Bankers & Anchors: Preliminary Final, 2021 vs Port Adelaide

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

This is the Preliminary Final 2021 edition of the weekly Bankers and Anchors thread. Once the game against Port Adelaide is concluded post your nominations for:

The Bankers = 3 guys/aspects of the game that we banked on to do the right thing during the game
The Anchors = 3 guys/aspects of the game that weighed us down by their errors or poor play

Please limit it to no more than three of each player or aspect of the game, but feel free to make honourable/dishonourable mentions. As usual try to make it constructive criticism.

Try and restrict it to individual players rather than aspects of the overall match - I will allow more freedom now as the thread seems to be going down more of the aspects of the game path so you can have 3 for each made up of aspects of the game and individual players.

The thread is named in honour of a popular WOOF Contributor, The Banker, who passed away on 22/04/2012 after a six month battle with cancer.

[bulldogtragic]

B

Hannan
Schache
Smith
Many others

A week off to rest up.

A

Umpiring was poor
Covid
SA Health

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

So I'm gonna pass on those BT has already highlighted, because so many deserve to be highlighted tonight

Bankers
Stef Martin... 12 weeks out....'break glass in emergency' we broke glass.... all of my peeps said he'd be a liability, it was desperate. He showed them. MASSIVE.
Williams.. Truck is just a 10 out of 10 reliable defender now..
Dunks/ Treloar........Jonesy/Riley (any Letterkenny fans here?) the broski's are back.. and what a time for that to occur.

Anchors
F$%K off... we just won a Prelim.

[whythelongface]

So I'm gonna pass on those BT has already highlighted, because so many deserve to be highlighted tonight

Bankers
Stef Martin... 12 weeks out....'break glass in emergency' we broke glass.... all of my peeps said he'd be a liability, it was desperate. He showed them. MASSIVE.
Williams.. Truck is just a 10 out of 10 reliable defender now..
Dunks/ Treloar........Jonesy/Riley (any Letterkenny fans here?) the broski's are back.. and what a time for that to occur.

Anchors
F$%K off... we just won a Prelim.

Williams was unbelievable. Unbelievable. There was a period in the 4th where he took something like 3 contested marks in the space of a couple of minutes

[Testekill]

B

All three of the Baileys
Hannan played the game of his career
Treloar bounced back big time

A

Umpiring
Covid
SA Health

[Mantis]

Williams was unbelievable. Unbelievable. There was a period in the 4th where he took something like 3 contested marks in the space of a couple of minutes

He’s a jet… just so cool headed and clean.

[westbulldog]

Bankers

Other than the champs, the lesser lights in Hannan, Gardner and Cordy. I have been critical of them but have to give them due credit for excellent games tonight.
Stef Martin, welcome back, his presence and competitiveness made a huge difference.
Josh Dunkley, getting better by the week.

Anchors
SA Health, you have to pity South Australian's given some of the idiotic decisions made by this mob.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

Bankers

Other than the champs, the lesser lights in Hannan, Gardner and Cordy. I have been critical of them but have to give them due credit for excellent games tonight.
Stef Martin, welcome back, his presence and competitiveness made a huge difference.
Josh Dunkley, getting better by the week.

Anchors
SA Health, you have to pity South Australian's given some of the idiotic decisions made by this mob.

That SA Health decision galvanised us and gave us magical powers.

[ratsmac]

Do the Port players have to quarantine now because they touched our players?

[bulldogtragic]

Do the Port players have to quarantine now because they touched our players?

Maybe. But they followed the SA CHO health advice, ‘don’t touch the ball’. Being Covid safe.

[ratsmac]

Bankers

1. We are in the GF again

2. Stef has to be a banker. What a difference it makes not to have their ruckman do whatever the hell they want.

3. Bailey Smith is Gary Rohan's ultimate nemesis. Baz is a big game finals player, Gary Rohan is Gary Rohan

4. We are in the GF again

Anchors

1. Covid

2. SA health

[SquirrelGrip]

Do the Port players have to quarantine now because they touched our players?

I’m not sure they actually did…

[merantau]

Bankers
1.Schache, Hannan, JJ, Cordy, Vanders, Gardner, Roarke
2. Stefan and Adz - were up to the challenge.
3. Everyone else

Anks
1. 14 covid tests! That is farcical.
2. Not being allowed to train
3. That's it.

[Mitcha]

With added category.

BANKERS
All 23 who ran out last night, unfortunately 2 of them are going to miss the big dance. Loved the energy of the non playing group after the game, tight bunch.
Bevo, loves his troops and backs them to the hilt.
D. King, seemed to be one out against all other media types, always thought we were a chance because "the Dogs play with Heart"

ANCHORS
To those involved in having to make the hard calls come Thursday night pre Grand Final.
The fact we are denied the opportunity to walk to the G to see our mob in a granny.

WANKERS
SA health, thanks for allowing us to use the Adelaide Oval for a captains run during the game.

[bornadog]

Bankers

1. Bailey Smith - 4 goals in a prelim

2. Treloar for bouncing back after a weight of criticism

3. Bevo's coaching and tactics, especially around quelling Aliir Aliir and playing Schache on him.

Anchors

AFL - they new the health rules in SA as they have not changed, but they were too gutless to tell PA . Both prelims should have been in Perth as originally planned, and now we have to quarantine for another 6 days. Just stinks