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Port are not as good away from home and have plenty of banged up players. They have Dixon who we cant stop with one player but maybe contain with a double team and a player filling the hole in front of him...volunteers?
They will probably win the ruck but as last week showed thats doesnt make much difference, GC mids were all over us regardless of having no ruckman. If we are ever going to beat Port its this week given they had a very tough game and will lose players to injury.
Hoping Port are suffering a let down and we can sneak a win...
Blues by 5 points in a shock win, Robbie Gray to kick for the match and miss this time... 
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04-13-2021, 11:58 AM
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(04-13-2021, 11:57 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Port are not as good away from home and have plenty of banged up players. They have Dixon who we cant stop with one player but maybe contain with a double team and a player filling the hole in front of him...volunteers?
They will probably win the ruck but as last week showed thats doesnt make much difference, GC mids were all over us regardless of having no ruckman. If we are ever going to beat Port its this week given they had a very tough game and will lose players to injury.
Hoping Port are suffering a let down and we can sneak a win...
Blues by 5 points in a shock win, Robbie Gray to kick for the match and miss this time... They have also lost Butters and Dursma? Smug fark Rose also a test.
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(04-13-2021, 11:57 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Port are not as good away from home and have plenty of banged up players. They have Dixon who we cant stop with one player but maybe contain with a double team and a player filling the hole in front of him...volunteers?
They will probably win the ruck but as last week showed thats doesnt make much difference, GC mids were all over us regardless of having no ruckman. If we are ever going to beat Port its this week given they had a very tough game and will lose players to injury.
Hoping Port are suffering a let down and we can sneak a win...
Blues by 5 points in a shock win, Robbie Gray to kick for the match and miss this time...
And we're a 5 goal better side at the G compared to away or even Marvel.
Weather a non issue.
William's return a huge boost for us.
Without Butters, Duursma, SPP and a few others proppy, we have to be a real chance!
Finals, then 4 in a row!
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(04-13-2021, 09:56 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:And we're a 5 goal better side at the G compared to away or even Marvel.
Weather a non issue.
William's return a huge boost for us.
Without Butters, Duursma, SPP and a few others proppy, we have to be a real chance! Problem is we've been in this position so many times before and come up short. Would be nice to actually deliver one day.
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Sadly after 5 years in a rebuild we are still having to get a massive game from Cripps to beat any of the top teams. We have the bottom 4 covered but against the stronger teams our midfield is still too shallow if Cripps is held. Walsh is a star and haven't seen enough of Williams yet in the middle to be convinced he is a A grade midfielder.
Forget the notion of Cripps being just as damaging as a forward as its not going to happen.
This game will be won and lost in the midfield so need Williams playing and must have Cripps getting off the lease to have a chance of walking away with win IMO.
Mark my words If Cripps is not in the votes on Brownlow night we wont win. EOS.
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04-14-2021, 12:34 AM
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(04-13-2021, 10:11 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Sure, you can play to a higher standard.....still gotta win though.
We play to a higher standard when we play the tigers....when was the last time we won though?
Port are a little different, being in Melbourne is a start....being at the MCG is a bonus.
But....this is a team that just beat the Tigers....and flogged North and the bombers. Only loss was against the Eagles over there....which is no shame.
Port are tougher than people think. They did finish on top of the ladder last year.
Basically saying not to use our effort against the GC as a guide to our ability but, yes, the winning part would be quite useful. We were ahead of them last year when the siren went, just a pity about the part a few seconds after the siren. Not long after we had beaten Geelong at Geelong. So we can rise and beat such sides. Just hope we can do it again. 3-2 and a win over the probable flag favourites would be big.
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(04-13-2021, 11:28 PM)shawny link Wrote:Sadly after 5 years in a rebuild we are still having to get a massive game from Cripps to beat any of the top teams. We have the bottom 4 covered but against the stronger teams our midfield is still too shallow if Cripps is held. Walsh is a star and haven't seen enough of Williams yet in the middle to be convinced he is a A grade midfielder.
Forget the notion of Cripps being just as damaging as a forward as its not going to happen.
This game will be won and lost in the midfield so need Williams playing and must have Cripps getting off the lease to have a chance of walking away with win IMO.
Mark my words If Cripps is not in the votes on Brownlow night we wont win. EOS.
Cripps was pretty ordinary in the Port game last year and we were in front on the final siren (pity about the scoreboard about 20 sec after).
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As soon as I start thinking we are a chance to win a game like this, it ends up being disappointing.
I would rather declare that we have a snowflake's hope in hell, with a view to being greatly surprised......
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(04-14-2021, 12:56 AM)tonyo link Wrote:As soon as I start thinking we are a chance to win a game like this, it ends up being disappointing.
I would rather declare that we have a snowflake's hope in hell, with a view to being greatly surprised......
Hope for the best, expect the worst. Totally understand.
We are absolutely 'capable' of winning this game, we simply (!!!!) need to bring our best 4 qtrs... something we're not very good at.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17
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(04-14-2021, 01:26 AM)Baggers link Wrote:Hope for the best, expect the worst. Totally understand.
We are absolutely 'capable' of winning this game, we simply (!!!!) need to bring our best 4 qtrs... something we're not very good at.
If we play our best footy from the opening bounce until the final siren, we are more than capable of beating any team in the comp. The problem is that we often start slowly, have lapses during the game, rarely play without passengers, don't plan to stop the opposition's best players and are slow to counter opposition tactics.
If we can address those issues, we should win by three goals ?
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