The blonde guy is just a poor umpire: makes his decisions based on crowd noise rather than on what he sees.

We've been screwed by the umps. But Port are running out of players. So we're still an outside chance.

I'm about as far away from being a fan of Byrnes as you could possibly get, but I reckon he put in a pretty decent effort in that first half.

Sharman was dreadful. Membrey did a couple of ok things but was mostly dreadful. Garcia was almost invisible.

B.M wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:55pm Cooper Sharman’s body language is fkn terrible

Gives up and stops trying

Needs a fkn rocket!!!

He's been pretty dreadful all season. Surely he comes out next week when we have more players back.

magnifisaint wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:54pm

meher baba wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:53pm You're all so critical. But 10 points down at half time is far better than I had envisaged at the start of the game.

PA have missed 4 easy ones in front of goal.

We've missed a couple as well.

You're all so critical. But 10 points down at half time is far better than I had envisaged at the start of the game.

We're playing much better though.

We haven't had a very good deal from the umpys tonight.

WTF Howard?

SaintDippa wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:12pm Bris leading GWS 21-14 Q/T.

And Bulldogs were 43-6 against us at QT. I like this week better.

Well you can all whinge as much as you want. I simply loved that quarter.

BTW, for anyone following this thread and unable to see the game, Marshall is back on the field.

Philllipou! Eat that, all of you knockers!

I couldn't have imagined that there'd be a team worse at set shots than us. But Port is that!

FFS, Marshall looking pretty crook.

What's the point of all of this? We had a great ANZAC Day ceremony before the Pies vs the Bombers yesterday.

ANZAC day is over. If AFL were played over Xmas-New Year, would Santa show up before the game on Boxing Day?

So the players have been out on the field for more than 5 minutes, and it's still 10 minutes until the scheduled kick-off time So should I assume we've got a whole lot of ANZAC day stuff to get through?

WellardSaint: "Byrnes will be back to his best. Trust me"

And how will we be able to distinguish that from his worst?

Most seem reassigned to a loss Hard to know what an acceptable result would be. Am not loving the fact the Caminati is playing hurt. It’s been suggested Howard plays forward too which makes me feel we’re way too tall. With Byrnes in poor form… feel like we’re a mid down too. Seems like less than 30...

Anyway, AFL is a sport that produces lots of injuries. Also, the Docklands Stadium was pretty s__t until the mid-2010s, causing lots of soft tissue injuries for players in all the clubs who played there regularly.

Gee Luke Ball’s career sure was ruined. All the way to a premiership medallion.

BM is absolutely correct. 2000-03 was the most comprehensive rebuild by any club in the history of the AFL. All other clubs looked on with envy and many fans complained that we had been given a massively unfair deal in terms of the draft picks we received. Some of the players we recruited in that pe...

Young players don’t learn anything good from thrashings. I wouldn’t be bringing any more in for the Port game. Perhaps later on

And I must be mad, but I reckon Phillipou is developing ok. IMO he’s shown quite a bit more this season than last. He’s starting to find and seriously play his position at HF. Lots of second rate players can take speccy marks. I don’t care about them. I want to see a player like Phillipou right in t...

I remember when supporters said we should trade another player who was really struggling every week drop him trade him it really annoyed me at the time, but Ross persisted with him and he ended up being ok the player was pick #1 Brendan Goddard so it does take time. Give the kid a chance I know he ...