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Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - blue4life - 05-08-2016
(05-08-2016, 11:56 AM)JonHenry link Wrote:Port haven't beaten much more.
6 day break vs our 7.
Game in Melb.
We are a chance against a side that loves to cheat and run forward of the contest
They've been beaten by Adelaide, Geelong and GWS, and beaten Richmond, Essendon, Brisbane and St Kilda easily.
St Kilda have run North and Hawthorn to a kick and are traveling pretty well for a side on a rebuild, and they thrashed the other lowly sides that they beat.
On form alone they should beat us comfortably but we are playing better than we were and sport throws up some odd results.
Boak is in top form and we've struggled with big bodied, quality midfielders in recent years, they also have several forwards capable of kicking multiple goals.
A win would be fantastic but it's hard to be confident.
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - cookie2 - 05-08-2016
(05-08-2016, 11:02 PM)blue4life link Wrote:They've been beaten by Adelaide, Geelong and GWS, and beaten Richmond, Essendon, Brisbane and St Kilda easily.
St Kilda have run North and Hawthorn to a kick and are traveling pretty well for a side on a rebuild, and they thrashed the other lowly sides that they beat.
On form alone they should beat us comfortably but we are playing better than we were and sport throws up some odd results.
Boak is in top form and we've struggled with big bodied, quality midfielders in recent years, they also have several forwards capable of kicking multiple goals.
A win would be fantastic but it's hard to be confident.
See what you're saying B4L but at the same time I really believe that we are learning and improving each week, plus our spirits are high and our pressure is very strong over 4Qs. We might just have the belief and endeavour to shock Port and sneak in - here's hoping anyway.
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - madbluboy - 05-09-2016
(05-08-2016, 01:07 PM)LP link Wrote:Gibbs has something to prove after being stitched up last time we played them. You know those players with severe concussion from sling tackles, who could not stand up, but still played the next week!
Wasn't it Port that bitched like cut snakes about Carlton, then sold Gibbs up the river with what in hindsight was a pretty bogus medical assessment?
We should not forget!
Nah one of their reserves players had a crack on twitter but the actual club tried to help Gibbs saying Gray passed the concussion tests but they erred on the side of caution in subbing him out. North Melbourne are the club that try to screw everyone at the MRP except for the Cats, funny that.
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - blue4life - 05-09-2016
Another thing and maybe off topic a bit, but Cripps is just an awesome unit.
He isn't as explosive as Judd was in his prime and probably never will be but he's just as hard to tackle as the Great Man, he's got Captain written all over him and along with Docherty and Weitering will form the basis of our leadership for a decade.
It's hard to believe that we got him at pick 13.
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - LP - 05-09-2016
(05-09-2016, 12:29 AM)blue4life link Wrote:Another thing and maybe off topic a bit, but Cripps is just an awesome unit.
He isn't as explosive as Judd was in his prime and probably never will be but he's just as hard to tackle as the Great Man, he's got Captain written all over him and along with Docherty and Weitering will form the basis of our leadership for a decade.
It's hard to believe that we got him at pick 13.
Clubs are too worried about athletes and not worried enough about footballers.
I've been saying this for a long, long time. Great footballers get cut regularly from TAC Cup squads because the megalomaniac coaches have the idea "They can turn any athlete into a footballer, but they cannot turn footballers into athletes."
I've called that bullsh1t long ago, most of those athletes end up like Kane Lucas at best.
I've seen kids that club coaches have described as the next Leigh Matthews or Michael Voss, only get a game or two at TAC Cup when other players are injured. Get the BOG votes in the games they play, then get cut from the squad because they are too small or because they come last in a 4k or 10k time trial. The fact they get 40 possessions and kick goals is irrelevant, it's a forking disgrace!
The problem is the coach thinking that a good footballer won't make it in AFL unless he is an Olympic class athlete, and the brain dead TAC Cup and AFL coaches who have no game plan other than to run your opponent into the ground. The problem is the coach, not the player!
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - blue4life - 05-09-2016
(05-09-2016, 12:40 AM)LP link Wrote:Clubs are too worried about athletes and not worried enough about footballers.
Diesel Williams comes to mind LP.
If Sam Mitchell was quicker I've got no doubt that he would have gone much higher in the draft, ditto Cameron Ling.
It's probably no coincidence that those two were drafted by Hawthorn and Geelong.
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - Dominator_7 - 05-09-2016
(05-09-2016, 12:29 AM)blue4life link Wrote:Another thing and maybe off topic a bit, but Cripps is just an awesome unit.
He isn't as explosive as Judd was in his prime and probably never will be but he's just as hard to tackle as the Great Man, he's got Captain written all over him and along with Docherty and Weitering will form the basis of our leadership for a decade.
It's hard to believe that we got him at pick 13.
His dash through the middle of the G in the 3rd, where he dodged two Filth players and passed it off to Murph, who in turn passed it off to Wright for a goal, was the stuff only a gun player could do.
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - flyboy77 - 05-09-2016
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2015-06-22/WWL-round-12-port
Great pic of Menzel, Bell and Hendo (the latter working hard off the ball as always)!
Who was the tackler? Is he still with us?!!
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - Gointocarlton - 05-09-2016
(05-09-2016, 05:48 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2015-06-22/WWL-round-12-portI gotta say out of those three? I only miss Belly and his big body through the middle and HFF. He was a hack with his disposal at times but was a brute and could kick a goal from a long way out. He would have been nice to keep alongside Crippa and Kerro.
Great pic of Menzel, Bell and Hendo (the latter working hard off the ball as always)!
Who was the tackler? Is he still with us?!!
Re: Rd 8: Pre Game Prognostications: Carlton vs Port Adelaide - flyboy77 - 05-09-2016
(05-09-2016, 06:17 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I gotta say out of those three? I only miss Belly and his big body through the middle and HFF. He was a hack with his disposal at times but was a brute and could kick a goal from a long way out. He would have been nice to keep alongside Crippa and Kerro.
Agreed, he was getting better every game too - his disposal was becoming less of a liability - and he wasn't Robinson Carusoe at CFC!