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  On 31/05/2019 at 11:12, Lord Travis said:

North looking decent tonight. Shows what a bit of hunger can do to a playing group. Goodwin seems too laid back most of the time. I want to see him fire up and get the players fired up.

Yep, and not just hunger, but unapologetic and uncompromising physicality, led by the captain. Shaw’s comments in post-match presser said it all:

We went into the game with the mindset that we wanted to attack our opponents. That’s what we’re about. We’re a physical football team, we’ve got physical players. Jack Ziebell, Ben Cunnington, Cameron Zurhaar - these guys are big bodies, they attack the man. Jed Anderson. These guys go after them and I wanted to encourage that in those players.”

  On 01/06/2019 at 00:51, Ben E said:

Yep, and not just hunger, but unapologetic and uncompromising physicality, led by the captain. Shaw’s comments in post-match presser said it all:

We went into the game with the mindset that we wanted to attack our opponents. That’s what we’re about. We’re a physical football team, we’ve got physical players. Jack Ziebell, Ben Cunnington, Cameron Zurhaar - these guys are big bodies, they attack the man. Jed Anderson. These guys go after them and I wanted to encourage that in those players.”

Let's not nitpick now. Goodwin has said similar plenty of times. Look back at his pressers towards the end of last year. After the West Coast game. I'm not a huge Goodwin fan but it's wasy to apply selective analysis.

 

I didn't hear what was said, I only saw it in passing, but did Roaming Brian interview Chamberlain and Margetts in the rooms after the game last night? What was that all about? Couldn't he find anyone else to talk to? Can someone enlighten me on the content of the interview.

  On 01/06/2019 at 02:06, praha said:

Let's not nitpick now. Goodwin has said similar plenty of times. Look back at his pressers towards the end of last year. After the West Coast game. I'm not a huge Goodwin fan but it's wasy to apply selective analysis.

I wasn’t commenting on Goodwin. I was commenting on North’s approach last night, which was utterly ferocious and the primary focus of their game last night, if you or anyone else cared to watch it. And Shaw used very specific language around attacking the man, not the ball - which I thought was interesting and instructive.


  On 01/06/2019 at 00:51, Ben E said:

Yep, and not just hunger, but unapologetic and uncompromising physicality, led by the captain. Shaw’s comments in post-match presser said it all:

We went into the game with the mindset that we wanted to attack our opponents. That’s what we’re about. We’re a physical football team, we’ve got physical players. Jack Ziebell, Ben Cunnington, Cameron Zurhaar - these guys are big bodies, they attack the man. Jed Anderson. These guys go after them and I wanted to encourage that in those players.”

We were ferocious vs Geelong in the first final.  But we don't bump or bring players to ground so much these days.  We go the tackle which often doesn't stick. 

I wonder whether all the hip and shoulder surgery our players had over the preseason makes them a bit gun shy of going in really hard.  Not making excuses and not saying they are soft - it is understandable if their joints haven't fully recovered. 

Our physicality just isn't there anymore.  Need to take a leaf out of the shinboner's book! 

Bring back the ferocity! 

  On 31/05/2019 at 12:09, buck_nekkid said:

A team takes contested marks and they win.  Lesson for the demons in that....

That we should be even more ferocious in our attack on the ball? Got it.

 

  On 01/06/2019 at 02:32, Dame Gaga said:

I didn't hear what was said, I only saw it in passing, but did Roaming Brian interview Chamberlain and Margetts in the rooms after the game last night? What was that all about? Couldn't he find anyone else to talk to? Can someone enlighten me on the content of the interview.

Biased, incompetent numpties who don't know what they're doing tend to attract each other

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Didn't realise the Shanghai jolly is on this weekend.

Apparently a few Saints players down with "food poisoning".

Having eaten street food all over the world I have to laugh a little.

Peter Gordon (chairman of the Billdogs) was asked why the AFL pumped money into this game and he admitted that he was lost as there was no business case to show that it delivered any benefit.

 
  On 01/06/2019 at 04:59, Diamond_Jim said:

 

Peter Gordon (chairman of the Billdogs) was asked why the AFL pumped money into this game and he admitted that he was lost as there was no business case to show that it delivered any benefit.

Have to agree with Peter here, there is something weird and dodgy about this mad fixture. Nothing about it adds up. 

Do they fly China Southern or has our silent President made some noise to stop that one?

it is just crazy

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  On 01/06/2019 at 05:15, Sir Why You Little said:

Have to agree with Peter here, there is something weird and dodgy about this mad fixture. Nothing about it adds up. 

Do they fly China Southern or has our silent President made some noise to stop that one?

it is just crazy

Did a bit of research on it last year. It is in fact a trade mission with various Australian companies and governments using the game and the lead up as marketing opportunities.

In that sense fine but it has nothing to do with football and is a questionable use of around $2M of AFL money.

And don't get me started on this being an away game for Port !!!


  On 01/06/2019 at 05:19, Diamond_Jim said:

Did a bit of research on it last year. It is in fact a trade mission with various Australian companies and governments using the game and the lead up as marketing opportunities.

In that sense fine but it has nothing to do with football and is a questionable use of around $2M of AFL money.

And don't get me started on this being an away game for Port !!!

Sure. Kochie is getting a total free ride, which disrupts his club in a minimalist way. 

That $2M could be used by many other clubs

  On 01/06/2019 at 06:08, whatwhatsaywhat said:

the filth are like meth coke; they aren't playing particularly well but they're not losing

Michael Walters says hi

Dockers winning that is bad for us.

Our chance of finals just went from about 3.5% to 1.7%.


  On 01/06/2019 at 06:24, Petraccattack said:

Dockers winning that is bad for us.

Our chance of finals just went from about 3.5% to 1.7%.

I'm still 98.3% happy with the result.

Should throw the kitchen sink at Coniglio as a free agent come seasons end. Lazy 207 SuperCoach points today! He’s a superstar!

So I'm watching Sydney v Geelong and what can only be described as a procession of free kicks to Geelong. 9 - 3 at quarter time and at least 5 of them were 50/50 calls. I know we had a thread about umps the other day but ffs, these armchair rides make some games close to unwatchable (I say as i look to watch the second quarter)

  On 01/06/2019 at 07:12, Return to Glory said:

So I'm watching Sydney v Geelong and what can only be described as a procession of free kicks to Geelong. 9 - 3 at quarter time and at least 5 of them were 50/50 calls. I know we had a thread about umps the other day but ffs, these armchair rides make some games close to unwatchable (I say as i look to watch the second quarter)

Jeelong are THE armchair 


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The Port CEO was asked on radio what were the KPI's for the Shanghai game and his reply did not reveal one hard measurable outcome.

If he doesn't know who does and why is AFL and Government money being wasted on it.

He proudly announced that the AFL were the only foreign competition to play in China for championship points... durrrh perhaps that was telling them something

 

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