But I can understand why you would say it. Q: Do you think this group with its age demographic has another tilt and year left at a premiership or do you think you need to look at readjusting to perhaps match with what looked like now the Grand Final teams? I think our players deserve a break and what they will get this time is enough time to regroup, get the requisite amount of work in, and give ourselves a chance.
Yeah look, I think it feels terrific for our footy club. I sit here and I think of all of our supporters back home. He played his heart out. I thought his ruck work was strong. But the thing that stood out for me was the chase down tackle of Gary Rohan in that third quarter. I think that is the way we want to be seen as a footy club, the team that never gives up, continues to play the right way for as long in the game as possible.
Max demonstrated that as did all of our leaders. So he was incredible. To win by such a margin, like to dominate the way you did, what does that do for everyone heading into a grand final? I think it reaffirms a lot of belief we have got in the way we play.
Clearly we base our game around our contest and our ability to defend. I think there is a potency in the way we attack and we can hit the sktd. So I think tonight we build belief again. We understand we handled the moment well and the moment was about being ourselves and making sure people saw who we were and being true to ourselves and we were that tonight.
There is a really big challenge that is sitting right in front of us and we want to make the most of it. Clearly he came back on the ground for a period of time. But we think it might be back related. He could still move. But it is back-related sort of tightness in the hamstring so we will have to assess that and see what it looks like over the next few days. Mindful you would have managed that really carefully tonight, what was the thinking about bringing him back on, given the initial injury is there a risk you exacerbated that or are you comfortable with that decision?
The game was still in the balance. He felt like it was OK. They felt like it might have been back related. So at that stage of the game, it was worth taking the risk. Does the two weeks between now and the grand final help him? Do you give him extra time off, is it difficult to manage and how do you manage him over that two weeks?
Gives him a chance to really rest and recover in the next three or four days, as will our whole group. We will do a very similar program to what we had heading into this game and take three or four days away from the game and reset ourselves and build ourselves up come the back end of this week.
So that will help Steve, there is no question about that. From the end of the qualifying final to the grand final, a month would have gone past and you would have played one game of footy. How tough is that to manage compared to the normal workload of your players? Our players have had great continuity and they have got a great level of fitness amongst them as a playing group.
We will train hard over the next eight to 10 days. That is how we do it as a footy club and we will prepare as best we can. We have our whole playing list here, we will be able to get some match simulation here and get as much as training as we can. Nathan Jones has got twins due fairly shortly, what are the considerations there, will he go back home or stay with the group?
That is a decision that will be left with Nathan. His wife is due with twins and obviously could come at any stage. So we will continue to liaise with Nathan and his wife about what that looks like. No, definitely not. If we could rewind six hours, it would be nice. But they were outstanding tonight. They gave it to us to from the word go and we expected it. Where was the breakdown for you tonight? Obviously the Dees were so dominant around stoppage and when they were able to get speed on the footy, they were so hard to stop.
Where did you highlight those areas? Contests they were really good, outside the contest they were also good. They beat us all over the ground to be honest. Forward, back half, through the middle. SPP outmarks two Cats in the goalsquare to add even more gloss to the scoreboard.
Q4: 4 mins remaining: Power The crowd enjoyed that one. Q4: 6 mins remaining: Power Party time at Adelaide Oval.
Q4: 9 mins remaining: Power Rohan is sending torps to the centre spot from the kick-in. Port Adelaide too quick, too strong, too confident in every discipline. Q4: 11 mins remaining: Power Their pressure without possession remains ferocious.
Q4: 13 mins remaining: Power Fantasia is subbed out for Powell-Pepper. Q4: 15 mins remaining: Power Q4: 18 mins remaining: Power Only six more to go. Not sure he needs to be out there. Q4: 19 mins remaining: Power Not a lot of scoring that quarter, but Port Adelaide remain firmly in control of this qualifying final. Q3: 1 min remaining: Power 9. Port Adelaide have bullied this final. Q3: 2 mins remaining: Power 9. Q3: 3 mins remaining: Power 9. That was a gimme, but the drop was awful and the point-blank effort hits the post!
Q3: 4 mins remaining: Power 9. Q3: 6 mins remaining: Power 9. Eventually Blicavs coughs up the inevitable turnover and the Cats are back defending on their This has become very very ugly for Chris Scott. Q3: 8 mins remaining: Power 9. The Port Adelaide press is too good to penetrate with patience, and the dump kick exit is snaffled up by Aliir.
There is no individual inspiration either to take the game on and do something drastic. Q3: 10 mins remaining: Power 9. Port Adelaide are flying in top gear, Geelong are huffing and puffing like a diesel with a flat tyre. Q3: 11 mins remaining: Power 9. Q3: 13 mins remaining: Power 9. They look ponderous then panicked when faced with the oncoming Power forwards. In they reached the Grand Final but lost to eventual Premiership winners, Richmond.
In , led by Joel Selwood and boasting arguably the best player in the business in Patrick Dangerfield, the Cats are again mounting a challenge, and you can catch all the action when whether live on your TV or streaming online here.
The man in charge, Chris Scott is celebrating 10 years as Cats coach this year and another final win would be a great anniversary gift. Their first game in Finals Week resulted in an loss at the hands of Port Adelaide, which will be a bitter pill to swallow. This is easily the biggest game of the season for the Cats, and they certainly have the personnel to win it.
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