Very Jaded

The only supporter base that has suffered more than Melbourne, is St Kilda. 1 premiership in eleven thousand decades and 27 spoons. Oh dear.

I presume injured? Ratten said this week they had 25 fit players on the list so could just fill a team sheet. He was happy they could name 4 emergencies.

I hope that’s not the team’s attitude on Monday.

St Kilda topped up thinking they’re Geelong, when in fact unlike Geelong their core is mediocre and they have poor leadership and no finals experience. Poor choice.

Well I feel less bad about losing to Adelaide now. Still 9/10 bad.

Hard to blame the ground for this display from Adelaide. Putrid like their jumper.

How in the world did Adelaide beat us? They are trash.

Melksham will be the medical sub. Good change, and fingers crossed Tmac plays. It will be far harder to win without him.

Mitchell seems to be the talk in terms of assistant coaches next in line. Choko is on record saying he doesn’t want to be a senior coach again. Still think Pies will go for Lyon, although Carlton will also be chasing him as I doubt they’ll replace on rookie coach in Teague with another. Also wouldn’t put it past Carlton to keep Teague and put a strong team of assistants around him, like we did with Goodwin.

Richmond are a massive threat even from 8th. Geelong on their sheer experience alone are a scary finals proposition. Brisbane can also do serious damage and are very well balanced all over the ground. I don’t rate the Dogs or Port because they are poor defensively and don’t know what to do when the game is not played on their terms. Both will make finals and both will probably win a few but they won’t make the grand final. Port especially if they don’t get a home final. West Coast and Sydney making up numbers. Richmond scare me more than anyone although I think our midfield and rucks are superior to both them and Geelong.

This was their first really hard game since they lost to Sydney. Port was ridiculously soft and poor defensively. Would they have won against us today? I don’t think so. Their midfield wasn’t great but it was so easy for them to dominate up forward because Port applied no pressure on the ball carrier and their backline fell apart.

Will they play the Dogs in Victoria next week with no crowds? Seems unlikely. That will help. The big question mark for me is how their old legs carry deep into a long season. Shorter games helped them last year. I also don’t think their rucks or midfield is as strong as ours.

Quoted for 1000% truth.

Well Port are trash. One less team to compete against.

Geelong have a scary forwardline and can move the ball precisely by foot. But Port put no pressure on them. Their defensive efforts and poor kicking and decision making makes me fairly confident Port will do no damage in finals.

This they pay as holding?

Hawkins just holding opponents off the ball. Typical cheats.

Port’s kicking is horrendous. Turnover after turnover in dangerous positions. Woeful.

This game is looser than a hooker on a Saturday night.

Love these goals from frees against Geelong ??

Dixon standing up after being blocked all night. Come on Port run over the top of ol’ legs.

Fun game to watch. Especially since I know we can beat both teams when we play at our best.

Port turning it over. Geelong streaming slowly towards goals where they find unmanned targets. Rinse and repeat.

Defensive efforts from Port is bottom 8 stuff. They tackle hard but gees their spread is poor. They hate it when they don’t have the ball.

Ruck frees make no sense. Flip a coin and pick a recipient. This game has turned into a steaming [censored]. Port soft and loose. Geelong slow and cheats.