Where and when: Adelaide Oval at 7:40pm (AEST)
Last time they met: Round 9, 2020: Melbourne 4.8 (32) DEF BY Port 12.11 (83) at The Gabba.
Last five: Port 4-1, Melbourne 3-2
Match Preview: Interesting match this one. A month ago you would’ve been putting your house on The Dees but after losses to Adelaide, Collingwood and last week GWS, I’ve got no confidence in them at all. Especially in Adelaide against 4th placed Port who appear to have regained their mojo. Looking forward to the Steven May / Charlie Dixon match up and the battle of the midfields.
Mottsy Watch:
Boak, Wines, Dixon
Gawn, Oliver, Petracca
Mottsy’s Tip: Port by 10 points (tipping record 32/45).
No Late Changes
Medical Subs :
Port Adelaide : Martin Frederick
Melbourne : Tom Sparrow
Richmond!!!
Gawn. Oliver. Pettracca. You’ve jinxed them.
Whoops! Fixed!
Who wins tonight
TU Melbourne
TD Port Adelaide
On Butters watch tonight. A nice 90 would be encouraging, but also see him lose $25K for next week.
Aaaaaand that’s the end of that.
Frustrating season, poor bloke
Might be cheap next year ?
got a risky trade scenerio
in – danger, connolly
out – short, CCJ
got the trades to do it. Leaves 202k in the bank for next week to go almost full prem.
thumbs up or down
I am thinking Short is i for big month with Houli out. nevertheless, I would want Danger in my team
Drew straight to Satan, little red head on red head action.
How goods not changing your C and VC from last week….
Gawn as C….. Goooooo Gaaaaawnyyyyy
Reckon he has been unlucky with his score in the first quarter too. His ruck work in the centre of the ground has been great, needs to get amongst it around the ground.
Good game of footy so far!
He got under scored in Q1. Not rewarded for some premium service to his mids on the last 3 CBA’s. Hope he can turnaround his fortunes in the next 3 quarters.
Went against captaincy candidates this week and put the vc on Gawn as I was hoping he’d bounce back with Melbourne this week. Not ideal but having petracca Oliver and may has made this a very enjoyable game for me to watch.
Had a deadly last 5 minutes, Tom. Might get to something serviceable.
That said, with the ever increasing ruck split with Jackson he’s out of my calculations unless it’s against a weak opp. ruck.
Loving Petracca, Oliver and Boak on my end.
That said GD – he is once again being smashed by CD scoring of him, as he has complete dominance of Port rucks, but not getting rewarded for it. This has been a theme this year against Maxxy IMHO … he’s also being hammered on his DE … he could / should be on a lot bigger score …
Right on cue lol, Macca.
Yeah, been done in by CD but always an uphill battle with his role: ruck split with Jackson and floating FWD as a target instead of down back loose.
yeah, no doubt its hampering his scoring a little, but I think there has been a definite move away from scoring him well this year … hi HO counts in most matches are miles in front of his opposition, yet he’s getting little reward for it … whereas the last few years, with his numbers he’s going huge most weeks.
There was a comment a few weeks back about his hands and not taking as many marks. He is missing some and may be impacting his confidence … telling was late in that last quarter was in defence for shot on goal, ball drifting wide of point post and Maxxy went up uncontested and punched it through for behind when had an easy mark.
Combination of factors maybe?
hear hear Macca
Yeah i think he might be “Gawn” as an option for captaincy with Jackson in the side. Forgot to ask gd what did you do with j Cameron?
Daniher.
Hey TrooRoo see we got a big matchup this week. Gotta say I love your dangerfield vc move, I reckon hes gonna be huge this week against the bluebaggers. I tried to go safe and am gonna be burnt I reckon. Goodluck!
Haha cheers Tommy. I figure danger either goes large or not. Can rely on the safe Grundy as backup.
Looks like I’m gonna ship him out for De Goey. Even though I hate him lol, he’s got that OB role.
Thinking/hoping the way Nicks took over and experimented successfully with Laird OB, Harvey will do the same with De Goey.
Other option was Daniher.
hope it works GD – even though I think DeGoey is over rated … and like you, not his biggest fan!
I reckon Oliver,
A bit stiff with the scoring,
20 touch’s heap of clearances,
64, ffs should be about 90
Does anyone really like Thursday night game? its really shit when you have work the next day
I start work at 6am.
Nearly always fall asleep at 3/4 time lol.
Rough not going with Tracca VC.
However good to see a big score from him!
Great start to the round!
Misread but at least we own him, Abs!
That’s right GD!
Darcy VC was just too tempting.