John Demonic

The affair with the Richmond staffer was inappropriate. Blokes not only a bully and a thug, but a deceitful one at that. Good riddance to him.

We're in the Temple of Doom. Every loss is being lowered into the fire pit. And every win, Goodwin retakes the lever and pulls us back up. But 2019-2020 was easily the worse time to be on here imo. And most of us contributed to that.

And I'm sure 95% of the forum will echo that sentiment. However a win 2 weeks later against Collingwood would then have the opposite effect. Footy is a funny game isn't it. Sometimes lose the games you should win, and win the games you shouldn't.

I still feel pretty optimistic about where we are at and think people are underrating Port Adelaide. They're back to being a preliminary finalist capable side and one of the toughest assignments over at Adelaide Oval. The only rut we're in was Ports incredible forward half pressure and they're the best at it in the comp right now. Fremantle and Carlton on our home deck? We'll be fine. I have a lot of faith in our grit and our coaches to make the right changes and for us to get those done without Clarry. 🤷‍♀️ Edit: Obviously Collingwood and Geelong will be tricky. But I wouldn't think losing both makes our season hang by a thread either - we might still be in the top 4. 10 more rounds after that. It's a long season and every club around us will also have their stumbles Edit 2: Yup. Squiggle Ladder Predictor has us in the top 4 in round 16, after going 2/2 in the next month.

Well you're just putting words in my mouth there. Never said it wasn't an enormous loss. And frankly I don't feel comfortable speaking for anyone else anymore. I just made a guess as to why someone would say he's overrated. He's clearly not overrated on an individual level. The point is just that "season hanging by a thread without player x" or "season is over without player x" are comments that have been proven to be melodramatic and overrated in the past. Richmond couldn't win the flag without Rance in 2019 right? (Edit: IF its a hammy tear) he's out for a month, not for the GF. Maybe just calm down. We made it through without Gawn

Probably meant overrated in terms of the impact on a 22 fielded team. It's not the NBA where a missing superstar will derail your playoff series. Our season isn't hanging by a thread without Oliver, because we can win the matches coming up. We just have to get creative.

The game is never sewn up against us in the first half though. Port was never going to sustain that effort for 4 quarters whether they built a lead or not. We had our chance to beat Brisbane needing one too many perfect passages in the dying minutes, and we would've had our chances to beat Port, had they got a big lead with better accuracy. How come Collingwood is the only team that is "always in it" even down by 5-6 goals? Are their close wins flattering? All credit to Port for their 4th quarter. But I don't think anything changes had they kicked straight in the first half. Our run would've just been delayed and we would\ve been fighting against Port AND the time clock. That game was always going to finish a 4 point margin. We could've played better and Port could've played worse. You win some, you lose some. Adelaide Oval is always a hard place to get the win 🤷‍♀️

Look on the bright side: We can still get pick 5, if we lose the next 13 games.

He's got that rare Sean Wight defensive desperation spoil energy combined with athleticism and speed. You love to see it. If it was the 90's, he would be developing into the full back position.

Whether it's as the home seed at 1/2 or 5/6, I'd love to see how THEY go against us at the G in a final. Port were a contender for 3 years and it looks as though they might be back again. If we're fit, I think we're better than what we put up against the Lions last year. I hope so anyway, maybe its denial.

we would've been better off booting it out on the full/deliberate to the boundary between 40-70m, instead of all the hook/snaps to a Port player 40m directly in front in defence. Cost us 3 goals

Well that's our floor. Who knows what we can produce given 3 finals games. We know what our ceiling is. The 3rd quarter and every 4th quarter leading up to last night shows it. Time will tell how it stacks up against Collingwood. BUT IMO our competition has simply improved a huge amount. Sydney and Collingwood in 2022 were all at the same level the Bulldogs our GF opponent, were at in 2021. And Geelong were at our level. in 2023 I think we have Collingwood and Geelong still at the Premiership level. I wouldn't consider Brisbane last year in that discussion, but now it's looking like themselves and a potential wildcard of Port/WB/Another club could also make the jump to be a GF contender with a bit of luck and momentum in September In my mind that makes the competition against us 3-4 times harder now than it was in 2021. Its a huge challenge to be a premiership contender again. And we're still trying to learn and tweak what works best. At least we're still 3rd on the ladder.

We're going to rename ourselves The Trent Rivers next week, according to this analysis

Yartapuulti - 2019 - 2021 Form

Thought this was going to be a thread on how bad Angus Brayshaw was last night.

He's been watching too much NBA

Dixout! They'll be more unpredictable however! I remember they 'invented' the dirty ball tactic of kicking it low to combat McGovern and Barass. And they came away with a convincing win, back in 2018 or 19 or so

A draw with 10 injuries?

Or starting him at full back

And How I’ll sleep next Thursday night before the big prime time game against Port!

ROOOOOOOOOO

First you gotta do the truffle shuffle.