For f0ck sake, the sky is falling. Let's all slag the club. We took a calculated risk. (By the way Hawthorn was willing to give up 2 First round picks) And it didn't work out 100% like we wanted. The initial decision was rejected by the count. How would Port feel by giving up 2 first round picks for...

For people think we did badly: Have high picks does not guarantee you success.. if that's the case, Carlton, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast and GWS would be top 4 every year. Draft picks to be perfectly honest is a punt on potential. High picks just have higher percentage of making it, but still no...

Our game is about set a zone and forcing turnovers high up in the ground with intense pressure. It's easy for us to score when you win the ball back in your forward 50 when everyone is out of position. When a team is composed/skilled and get through our zone. Then we're exposed. Similarly when our p...

While we should be positive, but we can need to acknowledge good opposition. In terms of list, they are ahead of us. Their good players are young, Wallace, Johanneson, Bontempelli, Wood, Steven, Macrae. And they have a lot of good midfield type running players who can play anywhere on the park. We a...

First of all.. most full-backs have bags kicked against them.. i'm sure Lockett has kicked 10 against Silvagni.. and many pundits thinks Silvagni played well in that game... Now, in a bottom side team.. (yes, we were bottom last year), when we concede so many forward entries with little midfield pre...

Let's be honest. Steven is 1 of 2 only 'good' experienced mids we have. He is a scrapper. Never the clean/classy disposal of ablett, Harvey or pendlebury. Steven is more of a Dane swan. I would say Lenny Hays is a much better player than Steven, doesn't have speed. But gee Hays is clean, classy, str...

Why is this even a debate? Stanley is a no position player.. Drafted as a ruckman. But because of his speed and lack of physicality/competitiveness, was made to play forward and back. An athlete playing football unfortunately. Played 3 good games in 6 years. Still kicked 19 goals last year and can b...

I think Siposs and Simpkin need to be worried.. Tim Membrey is a more aggressive, better mark version of Siposs. And will be given opportunities ahead of Siposs. Don't think Simpkin has a position in the backline.. where we have plenty of half back flankers (gilbert, acres, roberton, shenton)... he'...

Whether you love him or loath him, I think we can all agree that Chris Pelchen is figure that generates much debate... I'll argue this is mainly because his role as a list manager/head of football, is someone who's responsible for sacking and recruiting at a normal company tough and contraversial gi...

Me thinks Schneider maybe the man traded... good and experienced small forward to help them.. Surely not unless GWS have completely lost the plot. Why would you trade anything for a guy who's 31 at the start of next year and has played less than 15 games a year for the past three years? Ryan Griffe...

4,6 & 7 or we keep 1. Its that simple!!! That's our current position, however they want 21 as well. We have something up our sleeve that will hopefully leave us with 21 and 22. We won't be doing it for just 4 & 6 or 4 & 7 I guarantee you. At worst it may be we give them 21 back, but hop...

So, if the stanley trade goes through, our ruck trading over the past 3 years will read: OUT: McEvoy, Stanley, 13, 24, 25,36,55 IN: Hickey, Longer, 18, 19, 21,25,46, steak knives* *aka Savage Is there method in this madness? Are we better off? Did we make upgrades to our ruck division? Here are the...

How did Port improve just out of interest do people think? Sitting around hoping for the best (praying) or backing their recruiters and aggressively going after talented youth? They drafted a whole bunch of talent over 5+ seasons due to pretty crappy performances consistently.... But, those crappy ...

One day Im gonna tell my kids I posted on the same forum as Jaxons.....thanks for the hope cause we all need it but please whatever you do don't give away any trade secrets too early......others watch this board and lets keep them all guessing till deals are in the bag Thanks Teflon for the wrap. H...

Can't see the risk in the membry pick. The risk is we don't have infinite list spots or salary cap so he might not turn out good enough and take the spot or cash of a player who would have been a star. No decision is risk-free at this time of year (except maybe Cat B rookies). Sorry, I disagree. Th...

To be fair, it all depends on if we think Patrecca is a Judd/Riewoldt type player. If not, why not get 2-3 players who might have the same ceiling as Petrecca. People don't see that where our list is at currently, we need lots of talent quickly before we can do a Port Adelaide and content in finals,...

Stanley is a useful player, but is not a natural forward and doesn't look like he will ever be one. A 19 year old Spencer White playing his first game looks a better forward than Stanley who has been in the system for 4-5 years. People will say he can also ruck, but his ruck work is not really bette...

Why would Sydney trade Reid and Mitchell out? Because they don't get to play in a star studded team, and at their age 21, 22 they need to play. It also helps Sydney's salary cap situation, as Reid would be on some good coin. Reid was super for Sydney a couple of years ago.. Comparing him to Stanley ...

Why do our defenders try to mark in the wet
instead of punching the mark away? Simpkin, Gwilt and Dempster.
100 point thrashing coming.

Just a reality check, fellas. That we are a bottom 3 team, and playing the top team in AFL. People say the wet conditions evens it out. But it doesn't seem like it. Hawthorn players can still Kick, handball and mark without much fumbling If anything, it accentuate our lack of skills. Players who can...

Agree all except TDL. He can actually play.

We need more ball winners and runners.
Not flankers that Ross Lyon loves.

Develop players who can kick to forwards
advantage or chests heaven forsake, then we'll
Really improve.

Because he can't kick.. Better than Jones, but that's not saying much.

Pure and simple.. all their players can kick, handball and tackle properly under pressure... half of our team can't...

The pressure of the game has really shown up
Our poor ball users. Jones, Gram, Steven, Polo.
That's half of our midfield plus getting absolutely spanked
In the ruck, can Mcevoy actually time his jump just once?

We lost 4 - Walsh - a potential good player.. but will he turn into a gun forward? unsure. - Cahill - too skinny, injury prone and bad attitude? - Johnson - not big enough to be key position, or good enough? - Lynch - slow.. not big enough, doesn't have presence.. more a flanker type We still have 4...