Bring-Back-Powell

Back in round 2, if someone said to you outside the MCG after the game that Hawthorn would be equal on wins with Melbourne at round 16, you would’ve called the police on them.

Port supporters are genuinely heart broken they won. Put in an awful performance, but at the same time affording Hinkley a stay of execution.

Aside from GWS, this weekend has been a genuinely awful weekend in terms of results not going our way. Hopefully St Kilda eek out a win here and West Coast handle Hawthorn.

Port Adelaide supporters legitimately want to lose today just so they’re one step closer to sacking Ken.

Yesterday we went 1/5 in terms of results going our way. Fremantle’s shock win over Sydney was absolutely pointless for us. Although we could possibly overtake Essendon or Collingwood after round 18 if we win the next two, which was the benefit of those 2 clubs losing yesterday. Hopefully St Kilda do us a favour today.

Absolutely it’s more beneficial Essendon win tonight. And hating Essendon is so early 2000’s. I would’ve thought Collingwood and Carlton are far more “hateable”…

Any chance Moore can go a game without kneeing an opponent?

Our last 2 final quarters in respect of the North and Brisbane games. Us: 0.4.4 Oppo: 8.6.54 I think Selwyn Griffths needs to explain himself.

Clearly it's imperative that Essendon, Adelaide, St Kilda, Collingwood, North, West Coast and Sydney win. There is a path for us to be in the 8 after next weekend, despite losing tonight, but a lot of results would need to go our way.

Viney is having his worst season in years. Sure he was excellent last week, but he’s otherwise been way down on what he’s capable of.

Hoping to put in our best performance since the St Kilda game and keep the margin very respectable. A win is unlikely for a number of reasons. However, win next week and there’s a scenario or two that would have us in the 8 at the end of round 17, or at the very least on the borderline.

On a serious note Goodwin couldn’t have been any less effusive of Brown’s prospects of getting a game this week when asked in his mid week presser so it’s not a surprise in the slightest he was dropped.

Our coach clearly deemed that Kynan didn’t have enough impact in his 3 minutes of game time (despite getting 3 less fantasy points than Fritsch’s in his 120 minutes)

FWIW Melskham should be a lock in the side after 1-2 games in the VFL provided he has adequate AFL standard fitness. I don't care if he's 35 or whatever, the club still needs to put out a competitive product week to week, and Melk will surely assist here. Our forward line is crying out for natural forwards. With all due respect to Petty and Turner, they are not natural forwards while our most natural forward is way off the boil atm. Hence we're battling to kick 70 points against the Norths and West Coasts of the league.

OMG, it sounds as though we actually did a good last weekend.

The boys on Foxtel’s Midweek Tackle mentioned the following: 1) Fritsch is so close to getting dropped it isn’t funny, but will probably get one last chance. 2) Stunned that we’re now fielding one of the youngest sides in the league.

I think our treatment of Tomlinson has been pretty ordinary post 2021, and he's always the first to be dropped at the drop of a hat. None more so than his MFC career best game against Collingwood in 2023. Even against Sydney in Op Rd, he was far from our worse but got omitted. Not a crime against humanity by the MFC, as every club has an unlucky player, but he's pretty stiff overall and will get dropped for Lever this week IMO. Having said that all that, he'd be a useful chip in a hypothetical mid season trade period. We could trade him to a club short of KP defenders in exchange for their surplus of tall and small forwards or resting rucks.

Sounds about right but Goodwin wasn’t exactly glowing about Kynan Brown’s retention in the side, in today’s presser.

Without it we would've lost the game, pleasingly and sadly at the same time.

And yesterday he was training in sandals or berkenshires or whatever you call them. Clearly an issue there but I'm sure he'll be there on Friday.

I voted for Curnow as I'm sure he'll need the votes.... Just kidding.

To his credit he's a pretty decent set shot. Looks as though we're persisting with the JVR/Petty/Turner 3 pronged attack. That needs to change for next year, and will change.

A more than fair outcome. I'd be livid if we were robbed a free by an opponent doing the same thing. I'll be even more livid if a Carlton or Collingwood player does the same this next week and it fails to even crack a mention in the MRO report.

Also think Carlton and Collingwood could account for Sydney on GF day, but that's for another thread.

Kynan Brown (8) got 3 less fantasy points than Fritsch (11) on the back of 1 tackle and 1 possession. Clarry got 26 points. Prior to this year he’d get 100 in his sleep. Fair to say there’s some room for improvement with regards to some of our top end players.