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GAMEDAY: PF 2020 Port v Rich
- Thread starter Dyer'ere
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I hope you had a long shower afterwards and used hospital strength disinfectant to feel clean againBeing back in enemy territory I decided to have a listen to KG & Cornsey on 5AA (just for fun).
Well KG was falling out of his tree about the unfair umpiring (seemed to overlook that they won the *smile* count), hates anything Victorian (especially the AFL), wouldn't hear a bad word from any callers about Port players.
There were a LOT of Crows supporters calling in, very happy, even laughing.
I could only stand listening for about 30mins and now feel like I've taken one for the team
And the Port ferals who hung around the race to hurl abuse at the RFC players as they went down to the rooms after the game. And the boos as they headed off the ground also. Not that I haven’t seen that before. But it isn’t overly common from my observations these days. Unless a player from the winning side has done something unforgivable like king hit a home player during the match. Generally the Football follower of today is a bit more gracious than that. Usually they simply shut up and leave to either quietly seethe or simply drown their sorrows. Just bizarre.
And South Australians love to lecture the rest of the country how they are the only State not founded by convicts, as if that means the populace is more refined.
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Brisk rubdown with sandpaper then rinse off with rinse off with vinegar
I did some quick research and I believe the 6 point margin was the closest final we have played in since beating Collingwood 77-73 in 1975. @LeeToRainesToRoach is this correct?
At this stage of match q1 I was worried that we were taking the knock on option too often in preference to bending over and taking possession. Viz Jack trying tunnel ball through 4 pairs of port legs.
Actually Jase. Thinking about these comments from earlier in the day an reminiscing about that era. Most leagues have an equivalent side (or couple of sides). Obviously Victoria’s was Collingwood and terrifying away matches at Victoria Park (apparently the animal cage at Moorabbin wasn’t too god for visiting fans either).
In Hobart, our equivalent was New Norfolk. They were the only country team playing in the TFL. My analogy of their support base would be like taking a Port bogan, then enhance them by breeding a bit of gun toting Alabama hick into him/her, then cross breed some more with the patients at the local mental asylum (yes this actually happened, with Tasmania’s only mental asylum of the time located in the town as one of its major industries and employers). You get a whole new sub-breed of super-bogan.
Away matches at Boyer Oval (New Norfolk’s home ground) were not enjoyable affairs. The scenes in the outer were rather Dickensian.
New Norfolk were often a dirty team on the field, but it was probably a safer environment on the field than being in the crowd up there, given one felt surrounded by these hillbilly incarnations of Orcs from Lord of The Rings. Not uncommon to see brawls in the wet area or the crowd in the main grandstand trying to start fights with the away team bench and entourage in front of them.
Visiting fans would hide their colours for the walk back to the car after the game.
The only difference was that New Norfolk didn’t have the success of the likes of Port and Collingwood, so you wouldn’t get that same of arrogant streak. That said, their home record was pretty good because it was such a hostile environment. The facilities were far more agricultural too, given they were a country side playing in a city comp, which added to the hostility. And the upper Derwent Valley is often a few degrees cooler than Hobart, damp, miserable and foggy (fog lifts at noon and rolls back in at 3pm) during the depths of winter.
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Took a long time to get this happening. Pre match I was saying that 2020 v 2019 this was our relative weakness....Rioli Castagna Lamberts patchy years contributing.
Certainly locked it in more often in last and dan stayed involved for 100 minutes and Lambert took the chances that pressure created.
Just finished watching that last quarter again.
Agree with what you wrote.
Also when Lynch went back with less than 2 mins on the clock I’m sure it was ‘his call’. That last kick saving mark with the PA player coming , wow. Saved it.
He's still one bloke I think about quite often after his "better list" comment from years ago and how he must wince in sheer agony every time he see's the Tiges win another big game.Hey, Treloar, how's your list going? Getting ready for next week?
Had "his day" in the '18 Prelim and thats as good as he'll ever see in his career and how that Granny ended was absolute perfection, now it seems his main duty is whether to head to the Gold Coast and support the Missus's Netball career, even though he's scoffed at the rumour, sounds like the Mighty $ is his main aim and not about Premierships as he'd like everybody to believe.
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Yep. But they never tell you the story that Adelaide was on its knees and was going bankrupt until an Escaped Irish convict from Melbourne saved them.
the irony
Watched the replay, what a tight game.
The rain blunted the momentum surges of both teams.
Looking at the game again, Port had the better of us in Q1 and the start of Q2. They could’ve easily skipped away.
We wrested control back in the second half and it looked like a Richmond game. It was us that could’ve skipped away.
In the end, one of the great wins. So good to be in another GF.
We don’t lose them.
A special note for Jack. Reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. He played the best non-possession game I’ve seen him play. Threw himself into contests just to bring it down. Was super smart in moving the ball onward in trying conditions.
Jack is OK. Better than that, he’ll kick another bag in a grand final.
The rain blunted the momentum surges of both teams.
Looking at the game again, Port had the better of us in Q1 and the start of Q2. They could’ve easily skipped away.
We wrested control back in the second half and it looked like a Richmond game. It was us that could’ve skipped away.
In the end, one of the great wins. So good to be in another GF.
We don’t lose them.
A special note for Jack. Reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. He played the best non-possession game I’ve seen him play. Threw himself into contests just to bring it down. Was super smart in moving the ball onward in trying conditions.
Jack is OK. Better than that, he’ll kick another bag in a grand final.
It's the vintage cheese, Celebrant, that will turn your guts. Stay away and just stick to the port.
Disciplined except for the Rioli 50m incident. No idea what he was thinking but gee it was a bad time to give it away.
Good call for the early part of the game... couldn't bend over, loosened up fortunately later,
They are pretty proud of their 2018 Preliminaryship, though.
Correct, it wasn't founded by convicts. It was founded by losers, too stupid to figure out how to steal a loaf of bread.
