titan_uranus

They'll destroy Martin and English, too. But we've lost games this year despite dominating the ruck. Gawn and Jackson are part of the broader picture - midfield dominance. We won't beat the Dogs without it.

You just can't have asked for a better crack at it the last two years, though. Top 2 both years, win the QF both years, home prelim both years with opponents who have been all over Australia in the weeks prior. And this year, no injuries at all. They have their entire full list to choose from tonight I believe, except maybe Georgiades.

Dogs are +28 in contested possessions and +10 in clearances. We have to back ourselves in to not be as pathetic as Port in those areas. We know that if you take that part of the game away from the Dogs, they are a very different side. But if you let them dominate those areas, they are arguably unbeatable.

They had 4 wins against the top 8, but two of them were Essendon and GWS, the worst two sides. They beat Sydney and the Dogs in the final round. They were 0-3 against the top 4.

I was about to say Port just need to stem the bleeding, to try to stay in touch and try to over-run the Dogs who played last week and surely will hit a wall before Port. But they can't get their hands on the ball and the Dogs are just embarrassing them at the contest.

Rozee and Butters are so incredibly fumbly under even scant pressure. Port's defence looks amazing against slow play Geelong, but the Dogs bring pace and Aliir can't get into position, exposing Jonas and McKenzie who are just awful one-on-one. Doesn't help that Boak and Wines cannot get their hands on the ball in the middle. Macrae, Libba, Treloar, Smith just doing as they please.

It sounds like they were sick on Wednesday. Jeremy Cameron apparently did a Twitch stream on Thursday which was supposed to be on Wednesday and mentioned he needed time off on the Wednesday or something. They were all then apparently cleared to play last night. I'm not entirely convinced they were labouring under any issues last night.

There have been a lot of posts after our win about having the flag in the bag. Put the lid back on. The way the Dogs are playing tonight, and with a week off after this, we have a massive challenge ahead.

Assuming it's true, does it explain how bad some of those players were? It probably does. I don't care.

@The Mighty Demons you wouldn't be able to do one for Gawn's first goal in the second quarter, would you?

Legend. Thank you.

It's not just the big marks. It's the workrate, and the effort he puts in to even a contest if he can't mark it. The one where Henderson looked a monty to mark it but he got there just in the nick of time and brought it to ground, leading to a Spargo goal, was a perfect example.

I know what you mean, but the Dogs scare me more. If they make it, they get the week off to rest, they'll get back Keath and Weightman, and they will have less pressure on them than Port, who like us haven't won it for ages and have some older players desperate for success (Boak, Gray, Dixon, Jonas etc.). Don't get me wrong, Port are a strong side, but I fear the Dogs more.

If anyone reading this is capable of preparing it, I'd love to see one of those multi-call videos where Gawn's running goal from 70m is repeated with every TV and radio commentary available. Edit: and Gawn's second quarter monster snap!

Yep, most of them on BF are respectful. There are some though that insult us, though that would be the same for any other club. The thing is, the insult that we're copping (we tanked and/or got gifted draft picks to spark our ascent up the ladder) is just not true. We don't have any of our high draft picks from 2007-09 playing in this side. We barely have anyone from that area playing in this side. And a fair stack of the players we have in our side have come to the club in the last three years (i.e. when we've been building our list like a professional sports club), and/or been selected in in Rounds 2+ in the draft, and/or been traded in (again, smart list development). People who attack us for anything tanking/draft pick related are just numpties.

Did Chris Scott do a presser?

He said we beat them in pretty much evert facet of the game. He then said he knows people will say they keep failing in finals but he'd rather be at a club which keeps trying to make it than one which falls down the ladder to rebuild.

Lol anyone watching Channel 7 right now? Tom Browne is such a [censored]. Talking about the importance of asking Chris Scott at the press conference about going to Carlton. Edit: then Hamish McLachlan was like "what the [censored] Tom".

Goodwin talking about May's hammy being back-related. Quietly confident he's OK.

Port are tall though, they will have Dixon, Ladhams and Marshall, and possibly Georgiades as well.

Yeah I know, the point I'm making is that he hasn't been the medi-sub the last two games. Jordon has. You said he's been an emergency the last two weeks, therefore there's no reason not to make him the sub. The reason not to make him the sub is that there is someone else more deserving, and at the moment that person is Jordon.

Righto. I was worried you were talking about TMac.

I just read they traded a second round draft pick for Higgins. Who then couldn't get into their 22 in the finals and played medi-sub.

He's been an emergency, not the medi-sub. Jordon's been the sub in both the finals and there's no reason he would slip below Jones in the pecking order now.

What the [censored] are you talking about?