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"Enlightened and Free Speech"

Are you serious?

Please revaluate your membership. Do us all a favour. If you decide to come back, learn to spell and construct a sentence properly.

Interesting Sambo! Being a self taught, one finger keyboardist with limited technique and my mind racing through ideas, sometimes I don't get it all correct!

BUT with a Masters Degree and halfway through a PHD ( Deferred) Which possibly won't get completed, you know we ain't all perfect!

Let's leave it at that, Eh?

But I agree maybe my views are too "Confronting"

Plus.. need to get over the addictive effect of "Demonland!" Eh?

Oh and I do apologise to all those English Teachers out there!

Tried, but found wanting! No wonder quite a few a Uni assignments needed serious editing!

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Ah well we all have our opinions and I just feel, that, mine are somewhat.. provocative to some!

Pity! And I thought this site was one for "Enlightened and Free Speech"

Might have to revaluate my membership if so! Pity!

If by "provocative" you mean "unrelentingly negative and utterly predictable".

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Interesting Sambo! Being a self taught one finger keyboardist with limited technique and my mind racing through ideas, sometimes I don't get it all correct!

BUT with a Masters Degree and halfway through a PHD ( Deferred) Which possibly won't get completed you know we ain't all perfect!

Let's leave it at that Eh?

But I agree maybe my views are to "Confronting"

Plus need to get of the addictive effect of Demonland! Eh?

PHD....really??? The effects of being a [censored]? You've got that covered.Eh!

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Always interesting to see what the opposition thoughts are. This is the Match Preview on Big Footy in the Port Adelaide forum:

Sup.

This week we play Melbourne at TIO, in a game which I am sure they are licking their lips over. We’ve been shown up the last 2 weeks, both West Coast and Richmond took the corridor away from us, and forced us wide, and our forwards out of the 50 looking for kicks. Our biggest issue however has been footskills, our gameplan is reliant in hitting targets (often under pressure), and we just haven’t been able to execute well enough. Melbourne have been very hit and miss over the course of the year, going from losing by over 100 points against Hawthorn, to last week beating the Bulldogs by 40 points.

The Last Time We Met

i don't often read the pre match stuff, but I thought it was interesting to read the other POV, thanks for taking the effort. And also I actually thought it was a reasonably even effort from the Port mob.

I myself have arranged internet inside my armoured vehicle as we move from Donetsk to Deniprovotosk so I can watch the bloody game live, I watched the bulldogs game live and didn't jinx it so I think I'm safe.

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Matt Jones is a much better player than many here give him credit for.

Relevantly, he also played very well last weekend - he effectively shut down Robert Murphy altogether.

Not surprising at all that he kept his spot.

I rate Newton though - disappointed he's not lining up against his old club.

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Or our game plan just got lucky a couple of times and we played Port with quite a few injuries in both games last year? Because I think that's possible as well. And now they've had a few injuries this year again their midfield depth just isn't what it was and their running game has suffered.

With Wines and Polec fit they beat Hawthorn and took it right up to Freo and Sydney.

Those two go out, Hartlett and Cornes struggle and Ebert goes off the boil a bit and all of a sudden they aren't as good.

Teams have studied up but I don't think it was Roosy alone figuring them out. They lost to quite a few teams in the middle stretch last year before they got healthy again. Then they beat Freo in Freo. Now if Roos worked out a plan to nearly beat them with our side last year then Ross Lyon should've beaten them with a similar plan in a home final.

They remind me of Geelong and StKilda of about 2006 when they had played in those earlier Prelim finals with really good young teams but they just lacked the depth and had some down years before finding their true form.

Don't agree, there's more to Port's form slump than simply a few key midfielders out of form. Shut down their run off half-back and clog the middle of the ground and they struggle to generate meaningful inside 50s.

And they didn't 'take it up to Sydney', FWIW. They lost that game by 8 goals and were never in it. Still, as you say, they beat Hawthorn and pushed Fremantle, their best is obviously top 4 material, but right now they're not at that level and the reason why they're not at that level is more complex than a few mids being out of form.

Barrett thinks the Cats could win the flag if "everything goes right"? Everything going right would have to include a time machine that takes them back to 2011. They aren't beating any of Freo, Hawthorn or Sydney in September. They aren't even coming close. I reckon the Eagles will roll them this week.

He genuinely has no idea about AFL.

Geelong are so far off a premiership this year.

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