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Interesting reading, seems like they aren't too confident and supporters of other teams backing us.

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A line in the sand match where we show up as being contenders or pretenders. Would have like to go into this match with a full compliment of fit players but time for our coaching department to earn their keep with good selections and strategy. Players need to be sharp from the get go.

Teakle will get 1 hit out, only out of sympathy from grundy and gawn

Interesting pessimism from the Demon fans here. Bring the intent and you got this.

We have an undersized defence, no ruck and an unsettled forward line. We only have unpredictablity and a home crowd in our favour.

The famous port affirmative roar that has sucked the umpires in to a -44 free kick differential for port to this point in the season.

We are going to get pumped like the rd2 game.

Who have we beaten really? Comments on who dees beat, how about us? Struggled in every win.

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This gave me a laugh, coming from a Hawthorn supporter.

Kenny will have Port fired up

Melbourne will be exposed as just making up the numbers in 2023.

Port by 34

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Max

  • Imagine how bad Lycett will go against Gawn and Grundy lol.
  • Ruck Ollie Wines.
  • Lycett to give Gawndy the old warhorse treatment.
  • We could do worse things than bringing in Visentini to support Lycett in the ruck.
  • How many L-plate rucks can we play in a game? Fairly sure Teakle and Lord have priority there.
  • We are going to get smashed in the ruck no matter who plays for us.
  • With regards to the rucks, I am praying.
  • Ruck Ollie Wines.
  • I'm sure one of the ruck boys can "Sam Mitchell" him (Max) in the first 10 minutes. We need to think outside the box.
  • The forecast is for rain and if we get enough of it the Gawn and Grundy effect around the ground could be minimised.
  • Whatever the game plan is it will have to be based around losing the ruck contests regardless of who is selected in that role for Port.
  • The coaching group don't care about winning hit outs. Josh Carr said this weeks ago. But I am going to spew up this week if I see Melbourne kick uncontested goals from boundary throw ins when the ball is in their forward line due to Teakle's inability to provide a ruck contest. Teakle has to put body on body. None of this bear hugging his ruck opponent. And Lycett is not the answer. He should never play another AFL game.

Defense

  • Lever for 20 intercept marks if we use the usual Hinkley forward 50 entry tactic, especially with no Dixon and Marshall. Will be fun to watch.
  • A forward line of Finlayson with Lord and Teakle next in line looks worrying against May and Lever.
  • We will totally confuse May and Lever.
  • We can't just let Lever & May have a field day with bomb entries either.
  • If we can win the midfield or break even and get a bit of space and we hit targets, the influence of Lever and May will be lessened. I would be putting Drew of Petracca to slow him down too.
  • Yup they do seem a bit vulnerable with the ground ball in defence.
  • We are no chance without Dixon.
  • We need Dixon just to occupy Steven May.
  • Need to use a semi-fit Dixon and Lord to tag May and Lever and then use the smalls and Finlayson as the avenues to goal. The old decoy strategy.
  • Against the best defence in the comp, it will be a miracle if we can win.

 Forwards

  • Would be tempted to bring in Burgoyne to try keep Pickett quiet.
  • Petty is unlikely to play which is a big loss for us.

Mids

The 2 players that need to stand up more than anybody, defensively especially, are Wines and Drew. Oliver, Petracca and Viney will have an absolute field day otherwise.

Ken

  • Boy, remember when Ken WAS brave and TRIED to win games we weren’t expected to! Then we have this plonker who has set up a few times to ‘minimise’ the damage… Where did it all go wrong Ken?
  • if we play the game with a defensive, just minimise the damage, don't even try to score plan, like we did last year I'll spew up.
  • Sack Hinkley.
  • Essendon beat Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. They are totally beatable with a good coach and a good plan. Carr to remain match day coach from the box while Stinkers stays on the bench where he can scrape the built-up mud out of the players boots with his tongue.
  • They definitely have weaknesses, and perhaps Ken is the man to exploit that… :) maybe not and Gawn will Gawn babies all over Teakle.

Miscellaneous

  • Given our extensive injury situation, and the fact that Melbourne are probably a class above us anyway, I won't be shattered with a loss.
  • I really rate the Dees.
  • We are going to be audited Friday night and our form over the last 6 weeks will be moderated as a result.
  • Port play well as underdogs. I’ll pencil in a win.
  • Melbourne by 49 points.
  • I reckon there is a really big gap now between the top teams: Melbourne, Brisbane, Collingwood, and the rest.
  • On top of that we have significant outs and your strengths are perfectly matched against our biggest weaknesses (Gawn+Grundy vs Teakle, BBB vs our short defence, May/Lever vs our forward line with 4 of our best players out). I'll be pleasantly very surprised if we're competitive in this one.
  • If we win over a team with 2 x dominant key defenders and 2 x dominant rucks it will show serious signs of both development and game plan improvement.
  • Ultimately nothing will be proven til finals but if we beat Melbourne it will be time to pull out the dumb and dumber memes.
  • I could see us going the dirty ball tactic from a few years ago over west against West Coast… however don’t have a 19 year old Rozee to park at FF and be able to hit ground balls at pace.

 Some fun stats:

  • We are number 1 for generating offensive 1v1 contests, approx 20% better than second (Bulldogs).
  • We are AFL average for winning them.
  • We are AFL average for allowing defensive 1v1 contests.
  • We are number 18 for losing them, approx 15% worse than second (Essendon).

QD's fave

  • Ultimately it doesn't matter whether we take the knife, the machete or the axe to this gun fight, the result will be the same.
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8 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

They definitely have weaknesses, and perhaps Ken is the man to exploit that… :) maybe not and Gawn will Gawn babies all over Teakle.

What does this even mean?????

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They are top 4 after missing finals last year and its still Sack Hinkley

Gotta love footy!

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1 hour ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Sack Hinkley.

Carr to remain match day coach from the box while Stinkers stays on the bench where he can scrape the built-up mud out of the players boots with his tongue.

I wonder if they wonder if ‘Stinkers’ is the right guy. 

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2 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

 

Ken

  • Boy, remember when Ken WAS brave and TRIED to win games we weren’t expected to! Then we have this plonker who has set up a few times to ‘minimise’ the damage… Where did it all go wrong Ken?
  • if we play the game with a defensive, just minimise the damage, don't even try to score plan, like we did last year I'll spew up.
  • Sack Hinkley.
  • Essendon beat Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. They are totally beatable with a good coach and a good plan. Carr to remain match day coach from the box while Stinkers stays on the bench where he can scrape the built-up mud out of the players boots with his tongue.
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I am always interested in oppo fans' opinions on their own coach.

I have seen Hinkley as a master spruiker and now down on the boundary (copying Goody as many do now) I don't see a coach but an interetsed fan/spectator.  (Goody seems to be in comms with the box of Yze and team constantly as well as directing players. Voss is another fanboy also.

So the above comments were interesting on Kenny and maybe Power aren't so scary, given Kingy last night saw Dees as one of if not the best coached side in the AFL.

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2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

What does this even mean?????

It means Port fans have invested a lot more time in getting around their site's censorship system than we have!

My turn with the question; what is 'Doing a Sam Mitchell.'?

Those stats on 'creating' both attacking 1v1s and defensive 1v1s are interesting. Seems like the long story short is 'we play loose football and see how we go'.

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29 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

It means Port fans have invested a lot more time in getting around their site's censorship system than we have!

My turn with the question; what is 'Doing a Sam Mitchell.'?

Those stats on 'creating' both attacking 1v1s and defensive 1v1s are interesting. Seems like the long story short is 'we play loose football and see how we go'.

Probably purposefully hurting people. Mitchell was known for deliberately giving opposition corkies 

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7 minutes ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

I don't know, but if it means we can get more Gawnies under the father/babies rule, I'm happy!

I just assumed it meant there was a lot of semen around as he was masterbating on him metaphorically, due to his skill set comparably… did those two words pass the censor?

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3 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

I just assumed it meant there was a lot of semen around as he was masterbating on him metaphorically, due to his skill set comparably… did those two words pass the censor?

Misspelling helps 🙂

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A Hawthorn supporter friend reminded me that the Hawks won the 3rd quarter, like it was an important win. 

In an incredibly condescending tone I said, good for you.

Supporting a good side is fantastic. 

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13 minutes ago, ManDee said:

A Hawthorn supporter friend reminded me that the Hawks won the 3rd quarter, like it was an important win. 

In an incredibly condescending tone I said, good for you.

Supporting a good side is fantastic. 

Howd that work for him ?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Just now, beelzebub said:

Howd that work for him ?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

What could he say? I have put up with years of rubbish (as have we all) and taking the high ground feels good, doesn't it? 😄

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1 minute ago, ManDee said:

What could he say? I have put up with years of rubbish (as have we all) and taking the high ground feels good, doesn't it? 😄

Just.......   booootiful ;) 

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3 minutes ago, layzie said:

Is Brougham Place the Alberton Strip club or something?

Sure is, how'd you know that layz? 🤔

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26 minutes ago, layzie said:

Is Brougham Place the Alberton Strip club or something?

Asking for a friend lazie?

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57 minutes ago, ManDee said:

A Hawthorn supporter friend reminded me that the Hawks won the 3rd quarter, like it was an important win. 

In an incredibly condescending tone I said, good for you.

Supporting a good side is fantastic. 

Sounds like you have one too many friends

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13 hours ago, AzzKikA said:

Sure is, how'd you know that layz? 🤔

Was a pure guess but I did think there was a good reason for two concurrent threads!

A lot of talk about 'warhouse treatment', 'full compliments of fit players' and 'forecasts for rain'. Bit of a giveaway. 

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13 hours ago, layzie said:

Is Brougham Place the Alberton Strip club or something?

 

13 hours ago, ManDee said:

Asking for a friend lazie?

Just tell "your friend" to keep a low profile and make sure WCW doesn't see you, i mean your friend, lurking about the place L (she has long tenticles & mates everywhere!).  You have your mate's reputation to uphold!

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3 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

 

Just tell "your friend" to keep a low profile and make sure WCW doesn't see you, i mean your friend, lurking about the place L (she has long tenticles & mates everywhere!).  You have your mate's reputation to uphold!

Maybe instead of 'asking for a friend' WCW and I should just start saying that we're asking on behalf of each other for leverage purposes!

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7 minutes ago, layzie said:

Maybe instead of 'asking for a friend' WCW and I should just start saying that we're asking on behalf of each other for leverage purposes!

Yes a threatening skeleton or two should do it!

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