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I saw some classic Port logic today. They bitched and complained for years about Selwood playing for frees, yet they're crying about Duck-Francis not being paid free kicks for ducking.

Hawks only have themselves to blame, putting the cue in the rack like that often leads to disaster.

You can see this happening, Hawks have stopped to a walk and not trying to score. This often ends up backfiring.

The old Dan Houston running past for the handball tactic is so predictable that I'm surprised opposition coaches let it happen so often

Port are definitely still in this, Hawthorn have stopped attacking and trying to protect their lead and that's often a recipe for disaster.

Duck-Francis is the new Selwood

That should have been holding the ball against Dixon

He's literally playing on lesser forwards so of course he's not getting many goals kicked on him. I wasn't saying that it didn't happen, just that it's a s**t call.

Ginny!!!!

??? He's literally been playing as a third tall this year and still hasn't stood out. He's not terrible, but hardly AA material

Absolutely nailed it The funniest thing I saw with Rory Laird was a few weeks ago when I'm pretty sure it was Dawson running out of the middle. Laird was standing there flat footed with his back to the goal screaming for the ball so Dawson handballs to him and then instantly handballs back to...

The NBA analysts uses a term to describe certain players, they either class them as being high floor/low ceiling or low floor/high ceiling. Basically the low ceiling/high floor are players who have the potential to be great, but early are inconsistent and may have games were they only rate as a...

Rankine has done his hamstring again 🤬

It was very close. I initially thought he ran too far when I was watching it live, but then looking at the replay he took about 15 steps which is right on the limit. Personally I thought It was a 50/50 call.

The reality is that we had numerous chances in the last quarter and we s**t the bed like we always do. Blaming the umpires for not winning achieves nothing. The frees were 8-11 our way and there was also a clear holding the ball that wasn't paid against us in the last quarter, so there were bad...

The club needs to see whether we can nab Ladhams cheaply from Sydney as a salary dump. Even though he's had some discipline issues in the past, he's a massive upgrade on ROB. ROB works hard, but is a B grader and a back up ruckman at best. He would have to be in the running to be the worst...

Honestly we all knew what was going to happen as we've seen the same script play out for decades now like groundhog day. I can't even get excited anymore with these types of games, even after Rankine kicked that goal I knew there was heartbreak coming.

* me Laird is useless, the most overrated Crows player in the club's history by the length of the Flemmington Straight.

🤣🤣🤣 Maybe I have you confused with 1970Crow?

The second half of 2022 was the canary in the coal mine that Nicks wasn't up to it. You and I both wanted him sacked at three end of 2022 and any club that was worth their salt would have moved him on after that season.

Well to some Nicks is still a developing coach so I guess we shouldn't be expecting anything near that level of coaching until closer to his 10th year. Hopefully he starts hitting his straps by his 15th year.

Let's not forget too that they did something equally as dumb when they re-signed him before a ball was even bounced in 2022, when he still had 12 months left on his contract. Any half decent club would have sacked him at the end of 2022, yet we've stupidly given this guy two undeserved contract...

I agree about the lack of leadership on the field being an issue. I am a big believer that your best players should be in the leadership group. Ultimately need your captain to lead on the field and your leaders to be able to stand up in important moments. The fact that we have players like...

This is the problem that I have seen time and time again with Nicks. There's absolutely zero gameday nous at all, it's all based around him after a loss going back and analysing stats and watching replays to get some insight into why we lost. What's the value in trying to correct things once...

He's a Rhodes scholar and studied economics at Oxford so no doubt his degree has value. My issue though is some of the gaffes he's had so far, even Sky News have questioned his ability at times. He was originally touted as one of the new "high fliers" and a potential future Prime Minister, but...

I heard him the morning complaining that the government is not cutting hard enough financially and is spending too much, but then the next minute he was arguing that the government needs to do more to provide cost of living assistance to Australians. Not sure how a government is supposed to...

The past 3 weeks? We've been doing that for as long as I can remember under Nicks.

Pretty sure that Nicks is now only 1 game behind Don Pyke so in a couple of weeks he'll be our 2nd longest serving coach behind Neil Craig 😳

Can you imagine arguing that a coach that was a kick away from a flag was inferior to a coach that's running with a 35% win/loss record after 5 seasons? It actually defies all belief. He's got to be taking the piss at this point.

This narrative that Nicks is an "inexperienced developing" coach who still needs more time makes absolutely no sense to me. It completely contradicts how every other coach has been assessed in the past. Aside from Dew and Alan Richardson, can anyone tell me another modern era coach who's been...