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Listen to this - Tyson Goldsack on our goal kicking woes: “We reviewed it as coaches. We haven't gone through it with the players yet. But we believe in the process. It's just kind of how we're going about it from week to week. We think the process is right. Are we taking it into the games and...

Yes, but this is coming from a guy who said that he realised he got it wrong last year in playing players that weren't ready to go (ala Lycett who should have went for surgery as soon as he wasn't right to go in the Carlton game). He rested Dixon against Collingwood even when we were missing...

You can only go by what the player themselves are feeling. You can't see pain or know what another person is feeling, and as Hinkley said in the press conference before the game, he's been in situations with guys like Boak who have managed to come back from a hamstring strain earlier than...

I’m sorry, but there’s only one person who is ultimately responsible for their ability to say “Yes, after a training session I feel one hundred percent”, and that’s the player involved. The person who is ultimately responsible for selection is Hinkley and he put his hand up and said he got it...

You've taken two things I've said and run completely the opposite way with them. First of all, go back to the first post I made in the changes thread instead of cherry picking the last one. I specifically said I would play Finlayson in this game because Adelaide's worst loss of the season came...

Absolute rubbish. If you're not going to play Finlayson when Adelaide brings in that many tall defenders, then you're playing into their hands when all you are doing is continuing to bomb it long into a forward line that has +2 in defence. And what was McEntee's contribution to the game...

Dayten Uerata thanks. Not interested in any players over 26 who have never been in an AFL system.

Last two games against Adelaide: Round 3, 2023 - The ghost of Tom Joad Jonas and Tom Clurey were playing for us in defence. Thilthorpe kicked 5 goals (he's not playing), Pedlar kicked 3 goals (he's not playing). Round 20, 2023 - Wayne Milera had 32 disposals (he's not playing). Dante Visentini...

Butts - 198cm (6'5) Curtin - 197cm (6'5) Worrell - 195cm (6'4) Keane - 194cm (6'4) Michalanney - 190cm (6'2) Smith - 189cm (6'2) vs Dixon - 200cm (6'6) Marshall - 198cm (6'5) Georgiades - 192cm (6'3) Byrne-Jones - 181cm (5'11) McEntee - 176cm (5'8) Rioli - 175cm (5'8) But according to...

Multiple sources say a Grade 1 strain can take anywhere from 2 days to 3 weeks to recover from - it just depends on how severe the strain is. Also, some people are more diligent with rehab than others. I’m sure if Fantasia got this injury, we wouldn’t see him for six weeks.

These are the results of Hinkley's tenure as head coach of Port, bearing in mind that less than 86 points conceded is considered a premiership defence: Matthew Nicks is defence coach. Round 3, 2013 - win 118-109 Round 19, 2013 - win 107-103 Phil Walsh is appointed midfield coach. Round 2...

Just remember that Adelaide's biggest loss of the season came against Fremantle who played the following forward line: Taberner - 197cm Amiss - 196cm Treacy - 193cm Banfield - 190cm There is absolutely room for us to play all of Dixon, Finlayson, Marshall and Georgiades in the same forward...

Westhoff's best game was in 2019 against Melbourne: 18 disposals, 9 marks, 5 goals, 5 tackles, 3 inside 50s Marshall's best game to date was in 2022 vs West Coast: 14 disposals, 11 marks, 5 goals, 7 tackles, 2 inside 50s "Even his worst is on par with Marshall's best."

Pretty sure we can do without the socioeconomic commentary about how much “better” it is that Sam has done his ACL because he’s in a professional system compared to someone in a bush league or in an amateur environment. It’s a s**t injury no matter who it happens to, regardless of whether it’s a...

Tuesday was the anniversary of his father's death. While he had a poor game, I'm cutting him some slack this week.

Bold a certainties to come in. Burton for Aliir, Finlayson for Powell-Pepper. Remember that our best performance for this year came when we played Dixon, Marshall, Finlayson and Georgiades against Essendon. All four are different types of forwards and Finlayson playing allows Marshall to play...

Bit of a writeup from Rookie Me Central on Montgomery's last game: Sounds like exactly the sort of player we would look at drafting regardless.

Finlayson is due back next week. He missed against Fremantle, Collingwood and this game.

Last week: Contested possessions - Port 120 to Collingwood 161 Uncontested possessions - Port 181 to Collingwood 203 Centre Clearances - Port 12 to Collingwood 19 Stoppage Clearances - Port 21 to Collingwood 20 Turnovers - Port 67 to Collingwood 52 Marks Inside 50 - Port 14 to Collingwood 15...

Ukraine still getting hand me downs. ATACMS has been superseded by the Precision Strike Missile, which entered service last year and will be getting a substantial upgrade in 2025. And the Patriot missile is being upgraded to integrate with the Aegis system - a fully automated command and control...

Completely different era. The AFL is now a socialist league, which means that they want as many even games as possible. When you push for that kind of parity, all it takes is missing two or three players or a couple of players down on form to tip the scales massively. Or do you think that...

See Cameron/Cox last year. The thing about playing any kind of ruck in a key forward position is that the opposition needs to believe that the ruck is a marking threat. Notice that in the first quarter, Moore was all at sea because he wasn't sure when to screen off Soldo because he thought that...

Not excuses. Collingwood had a pressure rating that was good in the first quarter and then ramped it up to elite in the second and third quarters. Port was at elite in the first quarter, was still elite in the second quarter but wasn’t able to maintain the same level of energy cause they didn’t...

We’ll see that’s the thing. It’s not like we were super s**t at contested possession - we had 120 for the game. It’s just that Collingwood had 161. Our average is around 126. Collingwood is 133 for the year. Now reconcile that with the fact that we were leading contested possession by 1 at...

+41 contested possessions to Collingwood. De Goey 15 contested possessions vs Horne-Francis 13 Daicos 15 contested possessions vs Rozee 9 Mitchell 14 contested possessions vs Wines 11 Cameron 11 contested possessions vs Soldo 6 Cox 8 contested possessions vs Sweet 2 Sidebottom 7 contested...

Premiership standard is 100> points for, <87 points against. Melbourne put +30 points over their expected score. 5 goals that they shouldn't have kicked on probabilities, they did. And yet you are talking about the Fremantle and Essendon games skewing the data? Richmond, West Coast and...

Article on SEN saying that a lot of clubs believe that Lukosius is gettable this year.

"Wait a minute. We all know the one thing we won't need on the MCG. Pressure forwards who don't put on pressure and can't kick goals - that's you McEntee! McEntee is the only useless player on the team. If anyone gets dropped, it should be him! So let's kick McEntee out!" Out: McEntee In: Boak

Rookie Me Central, so anything's possible :P

Who says the others aren't doing different things? Georgiades averages 2 marks on a lead per game (5th in the competition for key forwards, 6th overall) Marshall averages 1.8 marks on a lead per game (7th in the competition for key forwards, 11th overall) Finlayson averages 1 mark on a lead per...