At the game I thought that we were pretty rough and a long way off our best. What I really liked at the time was the fight and endeavour we showed; what I didn’t like was the skill errors.
Having watched it again on replay I still think we were not at our best, but we were definitely on the way back towards it. Collingwood were really very poor and had only a few good players and we should have put them away a lot earlier than we did. But some of the attacking football we played was sensational and we kicked another 100+ point score.
Hooker had a bad day and Joe Dan again had problems with his kicking, but Orazio found his mojo again and Darcy Parish was back to last year’s form. Zaharakis is producing one of his really good seasons, and Goddard, despite the mandatory brain fade, Is still going very strong.
Next week will be a huge test. St Kilda have found some really good form and we will have to be right back to Port Adelaide form if we’re to match them, let alone beat them. We’ve had so many tests like this, and we still continue to fail them more often than we pass. I have hopes, but zero expectations.
Posted in the JoeDan thread but will post it here as well.
First qtr, 12 - 14 pies up, smelliot kicks a point.
Clock 6:55
Hurley kicks to himself, spears a 50 metre perfect kick to JoeDan, JoeDan turns, casually drills another 50 metre milimetre perfect pass to Jobe in the centre circle, Jobe turns and kicks it to Zaka and Raz vs 2, Zaka kicks goal.
For sure. He has broken my heart on many an occasion, which is why I commented. I certainly didn’t intend to gloat, but understand why you saw it that way.
In IT’s defence if you are going to be either extremely positive (like IT) or extremely negative (like a few of us) for the sake of health people should choose the extreme positive. Yeah, finding a positive out of the Brisbane game is pretty stupid, but so is finding a negative out of beating Collingwood on ANZAC day
Anyway, as has been said, this 4 points is underwhelming only because of what happened last week. We really have to pinch 8 points from 2 matches in the last 7 that we weren’t expected to win, this Friday would be a good start.
