POSTGAME: Rd 1 vs Port Adelaide

[beelzebub 23,383]

4 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

This 100%.

They made this blue a few times last year. They need to review their selection policies.

But will they.

Given known issues with certain players

Given the condition of any players recovering from a procedural hospital stay ( including a general )

Given relative match fitness of some

Given matchups known or ( intelligently ) presumed 

Given form going into the game you might have thought a better team sheet ..you might !!

I wonder what they'll f up going into Kittyland.

[Willmoy1947 4,140]

I'll say it again. This mob who purport to run the AFL along with their jackals,  Fox, MRP and the soapbox media, together with several maggots, NOT including Razor and the GF group have got it in for the MFC.  

[beelzebub 23,383]

1 minute ago, willmoy said:

I'll say it again. This mob who purport to run the AFL along with their jackals,  Fox, MRP and the soapbox media, together with several maggots, NOT including Razor and the GF group have got it in for the MFC.  

Possibly...wrong thread ? ?

[What 18,810]

11 minutes ago, willmoy said:

I'll say it again. This mob who purport to run the AFL along with their jackals,  Fox, MRP and the soapbox media, together with several maggots, NOT including Razor and the GF group have got it in for the MFC.  

What,  you didn't enjoy CEO Gillon McLachlan sitting in the box Saturday night cheering for the Bulldogs with those Hollywood clowns?

[DeeZee 7,445]

I can’t believe what Jordan Lewis just said on 360.

He basically inferred that there wasn’t enough effort from the players on Saturday.

How can you go into a new season, round one after playing finals the previous year and being fancied as a real premiership chance and not give any effort in round one???

Im dumbfounded.

Ill never understand what goes through these blokes heads.

Edited March 26, 2019 by DeeZee

[58er 6,561]

38 minutes ago, DeeZee said:

I can’t believe what Jordan Lewis just said on 360.

He basically inferred that there wasn’t enough effort from the players on Saturday.

How can you go into a new season, round one after playing finals the previous year and being fancied as a real premiership chance and not give any effort in round one???

Im dumbfounded.

Ill never understand what goes through these blokes heads.

But he's true isn't he?

bloody oath he's right 

 it also was the underdone crew on the ball and elsewhere 

[DubDee 26,117]

22 hours ago, old dee said:

So we compounded the problem of taking in players with low preparations by taking in one Ruckman who spent 3 days in hospital and was under the weather from GA . Sounds we blew the game at the selection table.

but what is the alternative?  play Pruess, not match fit or in form

play Jordon, Keilty, Stretch instead of Viney, Jones?

I think they picked the best team available.

[beelzebub 23,383]

2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

but what is the alternative?  play Pruess, not match fit or in form

play Jordon, Keilty, Stretch instead of Viney, Jones?

I think they picked the best team available.

How match fit exactly was Max days out from hospital having had a general ?

[DubDee 26,117]

Just now, beelzebub said:

How match fit exactly was Max days out from hospital having had a general ?

dunno, possibly 80%.  

still better than a unfit/out of form Preuss

[old dee 23,872]

8 minutes ago, DubDee said:

but what is the alternative?  play Pruess, not match fit or in form

play Jordon, Keilty, Stretch instead of Viney, Jones?

I think they picked the best team available.

I find it hard to believe that Keilty or Stretch would have contributed less than Viney and Jones as for Pruess he played in the Casey game and it would seem held his own in a winning team.

If Gawn was less than 100% as his performance showed why not play a second Ruckman seemed to work ok for the Power. 

The simple fact is we picked half fit players and paid the ultimate price I.e. A loss

Edited March 26, 2019 by old dee

[DeeZee 7,445]

I don’t like it.

No sir, I don’t like it one bit.

[DV8 2,271]

41 minutes ago, DubDee said:

dunno, possibly 80%.  

still better than a unfit/out of form Preuss

That same attitude was applied to Jack Trengove.  and that payed of for him, and us.

[beelzebub 23,383]

40 minutes ago, DubDee said:

dunno, possibly 80%.  

still better than a unfit/out of form Preuss

You're correct. You don't know.

Neither do I.

I did however observe he was absolutely f'd at QTR time.

Thanks Max...but.....

Preuss held his own.

Logic.. something lacking at Melbourne apparently... would suggest easing Max's load with our only other a grade ruck.

Unfit..a no no ?  ..oh

Hello Jones..Hello Viney..hello Tmac !

A shout out to Trac also...sack of spuds FFS.

We still aren't a smart club.

Much pain ahead of this anything to gauge by.

[Willmoy1947 4,140]

3 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

What,  you didn't enjoy CEO Gillon McLachlan sitting in the box Saturday night cheering for the Bulldogs with those Hollywood clowns?

Why would they be out here looking for jobs?

[DubDee 26,117]

Too much hysteria for me. I’ll come back after we’ve won a few 

[titan_uranus 25,043]

20 hours ago, america de cali said:

If that is the case we have achieved some serious over achieving last season. 

This is quite possibly correct.

18 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Its not necessarily that. It's that our experienced players were terrible. Their young players were the cream unlike us where we were relying on young players to do the job. 

Jones, Viney, Gawn, Hibberd, Jetta et al were well down on form. Frost & OMac were disgraceful

Viney hasn't played 100 games yet. Gawn just played his 100th game. Frost has played 70, OMac 63.

That's the point I'm making: our key players aren't in the same age/experience bracket as Port's (or most other good sides').

You're not wrong about the actual experienced players being poor though (Jones and Jetta were terrible, Hibberd did a lot of good things but his kicking was atrocious). But we weren't looking to Jones and Jetta to drive any improvement, we were looking to Oliver, Brayshaw, Viney, Gawn, Salem, Harmes and Petracca and, of those, Gawn is the only 100-game player (with the weekend being the 100th game).

Our 2018 shows that this isn't the be all and end all. These players, despite their age/inexperience, can get the job done. But I believe it is important for us to keep our list demographic at the forefront of our minds when we look at performances such as this one.