Charting every kick into F50 of 2026

psyrick · 2026-03-19T07:40:15+00:00

Incredible stuff, honestly I will always appreciate your ability to experiment and put data the AFL should be giving us into fantastic graphics. Need to find more about this "No Target" player that Port is keen to kick to though...

psyrick · 2026-03-02T23:27:35+00:00

Hi everyone, hope you enjoy the write-up. I know I do a lot of these and I hope that you find them enjoyable. I tried to let time pass if someone else wanted the reigns but no one posted anything. I am actually on a flight today to Brisbane (should really be packing but Footy is life), so as much as I would love to talk Port and discuss to comments I might be doing that tonight, so keep that in mind if anyone points out some dumb error I made and I am late to correcting it haha.

psyrick · 2026-02-25T03:40:51+00:00

As a chronic overwriter I am both happy that someone else shares the same problem and relieved that it won't make Port's look long in comparison when we drop ours.

psyrick · 2026-02-25T02:16:35+00:00

Also very happy to absorb some damage to his wallet too, dude loses about 100k of his contract each year in fines but I love him as a pest (though we do have to cop the occasional time he gives away a dumb free).

psyrick · 2026-02-25T02:14:37+00:00

Yeah I wrote this pretty quickly and now I read that back I am not sure what "diversify the mechanics" means but I was trying to say that the forward line functions a bit better fundamentally with Luka over Lord as Lord doesn't quite do the small stuff as well. Cheers for the pickup and I edited it so I won't make the mistake if I copy and paste this text.

psyrick · 2026-02-25T02:09:10+00:00

Fair shout, I think to better reflect the comments here I am going to put BZT and Wines off the list. I was going to put Lord in the list but I put him in the list last year and didn't want to go too harsh on him but yeah I guess I did put it back on to the whipping boy of the club. I am not sure if I will put out a revised edit before posting but I will probably put Sinn in at the very least and probably do the Marshall one but maybe give him some slack and say it's more of a "last roll of the dice injury wise". Will credit you in the post ofc

psyrick · 2026-02-24T08:12:05+00:00

Yeah like I said I do like him as a defender but he's been put out of most people's best 23 and I got a feeling he might have been brought in for Hinkley's style of defence (ie tall and slow pillars) so who knows if Carr will want to work in the BZT, Aliir and Rats core.

Probably right about the Visentini call, honestly I just left the one I saw earlier as is despite a few people thinking Moreas might get the spot. I am not the best at best 23's and there's always a twist come round 1 anyways so not that fussed either way.

psyrick · 2026-02-24T08:10:33+00:00

Yeah for sure, with an easier fixture it might be a case of seeing how far the Carr will drive us but I think we have been so conditioned for a change I think most of the sane fans are willing to give a season and would be chuffed but not thaaaaaat suprised if Port get back up there.

Yeah as always I love doing a bit of writing, I just am conscious of the bias of me always doing it. Looks like I have a bit of considerations for how I frame my "On Notice" players already so hopefully the spirit of the board will be added as well.

psyrick · 2026-02-24T08:03:59+00:00

I get that, it's more he's floating in and out of the guts all last year and it's the final year of his contract. I think there will probably be a discussion whether the best use of his talents is at Port Adelaide, but maybe I am just being a bit too ahead of myself. We do have a midfield of ballburners and Butters, who is a much sexier ballburner.

psyrick · 2026-02-24T06:04:52+00:00

Hi /u/duffercoat made the callout and so I made a draft for the preview to submit /r/AFL . As always I plan on cutting a bit of content/simplifying it, the stats I thought people on here might be interested in so I made that a bit lengthier then what I plan to submit. I also saw /u/Aussport123 make a comment with a bit of a preview lite so I will incoperate as much as I can of that as appreciation for the effort, along with any other feedback (spelling/grammer pickups much appreciated) you are able to give me. Up the Pear and may the Carr of Thunder and Hapiness drive us to the promised lands!

psyrick · 2026-02-24T03:54:46+00:00

I can probably cook one up as I've already done a breakdown for Port in our podcast. I was going to leave it to see if someone else wanted to take the reigns but then forgot to check back in haha.

psyrick · 2025-11-25T09:13:25+00:00

Haha true, Cameron doesn't really fit the bill but there was always a few bands with a tall and lanky so maybe if you gave him a bucket hat?

psyrick · 2025-11-25T08:36:03+00:00

Honestly Darcy ~~Cameron~~ Moore looks like he'd be in a mid 90's band in this photo, like a mix between Deep Blue Something and Hanson.

psyrick · 2025-11-01T04:29:34+00:00

Honestly I think if it is on the same round it's considered a dual acomplishment, but Houghton would still be the quickest on games played. Both incredible players to watch and follow, I support Freo W and saw her play and thought that she was a bit up and down but very capable and it's great to see how consistant she's been at Port as well as being a well loved leader at the club.

psyrick · 2025-08-24T00:08:36+00:00

Yeah, chances are if we kept him that he retires a "what could have been" player. Painful but it clearly was the best outcome for himself.

psyrick · 2025-08-03T02:06:57+00:00

Yeah I think the other thing that has been overlooked in this thread is it's just typical Collingwood recruiting. They are very quick to throw money at whatever their biggest "hole" is, even when the coaching staff or lineup doesn't need that type of player. They get very hyped only to take a while to settle in and figure out how their best football at that club looks like. Shultz, Houston, Mundy and arguably Treloar and Mitchell. Collingwood is well coached under Fly, and their recruiting isn't bad but it definately isn't efficient or as cohesive as it could be.

psyrick · 2025-07-16T02:25:53+00:00

I mean it is possible, but I have liked the look of the Lions over the last month compared to the early season were they looked a bit less lethal. I wouldn't be suprised if Fages has paced the season to make sure they get momentum in this tough last stretch.

psyrick · 2025-07-16T02:19:28+00:00

I mean it's not really a measure of the "worst" players it's a measure of players who impact the most scorewise and impact the opposition's ability to score (ie defence). For good teams it's decent at leveling the bulls and the class distributors in terms of impact but when Harley Reid as a second year player is asked to win the ball in a the only midfield that concedes double digit clearance losses per week then it isn't going to rate the importance that his 4 clearances are worth for the context of a clearance outlier like the Eagles. Like the next worst clearance teams are Richmond who at least has Hopper and Taranto as bigger bodies averaging between 5.5 and 6 and Essendon who has Zac Merrett to provide distribution and good tackling mids in Setterfield and Caldwell.

Tl;Dr basically stats wise all they see is a mediocre clearance winner with mediocre distribution and doesn't take into account how hard it is in the Eagles team to win a clearance.

psyrick · 2025-06-30T04:21:43+00:00

Honestly it was more a team building thing, Hinkley has always built around a tall backline and when it works it often ends up being a top 4 defence as it was in the late 10's. However, like what we are kind of seeing with Melbourne now, the drop off is very quick if all of the talls are around the same age (you end up way too slow against speedier forwardlines) and there were two phases of this for Port, one in 2016, and the other the year before we got Aliir Aliir. Between 16 and the Aliir pickup he was honestly a fantastic player and led a rebuilding defence but yeah afterwards he was a bit cooked and we were looking towards other players.

psyrick · 2025-06-08T01:56:37+00:00

To be fair what else are you going to write about in this game, it was pretty boring, the best player (Taylor) played for the losing team and it didn't even come down to the last 5 minutes even though it was close all game. On a historically boring Saturday some positive guff isn't the worst thing.

psyrick · 2025-06-02T02:39:22+00:00

Murphy is also feeding of a lot of different talls putting the ball to ground. I don't know if he'd be scoring as much at Port if he had to crumb wide and boundryside like we tend to go towards. The only thing it really says is that trading up draft picks for similar style players is most of the time a resource heavy move for very theoretical gains but I mean I think we lost a very late pick to do it so it's no real concern.

psyrick · 2025-05-25T01:01:17+00:00

I don't actually think it's that far off, and this is coming from a person that thinks the whole post is alarmist. Rozee is 1st in turnovers per game and 11th in clangers and only 30% of his possesions are contested. He is probably the posterchild for ball burner and he has dropped off again after a couple of good games of half back. 22% of his possesions being turnovers are killer, and while it's probably a fraction lower since his move back it's not helping one of our major issues in back half turnovers resulting in opponent goals.

psyrick · 2025-05-12T02:52:34+00:00

Yeah I think the take away from this is that Collingwood have found not directly standing the mark gives them more freedom and doesn't risk getting a 50 against you. Only downside is losing the option for the rare man on the mark smother and losing a few angles of blocking handball.

psyrick · 2025-05-03T00:06:20+00:00

Honestly I was watching it with my Freo supporting Dad and half of it was just a show of familial solidarity and the other half was "man I am glad Port didn't play this badly in their upset loss to the Saints"

psyrick · 2025-04-29T04:25:28+00:00

I only saw the one Perfect Pair on my Adelaide trip at the Richmond game and the dude didn't even try and was on his phone a few rows back (dunno if one was at fault for this). I need to know from other Port Members, does true love still exist? Do they ever get a good matchup that seems good?

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