At the break of Gawn

I really don’t think it matters that it wasn’t at the MCG. It’s still a premiership. We were that good that year, it could have been played in North Korea and we still would’ve won. When the MCG deal finally ends, the AFL will no doubt look to rotate the grand final across the country just like the NFL does.

Real shame the Giants choked. They had a style to beat the Cats easily.

Sorry I may have missed it, but is Team Petracca going to be at the Brownlow on Monday?

I think the most telling stat of this article is the age and list profile of the teams he’s coached. Interesting that his poorer seasons have occurred when he’s had a younger team (2015 and 2018). Scott is a master tactician, no doubt, but he’s always had an excellent core of senior players which is built off good list management. One of the reasons we were so poor this year was the influx of players with <50 games played.

I hate the fact that the first hour of Midday madness on SEN was dominated by this and 90% of the callers were Collingwood and Carlton supporters just saying he doesn’t want to be at Melbourne. Nothing would please me more than us winning finals and both those teams missing the 8 next year.

If I was a Giants fan I would be admitting myself into a psych ward. I thought our straight sets last year were brutal, but that was diabolical.

Goodwin never buys into emotion which annoys me in some ways. He espouses this belief that effort is unconditional and motivation is intrinsic when playing for the red & blue. However, the players aren’t robots, and I think for big games it definitely pays to use whatever extra incentives you can. Considering how poor we were in that first qtr of that final, he really should have had McRae’s comments on the whiteboard. There’s no doubt that Collingwood’s arousal levels were much higher than ours for the first 30 mins of that game. It was smart of Hinkley to use the Ginnivan’s comments to good effect for the group. Port came out completely fired up and it was the main reason why they won that game.

That’s why the next 12 months for this football club are vital. Petracca will always put success and finals over crowd sizes. If we can play finals next year and win one or two at the MCG then I highly doubt Trac will seek a trade. FWIW I don’t expect Collingwood to be playing finals next year while I think Carlton has been found out and may again struggle to challenge.

Ken needs to shut up. He’s achieved nothing for Port and probably never will.

Bitterly disappointed that the Power didn’t take the consecutive straight sets crown off us.

Houston’s comments were on radio. Not an official club statement like Petracca’s.

Did you listen to the Paul Marsh interview on SEN? It’s just a review of the AFL process with a focus on improvements going forward. It’s not an investigation. Petracca ain’t going anywhere for now…

Finals and a finals win at the MCG but I think we’ll be outclassed in the 2nd or 3rd week of the finals.

I have to say it’s pretty naive of Green to meet with Gutnick. He should know that Gutnick is a regular source for the Herald Sun and hence anything spoken about could be leaked to the media. I really hope Green sent Gutnick a text msg telling him to [censored] off and then blocked his number after the article was published.

Can someone please explain to me the Garry Pert hate? Genuinely interested in the rationale. Aren’t all our problems essentially with the footy department or is there something that I’m missing?

So since Petracca has threatened to leave, he’s caused 1) A president to resign 2) An external review to be undertaken Really interested to see what gets added to this list as the next 6 months unfolds.

Add Papley to that list. One of the biggest wankers in the AFL, as thick as they come, tried to leave his club, yet… Swans supporters love him now because he’s put it behind him and winning finals for them.

In some ways this helps the Giants get to a grand final easier. They’ll beat Brisbane at Engie or Carlton if they somehow make it and then I’d back them to beat the Cats at the MCG.

Great to see. Pity the game wasn’t a great spectacle.

Mitchell is the ace in the pack. He’s going to win multiple flags as coach and the Hawks knew this when they got rid of Clarko.

I hope any review they do looks at our high performance management. Been poor since Burgo has left. I know Griffith was supposed to be his apprentice but we’ve got clear deficiencies in our fitness. If we’re serious about turning things around in a hurry, I’d throw the cheque book at Peter Burge. The Hawks are clearly the fittest team in the comp and he’s also got runs on the board as he was at Richmond during their 3 flags.

The closeness Mitchell has with his players looks special. Reminds me of Goody with our group in 2021.

When was the last time the Dogs won a final in Melbourne? 2016?

Port haven’t won a final since 2021 yet were the club in turmoil.

Watching a Qualifying final just blows my mind that we had 4 chances to make a prelim and blew every one of them in ‘22 and ‘23. Statistical chances of that happening would be awfully low.