Speaker 1: Let's go to Highbury first game.
Speaker 2: Michael, Yeah, guys are I have to say, first of all,
Speaker 2: is probably one of the.
Speaker 3: Worst games I've ever had to watch on TV. Secondly,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to go down to Ken Hinckley Josh
Speaker 3: because I think Josh cars coaching and Ken you do
Speaker 3: what he has to do. But this team right now
Speaker 3: in a bar injuries. I said that less than after
Speaker 3: the Crows, when we've only got the Crows to beat Nobody.
Speaker 3: Every Hey's saying thatsen are bottom sorce side. That makes
Speaker 3: us a bottom four side. The sad part is they've
Speaker 3: got a game plan of handballing out from from the
Speaker 3: defense through. This team has not got the skill to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: You're Western Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: You've got Hawthorne and they do it. But they know
Speaker 3: how to do it because they've got players that are skillful.
Speaker 2: Ugh to it.
Speaker 3: Our team for years of Obblist radio stations for years,
Speaker 3: there is no elite legs and now can's change the
Speaker 3: game plan. If you want to handble out of defense,
Speaker 3: one too many handlers they turn the ball over Like
Speaker 3: my god. Well, this team right now, in this club
Speaker 3: is an absolute rebble. You've got to bottom out well,
Speaker 3: guess what they are going to bottom out this year
Speaker 3: because there's going to be some horrific defeats. This team
Speaker 3: will finish in the between eighteen and sixteen and no higher.
Speaker 3: Beget about your injuries. There's no endeavor. There's nothing there.
Speaker 3: And I put this down and I've said it two
Speaker 3: years ago when David Koch said we won't make your
Speaker 3: decision on ken Heaton until August, he should have kept
Speaker 3: his mouth shut, made the decision where we got knocked
Speaker 3: down Straights this and we wouldn't be in this predicament
Speaker 3: right now. I've had a gust for this club. They
Speaker 3: are doing me no favors and I've been supporting this
Speaker 3: club from the age of twelve years of age. I've
Speaker 3: had a gustbel they are going nowhere because they have
Speaker 3: got weak leadership and it starts from Kosche down.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael, Let's head up to Queensland.
Speaker 5: Hi, Trevor Good you can't agree with what the guy
Speaker 5: just said. Then the thing annoyed meant it was a
Speaker 5: fascical game. The realities are it didn't surprise what it's
Speaker 5: getting beaten. I'm disappointing we got beaten, but you know
Speaker 5: what it didn't surprise me at all. I just can't
Speaker 5: understand how our club can be so farcical in the
Speaker 5: way we've a way we've gone over the last several years,
Speaker 5: I can't understand. I've thought about it quite a bit
Speaker 5: and I thought, well, name one other organization in the world,
Speaker 5: but let's a bloke have a season to say goodbye,
Speaker 5: not one game, but a season ends under no pressure
Speaker 5: at all this year apart from pride, and to be honest,
Speaker 5: I don't think you've got a lot because if you had,
Speaker 5: you would have he would have walked. But sadly, our
Speaker 5: club is going to go nowhere this year, and this
Speaker 5: year is going to be a total way of the year,
Speaker 5: and at the end of the year we're going to
Speaker 5: see several players go, you know what, I'm out of here.
Speaker 5: And it disappoints me because it shouldn't be this way.
Speaker 5: It's it's just disappointing. The lack of the ever tonight,
Speaker 5: and the other thing I thought I was the lack
Speaker 5: of fitness. Who is our fitness coach? Seriously, our blokes
Speaker 5: look flat ladders packed fair enough, they had one game
Speaker 5: one day less to recover than the Bombers.
Speaker 1: For probably hours.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you go, really they look terrible, and the
Speaker 5: amount of handballs and kicking that just never got anywhere
Speaker 5: near not a meter awake, but two and three meters
Speaker 5: a time. Some players, you go, that's a joke, but
Speaker 5: really these boys getting paid elite money to be amateurs.
Speaker 1: Thanks Trevor.
Speaker 6: You guys always talk about effor it's the first thing
Speaker 6: you pack, and you sort of spoke to that a
Speaker 6: little bit at times.
Speaker 1: The intent of the game today from the power.
Speaker 7: I'm not certainly not giving it out is a hot,
Speaker 7: humid or humid night tonight. But both teams had that,
Speaker 7: that's right. Both teams had really poor skills. Both teams
Speaker 7: missed multiple opportunities. But I think it comes down.
Speaker 1: To the end.
Speaker 7: Well, if you look at Esson and you're a fan,
Speaker 7: you kick nine to eighteen, and they go, we if
Speaker 7: we kickstraight, the game would have been over earlier. Their
Speaker 7: argument could be, But you know, you certainly can't disagree
Speaker 7: with some of the sentiment of the callers.
Speaker 1: I get that. I hear that.
Speaker 7: The frustrating bit in the worry I had come in
Speaker 7: to the game was got to bring the effort against
Speaker 7: a team who's had their backs against the wall all
Speaker 7: week after a really poor performance.
Speaker 1: Didn't put them away early. They're a proud club. They
Speaker 1: busted it.
Speaker 7: At times Port looked like they were a level above
Speaker 7: if you look at Georgia Yardisford to center. But then
Speaker 7: those opportunities out and really they just outworked us at
Speaker 7: the end in terms of fitness, same fitness set up
Speaker 7: has been for the last four or five years. So
Speaker 7: is it mental? Is it willing to hang in there
Speaker 7: long enough? All those things need to be discussed and
Speaker 7: get to the bottom of it all. But the reality
Speaker 7: is you go in the last quarter when you're almost
Speaker 7: conceding double disposals, contested, uncontested shots on go inside fifties,
Speaker 7: You're not going to win a game of footy. And
Speaker 7: that was the worry at three quarter time. You've got
Speaker 7: to finish yourself and work through it. We thought the
Speaker 7: cream would rise to the top. Will Lessenons certainly did.
Speaker 7: Eight double two to three double O double O. You
Speaker 7: can join us the conversation if you want to have.
Speaker 7: You say, put Adelaide fans on a tough night, Bombers
Speaker 7: by twelve. Sam's at Marion.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Timmy, my man, I'm just gathered. I'm sick and
Speaker 8: you can blame ten for one thing.
Speaker 5: Tonight only I'm talking about.
Speaker 8: If you're gonna debut a player, do not leave him
Speaker 8: as a sub for three quarters.
Speaker 2: Please, I'm big on the sub to them.
Speaker 8: That's embarrassing. And he can't do a finger. Poor fella.
Speaker 8: He's been sitting down for three and a half barter
Speaker 8: three quarters on the bench players. I'm going to name him.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: Both still lets us down at crucial times, not once,
Speaker 8: not twice, not one year, not two year. In crucial times.
Speaker 8: They don't want to work. They're flat rosy, just ring
Speaker 8: your ring, your ring, your ring, horn Francis dropping marks
Speaker 8: even three kicks away. If you're gonna recruit someone, I
Speaker 8: don't care if he's fifteen, if he's twenty five, if
Speaker 8: he can't kick a set shot from inside twenty five meters,
Speaker 8: three rounds in a row. When you're going to pull
Speaker 8: him off and let him know why you pull him off, Timmy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a good night, Sam, not a good night,
Speaker 2: thank you. Let's got to know what hijiant skills report
Speaker 2: that hi Warran.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty disappointed with this. There's one thing I like,
Speaker 4: there's a young more right, yep, flyer. Yeah, he can
Speaker 4: hold his head off. I think over twenty five twenty
Speaker 4: five touches, I think, but here's a scenior players. I'll
Speaker 4: tell you what, don't want to have a good look
Speaker 4: at himself. They let the club down really bad, and
Speaker 4: not this scene you play. I think Wanes could hold
Speaker 4: his head high. But the other and they clue to captain.
Speaker 4: They went listening when the game was in the balance.
Speaker 4: That's all you're going to say. But the young fellow,
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be a huge player for
Speaker 4: the club.
Speaker 1: Young Morales, what do you think?
Speaker 9: Line?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can't disagree with what you're saying. I did
Speaker 7: say it had had you know, Connor had been quiet
Speaker 7: and he had a wonderful start at the season. Jason
Speaker 7: had been quiet. Then he kicks a beautiful goal. But
Speaker 7: it's few and far between, you know. I thought, you know,
Speaker 7: the key senior players, where they did they win their positions?
Speaker 1: I thought it.
Speaker 7: Merit and goys, brain's going really well. Now I'm struggling here.
Speaker 7: I thought des will work through it. I thought Shield
Speaker 7: was big, Caldwell had a couple of big moments. You're
Speaker 7: looking for midfielders who dominated for port Ollie Wants probably
Speaker 7: had the most five clearances. Morales was good twenty seven.
Speaker 7: Bergen I thought it was great. Bergman was great. Connor
Speaker 7: has twenty two, but it wasn't to the level or
Speaker 7: Horn France. It's both at twenty two, but you wouldn't
Speaker 7: say they had a real effect on the game. There
Speaker 7: were moments they had, Yeah, that a quarter a half.
Speaker 7: But if you look, you made fourteen midfielder pow Pepper fourteen,
Speaker 7: Drew fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just not getting.
Speaker 7: Enough footy out of those guys, and particularly full to center,
Speaker 7: when the majority of your guys defenders getting the footy
Speaker 7: that tells you where you're positioning is so I thought
Speaker 7: credit to Essen and as I said in the call,
Speaker 7: that we needed a big last quarter and particularly your
Speaker 7: senior players had to stand up, and I thought essenence
Speaker 7: players did that instead of our Sadly, it's.
Speaker 1: At the glen Elk South Hi Brant.
Speaker 10: Yeah, how are you going? Hey, Brian, look really really disappointing,
Speaker 10: really disappointed. I just I just don't get what he's
Speaker 10: going on with the senior players. Connor Rosy, he's our captain.
Speaker 10: There were a number of efforts tonight which is not
Speaker 10: Port Adelaide. Mate. You've got to tackle people, you've got
Speaker 10: to pressure people, going to put your body on the line.
Speaker 10: I love Travis Folks. I respect what he's done for
Speaker 10: the club, but I've got this horrible feeling he's getting
Speaker 10: played to get to four hundred because he was woeful tonight.
Speaker 10: He turns the ball over late in the second quarter.
Speaker 10: There was a contest in the middle of the ground.
Speaker 10: All he needed to do was get position the ball
Speaker 10: or topoke it forward, but he stopped, went down and
Speaker 10: luckily Radigalia and defended Ko and it was the point
Speaker 10: right enough enough, he's too slow, he turns the ball.
Speaker 10: What about running into the forward line all on his own?
Speaker 10: George yass kick it over the top to him.
Speaker 5: But what did he do?
Speaker 10: Kicks it straight to well enough enough. I respect the guy.
Speaker 10: He's been a terrific servant for the footy club, but
Speaker 10: the game has passed him by.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: I think in answering that, Brian, and you know he
Speaker 7: entitled your opinion on that, I think the whole plan
Speaker 7: for both was that there were no promises this year.
Speaker 7: But I think what's happened, not just from both, from
Speaker 7: other players. We're seeing right now. And I never used
Speaker 7: injury as an excuse. But if you look at the
Speaker 7: likes of Butters, Burton, Marshall not you know, Zerk Thatcher Lacocious,
Speaker 7: they're probably five who you go there straight in the
Speaker 7: team great?
Speaker 1: Is that fair.
Speaker 7: That the first toy Thwart's best twenty two eighteen. Then
Speaker 7: you've got Jones and a bit of Lord or Finlayson
Speaker 7: who's out of the team on form. So that's five
Speaker 7: players if you rever. But everyone has injuries, right So
Speaker 7: I'm not trying to make this excuse, but the reality
Speaker 7: is players like Boka was going to be a bit
Speaker 7: part player going forward because agent playing a role and
Speaker 7: no guarantees could play half samdful, half whatever now on
Speaker 7: a stage where a lot of guys are getting that.
Speaker 7: But that then puts more pressure on your current players
Speaker 7: to deliver their best footing. And if you sit back
Speaker 7: and go who's playing career best form this year? I
Speaker 7: think Rosies had a really good start today. He was
Speaker 7: down that level. Jason hasn't been to the level he
Speaker 7: was last year. I think Sins improved, Bergolin's improved, Farrell
Speaker 7: around the Mark, pow Pepper slow to come back off
Speaker 7: that knee. At the moment, Barry is a kid. Soldo
Speaker 7: Bergman I think has been great. Reality's sort of here
Speaker 7: and there. Georgi Ardis is as good as last year. No,
Speaker 7: but he's been their main forward. I think right now
Speaker 7: you're dealing with a little bit of player availability, bit
Speaker 7: of confidence, and the competition's probably got a little bit
Speaker 7: more competitive and on the on and probably exposed Port
Speaker 7: right now with the injuries they've got. And that's no
Speaker 7: excuse because at three quarter time this game was there
Speaker 7: to be one, absolutely and it's and it's judged on
Speaker 7: effort and endeavor. Away from home, that game was there
Speaker 7: to be one. You kick the first goal. If you've
Speaker 7: got the next one, I reckon the sales go. The
Speaker 7: win comes out of the sales at essenon. But to
Speaker 7: Essen's credit, they kicked the last four and dominate the
Speaker 7: game double disposed. There was double clearances inside fifties, kicked
Speaker 7: four forward to one four.
Speaker 1: It's the game.
Speaker 6: Timmy talked about, you need to be clean when the
Speaker 6: game needs to be one. I think Port Adelai just
Speaker 6: won't clean, not just excellent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Port weren't clean all game apart from Essen's
Speaker 7: last quarter. The super Queen.
Speaker 1: That's exactly where it was to be one they were
Speaker 1: cleaner and that was so. But I hear what the
Speaker 1: Port fans are saying.
Speaker 7: Right now, Yeah were you one and two and was
Speaker 7: supposed to be a soft start with a really tough
Speaker 7: period going. The questions are being asked and for as
Speaker 7: a club, in the playing group and the coaching group
Speaker 7: and everyone involved in the footy club, you need to
Speaker 7: bunk it down and get some results because the fans
Speaker 7: demand them.
Speaker 6: Home games against and Kilda next week and then Hawthorne
Speaker 6: and gather around to come for Port Adelaide after the
Speaker 6: one and two start.
Speaker 1: Let's head to no longer? Hi, Andrew?
Speaker 9: Oh Hi?
Speaker 11: My comment is how can a team go from playing
Speaker 11: Prelium finals last year to where they are today? I understand,
Speaker 11: Butter's is out, You've got the statues out and we
Speaker 11: lost Houston. But yeah, what what was the catalyst for this?
Speaker 1: Over the What do you think it was? Andrew? What's
Speaker 1: your gut?
Speaker 12: Look?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm speechless. I think I get
Speaker 11: the sense that maybe the players has checked out already surely,
Speaker 11: and then yeah, I think we need some sort of
Speaker 11: change sooner than later.
Speaker 6: Is it fair treaders to potentially ask, thank you Andrew,
Speaker 6: that the Dan Houston loss in the off season was
Speaker 6: a huge catalyst in the game plan Stone.
Speaker 1: I know you don't like talking about game plan, but.
Speaker 6: That that style of kickoff half back and execute really
Speaker 6: well off half back via kicking, and he was a
Speaker 6: huge part of that. His loss made them think about
Speaker 6: how they differently distribute the ball from half back from
Speaker 6: now and we've seen a much more handballly focused game
Speaker 6: from there, and we've seen a lot of turnover from that,
Speaker 6: and it's caused some issues. It's put them under pressure,
Speaker 6: it's made them make rushed, hard, trickier decisions that they
Speaker 6: maybe can't pull off.
Speaker 7: Is that to ask such a big component the first bit,
Speaker 7: you're not going to replace Dan Houston. No, but the
Speaker 7: club made a decision they wanted to get into the
Speaker 7: draft the kid they really like by I think, yeah,
Speaker 7: apart from missing a couple of shots, I think he's
Speaker 7: he's going to be a very good player. So I
Speaker 7: get it and I hear it. But you've got to
Speaker 7: make this decision with Tazzy coming in, where your list
Speaker 7: is at, you know, with transition, with coaching. Okay, do
Speaker 7: we need to get into this draft. They're talking about
Speaker 7: year go and we had to be in it, right.
Speaker 7: So I've only been inside the walls for twelve months
Speaker 7: to see how that works. But the club made the
Speaker 7: decision we need to do this, and Dan was wanting
Speaker 7: to go. Dan was out, He had a four year contract.
Speaker 7: You could have held.
Speaker 1: You would have had an unhappy player.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but whether that's the right decision or not, people
Speaker 7: will be judged on that, right, and you've got to
Speaker 7: back your footy program to make those decisions. Like as
Speaker 7: a board, you sit there and go, well, what do
Speaker 7: you think is the best thing for the club. We
Speaker 7: want to get into this draft. You've got this player
Speaker 7: who is a buddy gun player but wanted to go
Speaker 7: for life after footy stuff. So you've got to make
Speaker 7: this decision. And some will say no, it should have
Speaker 7: kept him. Should have and I hear that. Other piers
Speaker 7: say you've got to move forward and you don't keep
Speaker 7: it unhappy.
Speaker 1: I hear that.
Speaker 7: So the club made a call, right, which is never
Speaker 7: easy because you're not going to replace him. See he
Speaker 7: wasn't And this is the chat that Andrew just said.
Speaker 7: He didn't play in the prelim last year, but he's
Speaker 7: an Australian. He didn't play the finals, so you've just
Speaker 7: got to make a tough decision as to what you
Speaker 7: think is the best system. You're not going to replace him,
Speaker 7: but I think forward a center. Our setup is actually
Speaker 7: better with albeit Lakosius who's now injured. Yep, right, You've
Speaker 7: got Berry, You've got Richards who are two half forwards
Speaker 7: get up and down the ground compared to what we
Speaker 7: had last year the people was out injured.
Speaker 6: This is before you get to cinta. This is the
Speaker 6: half back line. This is how you distribute it out
Speaker 6: of the fence.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 7: But you've got Burton who's injured tonight. Burton can use
Speaker 7: it well, yep right, Lucky Jones, Yes, he's learning his way.
Speaker 7: He's been sort of bit up and down. You've got
Speaker 7: Farrell who can kick it really well, so you're probably thinking,
Speaker 7: then you've got some other kids. You go, I think
Speaker 7: we can cover the half back if our midfield we
Speaker 7: think is going to keep going better well, and midfield
Speaker 7: hasn't dominated probably like the competition would expect just yet.
Speaker 7: Now we've got touch up against Colling We've got to
Speaker 7: touch up in the last quarter tonight and dominated Richmond.
Speaker 7: So it's still an early pitcher. But I hear that.
Speaker 7: I hear it all, and it's not straight science. You're
Speaker 7: always going to have a lag off half back when
Speaker 7: you lose. I think the best half back in the
Speaker 7: game are up there with I just think it's quite
Speaker 7: sick and you've made it tough. Yeah it is, and
Speaker 7: I'm not denying that, but I think fundamentally your half
Speaker 7: facts aren't exposed if your midfield's dominating and we haven't
Speaker 7: got our midfield going. That's true and I think that's
Speaker 7: the bit we've got to get right as a club still,
Speaker 7: to get our midfield dominated. Because you think Butter's comes
Speaker 7: back in right. Rosie's a superstar All Australian player, but
Speaker 7: not know he's had two really two games in a
Speaker 7: quiet game you've had nothing from But as he hasn't played,
Speaker 7: Horn Francis Is probably hasn't been to the level expected
Speaker 7: last year. Willem drew Olli's probably playing that role Travis.
Speaker 7: We probably weren't ex club's probably not expecting and he's
Speaker 7: probably not expecting to play every week. You're playing the
Speaker 7: kids like it's a it's it's a it's a challenge.
Speaker 7: Let's get to Mount Barker High, Luke.
Speaker 13: I agree, it's what you're saying. Warren esident had a
Speaker 13: lot of injuries too, so true.
Speaker 14: I don't, I don't. I don't subscribe to that excuse.
Speaker 7: No, no, hang on, I want to say this right, Luke.
Speaker 7: I'm not making excuse. I talked about what the parameters
Speaker 7: are and I have constantly said tonight injuries aren't an
Speaker 7: excuse for a reality. And I'm judging it on the
Speaker 7: last quarter's performance endeavor. So I want that to be clear.
Speaker 14: So okay, well, Badge, you clean that up. But today
Speaker 14: I liked a few things. I like Marius. I liked
Speaker 14: that I watched Burgoyne done. I think you know he's
Speaker 14: developing well. I'm impressed with Minch, George yardists in his
Speaker 14: first half, and I was happy with radically here on
Speaker 14: his first game. I thought that was I thought that
Speaker 14: was bravery and he wasn't bad, he wasn't great. But
Speaker 14: I'm just just.
Speaker 6: Look, might have lost your leader, Luke. Sorry about that.
Speaker 6: You were getting through the things you were positive about.
Speaker 6: Just in regards to georgi ARD's Timmy, were you happy
Speaker 6: with the way he went about it, and Christian Marius
Speaker 6: I agree. I think he showed some good glimpses tonight too.
Speaker 2: Georgiadis was the only sort of thing up for that
Speaker 2: looked dangerous in saying that his too too in the
Speaker 2: first term. In the first term, that was it. So
Speaker 2: that either means that he wasn't presenting enough or they
Speaker 2: weren't hitting him or whatever it was happening.
Speaker 1: It didn't happen second quartery miss too.
Speaker 2: It must have been out in the full months. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he missed him, Yes, you're right, he didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't score.
Speaker 2: Score, so yeah, he he looked dangerous early, but that
Speaker 2: was about it. So again the whole it was a
Speaker 2: worry of the game. And you knew the bombers were
Speaker 2: you know, that'd been attacked all week in their home town,
Speaker 2: so they had to lift. And I thought that the
Speaker 2: standard was appalling from both sides as a spectacle. It
Speaker 2: was horrendous and the mistakes made were horrible, and in
Speaker 2: the end it was just one team wanted it more
Speaker 2: than the others and overran them in the last term.
Speaker 1: So happened after the game.
Speaker 6: Leaky roof, total roof frustration, do it right with right
Speaker 6: price roofing eight double two to three double O double A.
Speaker 6: You can have your say, Port fans, let's go to
Speaker 6: Port Adelaide itself.
Speaker 12: Toby, Yeah, yeah, guys, you can. Everyone's going to pull
Speaker 12: this game apart. But I kind of feel like if
Speaker 12: we were a Formula one race car right now and treaders,
Speaker 12: I think you've had to defend a lot, so I'd
Speaker 12: like you to maybe just to step back, and I'd
Speaker 12: like to let the passion of Timmy g sort of
Speaker 12: filter in here. I feel like, if we were a
Speaker 12: Formula one car, we've got two people trying to drive
Speaker 12: the one car. All of a sudden, we've got ten leaving.
Speaker 12: We're going to have a transition. We've had players left,
Speaker 12: and now we're doing a new game plan with the
Speaker 12: transitional period. And I feel like that's the first thing
Speaker 12: I get while they're trying to do it, because we
Speaker 12: haven't been able to make it work. However, it's so different.
Speaker 12: The players all look a little bit lost, and if
Speaker 12: you were to think about who's actually pulling the levers,
Speaker 12: there's a little bit of the old school players that
Speaker 12: are probably thinking, let's listen to what Kenniston. Then there's
Speaker 12: the younger guys going, I want to be impression of
Speaker 12: all to Josh car there's people in probably further up
Speaker 12: the club that we don't see on game day that
Speaker 12: are trying to work out where they are. So we're
Speaker 12: quite a fractured a vehicle right now, sort of hurtling
Speaker 12: down the road and derby days when we hit the
Speaker 12: corner right and we're going to succeed. But for the
Speaker 12: most part, I feel like we're right back in the
Speaker 12: battle right now. And as a port fan, we've lived
Speaker 12: through ache, but I kind of wish that we had
Speaker 12: not even made the great heights we have, you know,
Speaker 12: because we've missed our opportunity perhaps and you don't want
Speaker 12: to write off it might be round three, but let's
Speaker 12: be honest. I hate to see us coming up against
Speaker 12: the sides that are probably going to be at the
Speaker 12: pointy end, because they might put us to the sword
Speaker 12: and it could just get worse. And because someone really
Speaker 12: above the people that are making the decisions actually go
Speaker 12: and knock on the door and say, hey, enough enough,
Speaker 12: let's pull the rip cord now. If we're going to
Speaker 12: go through heartache, let's give it to someone else, and
Speaker 12: everyone's going to keep saying this every week. Make no
Speaker 12: bones about it. This is going to be rinsed for
Speaker 12: a peat Boys, whether we win or lose. That's how
Speaker 12: I feel. I'm sorry, that's sort of yeah.
Speaker 2: I need to apologize, Toby. I think you're brought on
Speaker 2: a couple of points. It's probably a big ask two ways.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Firstly, when the succession plan was announced my first comments
Speaker 2: where I think it's a it's a heavy candle to
Speaker 2: carry for so long, so that will get repeated, as
Speaker 2: you've just said.
Speaker 1: Tonight, Toby. And then to introduce.
Speaker 2: A vastly different game plan I think has been all
Speaker 2: we can see that it is. We're living through a
Speaker 2: work in progress, and living through a work in progress
Speaker 2: in season without your best twenty three. Well, we're seeing
Speaker 2: the results of that so far. So we'll keep We'll
Speaker 2: keep persisting. Let's see what happens with this, Timmy.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I can subscribe just quickly, as
Speaker 6: before we get to a cause to the to the
Speaker 6: notion that the players are confused as to who's running
Speaker 6: the FOOTBALLA when Kensy coach.
Speaker 1: Boys, let me say this charge any difference for last time.
Speaker 7: I get it. We're going to look at all this right.
Speaker 7: This is This hasn't happened overnight. This process now, it's
Speaker 7: as Mattie Richards had said on your show when it
Speaker 7: was announced, it's been a time, time in the making.
Speaker 7: I can't go to win and all that, but I'm
Speaker 7: just saying it's it's been and both have been on
Speaker 7: the across this board.
Speaker 6: The players have had time to adjust themselves to what
Speaker 6: this would be.
Speaker 7: It's been in the media for two years beforehand. It's
Speaker 7: just the club hadn't done it because you know what
Speaker 7: I mean, It was that there was a there was
Speaker 7: a process that was taking place.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 7: So what I want to say is, first and foremost
Speaker 7: Ken and I saw a report from Tom Morris and
Speaker 7: this probably hit it on the head, probably as close
Speaker 7: as anything. Ken is in charge, Josh's assistant. The only
Speaker 7: thing that's changed this year to last year, right from
Speaker 7: a management and coaching point of view, is the future
Speaker 7: planning and list management stuff Josh will sit in as
Speaker 7: opposed to what Ken would have done last year. That's
Speaker 7: the only difference. So kensas senior coach, Josh reports to him,
Speaker 7: and the game style wise, Tinkers fall two who's in charge,
Speaker 7: and how the coaching group is a group and Ken's
Speaker 7: the main men on that. I think that's that's the
Speaker 7: clear way of explaining it, to say this fighting and
Speaker 7: I get it's unusual. I get it's different, but it's
Speaker 7: it's hardly happened overnight.
Speaker 1: Let's keep your calls coming. Let's go to Mawson Lakes.
Speaker 1: Hi Franko, Hey, go.
Speaker 15: On, guys. If you call that football, I just I don't.
Speaker 15: I don't know what what is? You know, if theak
Speaker 15: it straight, the game's all over halftime. You know, been
Speaker 15: a member for a long time, but you know, to
Speaker 15: see what's been happening in the last you know, two
Speaker 15: or three weeks, it's just been it's been extraordinary. You know,
Speaker 15: you come out against Richmond last week, Yeah, great performance.
Speaker 15: But who are Richmond? You know, yeah they'd be Carlton,
Speaker 15: but who Carlton as well? You know you've got players
Speaker 15: like Horn, Francis and and Rosie who just absolutely spent
Speaker 15: out on their feet. Looked like we were like kids
Speaker 15: against men, you know, against the Essenmond side who got
Speaker 15: absolutely smashed off the park against Adelaide last week.
Speaker 6: Yep, thank you, frank co. That's that's the feeling of
Speaker 6: port fans at the moment. It has been a tough
Speaker 6: night to endure. Twelve points to the Bombers. If you're
Speaker 6: just joining us here on five double a football, Michael's
Speaker 6: at Blake for you, high Michael, gentlemen.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm going to follow one from my good mate
Speaker 16: Toby and just say it fractured that place at the moment,
Speaker 16: and you can see it. They're not they're not united.
Speaker 16: I don't. I don't subscribe to the theory that it's
Speaker 16: all harmonious because I completely agree. You've got new players
Speaker 16: that are going to go, well, he's the boss next year.
Speaker 16: I'm going to listen to him. All the old faithfuls
Speaker 16: that the Ken's looked after, his little favorites that have
Speaker 16: obviously got pictures or something that continue to get a game.
Speaker 16: We're not going to mention them by name, but they're
Speaker 16: obviously going to follow Ken.
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 16: I don't think it works. That history shown it doesn't work.
Speaker 16: And this person has worked with his poor Ruse this
Speaker 16: it doesn't evolve. Poor Ruse is not going to work.
Speaker 16: We know where it's going to end up. Ripped the
Speaker 16: band aid off. Now that aside we've all touched on it.
Speaker 16: What I can't copy the effort in the last quarter.
Speaker 16: I mean, the game was horrific from minute one. The
Speaker 16: skills were shocking on both sides. We probably were lucky
Speaker 16: to be in every Essendon's poor kicking, but our season
Speaker 16: was no better either. But for the effort in the
Speaker 16: last quarter, he was just wasn't there. There was time
Speaker 16: and time again the ball entered our defensive fifty and
Speaker 16: there was just players taking on contested mark. It's the
Speaker 16: training drill on a Sunday. It's not good enough. I
Speaker 16: do want to say, though, I think Travis Poke's topping
Speaker 16: unfair wax and I'm seeing it on social media as well.
Speaker 16: He had the quart of the fortot to tell us
Speaker 16: how much he turned it over. I had a quick
Speaker 16: click through his stats because I didn't think I saw
Speaker 16: that he had a nine percent efficiency over eighteen touches
Speaker 16: at sixteen of them hit a target. So if he
Speaker 16: sees the problem and he probably needs to have another
Speaker 16: watch of the game while he is in the twilight
Speaker 16: of his career, he is not our biggest problem out there.
Speaker 16: I can tell you that for a fact. And if
Speaker 16: we think a guy having eighteen touches we pick then
Speaker 16: of getting the targeted our problem. We are probably more
Speaker 16: you know what than the early fell was.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael. Just in regards to that final quarter.
Speaker 7: I don't I agree with every bit that Michael said
Speaker 7: on the last quarter effort. Absolutely, I'll forget about whether
Speaker 7: what you think it's fractured. I'm not getting into that chat.
Speaker 7: It's just the reality is agree Michael on that point.
Speaker 7: The game was there for us to lift and to
Speaker 7: grind it out and fight and be better. But essen
Speaker 7: was too good.
Speaker 1: For those listeners who might have missed it. What were
Speaker 1: those final quarter numbers as well?
Speaker 7: In the RS disposals, sen at one hundred and ten
Speaker 7: to port seventy two, it's contested ball thirty two to twenty,
Speaker 7: uncontested seventy forty five, inside fifty sixteen to eight four,
Speaker 7: goal four to one four. And then even on I'll
Speaker 7: just reboot this computer. Even on ground ball, ground ball
Speaker 7: was eighty two to sixty three.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that in the call, didn't I said, we're
Speaker 2: just not winning ground ball. Feel it and sense it,
Speaker 2: and let's stats back it up. Thanks to RAA, Let's
Speaker 2: go to open and get a George k boys, how
Speaker 2: are you on top of the world?
Speaker 17: Call again by you guys, Listen, you had a call
Speaker 17: on earlier say that he for the players have checked out.
Speaker 17: To me, I'll get a bit of a vibe this
Speaker 17: year watching a couple of the trial games, being able
Speaker 17: training and seeing the first three rounds, to me, it
Speaker 17: feels like they're going through the motion. And that's that's
Speaker 17: really concerning. I don't know what you guys think, but
Speaker 17: it just doesn't seem to be that rell grit that
Speaker 17: we've seen st of the last couple of years. And look,
Speaker 17: I don't dislike Ken, you know, hate the guy or
Speaker 17: anything like that, but I honestly believe that we need
Speaker 17: we need to prepare for the future. We ain't going
Speaker 17: to win a Grand Final this year. That says no
Speaker 17: way we're going to get anywhere near a Grand Final.
Speaker 17: So the sooner, I think, the sooner that Josh gets
Speaker 17: his feet under the desk and takes over this team
Speaker 17: in his own right, I think the better we will
Speaker 17: be moving forward.
Speaker 1: That's just my that's just my opinion, George.
Speaker 2: You know, want my concerns is, as I was mentioning,
Speaker 2: why you're in a a situation where you don't have
Speaker 2: your best twenty three available when you play, and Bombers
Speaker 2: are in the same situation. You just needed to find
Speaker 2: a way to win. I said it on the Sports
Speaker 2: show All Week. You just have to find a way
Speaker 2: to win, because if you can, you just scratch and
Speaker 2: bite and hopefully keep your name up in lights. Losing
Speaker 2: a game like tonight where it was winnable, albeit that
Speaker 2: both sides weren't putting on the best display I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: I just felt like the last quarter capitulation really concerns me.
Speaker 2: And what I worry about is the players that we've
Speaker 2: got that are definitely being targeted by interstate clubs. And
Speaker 2: it is if you have a horror season and you know,
Speaker 2: win ten games or something, and you know wherever that
Speaker 2: puts you on the ladder. The likes of Bergmann, Farrell
Speaker 2: and Butters that are being pursued by probably big clubs
Speaker 2: in Melbourne, that is a real worry for me long term.
Speaker 2: It's a concern.
Speaker 1: Let's get to north Haven High Dave.
Speaker 18: There you go on fellas he speaking about Houston happily
Speaker 18: wanted to leave Sydney. They didn't let him go to
Speaker 18: truck They wanted to leave. Melbourne didn't let him go.
Speaker 18: I lover wanted to leave if Melbourne didn't go. Look,
Speaker 18: we haven't got enough Mungles in our team. I'll tell you.
Speaker 18: If Frances doesn't fire, the team is useless without him.
Speaker 18: He's had a couple of bad games, but without him
Speaker 18: we're gone. You know this handball game, I've watched it
Speaker 18: and you've got how many coaches you've got there? I
Speaker 18: don't know. You can see that been turning the ball
Speaker 18: again the China handled someone will five players around him?
Speaker 18: I mean all the coach has got to go. If
Speaker 18: there's four or five players around, don't give it to him.
Speaker 18: How much handballs do you need in a space of
Speaker 18: five meters? But anyway, speaking our captain, did you watch
Speaker 18: his You know? Look, how can I say anything? He
Speaker 18: tackles the one hand, he doesn't put enough pressure. He
Speaker 18: looks who's come to the ball. He's never first at
Speaker 18: the ball? Meed he does? You know they had to
Speaker 18: kick a ball? Have Look how much kicks? Yet he
Speaker 18: wants to handle everything. It doesn't doesn't got any feet anything?
Speaker 18: And how much goals do you have to miss? In
Speaker 18: front of goals? He's supposed to be a sharpshooter's bery.
Speaker 18: He's four chances or something of twenty five to thirty meters.
Speaker 18: They can't even kick him. I mean, everything's gone bad
Speaker 18: this year. I just don't know, you know, it's just crazy.
Speaker 18: I get upset, I'll get I have a heart attack
Speaker 18: watching the game. But today it was so pathetic. You know, boy,
Speaker 18: why you handler handbling? Some have got six people around you.
Speaker 18: Why would you do that? When a coach come out,
Speaker 18: they don't do it. You know, it's just it's just
Speaker 18: so sad to see this. It's just like watching under
Speaker 18: threes or under fours.
Speaker 1: Anyway, That enough, Thanks Dave.
Speaker 6: Yep, that's again another passionate Port Adelaide fan who's just
Speaker 6: feeling the frustration tonight.
Speaker 2: It is ratio to treader's on the RAA stats kicks
Speaker 2: to hanbles just overalls the tain.
Speaker 7: Uh two twenty four eight okay two thirty one one
Speaker 7: sixty eight for Essendon, so not so not too.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous fifty last week it was one to one.
Speaker 6: This is five double a eight double two to three
Speaker 6: double O double a all thanks to right price roofing.
Speaker 6: We've got enough time for a couple more calls before
Speaker 6: we get to the Awards. Esmond winners by twelve points.
Speaker 6: Tonight over the Power. Let's go to Adam at Blackwood High, Adham.
Speaker 19: Yeah, evening guys. Firstly, I just want to say that
Speaker 19: as a spectacle, that was one of the worst games
Speaker 19: that I've ever seen, absolutely in Ica nol and was
Speaker 19: any worse or any better. I mean, it was horrible
Speaker 19: to watch, inexcusable when you consider that the roof closed
Speaker 19: and there was no wind and just unbelievable and three
Speaker 19: goals ten first half by the Bombers and then port
Speaker 19: started missing after about the sixteen minute mark of a
Speaker 19: second quarter and it just hurt them. Nothing to hot
Speaker 19: ride home about for either team, and it just I
Speaker 19: think indicates that both those two teams will really struggle.
Speaker 19: They keep displaying that sort of form throughout the year,
Speaker 19: and the drop of the players and no wonder they
Speaker 19: were missing kicking left or right, missing the sticks, the
Speaker 19: way they were dropping the ball onto the boot was
Speaker 19: just horrendous. And they need, honestly somebody to pull those
Speaker 19: players aside and work seriously for a good long period
Speaker 19: of this week coming on their goal kicking and Willie
Speaker 19: Rioli normally backing for a couple of goals in a
Speaker 19: game like that, and he did not kick a goal
Speaker 19: and he was one of the main culprits. He was missing,
Speaker 19: shankingham and all that sort of stuff. He had a
Speaker 19: very very dirty night. I know he's normally very very good,
Speaker 19: but you cannot win a game with one bloke putting
Speaker 19: him one good quarter.
Speaker 15: Up in the forward line like Mitch Georgia.
Speaker 19: Artist unsighted after quarter time, unsided. So that's when you
Speaker 19: need the other guys to step up. Port have got
Speaker 19: serious issues in their forward line. Thanks guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Adam. Let's hit the pasaday and get a Paul good eighthllow.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll give you a slightly different line. I don't think.
Speaker 9: I think the problem with the club and the reason
Speaker 9: where we're a flag for what twenty one years the
Speaker 9: people in charge. Now you're on the board there, Wine,
Speaker 9: I think your platform was to get elected. You're going
Speaker 9: to make changes.
Speaker 7: So who who are you talking about? Who's in charge?
Speaker 7: Were you talking Ken or you're talking Matt?
Speaker 9: Now I'm talking to people. Well, the people that appoint
Speaker 9: the coaches committee, they're the people in charge. You know,
Speaker 9: anyone can apply for a job, you get the job,
Speaker 9: and it's up to the committee or whatever the board
Speaker 9: to say, Okay, look we've here for X amount of years.
Speaker 9: You know, nothing's happened to here. Later Russell Lee but
Speaker 9: got the sack after five years and he made a
Speaker 9: Grand Final. The people in charge, right, they're the ones
Speaker 9: to blame. Forget the players. You know the players, they
Speaker 9: come in, they do what they're told and you know that.
Speaker 9: So what I'm saying is the people in charge, you know,
Speaker 9: they've got to make changes, either they go or whatever,
Speaker 9: But they're the ones to blame for the dire straits
Speaker 9: we're in. You can't lose the first game of the year,
Speaker 9: but not onety one points. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think anyone's disagreeing with the performances so far.
Speaker 7: Apart from last week, which was Richmond who's clearly rebuilding.
Speaker 7: It was a dominant performance. But yeah, I hear your point.
Speaker 7: There's obviously a process and what's going on. They'll be
Speaker 7: changed at the end of the year. But as I
Speaker 7: said before the reality is that those wheels are have
Speaker 7: been in motion for a period of time and the
Speaker 7: club made a decision.
Speaker 1: Whether you like it or not, there'll be a transition
Speaker 1: into the year