Stkilda vs Port Adelaide - Match Thread

ralphsmith · Post: # 911709Post **ralphsmith** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:50pm

To say this game has been a disgrace would be an understatement

ACTSAINTER · Post: # 911710Post **ACTSAINTER** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:51pm

Schnieder goal!!!

bigcarl · Post: # 911711Post **bigcarl** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:51pm

where is the forward line?

SaintSimmo · Post: # 911713Post **SaintSimmo** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:53pm

bigcarl wrote:where is the forward line?

They are in the forward 50

ACTSAINTER · Post: # 911714Post **ACTSAINTER** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:53pm

2 misses by Ebert now that could have put Port in front, not a great night for kicking for either side

ralphsmith · Post: # 911715Post **ralphsmith** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:55pm

Schneider! Massive goal!! 65m! Rolling.

ACTSAINTER · Post: # 911716Post **ACTSAINTER** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:55pm

Half time
Saints 4-4
Port 2-7

Legendary · Post: # 911719Post **Legendary** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:56pm

Port should be 5 in front, if it wasn't for Schneider we'd hardly have registered a score.

Dal Santo, Hayes, Goddard and Kosi amongst our worst 6-7 on the ground, need to lift.

Hurricane · Post: # 911720Post **Hurricane** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:56pm

Absolute worst ive seen us play for a long while. Cant hit a target, cant hold onto the ball, cant take a mark. Port are getting an armchair ride but still we really need to pull our finger out if we want to win this one

BANG BANG

BallBanger · Post: # 911721Post **BallBanger** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:56pm

we have a few average players out there.

ACTSAINTER · Post: # 911722Post **ACTSAINTER** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 9:58pm

Will need a fair amount of "reprogrammimg" at half time to lift the SAints intensity, being dragged down to Ports standard

Sam23 · Post: # 911723Post **Sam23** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:00pm

this is f***ed up.

our foot skills are disgraceful

And our best kick, Goddard...has had 8 handballs.

Grimfang · Post: # 911724Post **Grimfang** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:01pm

Worst football we have played in the last few years, exemplified by the final minute of that quarter where not one handball or kick came close to hitting the target.

Also, the high-tackle rule applies only to one side apparently. Hell, doesn't even have to be high if it's in front of their goals....

Moorabbin Saints · Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:01pm

Well well well.

Not a good half. Probably our worst for the year.

Skills. Terrible. Missing by hand and foot. Efficiency would be very low.

Defense is non existence. Whats happened to our zone? Port running freely.

Last of all, our key feature - PRESSURE. Where is it? Rodan sidestepping every player with ease. Not a feature of Saints footy.

Kosis going to get himself rubbed out again very soon. Throwing his body around very dangerously.

Overall, give them hell Lyon. This is not the 2009 Saints. This is the usual AAMI Stadium Saints. Must must must lift.

Bowey Boy · Post: # 911726Post **Bowey Boy** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:04pm

Lucky for Dean Bogan that the taking the ball out of the air in a ruck contest and then being tackled rule (whilst still holding the ball) does not apply to him !!

Dr Spaceman · Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:04pm

Thank God the standard of play has risen from abysmal to pathetic!

ralphsmith · Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:04pm

Riscutto says the flood game should be outlawed.

How bad is it?

Eastern · Post: # 911729Post **Eastern** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:05pm

Dr Spaceman wrote:Thank God the standard of play has risen from abysmal to pathetic!

You're too generous.........it's ABYSMAL !!

meher baba · Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:05pm

Gee, I think you guys are being hard on our team. It's a difficult game: the umpys aren't calling a lot of in the backs (for either side: but the Port players are laying a lot more of them than us), the ground is slippery, etc.

The free kick which Rodan converted was a bad joke: a classic case of umps playing what they thought they saw rather than what they did see.

If I were Lyon, I'd double team Rodan: take him out of Port, and we'd be 6 goals up, I reckon.

meher baba · Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:10pm

Bowey Boy wrote:Lucky for Dean Bogan that the taking the ball out of the air in a ruck contest and then being tackled rule (whilst still holding the ball) does not apply to him !!

Yep, he got away with it not once, but twice!

But I reckon the umpiring has been even-handedly appalling tonight.

starsign · Post: # 911732Post **starsign** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:10pm

I don't think we can't afford both Raff and Zac in our back half at the same time ! And I'm not looking for whipping boys but jeez they are not on the same page as the rest for mine!
There's a few others down on their game also , but those two blokes are still big liabilities I recon
Maybe mismatch with Zac on the garden gnome Ebert but still he's pretty ordinary!
And that shocking decision ...too high tackle when it was around the arms that got them back into it was a disgrace

A few of the big names will have to lift yo get us up
I know there's another half to go and should/could wear them down but we are definitely off our Wheaties tonight and missing the Roo magic badly tonight!

Dr Spaceman · Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:11pm

meher baba wrote:Gee, I think you guys are being hard on our team. It's a difficult game: the umpys aren't calling a lot of in the backs (for either side: but the Port players are laying a lot more of them than us), the ground is slippery, etc.

Fair call mb, but very frustrating to watch nonetheless.

GSG · Post: # 911734Post **GSG** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:12pm

Pretty lousy skills, but the Roden free kick was a joke - a typical umpy manipulating the game - Port hasn't kicked a goal up to them. Let's give them a free kick to get them into the game and make it more interesting.
I'm sick of this!!

fingers · Post: # 911735Post **fingers** » Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:12pm

This game is terrible. I have stopped taping it. Win or lose there is no way I will watch the replay.

saintsRrising · Sat 24 Apr 2010 10:14pm

Interesting that Goddard has 8 handballs, but 0 kicks at Half Time.