The goal from Viney was the single most important turning point. His will to compete and win is outstanding. A great leader.

The biggest take out of last night is that Christian Petracca confirmed he is the best player in the league by a mile.

Sublime skills, a joy to watch and a great man, were blessed to have him.

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

The goal from Viney was the single most important turning point. His will to compete and win is outstanding. A great leader.

Just took the ball out of the Big Os hands, a beast of a player is Viney. Try and pick the play of the last quarter either of Melksham goals Vineys goal but for mine it was Rivers play on the back line the little toe poke and run though and kick inside 50 was brilliant.  

Edited July 15, 20231 yr by YearOfTheDees

Stole that win from nowhere, what a finish! Gawn, Viney, Melksham outstanding as was Brayshaws tagging job on Lachie Neale to keep him to just 19 touches and getting 30 himself (very underrated tagging job).

Petracca pivotal down forward but also went missing for large parts too. Thought he changed the game also late with his clearance work up the field. Playing a very dusty type of role for us. I like that we aren't replying on him and Oliver in the midfield. Credit to Goodwin there, we need to blood the young ones in the midfield.

What I love though is the youngsters. The absolute composure and skills of our kids, Bowey (20), McVee (19) and Rivers (21)(wow). You can add Woewodin (20) to that list too who seems calm as. It's a great sign for our future. Van Rooyen (20) done a surprisingly capable job in the ruck while not impacting forward he certainly did well for whats not his usual role.

The will to win was unbelievable to jag a win with 7mins to go and 24pts down could hopefully be the ignition that this team needs to fire up a run into finals.

However..... we basically were completely outplayed and coughed up a 50pt turnaround which was disappointing. I think Goodwin is slow to react at times and stubbornly backs in the system but sometimes its going to be too late, food for thought. Taking nothing away from the Lions or Fagan, their supreme foot-skills and leading up at the kicker and creating space was the standard that we should be aiming for full-stop, their ball movement through our zone was brilliant. This is what many of us have been crying out for.

It was interesting to watch that when the Lions had control of the game it looked like we went into our shells a bit and started going very wide and not presenting any leads, quite often players would be flat footed, we are much better when we are flighty on foot.

Getting Fritsch and Oliver back will be very welcome as will a fit Petty. I thought Smith was also very composed in the end too and didn't bomb his kicks away, cool head, I'm not usually a fan.

We definitely seemed more mobile without Grundy and what a game by our skipper Gawn, back where he loves it.

Gawn - 29 disposals @ 72% DE, 39 hitouts, 5 marks, 1 captains goal, 7 tackles, 10 clearances, 6 score involvements!

Hopefully this win ignites a good run at the right time and Goodwin learns a lot from the Lions ball movement and leads. Nice way to start a weekend.

58 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

Is 2nd on the ladder unreachable?

We need them to lose 4 out of the remaining games and we have to win every game

Port *could* lose the next 3.

Collingwood today, next round Adelaide then Geelong down at Geelong.

if they win all any of these then it’s over.

The other games are Carlton, GWS, Freo Richmond, so one of these teams would need to steal a win.

 

6 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

Just took the ball out of the Big Os hands, a beast of a player is Viney. Try and pick the play of the last quarter either of Melksham goals Vineys goal but for mine it was Rivers play on the back line the little toe poke and run though and kick inside 50 was brilliant.  

Riv is "back". .!!!!

way under rated as well.

 

 

 

Agree regarding the calls on Smith being super sub.

Still think there's a spot for him in the starting 22 but.

13 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

The biggest take out of last night is that Christian Petracca confirmed he is the best player in the league by a mile.

Sublime skills, a joy to watch and a great man, were blessed to have him.

 

 

 

And Gawn is still the godfather of rucks

1 hour ago, titan_uranus said:

Agree with the sentiment here. 

The way they dominated the middle two quarters shows us that we have areas to work on. 

But that can wait. It must wait. Moments like this just need to be relished. Soak in the win for a few days, ignore tactics and changes and weaknesses. We all want ultimate glory but we have to celebrate the H&A wins. It’s what makes being a sports fan worth it. 

Exactly, gotta stop to smell the roses or you are forever stressed following a sporting team.

27 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

Love these thanks Mr Lace Out.

 

 

The 3AW call on Viney is just so so good!

(They call Melksham JVR in the call of the Melksham grab though 😂)

You can always identify the Trolls by who doesn't post after a season defining win!

Anyone else like that when Melksham is in the team, our expected score goes up? Not because of anything structural, but if he's 35m out, in the members pocket, late in the fourth, we are all expecting him to take one step and slot the snap on his left. 

Comebacks are a belief. If you get everyone believing, more often than not it's going to happen. 

How good was Rivers play to rebound off HB to make that forward play that resulted in the Milkshakes mark and goal. 

Kid will be a recognised star of the competition soon enough 

Jake the magnificent snake on SEN now

9 hours ago, Macca said:

Rivers dash through the middle late taking on 3 tacklers was breathtakingly good

I had to rewind and watch it a few times just to make sure I’d seen what I’d just seen.

How the good people at AFL HQ left it out of the game highlights package I’ll never know.

Big shout out to Joel Smith.

Makes the most of his limited opportunities, keeps putting his hand up, great versatility. 

Every time he goes for the ball I get flashbacks to the old man

Should've come on as soon as Petty's back went.

 

26 minutes ago, BoBo said:

We need them to lose 4 out of the remaining games and we have to win every game

Port *could* lose the next 3.

Collingwood today, next round Adelaide then Geelong down at Geelong.

if they win all any of these then it’s over.

The other games are Carlton, GWS, Freo Richmond, so one of these teams would need to steal a win.

 

My ideal is we finish 3rd and Port 2nd.  Then win or lose in first QF in Adekaide, we don't play again outside Victoria under most secanrios.  Ending with a Pies prelim.

3rd also dodges Pies until Prelim week.

Thats my wish  for the rest of the H and A

3 minutes ago, P-man said:

I had to rewind and watch it a few times just to make sure I’d seen what I’d just seen.

How the good people at AFL HQ left it out of the game highlights package I’ll never know.

It was an impressive run by Rivers. We looked so amazing in those minutes. 

Great to have Jared Rivers back, 20 years younger, and with a face transplant 🙄

 

These commentators need to be shot. 

1 hour ago, Great Sage said:

They just make stuff up. I was at the game and May gave Melky a big hug at the end of the game.

Captured on Ch 7 broadcast too.

7 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Jake the magnificent snake on SEN now

Listening right now to him. I wonder if he got any sleep last night. It was so good to see Milkshake stand tall when we really needed him. 

Watched the game with my wife and our 3 day old daughter, Remi, in a private room in the mat ward.

It’s fair to say I will never ever forget this game.

We had absolutely lost that game, until we won it.

Melk’s mark and goal was immense.

Signing up Remi as soon as I finish reading some of the threads here - she’ll be a Demon for life.

 

That's twice against Brisbane this year that we've thrown caution into the wind and played daring, skillful footy when all looked lost in the last.

Imagine if we did that for longer periods during games?

An important learning to take out of this win

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