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Mission : Port Adelaide
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Wow - they're 1.30 and we're at 3.65 !
I agree they should be favourites but we *are* two spots above them on the ladder - I know they've had a tougher run than us, but still ..........
I agree they should be favourites but we *are* two spots above them on the ladder - I know they've had a tougher run than us, but still ..........
23.21.159 said:
They just got knocked over by the Lions. Sure it was away but they struggled big time. All will depend on which of the respective teams to turns up as both have been fatally inconsistent this season.
Can we win?
The EF defeat should be burning deep in the team's guts but likewise Port will fancy themselves against us.
If we win our season has genuinely turned the corner. However if we lose we'll be back to questions being asked.
Huge game..
The EF defeat should be burning deep in the team's guts but likewise Port will fancy themselves against us.
If we win our season has genuinely turned the corner. However if we lose we'll be back to questions being asked.
Huge game..
Ferocity and the hunting of the hunted is the key.
Unrelenting pressure and wanting for the ball will go a long way for a Tiger win.
I think we are ready.
Unrelenting pressure and wanting for the ball will go a long way for a Tiger win.
I think we are ready.
Selection will be interesting, could keep Menedue based on his speed (although i think he will go out rightly for Edwards), although watching the Port vs Brissy game last week i was amazed at how slow and lack of run Port were, seems they had cement boots on... Funny game football so who knows who turns up this week..
Cornes 300th and last game should invoke passion and effort from Port, theres some people that have a belief that ports legs are cooked after 3 preseasons of pushing their bodies, perhaps a few weeks to refresh, who knows..
This is a winnable game providing we don't get the Port from the EF as that Port was almost unbeatable!
Cornes 300th and last game should invoke passion and effort from Port, theres some people that have a belief that ports legs are cooked after 3 preseasons of pushing their bodies, perhaps a few weeks to refresh, who knows..
This is a winnable game providing we don't get the Port from the EF as that Port was almost unbeatable!
It seems pretty obvious now that when port had their run of loses at the end of last year ( one of them being to us) they where loading up their training for the finals, and did a bloody good job of it.Tigertough1974 said:
Not sure why they would be loading now but perhaps its still just from extra work in the preseason. At some stage those cement boots are going to turn into rocket boots and the dangerous port will return, hopefully not this week.
We've got the EF loss, but they've got more motivation. Cornes' 300th and his retirement, they've just lost to a bottom team, it's at home, real backs to the wall stuff.Tigers of Old said:
Certainly a risk and i guess it would be very hard to predict how the players would respond to it early days in their fitness program. Definately losing games was not in the plan but having them play a little over cooked so they could benefit later seemed to be IMO. It has been mentioned that their program has been stepped up every year and its seems they are setting fitness goals over a much longer period that year to year. We didn't have the option of loading our players up because we couldn't afford to be off even 1% because the finals dream would have been over. We were spent on EF day, they were running on top of the ground.Baloo said:
Mappa said:
Mappa his winning % to date is 56% and he is only in his 3rd season Hardwick's winning % at that stage was 37% His finals winning % is 60% to Hardwick's 0%.
Your loyalty to Hardwick is admirable but lets start crowing when we beat them on the weekend.
Hunt them like wild animals, give them no time or space, sit a few guys on their backside, let them know we are here to compete.
It wasn't their loading. It was the fact that they had Carlisle and Trengove out and were leaking goals and their run from the back was stifled.Baloo said:
This time they are missing Polec and Carlisle has been out too. Certainly Polec is a huge loss to them.
Our first quarters have been poor. Very poor.tigerdave said:
If we are to have any chance we need to start well, stifle their confidence and keep the crowd quiet.
