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    Question Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    One more time before the finals. Three things.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    Imagine how screwed we'd be without our back six.
    Bailey Smith needs a spell. But I didn't really just learn that.
    Imagine if we had a Boak.
    "It's over. It's all over."

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    1. Sack Beveridge. Bont in the ruck? You're a *!*!*!*!ing idiot.

    2. Trade Smith.

    3. 20 weeks in the top 4, don't finish top 4. Last time that happened it was Port who were only in the top 4 for 11 weeks. Disgraceful.
    W00F!

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    1. We blew it against Geelong and blown it against Port. Went from 1st to 5th in 12 days.

    2. Bevo rucking Bonts, coaches his 5th Elim Final and has only won one so far.

    3. Sam Power needs to land players of need and exiting others.

    4. I’m beyond gutted.
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    1. Why do the players and Beveridge look shattered clearly they couldn’t give a crap
    2. Why ruck Bont when English is five meters away?
    3. Why do we continue to let Jack Macrae get away with faux defensive efforts?
    More of an In Bruges guy?

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    Imagine how screwed we'd be without our back six.
    Bailey Smith needs a spell. But I didn't really just learn that.
    Imagine if we had a Boak.
    Not quite back 6.. maybe back 4 or 5.

    And Ports bad finishing covered lots of cracks down there.

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    1. I'd rather be in lockdown for a year than have to watch that game again.
    2. We really missed Bruce.
    3. I can't believe we are so brittle, from No 1 to this. Is it just the absence of a few players?

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    Quote Originally Posted by PedroArvy View Post
    1. I'd rather be in lockdown for a year than have to watch that game again.
    2. We really missed Bruce.
    3. I can't believe we are so brittle, from No 1 to this. Is it just the absence of a few players?
    Careful what you wish for PA, Premier Dan’s listening.
    It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    Quote Originally Posted by The Bulldogs Bite View Post
    1. Sack Beveridge. Bont in the ruck? You're a *!*!*!*!ing idiot.

    2. Trade Smith.

    3. 20 weeks in the top 4, don't finish top 4. Last time that happened it was Port who were only in the top 4 for 11 weeks. Disgraceful.
    Our treatment of the ruck is so embarrassing....of course Bont shouldn't ruck....but it was sadly the one time in the game we looked a chance to win it, and scored a goal following one of his ruck contests!!

    Very sadly, I didn't 'learn' anything tonight. Once I saw the selected team, I didn't think we'd win....but it was heartbreaking that it took until the death to actually lose it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozza View Post
    Our treatment of the ruck is so embarrassing....of course Bont shouldn't ruck....but it was sadly the one time in the game we looked a chance to win it, and scored a goal following one of his ruck contests!!

    Very sadly, I didn't 'learn' anything tonight. Once I saw the selected team, I didn't think we'd win....but it was heartbreaking that it took until the death to actually lose it.
    Point 1 - Bont was ok in the ruck and was more physical and combative than English has ever been, but is getting jumped into by the oppositions ruck the best use of Marcus when we have a finals campaign starting next week… and he’s clearly gassed?

    Pint 2 - Why is it so clear to all us mugs at home, but not to our coaches? The selection integrity over the past 3 weeks has been deplorable. Just stubborn beyond belief and I seriously hope Bains & Grant are going to review and make changes as we’ve blown up what was looking to be an amazing opportunity to win another flag.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mantis View Post
    Point 1 - Bont was ok in the ruck and was more physical and combative than English has ever been, but is getting jumped into by the oppositions ruck the best use of Marcus when we have a finals campaign starting next week… and he’s clearly gassed?
    Pint 2 - Why is it so clear to all us mugs at home, but not to our coaches? The selection integrity over the past 3 weeks has been deplorable. Just stubborn beyond belief and I seriously hope Bains & Grant are going to review and make changes as we’ve blown up what was looking to be an amazing opportunity to win another flag.
    Point 1 - of course its appalling and sad that Bont was in the ruck, and that he was more combative that any of our rucks have been in the last 3 weeks. We just keep flogging the bloke.


    Point 2 - And we have gone through this every year since the premiership. We have periods during the year, each year, where all of us "idiot supporters" know that we're up against it on 6:30pm on a Thursday night and most of the time that correlates with us losing. Beyond frustrating that we are pissing an opportunity up against the wall, and along the way we've been picking up some unenviable records in recent years (ie. missing the finals after a premiership, missing the top 4 after being top with 3 games to go.....and now potentially eyeing off worse if we lose next week.).
    Sadly, we will all have a fair idea on Thursday if we are giving ourselves our best chance to win.

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    Quote Originally Posted by Ozza View Post
    Sadly, we will all have a fair idea on Thursday if we are giving ourselves our best chance to win.
    Interested to know what you’d need to see to feel comfortable that we’re really giving it our best chance?
    Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    Interested to know what you’d need to see to feel comfortable that we’re really giving it our best chance?
    It depends who we end up playing.
    Generally we just pick a team that we (Bevo) wants to pick and completely disregard the weapons that the opposition have.

    Opposition has a tall forward line and we either just ignore it, or Bevo picks a tall defender and then does the bait and switch and they inexplicably play forward. Opposition has two genuine ruckman (like, say Port or Hawthorn for instance) and we don't play one.

    If it does end up being Essendon, then we actually match up ok with them, with Keath being back. We probably want it to be Essendon to be honest. I think we've left our run too late from a selection point of view - to tinker with roles such as Wood, the ruck debacle, and having another marking target forward (rather than ALL of VDM, JJ, Weightman). On the ruck front - really hard to bring in Stef or Sweet now - it had to be last week for Sweet or tonight for Stef - to have any level of expectations on them next week. We spent nearly every game for the year picking Scott in a variety on roles (including sub) and never really landed on something for him, and now he's out. We picked him 20 times!

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    Re: Three things you've learned Round twenty-three 2021 V Port Adelaide

    Bont in the ruck to me is an instant monstrous flaw in whatever ‘plan’ we have. That situation alone is enough for me to turn up with a removal van and ask Bevo to pack up his office and give him a gold watch. I have had enough. I feel utterly gutted.

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