Pklz wrote:
Teen Spirit wrote:
Ill offer ANY odds to ANYONE who wants to bet that port will beat us. . .we'll spank them.
What are your odds?
How does 8/1 sound?
Just watched replay of port/freo match and we'll spank them. . .our strength lately has been we've been putting 22 guys on the park who play for each other. Port has several guys, and yeh ill name them. . shaun burgoyne, davenport, surjan, gray, pettigrew, and westhoff all who play purely for themselves, and in the cases of westhoff and pettigrew, arent any good so trying to stand out should be the las thing on their mind. . .burgoyne's foot skills make armfield and jordy russel circa 2007 seem like simon black and chris judd and his chasing when the ball is turned over is poor at best. . Pettigrew makes too many errors, total dud.
they've got no players (except boak, lade, tredrea and k. Cornes) worth poking a stick at.
Watching last week i saw davenport run to 60m on the boundary with 2 players (boak and cassisi) running on his inside and one opponent directly infront of him and another zoning off 15/20m further ahead. Instead of drawing the man and handpassing to the longer option, who could then draw the 2nd opponent into the corridor, and closer to space already covered by other opponents, thus creating space for cassisi, he passed the short handball to cassisi who by the time he went to handball to boak, he was covered by broughton who'd run from the opposing flank to fill the space and their 3 on 2 scenario was ruined and fremantle got the ball. . .now this wasnt freo's zonal pressure which caused the turnover, it was a simple f*ckup which the most amateur under 18's teams are being drilled in.
Westhoff isnt the answer for port. I pity a champion like tredrea, who was nearly pushed out forcefully because people claimed keeping him in the side affected westhoff's development. Tredrea has kicked around 50goals this year, and westhoff has gone backwards. . Keep the star and make the hack kid watch him closely if he'll ever be any good as an afl player.
I wont mention the likes of ebert and motlop, as they're not even good enough to mention (seriously, jokes aside, troy longmuir is a better player than ebert)
Brogan/lade combination is a legit threat. . Carlile is a decent player, who has fev's measure somewhat, but even he had a shocker last week. . The chad is the chad, watch him be beaten to the footy by chief wiggins and his hunger for the ball and then tell me he's top 10 in the comp mike sheahan!
I respect kane cornes. . .he'll chase juddy hard but the likes of murph, stevo, and simmo will dominate this match.
I've been a big fan of hadley's past 2 weeks. His inside work releases judd etc and his work goes un-noticed.
Expect walker to play forward for the most part. . AAMI is a nice big ground where his speed will make him dangerous with fev, carlos, eddie and wiggins up forward.
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