Game Thread vs Port Adelaide

[Teflon]

Apparently our ball use been terrible... This is the issue along with contested

[SaintSimmo]

Riewoldt hasn't started well, turned the ball over a few times by foot, milne unsighted so far.

[Teflon]

Milne interstate....??

[PakenhamSaint]

Foward delivery to Roo still sounds poor.

[Austinnn]

how are the young players doing?

[Stillwaiting]

Look on the bright side, at least we have 21 matches and 3 quaters of footy to improve

[SaintSimmo]

Port kicking with "a 2-3 goal wind"
And like usual Kane Cornes is tearing us apart.

[Teflon]

Out on full by Fisher...when will it end?

We HAVE to get our better ball users delivering the ball into forward 50

[bigcarl]

We've got nothing from the umpire so far

[Austinnn]

I can only see stats but they suggest we're less direct and ineffective in clearances, but we have at least stemmed the flow of PA goals

[Old Mate]

Why kick to Jones in the forward line?

[Teflon]

Is Riewoldt playing...

[bigcarl]

Must be a howling gale. Two players unwilling to have a shot from within 50, putting it into the safe hands of CJ FFS

[PakenhamSaint]

QUARTER TIME:

PORT: 5.2 (32)
ST K: 2.1 (13)

[noob]

cos armitage can't kick more than 50m lol like most of our players

[3rd generation saint]

Nothing much has changed, we can't kick goals, we can't lay tackles, and we are applying no pressure at all.
Roo has had 4 possessions and has mucked everyone up.

[Sick Nal Danto]

We are getting absolutely smashed at the clearances, it is hard to watch

Kicking in defence needs to imrpove

Hopefully the mids start to get rolling in the 2nd term

[SaintSimmo]

Everything going Port's way, crowd really getting behind them.
Our players look frustrated and are not taking the game on.
We will lose this game the way we are playing

[Buckets]

Seemingly stemmed the bleed a bit towards the second half of that quarter but our skills under pressure is poor. Kosi seems to be the only danger up forward. Roo and Milne missing.

[jonesy]

Too one paced. Foot skills an abomination. Second to the ball.

Port more desperate,and moving the ball on quicker.

Positives- Kosi looks the best he has in years

Someone asked how are the kids playing....what kids?

[saintDal]

One positive..... For the limited times weve gone fwd... We have scored.... It's the middle we need work

Yeah with both sides forwards stronger than both teams defenses winning it out of the middle is pretty vital.

We will have the breeze in the second quarter so hopefully we can take advantage of it. The last 2 times we went forward we were unlucky to get goals. Need to make the most out of our opportunities.

[Old Mate]

Jack Steven worked hard. Easily our best. Gilbert also good down back.

[AnythingsPossibleSaints]

Port far more desperate and going in much harder. We're constantly second to the ball. Kicking regularly very average again. Thank goodness for Kosi!

[3rd generation saint]

We also look slow, and both Stanley and Big Mac took good marks on the wing, then stood like statues, no urgency to move the ball on.

[Teflon]

We've got nothing from the umpire so far

We are second to the ball why should we?
We constantly turn it over and have our best kicks like Goddard etc kicking out from full back....looks great on stats sheet..... totally ineffective.

You always know interstate the umps are horrid which is why you have to be first to the footy FFS