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seriously, who gives a flamin *@&! about the score.

Any updates on how trenners is going, haven't heard much from anyone since early days?

very tempted to head down, if I do, I'll post updates.

yeah that is down right horrible

I am in - also looking for 3 more dee's for my league:

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I'm in syl.

Let's do this.

I can see a repeat of Moloney, where the minute he gets dropped, he throws the toys out of the cot and wants out.

Baseless and ignorant assertion.

Every time Col has made a mistake in his career, he has worked his butt off to make up for it, and has always taken all of the knocks on him square on the chin, from keyboard warriors and knobs on the street alike.

He's a ripper bloke and loves the club.

Try showing our players some respect.

Sylvia will re-sign early in the year. Thankfully.

I think we are a lot better than our results suggest n the preseason, but only if injuries are kind. I've seen all the games a few times now (except for GC but with 2 less rotations the result was a foregone conclusion in those conditions)

If we get close to full seasons out of blease, dawes, trengove and clark we will win upwards of 7 games, I'm very confident of that. We are sooo much fitter than last year and our fitness was the reason we didn't get a handful more wins last year.

Am I excited? Bloody oath. Is that tempered by the heartbreak of 2012? Hell yeah.

Roll on Sunday week and let's get this show on the road...

So no McDonald, Frawley, Clark Dawes, Davey, jetta, viney, trengove, garland for the 2nd half... Not anywhere near the strength we'll be at come round 1... Obviously a dissapointing result but probably not a great indication of what we'll dish up against port imo.

Dunn is everywhere, expect a huge season from him this year.

Seems to be be making all the play out of defence

People may laugh, but I reckon he'll go close to b&f this year.

I'll be focusing on the subtle changes this year, with particular emphasis on how they play as a team. Blocking and shepparding is just one element, I'll be looking for encouragement after kicking a goal even if we are 10 goals behind, or more importantly, if we have kicked 3 on end, hoping to see the players get around each other and ensure we keep the momentum.

This.

When we start playing like a team, the trust in one's teammate, the confidence, and then the results, will come.

But great post OP, I agree those rounds will be a real litmus test.

Were you at the game? I wasn't and was wondering whether Watts spent a lot of time on the bench. Watching the replay I didn't see much of him. Maybe that would account for his meagre stats sheet?

Yeah i thought he was subbed in after qtr time.

Can we win a premiership with this list? Definitely.

Will we?

That's impossible to predict.

If this team is prepared and ooached well, it should become a force in the competition. Whether that equates to premierships we'll just have to wait and see.

it's better than playing perth at subi i guess.

Made the trip out to Casey today, some observations.

* Our structures are much improved on last year. Our zone was holding up the Saints out of the back half quite often, forcing them wide and to execute pin point passing to move the ball forward.

* Overall I thought we were just about the better side today, and the stats back that up. If it weren't for their 2nd qtr burst, it would have been a very close run thing. THeir polish when they had momentum really hurt us, yet we missed shots when we needed to score and just couldn't quite hit our targets often enough.

* Terlich looks like he has a big future. His attack on the ball and safe hands were a highlight.

* Jamar dominated the taps, unfortunately a lot of them were to Jonesy and St Kilda's Jones was sitting on him, so he was unable to clear.

* Can we please stop playing Joel Macdonald. He costs us so many goals from his mistakes, even if indirectly.

* Gee we would have been better for having Ollie WInes in the centre square today... but I'm sure the Toump will be better for the run.

* Pederson should only play if Dawes or Clark are not fit for Round 1. Sellar has earnt the right to play, pederson hasn't.

* The tackling today really let us down.. We pressured well but couldn't lay the tackles effectively.

* Davey had a poor game, let's not slaughter him in NAB3, please.

* Overall, not a fantastic effort but far better than a lot on here are giving the boys credit for. Looking forward to next week.

Any more normal leagues got spots left?

In the grand tradition of Pettard, Trengrove, Sellers and Maloney, it looks like poor old Cam PEDERSEN will be the name everyone spells wrong this year.

The only vowel in his surname is "E"!

Who cares?

4G has nothing to do with it. Hopefully they aren't going to be videoing it off their phones.

Casey isn't exactly Liam Jurrah Remote... it has cable.

I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't allowed to stream it live. But I would be happy with a recording to watch the following few days

Lol, 4G isn't phone technology mate, it's wireless networking technology, and if you're in a regional footy ground in the middle of nowhere, with no decent cable or high grade adsl connection, how do you think your going to upload the streaming data? A few tin cans?

Even if they did have decent cable access at Casey, you then have to wire to your recording device, put in a fair bit of time and effort testing, etc. THen as mentioned elsewhere you have the bandwidth limitations of the MFC site, etc.

So, if THEY can do it, why on earth can't our outfit...?? We might be the oldest club in the land. But, just a little bit of modern thinking in the IT realm wouldn't be a bad idea, surely! Can't be THAT hard, surely!

Probably because Wagga was fitted out with 4g by Telstra last year.

Yeah the main problem would be the internet connection, given it's not in a 4g area and the data would be considerable. A recording for later viewing should be pretty easy though. I'd do it but I don't have a video camera.

^^ Can I like a post twice, lol!

Thanks guys but where are these videos. The links appear to go to main pages with articles. I'm also viewing on iPhone.

id try a PC mate, just rechecked the link, it's all good.

full match replay on Port's site: http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/video/2013-03-04/ptv-power-v-demons-q1-full-match-replay

Agreed, last year was as low as it got for me in 30 odd years supporting the Dees.

But I have faith in the culture I see being built now at the football club. The results will come.

good to win, especially given how crap our team was on paper compared to them!

I think its referring to the live audio option within the app

Yeah, weird that it says "watch" though.