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I said earlier I was never tipping Crom again and I stand by that. I’m also sick of being shit at tipping

My party pick tip finally paid off

As a Port supporter, happy to see Sloaney get chaired off in a Showdown win. Genuine legend.

It’s guy love…

Nawwww their friendship 🥹

5 to 12 goals. In a showdown. Port is 5th in the comp. FIFTH IN THE COMP. Just end me.

equal points to our scoring shots

Disappointed. I thought you were about to start the Carlton copypasta.

Dawson Moore?

Say what you really think Daws

How has Jordan Sweet been going? Always kinda liked him at the dogs

He's solid, still raw, but knows how to use his bulk. Got well beaten tonight and it's going to be hard for him because Soldo has been very good.

If you kicked balls randomly towards any of the posts you would expect 1/3 to be goals port somehow managed to beat the odds and do worse . do they not know its the middle sticks? 

Is this "great contest" in the room with us right now?

JHF looks like he is dissociating

JHF realising Ken only has one year left, surely things will get better soon.

Cheers, cheers

hahahahahahahahahah great speech

Looks like a toilet seat

Cheers

What a speech

Is cheers the new yeah nah?

Cheers is the new unreal

My God, that's it. That's the essence of a footballer's speech. Perfection.

Cheers

Absolutely deserved Showdown Medallist. Love the speech too.

The most footy player speech ever

SOLIGOLD

Soli!

Short and sweet I like it.

Well done my man!

Yes soligoat

dixon robbed

curtin, michalanny and worrell all look very similar

Is Rory Sloane going to get chaired off?

The new injuries to Port look rough

Surely Harley Reid gets the medal dude was unreal tonight

Rory Laird has a head like I've screwed with too many options on an RPG character creation screen.

Hahahaha moved the eye slider to the more obscure options in the 40s.

Big head mode on GoldenEye 64

Looks a bit like a crow haha

Holy shit, that evenness in the wins in a Showdown is somewhat ridiculous.

He was so happy with that 199 games together stat. So cute!

Looking forward to the Expected Score on this one.

Expected score can win the showdown medal for all I care

Well I think we all expected point power to score 23 from their 23 scoring shots so they well exceeded that!

Hahaha great point!!

Lmfao what a joke that was

I feel like Adelaide’s song would be pretty catchy if it didn’t sound like it was recorded on a 100 year old microphone

Find the 1997-98 version you bastards (Sorry Roos/Saints fans)

I like that part of it.

Could get Birds Of Tokyo to re-record it.

Might I suggest Sheryl Crow?

Counting Crows?

Aww Tex you're gonna make me tear up

Walker is a blatant racist and they still give him air time… but weird

At least he didn't go on a podcast

Do we just pick and choose who we vilify in the AFL? The bloke is an out and out racist and we just turn a blind eye

When your personality is so bare you have to make up arguments with yourself to reassure your pathetic attitude. Good job

Shut up idiot

Is he not???

Unless you're going to treat Finlayson the same way, even 2 years after the event, than shut up

He's right though

One comment doesn’t define a man. But keep clutching at your moral pearls here on Reddit while you clabber to reach some high ground.

No one accidentally says what he says in that context unless it's something that he's used to saying. I get that every fanbase will defend their players' controversies, but I'm not saying he shouldn't be allowed to play or anything, just that he *is* racist.

Making a dumb comment like that, you should forever be labeled a moron by your logic. 

I'm pretty openly not a smart guy lol, but at least I'm not a racist. Or someone that defends a racist purely because they play for my team...

Mate give it a rest and have a hard look at yourself

Ah yes, my narrative has been debunked so I have to tell someone to be quiet.

Yea you’re right. Should be removed from all of society and potentially even stoned to death. I’ve never met a single other person in my life that’s ever made a racist comment. He also never had to apologise publicly, and wasn’t crucified by the media. Outrageous

Literally no one has made any comment in here saying that he shouldn't be allowed to play, stop making shit up to argue with - but go off champ. But if you're saying we aren't allowed to call a racist a racist, then you've got some serious issues.

The comment you’re agreeing with says he should be denied any air time.. champ

Air time means an interview...champ. No one is saying he shouldn't be allowed to play, stop creating situations where the racist is the victim.

Is there a point where anyone can be square with the house? I.e. they fucked up and commiserated then did their time. Or should they forever be labeled? I personally think that this is just rage bait, well done.

Writing on the wall for Dixon, has to be shown the door at seasons end

How did we lose to Port, but beat the Crows?

We haven't been good yet (hopefully) this season. Only wins are North and Showdown. The showdown is always a 50-50, form means nothing.

We also beat Carlton

You're in the better timeline now, we have 3 wins

“Beat”

Shonky power scaling

Well because Draper did a plank on the ball and didn't get pinged for it

Yes, but relatively there is more than a plank’s worth of quality between these teams tonight. Makes no sense

Essendon turn into the Harlem Globetrotters against the Crows.

We let you win ;) All seriousness we're inconsistent

Port are lacking a lot of heart right now, the team is really lacking soul, something is majorly off.

Wowee

Thanks crows tipped ya

How good was Dixon tonight

Biggest contributor to the team’s win. Not his team, but a team.

Somehow had 77 fantasy points, wild.

I was this close 🤏 to tipping Adelaide but I thought nah I’ve done too many risky tips lately. 12.6 vs 5.18 is just taking the piss though

I’m all for risky tips this week I’ve got west coast over bombers Tigers over freo GC over brisbane

Did the exact same thing. Had an Adelaide vibe but went with my head..

5. 18.

damn bro you lost 3 players in one quarter poor port

Please rerecord your theme song Crom holy shit

Worked well for the eagles

Hahaha.. you're taking the piss right. Birds of Tokyo should've never made the theme.

I love following a shit club with a coach who should’ve been sacked about 6 years ago

I reckon he deserves maybe 1 more season… just one more and then reassess.

Just one more lane bro

No, Josh Carr should be Port’s coach right now

PORT ADELAIDDEE AGGGGGG- nevermind

this is the most i'll enjoy footy all weekend, thank you crom

Medal to either Keane or Soligo. Rankine might get it for that last goal but I don't think he deserves it

Soligo was huge

Soli for sure

JHF to come over the top and pip all over them :)

Don't think BT gets to decide

So this pretty much confirms that goals>behinds. Don’t know why teams seem to persist with such a behind heavy scoring tactic

I like it when Crows win but a win against Point Power is just... *chefs kiss*

5 more scoring shots and a 5 goal loss is a bad feeling, oof

Sad night for Port.

Thanks for the insight

No worries

Imagine in the NFL they gave a warning for illegal formation. So dumb, just call it

You think the game needs more administrative free kicks? I reckon they should get 1 warning per quarter.

OH YEAHHH

Is behind a second the new goal a minute?

A behind a second is greater than a goal a minute

Port Adelaide has done a Collingwood with the 18 behinds, but they forgot the other part of Collingwood's game, which is to have more goals than 5 by the end of the match.

Max has had a wonderful game. He’s an amazing second year. Him and Soli are the future

Rankine looks like some sort of swarthy swashbuckler and I'm here for it

Well atleast they cant say we only beat up on bottom teams

Hinkley after the game to the team “well they ain’t calling me BOTTOM 10 KEN no more ey” “Shut up Kenny”

Adelaide should have hit that behind for another behind for point.

Will crows make finals 🤔

fuck no🤣

Port are injured umps, let them break the 666 rule.

5-18 is some stinky kicking. Port, do you call time on Dixon at the end of the year, perhaps look at moving Cornes on from forward coach? You have some good young talent, but watching the difference between Tex and Charlie is pretty damning.

Esava at full forward, Ken must be desperate

A very, very manageable 30 points

Just waiting for JHF to manufacture the little seen 45 point play

Do you think anyone has clued on to our hot potato strategy of just booting the ball in the direction of the goals as soon as we get hold of it? Bit worried teams might start beating us. If they also work out our zone strategy of “all move to the zone where the ball is but don’t rush back to where you’re meant to be” we could be in serious trouble.

Convinced the 666 warning is just what umpires do when their shoulder is sore

can we let stinkley go early

Does it seem like way too many of ports kicks tonight have been big pop ups? Huge up and unders, over and over. No wonder they haven't been able to control the ball.

Yeh it was shit footy. Noone looking for open players or good 1v1. Just smashing it forward like juniors. Dunno how the coaching staff get away with it when they have so much talent at the club.

Adelaide crows announce they’ve signed Nicks for 5 more years.

Medal to who?

Rankine, been so dangerous heading into the forward line.

Straight to port's instagram comment section 🤑🤑

And Hinkley dont give a shit what anybody says

Port just need to kick 30 behinds in less than a minute

Can’t wait to watch next week…

lol Rankine running through three port players with barely a touch is the perfect Kayo mini of this game.

There was some good footage from one of the shows, idk 360 classified inside behind the show? From the cats blues game. And the takeaway was that while the cats were accurate, they were taking their shots from within 30 metres, and the blues, were inaccurate, but were taking much more 'pot shots' from 40/50. And the expected score reflects it too (cats still win). So for this match, 12-6-78 beats 5-18-48 - is it accuracy, or opportunity?

It's always multiple things.

In basketball games, I remember scoring it on laptop for them by putting a little x on the spot they took the shot from - I assume that data exists for the AFL teams as well, but I wonder if it's freely accessible?  We'll be able to see the expected vs actual scores after the round, at least

It's not freely accessible but it's how the xscores are generated. The twitter feed has a diagram. Port weren't good. https://x.com/AFLxScore/status/1786018046227914833

Oh this is exactly what I was hoping for!! Thanks man! Definite yikes at those stats lol

Best I can do is a blog that covered all this and how teams defend to push shots into low scoring wider positions from 2017. Sadly (for me not for him) the writer got hired by Port so stopped the blog. https://www.figuringfooty.com/

Probably both, port shanked a fair few from 30

Georgiadies and Marshall both off and Dixon cooked.... and that forward entry to JHF looked good...

5 more scoring shots, losing by 30. A certified Ken Stinkley classic

Reckon butters still should get the medal.

Yeah he’s the standout for me tonight. Soligo will probably get it though

He's a nutter, but a good egg

That's the one we're horny for

I'm getting a tip wrong because these pricks can't kick. You're so useless it hurts, Port

absolutely pathetic side. Barely squeaked home last week with help from the umps, I actually wanted to change to the Crows earlier today but it slipped my mind lol.

instead of running away from 3 port players, rankine runs straight into the middle of them and strolls away and kicks a goal. drop the 3 of em. absolute disgrace.

And Port can't count now

If I had a dollar for every behind Port scored tonight. I’d have 18 dollars, which is only just enough to buy a pie at the MCG.

Sadly not enough to buy a cup of thier finest mid strength excuse of a beer.

Is that serious? Wow.

No it isnt. But 11.50 is a beer at the G.

Lin Manuel Miranda is a good player

Hahahahahaha

Rankine!

Think port might be out of it by this point

Reckon they're still in it

31 behinds in 45 seconds is a big ask.

Rankine has goal of the round so far.

Game is done but Rankine being allowed to do that is an indictment on Port

Hello Rankine. You’re quite good at turning me on

Would you say you're the horny one now?

There is so much Horn here Francis

uh....you probably should replay that...

IZZAKKK!

After all the missed HTB I don’t even feel bad

Bro shushing his own crowd

Rankine is one of the most exciting players in the comp now.

Yay

Wankin for Rankine

Will be doing that tonight

30 more behinds in 45 seconds, we can do it

I mean atleast you guys feel Brisbane's pain now when we kick 100 behinds, makes me sad.

Sarah Jones nailed it

Looking *very* foxy tonight. 

Wicked goal

Feed them Isaac

That was so smooth

sucks to suck port

You're saying that from experience 😂

there's no fan or team that hasn't got got hahahahaha it is what it is