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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2017, 04:45:28 AM »
The AFL website is tipping us to win  :o.


Match preview: Port Adelaide v Richmond

afl.com.au
28 June 2017



SUMMARY

It's weird to think a team sitting fourth on the ladder needs to prove itself as a premiership contender, but that's the case with Port Adelaide. The Power (8-5, 135.4 per cent) are starting to earn a reputation as stuff bullies having lost all four of their games against top-eight teams this season. That's why Saturday night's clash with the Tigers (sixth; 8-5, 111.7 per cent) is important. On the back of a dynamic five-goal performance from Robbie Gray, the Power cruised past Collingwood on the road last weekend. Consistency hasn't been the Power's strong suit – a win over the Tigers would be the first time they've won three in a row since round 20-23, 2015. The Tigers did just enough to dispose of Carlton last weekend. They've also won three out of their past four, but need a big scalp to continue their momentum.

WHERE AND WHEN: Adelaide Oval, Saturday, July 1, 7.10pm ACST

LAST FIVE TIMES
R15, 2016, Port Adelaide 14.10 (94) d Richmond 8.8 (56) at Adelaide Oval
R6, 2016, Port Adelaide 13.16 (94) d Richmond 8.11 (59) at the MCG
R8, 2015, Richmond 11.10 (76) d Port Adelaide 5.13 (43) at Adelaide Oval
1EF, 2014, Port Adelaide 20.12 (132) d Richmond 11.9 (75) at Adelaide Oval
R17, 2014, Richmond 19.12 (126) d Port Adelaide 16.10 (106) at Etihad Stadium

THE SIX POINTS

1. Richmond had more disposals (370 to 347), took more marks (87 to 56) and had 54 more uncontested possessions, but still lost to Port Adelaide the last time they met. The difference for the Power was their domination of the inside 50s (68 to 51) and clearances (52 to 33).

2. Both teams have been strong taking the ball inside 50 this season. The Power are ranked first with 61.1 per game and the Tigers are third at an average of 57.3.

3. The Power has held the upper hand on the Tigers, winning 17 games to 10, along with one draw. But since 2013, the ledger is even at three wins each.

4. This will be a contest between the two best defences this season. The Power are first, conceding only 77 points per game, just ahead of the Tigers, giving up an average of 78 points.

5. Richmond has already travelled to Adelaide Oval once this season, thrashed by the Crows in round six. Port Adelaide has won four of their six games at home in 2017.

6. Richmond superstar Dustin Martin has moved to a career-high seventh overall in the Schick AFL Player Ratings. However, Martin won't be the highest-ranked player on the ground – that honour belongs to Power midfielder, turned small forward, Robbie Gray, who is fifth.

IT'S A BIG WEEK FOR … Tom Jonas
The Power defender has been in superb form this season, whether it's shutting down a key forward or playing on midfielders resting in attack. He'll probably shadow Dustin Martin when he is lurking up forward, but will also be considered for the job on Tigers spearhead Jack Riewoldt.


PREDICTION: Richmond by eight points


http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-06-26/match-preview-port-adelaide-v-richmond

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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2017, 01:33:28 PM »
Tiger training session in Adelaide on Friday arvo:

Friday June 30
4pm (local time) for a 4.30pm start
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA

Source: richmondfc.com.au

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Power and Tigers locked in testing battle for top-four status at Adelaide Oval

Michelangelo Rucci,
The Advertiser
30 June 2017


PORT Adelaide (fourth, 8-5) this season has not beaten a team in the AFL top eight.

By contrast, Richmond (sixth, 8-5) has beaten a side ranked above it – Melbourne (fifth, 8-5). And the Tigers have won against another top-eight team, West Coast (seventh, 7-6).

In this AFL season of erratic form lines – and last-minute thrillers, four of which have hurt Richmond – there will be that reflection at the end of the home-and-away season: “If only ...”

“It is what it is - we can’t do too much about it,” says Power coach Ken Hinkley of the commentary that comes with Port Adelaide’s status in their year’s race to September’s top-eight finals, in particular to a top-four finish for the first time since 2007.

There is plenty to be done in reshaping this repetitive tag slapped on the Power players on Saturday night at Adelaide Oval in a top-eight battle that does more than continue the musical chairs theme for AFL rankings this weekend.

Or will it?

Does Richmond’s scalp appease those who are eager for Port Adelaide to put a significant notch in its belt?

Or is there a reluctance to accept the value of a win against the Tigers, a team that - like Port Adelaide - has just one very bad result and many competitive battles this season?

And would Richmond get the credit is craves – and new merit as a top-four contender – by beating the Power at Adelaide Oval?

This is the 29th Port Adelaide-Richmond game in an AFL premiership race.

There is an extraordinary similarity in how the Power and Tigers have reached this match after accepting the need to change their playbook after failure last season.

In defence, Port Adelaide - with the new, young partnerships formed around Jack Hombsch, Tom Jonas and Tom Clurey – is the league’s meanest unit conceding just 77 points a match.
Dustin Martin of the Tigers avoids a tackle by Bryce Gibbs of the Blues. Picture: Getty Images

Richmond, with the sound tandem with key defenders Alex Rance and most-improved David Astbury, is No. 2 giving up 78 points.

In attack, Port Adelaide – with the main man being Charlie Dixon who leads the league in contested marks – is protecting its defence with league-best numbers for inside-50s.

Richmond – with its lone tower being Jack Riewoldt – is No. 3 for creating inside-50s ... and has Dustin Martin, the league’s most assertive player for taking the ball inside-50.

Like a fairytale, the Power and Tigers can stand face-to-face asking “who is the fairest of them all”.

The question is, how will the rest of the AFL react to the answer?

KEEP YOUR EYE ON

1. MATCH-UPS. Coaches will repeatedly say it is players who win matches. And the pundits will note it is the coaches who put the players in roles that decide games. Port Adelaide has some critical decisions on how to work its defence around a Richmond attack that has a “smalls” around key forward Jack Riewoldt. Deciding who stands Riewoldt - either the man for every challenge in Tom Jonas or the close-checking Tom Clurey - shall make for an interesting debate between senior coach Ken Hinkley and defence coach Nathan Bassett.
Charlie Dixon of the Power celebrates a goal against Collingwood Picture: GETTY IMAGES

2. STYLE.
Richmond has changed up its playbook (as has Port Adelaide) after disappointing results last season when the Tigers ranked 13th. There certainly is no fear among the Tigers to back in their team-mates when they are facing one-on-one contests. Richmond leads the AFL for long kicks. Port Adelaide leads the league for contested marks (with key forward Charlie Dixon leading the AFL in this category). It is a duel for “brave” footballers.

3. DEFENCE. Port Adelaide ranks No.1, conceding just 77 points - a record in the club’s AFL journey. Richmond is at No. 2, giving up an average 78 points. Again, the match-ups are testing of the coaches. “Richmond are quite small in their front half so we’ve got to think about some of those options,” says Hinkley.

4. ATTACK. Solid defences at both clubs has been built on keeping the ball in the forward half. Port Adelaide is ranked No. 1 for inside-50s with an average 61.1 inside-50s. Richmond is No. 3 at an average of 57.3. One of these systems has to crumble. This makes the hit-out to advantage - and first use - theme with competing ruckmen Patrick Ryder (Power) and Toby Nankervis (Tigers) critical to the game’s script.

5. GRAY or MARTIN. Who has the greater influence on the match result - and scoreboard. Will it be Port Adelaide’s new master in attack, Robbie Gray? Will it be Richmond’s gamebreaking midfielder who slips forward, Dustin Martin? And who is tougher to shadow? It is the game within the game.

THE QUOTE

We can’t deny it (Port Adelaide has not beaten a top-eight team for its eight wins this season). It’s there. We’ll deal with it and get our opportunities.


WHO’S HOT


ROBBIE GRAY (Port Adelaide)

A whopping 146 SuperCoach points last week, well over his season average of 94 points a game.

WHO’S NOT

DION PRESTIA
(Richmond)

Just 58 SuperCoach points for the midfielder last week and a season average of 78.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/teams/port-adelaide/power-and-tigers-locked-in-testing-battle-for-topfour-status-at-adelaide-oval/news-story/478e0014c435ef44ec03950ca7dec86b

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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2017, 04:33:50 PM »
Ports record at Adelaide Oval 2017

freo win 89 points
adelaide loss 17 points
Carlton  win 90 points
West Coast loss 10 points
Hawtorn win 51 points
Brisbane win 40 points

Conclusion - they love to beat up on mediocre teams.
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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2017, 06:10:29 PM »
DION PRESTIA (Richmond)

Just 58 SuperCoach points for the midfielder last week and a season average of 78.


turning into quite an average player

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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2017, 07:32:44 PM »
DION PRESTIA (Richmond)

Just 58 SuperCoach points for the midfielder last week and a season average of 78.


turning into quite an average player
Hope he improves a lot in the last part of the year Francois. Derwood said that he has only started truing during the week in the last 2-3 weeks. Before that he was unable to as they had him on a some sort of program. I really think this years a bust for Dion. If he can get a full preseason in he might be like a new recruit next year. :snidegrin
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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2017, 08:11:15 PM »
DION PRESTIA (Richmond)

Just 58 SuperCoach points for the midfielder last week and a season average of 78.


turning into quite an average player
Hope he improves a lot in the last part of the year Francois. Derwood said that he has only started truing during the week in the last 2-3 weeks. Before that he was unable to as they had him on a some sort of program. I really think this years a bust for Dion. If he can get a full preseason in he might be like a new recruit next year. :snidegrin

one can hope. I held the same hope for conca and griffiths but it never came.



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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2017, 05:42:47 AM »
Port considering playing Wingard on Dusty and they want to avoid kicking it anywhere near Rance.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-06-30/chad-to-dusty-wingards-learning-curve-continues

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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2017, 12:25:21 PM »
So they're not going to kick it inside their own 50m? Works for us  :gotigers

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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #24 on: July 01, 2017, 06:21:19 PM »
Late change for Port I think. Hombsch out and Neade in (who always plays well against us).
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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #25 on: July 01, 2017, 06:24:56 PM »
You're right, YaBB.

LATE CHANGES

Port Adelaide: Jack Hombsch (knee) replaced in the selected side by Jake Neade
Richmond: Nil

FINAL INTERCHANGES

Port Adelaide: Sam Powell-Pepper, Jake Neade, Matthew Broadbent, Matt White

Richmond: Josh Caddy, Oleg Markov, Connor Menadue, Tyson Stengle

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-07-01/final-teams-super-saturday

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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #26 on: July 01, 2017, 07:07:29 PM »
Hombsch has been ok so that's handy for us.

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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #27 on: July 01, 2017, 07:40:22 PM »
True dwaino. He's a big out for Port.


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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #28 on: July 01, 2017, 07:41:56 PM »
Nice dive Dixon.
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Re: Richmond vs Port Adelaide - Round 15, 2017
« Reply #29 on: July 01, 2017, 07:43:54 PM »
Dusty almost gets it from a standing start but it's rushed.

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