Robot Devil

The umpires seem to have evened up the free kick count at half time without giving us any of the advantage Port got.

Port's leg speed is making us look woeful. Need to run harder or we are going to be average this year. Sadly Rodan looks like our fastest today. At least until Blease gets subbed in.

Viney looks good though. About 14 touches and a goal to half time.

How many years have we be using rebuilding as an excuse. There is no acceptable excuses for poor performance.

Agree.

Rebuilding does not excuse a lack of effort.

Quote of the night from Sam Lane:

"If you're dealing with your brain, just don't mess with it."

When talking about Mitch Robinson..... apt.

Don't even think he's got a kick.

Edit: The Herald Sun tells me Tyrone Vickery Kung fu kicked Brock in the face.

I agree - let's get rid of the bugler.

Nah... Let's keep him. I reckon he'll be in his Fat Elvis 1970s phase now. A few karate chops inbetween verses should liven things up on game day.

Andy (long pause) Maher.

They needed Brett Kirk to introduce it.

Then it would have made sense....

My biggest gripe is that over that last few seasons our players rarely shepherd.

In fact, I believe one of our biggest deficiencies is the lack of shepherding.

Protecting your teammates who have possession of the ball builds confidence and teamwork for everyone involved.

After that, being in the corridor or along the boundary is a matter of what suits the situation.

Geeze, with Stuie going all mushie and on the prowl, and Rangey back with manners and reason, one might think that the heavy hand of management has straightened the joint out. Or is it just the hot weather frying a few brains?

Head over to the Saints NAB Cup thread and disabuse yourself of that notion.

Gloves are off over there.

Would we have been better off with Oli Wines or Jack Viney?

Trick question... We were always going to take Viney

The choice was between Wines and Toumpas.

Your question is faulty.... Faulty I tell you!

would have thought it gratis actually..

I'm sure there are many clauses to a sponsorship contract that I could not even begin to imagine. Maybe the players will throw copies of the HS to the crowd after a win.

I would hope and expect we received a discount from our sponsor (Herald Sun) on that ad.

Travis Johnstone with an almost lethal dose of "motivation" injected.

God.... What could have been...

Thank God Ollie Wines missed that goal. Toumpas JUSTIFIED!!!

God this is annoying .. every single time something happens in Port Adelaide's favour they start getting way too excited its so ridiculous

I swear you can hear them applauding the Power kicking a goal in the commentary box.

Do the commentators know the names of any Melbourne players?

They've only just figured out Sellar (and even then they are not sure) and he is from Adelaide so I don't hold out much hope.

Mine keeps playing the same 30 seconds

As long as it's the 30 seconds of Sellar's goal over and over again you could be in for a positive experience!

The commentators can't even recognise James Sellar and he used to play in Adelaide.

That was the worst Footy Classified I have seen, and Im normally easily pleased. If that is the standard now that Grant Thomas has left, it is very disappointing.

Yeah, and that cardboard cutout of Mathew Lloyd was a terrible likeness.

The prop department will be copping a spray today.

I don't know that there will be issues with Clark's base fitness by the time Round 1 comes around. On the other hand, getting up to playing speed and playing and kicking with confidence are something else.

Coming from the Brisbane program I would imagine Clark would've had a better fitness base than many of our team pre David Misson's arrival. I'm sure there would be some lingering effects from the ethic he had previously which was demonstrated in him showing up half our team five minutes after arriving.

Doesn't matter what the "rule" is. The umpires will "interpret" it and it will be a shemozzle.

In both these games the opposition has killed us in the possession count...so no difference to last year...

Yep, I would like us to dominate the possession count for a change.

Can anyone watching the game tell us if we are doing the team things like shepherding and such?

Hogan not afraid to give Byrnes a spray for not honouring his lead. The kids got character, stagger and wants it. Maturity beyond his years.

A good dose of awareness at 17. Sign him for six.

I hope you meant swagger?

I'm sick of hearing Triple M say "North have got the numbers"

This sucks.