PF: Port Adelaide vs Bulldogs

[WalkingCivilWar 34,911]

Come on, injuries! Only one quarter left. 

[BDA 20,895]

I hope the doggies keep their foot on the gas and win by 100 points. Port deserve it

[Stiff Arm 4,419]

1 minute ago, Nascent said:

Who was the doggies injury?

Vandemeer

[Boots and all 935]

30 minutes ago, FritschyBusiness said:

What gives me confidence is we learned a good lesson when we got smashed for those 5 minutes against the cats in round 23. Since half time from that game we have set up a bit more defensively in the middle at center bounces, since then we have won more of the midfield battle.
I heard on SEN today we were the best contested team over last 4 games in the comp.

Me too. I'm not concerned about the dogs, we have more than enough fire-power in the midfield. I think we will take control by brute force if we have to. We were flat last time we played the dogs, completely different side now.

[Green Demon 794]

[Return to Glory 7,846]

Hinkley the Chris Scott of South Australia

[Stiff Arm 4,419]

Port have given up completely,  not even running much

[The Swimming Dee 1,863]

1 minute ago, Rusty Nails said:

Just one example....

He's allowed Daniels to play his preferred defensive sweeper role all night mopping up at back of stoppage.  What's one of the coaching manual mantras...."try and neutralise or take away the known knowns"

True. Absolutely no real change up by their coaching staff. 
I’ve thought they are pretenders all year though…flat trackers

[titan_uranus 23,143]

6 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

I’d rather play the Bullies. Gawn will smash English in the ruck, and we have better midfield connection at present - than when we played them. Also, Allir Alir smashed us down back for Port last time - won’t miss that. I was hoping the Bullies won tonight. We will beat them. They are going to have to rely on their midfield kicking goals. And it’s unlikely they will continue to do that.

No he didn't?

10 disposals, 5 marks.

They were rucking him at times, ridiculously.

[Webber 10,181]

My golly goodness Port are front-runners. What a truly gutless effort. I wouldn’t want to play them in the GF. They’re not worthy of the whipping. 😎

[SaberFang 7,141]

As much as I'd rather have faced Port in the GF, it's kinda funny seeing them get creamed after reading their BigFooty matchday thread from last night.

An endless wall of posts saying we celebrated our Grand Final last night, how arrogant we were to rest our top 5 players in the dying minutes, how they couldn't wait to show us up as a bunch of pretenders in the Grand Final, conveniently forgetting they still had a match to win.

And all the arrogance about sleeping in their own beds throughout finals 😆 Wow, really paid off!

Also, this [censored]:

Edited September 11, 2021 by SaberFang

[titan_uranus 23,143]

This game was there for Port if they hadn't been so awful in the first half.

Dogs have kicked 3 goals since half time, and look nowhere near as slick as the first half.

[Chook 14,647]

Dogs have to win this by 70+ to make it the most lopsided Prelim week in V/AFL history. I want them to do it so we can add it to the "Embarrassing records" thread, which I think over time will need a new name.

 

[The Swimming Dee 1,863]

Motlop the most pure example of a port player…looks unbelievable when things are going his way

[The Swimming Dee 1,863]

Viney goes to Libba 

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

Brownlow night will be interesting

[monoccular 16,615]

So, the old saying that PFs are the best contests of the season has gone south this weekend.

[wizardinoz 2,159]

1 minute ago, The Swimming Dee said:

Motlop the most pure example of a port player…looks unbelievable when things are going his way

And is hoping for a new contract from Port. Good luck with that. 

[Webber 10,181]

Any team that has Motlop as guaranteed selection isn’t serious. Hard to believe how flaccid and un-united Port are. Rabble….

[Jaded No More 59,855]

Just now, Wadda We Sing said:

Brownlow night will be interesting

Definitely a lot closer than the prelims 

[Rab D Nesbitt 7,455]

Just now, Maldonboy38 said:

Just to explain - the 's' on Celtic is possessive.

My Scottish wife and her entire family are rabid Rangers fans, and I follow Celtic because of my grandmother. It's a wonder the wedding went ahead actually.

Ha ha, love it. Did the reception resemble Buchanan Street on an Old Firm day?

[Maldonboy38 6,093]

I can barely remember a Prelim final weekend like this. For Dees and Doggie fans - absolute bliss, but as games of finals footy they have been atrocious. 

[Mr Steve 3,820]

This may have been already posted but it is good.      

Titus O'Reily

 

@TitusOReily

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1h

 

Commonsense prevails and the Dogs are getting to train on Adelaide Oval. #AFLPowerDogs

[Jaded No More 59,855]

Hard to decide what’s softer, my lockdown [censored] or Port in finals. 

[Chook 14,647]

1 minute ago, monoccular said:

So, the old saying that PFs are the best contests of the season has gone south this weekend.

True! People also say they're the hardest games to win. I think Geelong and Port will tell you that's true.