Round 19

[AuckMel]

Hawks v Cats
Dogs v Roos
GWS v Port
Freo v Eagles
Lions v Tigers
Pies v Saints
Demons v Suns
Blues v Swans
Crows v Bombers

Hawks by 28
Roos by 22
GWS by 2
Freo by 6
Pies by 18
Lions by 12
Demons by 10
Swans by 4
Crows by 38

 

[CyberKev]

Agree with all that Ian, except I think the Tigers can take the Lions.

 

[AuckMel]

Crazy game. Hawks getting thrashed, show their true colours then Hawkins with a ripper on the siren.

Great result for the Pies.

 

[CyberKev]

They had to be better than that early. Coming off such a series of big wins doesn't help things, but they would have expected a full-on start from Geelong and needed be stronger early.

As ever Geelong's older players were able to drag them over the line.

I thought Geelong were excellent early and Hawkins clincher was a massive kick after the siren.

Hawthorn's last three quarters were very, very good and they really should have drawn greater reward from it, but I expect the side to hit hard from here til season's end, and would be surprised if they show up for any first quarters anything other than on top of their game.

We do like to make life unnecessarily hard for ourselves...

 

[Twizzle]

the hoodoo continues, I almost feel sorry for the Hawks..........................almost

gee Tommyhawk has come along nicely in the last 12 months

 

[AuckMel]

Very good set of results for us. Go Bombers!!

 

[Twizzle]

there is no such thing as a form guide atm

 

[Band On The Run]

Lol@Port

 

[CyberKev]

And Primus pays the inevitable price...

Good luck to his successor, in what looms as the toughest gig going around.

 

[Twizzle]

the whole club seems to be struggling

makes you wonder if they will be around for much longer

 

[CyberKev]

^^^

I've said before that it was a stupid and short-sighted decision to bring the club in to begin with.

Within Adelaide itself Port represents a polarising and divisive organisation and its a practical impossibility to sell the club to the level required (outside of Adelaide) to make it a long-term viable commodity in a national competition.

The writing was writ large on the wailing wall when the club was struggling to draw reasonable crowds to home finals a few years back.

 

[CyberKev]

Meanwhile, its bad news for the Pups, as things go awry with young Tommy Liberatore...

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/143701/default.aspx

 

[Twizzle]

the whole club seems to be struggling

makes you wonder if they will be around for much longer

and now the president's gone

 

[James-Stewart]

^^^

I've said before that it was a stupid and short-sighted decision to bring the club in to begin with.

Within Adelaide itself Port represents a polarising and divisive organisation and its a practical impossibility to sell the club to the level required (outside of Adelaide) to make it a long-term viable commodity in a national competition.

The writing was writ large on the wailing wall when the club was struggling to draw reasonable crowds to home finals a few years back.

37,000 members after their worst ever year. Got 45,000 to their last home final. There are plenty of smaller Melbourne clubs that should go before Port.

 

[CyberKev]

37,000 members after their worst ever year. Got 45,000 to their last home final. There are plenty of smaller Melbourne clubs that should go before Port.

The smaller Melbourne clubs are irrelevant to discussion on the sensibilities of bringing Port Adelaide into the competition to begin with.

Port, operating in one of the code's heartlands, should be comfortably ahead of the smaller Melbourne clubs operating in a saturated market, rather than barely keeping pace.

Short-term thinking by the AFL that was always going to result in long-term problems.