a while to reach it's full potential. At the moment he's no doubt working with players he never would have wanted for his system.

But it's not the player's fault, or Neeld's or even the clubs. It's just what happens when you go back to scratch.

[Dee Fan 3,247]

so what do we read into this game? if anything?

It's going to be yet another long and fruitless year; I'm beginning to think my Grandson's kids won't see a Demon Flag and he's only 8 at the moment. We will probably activate the compensation picks this year because we ain't gong to be finishing too high up the ladder.

All the teams we started out ahead of have passed us and all the sides that were just in front of us are streaking away.

Old Dee you can say it now if you want to, "I told you so".

[Dee-licious 1,867]

so what do we read into this game? if anything?

There are a lot of positions available for anyone who puts their hand up at Casey. I think Magnar is a started round one (put him in your dt/sc). Watts is very important to our structure even if people want to bag him out (Clark getting too much attention). Davey looked better....