i think the third quatrer was down to a combinationof things. Mainly that port lifted their work rate and intensity whil we played like it was simply going to be a continuation of the second quarter.
Agree it certainly felt that way at the game. Port clearly got a rocket at half time because their blokes who h adn't been running started to run
And we had blokes either not running or running up & down on the one spot in the 3rd.
In the third port gave us very little time and space and continually got numbers to the contest, something vital in any game of footy, let alone one played in those conditions.
True, what really stood out was how during the times we tried to switch & rush forward they had already blocked the space up a ahead, we didn't really seem to have a way to cut through it, hence why our ball movement seemed slower than me sprinting for the plane
I also thought that we looked a little flat right from the start of the game,so to come away with a 6 goal win was a good result.
That was the most obvious thing of the day, how flat we were in the 1st qtr. We always looked like the better team but struth the intensity of the last few weeks was no where to be seen early on and in that 20 minute patch in the 3rd. Seemed like when we got 7+ goals up at the start of the third we took the foot of the pedal and to perfectly honest we are nowhere near good enough to be doing that ..yet
