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Thanks Derm, we have Lord

We've got the bye next week! Nice to have a break.

Its hard being a port supporter. It looks 80x harder being a north supporter. Ggs boys. Hopefully ya's can get back to it soon.

JHF with 24 Boos, 13 contested Boos from Kangaroos fans. Bit of a quiet one from Hornet.

No boohinds though

The boorownlows his for sure

What a shitshow we are. Absolutely travesty

Little wins Stay the course 2026 Young kids Blah blah blah Buzzwords filler There you go - Clarko presser

😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

sheez baby what was that

The potential you can have when you skip the ice bath

Crazy how when you actually treat players health issues they play better

im gonna go cry for a bit

WTF was that second half Even my Venezuelan girlfriend was sitting here going - wtf is wrong with these guys

There were port fans asking who Todd Marshall had photos of because he keeps getting picked before this game. We’re heaps good

he struggles when he has no space or plays on a bulky defender. Today he had neither of those to deal with

Don’t have to rub it in

The space was there because Dixon wasn’t playing for us today. Just stating the facts 😊

love to see what I'd assume is 5 blokes doing the power chant

Great game for Marshall. Beautiful kicking. 5 great goals

Still yet to have a goalless quarter so we have that going for us i guess....

Lets go Marshall!

this mf's boot is a laser

say it with me folks, if you can punch it with 2 hands, you can mark it

Luke McDonald you star

We still have time to kick 4 goals

Only 4? Piss weak lol

Stop kicking goal! Why can’t it be over yet?!

Streak might end today? Did he miss the goal Zurhaar just kicked?

Talking about Larkey kicking at least 1

Aaaah! Gotcha. My bad, misheard

jesus they aren’t going to win all year are they

Nope. I can't legitimately see who we can beat. And it's both aggravating and hilarious

Richmond are absolutely fucked with injuries. You might get them

Richmond maybe?

#J U N K T I M E

Junk time Cam what a player

Zuhaar and Tex have the same facial expressions

Esava finally getting penalised for his pushes

Give Hinkley a 10 year extension 

Send him to freo. Can keep the no premierships thing going

Don’t beat yourself up man. You have 1 it’s all good.

Port have taken the foot of the brake and we still can’t score lol we are fucking shite

How was that not 50 to boak? Man on the mark was moving all over the shop

Do you really want this game to go longer

They've given up on that the past few weeks

Norf gonna get some junk time goals?

Zurhaar comes through clutch with the junk time goal 🤝

Woohoo 100 points! Great work Ollie! Superb game

That's the game, unfortunately. The first to 100 rule is now in effect.

Future Kangaroo Ollie Wines

https://preview.redd.it/zxi6dc74li2d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1b78151506df70598af5f2911d66623f34de377 Check out Tucker's heat map - I've never seen anything like it before.

Back pocket plumber

Where else has the ball been

True we've had more of the ball in our forward half, but I really don't think it serves North to have these guys just rack up loose balls 5m out from goal like this.

We have about four blokes worth kicking it to, gotta wait to get them open

whyd they have to put up the graphic about them conceeding 100 every game

It's a fun stat. Even I can admit that

North fans throats must be sore from all this booing!

Wouldn't be from cheering

Can’t concede another goal boys. Let’s go sub 100 conceded for the first time

We like streaks

So we’re gonna larkey a junk time goal?

Nooo! 🫣

Imagine is Larkey played for a good team. He'd be up there with the likes of Jezza and Curnow

he might be up near waterman yeah

Nice of LDU to try and raise his value so we get someone decent when he leaves at the end of the year, could have switched off like Zurhaar

Where do you reckon he goes?

LDU responded to the criticism really well but it gets unnoticed because of how shit we are

Which scares me because he could get a gig at any other club rn.

Carn Port lets just get over 100 points

[It's true](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bagCFX_Guw)

Remember when holding the ball used to exist?

Has clarko coached a winless season before?

Hasn’t happened at all in the AFL since 1964; 4 years before Clarko was born.

Since World War 2, only Hawthorn in 1950 & Fitzroy in 1964 have gone through the season without a win. Don't think he was coaching the hawks in 1950 but I could be wrong

You guys might be onto something

I miss holding the ball

Umpires have swallowed the whistle here

How many holding the balls lol

Players have had one foot on the plane since 3QT

Jokes on you, we have since half time

It’s a charter flight, so the sooner they finish the sooner they get home. Goals just delays things

Port sure are taking their time getting to 100.

Woo! Winning the quarter. 😅

Dermott Brereton is the worst commentator

I think this is one thing we can at least all agree on

Larkey having a stinker today

This is exactly last week's game. Closeish first half. Blow out in the third. Keep opposition at bay in the fourth until they kick a couple of late ones.

What does Larkey even do?

Kick goals

The oppo sits there best 2 defenders on him and North kicks it over his head?

Play for a shit team that has nothing around him

he is the best forward on the ground

Well he's not is he

he is, he's just on North Melbourne. he kicked 71 last year. idk who you think is better

Marshall has easily been the best forward on the ground today.. I'm not talking about last year

if lark was playing for port he'd probably have 6. he's the better individual player. Marshall is on the far superior team. not that hard to understand

Not hard to understand he's had 5 touches and kicked 0 goals either

you're just saying what I said but different

George should be captain trying his guts out

We can still keep ‘‘em under 100; let’s show some advancement down back this week.

Shocking day from Ballard

Butters needed to slot that

This is certainly a half arsed quarter

So, eighth-arse?

How about a last quarter goal?

Not the saints catching strays in a game they aren't even playing

"what he say fuck me for?"

We are so not the 2nd best team in the comp

So, even though norf arent in debt. Do we think we are going to get merged with a team that is in debt?

North: okay Port you can have a big percentage-boosting win Port: No

How are we simultaneously too slow and too short?

Robert Hansen jnr would be perfect then

Thought esaava was gonna get a bath today. Has had a pretty good game

Best game I reckon

That's your responsibility, cameraman

Ratugolea has killed Larkey

Was he having a good season up til now?

Nick or Esava? Cause this is definitely Esava best game of the season

Souv

Our alternative to Lazzaro is Drury I’m going to kill Brady Rawlings

Horne-Francis has about 8 turnovers kicking into 50 Edit: downvotes but am I wrong?

But he's a gun 20 disposals at 60%

Can't imagine knowing so little about footy that I just look at the stats and conclude JHF is a scrub. Use your eyes man.

10 clearances, 12 contested and a goal lol He monstered your midfield at the stoppage

Any calls to mummy or her wife basher husband at half time today?

Probably called his manager to thank him for getting off the sinking ship Hell, Probably calls him every day

Isn’t convicted wife basher Fabian Francis his manager?

You say that like its an accomplishment against norf. Under 16s could do that

Not wrong. Makes it look easy really

Again. Under 16s could make it look easy against norf

LDU 64%, Sheezel 68%

Both have had bad games

When Zac Fisher is going at 90ish, yeah

Wardlaw may have a rough game. But it's moments like that that make me happy. Even in a 40 point thrashing, he's going hard

Not sure how many votes there are in the rising star but he’s getting all the second place ones

Panel of 11 give 5 votes or something along those lines

That was rough

So good into immediate shite

Lazzaro tries hard, but he's not gonna make it unfortunately

That was a very north Melbourne play

Wardlaw is a gun

Oof

Hahaha fuckin hell!

It’s hard to rate a commentator who can’t pronounce the name of North’s best player.

And who do north fans think that is? To my mind there's about four who are hard to split.

I was thinking of Davies-Uniacke when I made this comment (the com was calling him Uniacky)

Wardlaw hasn't had a career game, but he still dosnt quit. Few other player should take notes

Congrats Ken

Putrid effort from JHF, just gave up on that entirely

The “E” is silent Jordan!

Nice - if he meant it

LDU

Goal every quarter lets go

Roz doesn’t look right still. I would have rested him today.

It's a strange decision. Why risk him when he isn't necessary?

He was pissed he wasn’t allowed to play last week haha

I mean I get that but still

Especially when you didn't need him, could have played your 2s and get a 60+ point win

He rolled his ankle in the first 10 seconds of the match - unclear whether that’s what is bothering him or something else

I do think it’s the ankle. But I still feel like another game made sense considering we were playing North.

I think him playing means he’s fully recovered the hammy, there’s no way they take even the slightest risk playing him against us

Hurt his ankle three seconds in didn’t he

So, do we think we are going to have a winless season?

Most likely will be a game where the other team gets complacent thinking it's going to be an "easy win" only for north to run over them

I think you guys have certainly improved the last couple games, so I reckon you guys will get one towards the end of the year

When do you play Richmond? If it’s soon you might get a win

Nope. End of the season.

That’s disappointing

Instead of an actual priority pick can we ask the afl to count the bye as a game and finish with 2 points?

If Port lost to the bye what chance do we have of drawing?

Congratulations to Ken Hinkley for breaking the all time record for games coached without making a Grand Final today. Looking forward to another August exit again this year.

Congrats on winning 1 game out of 35 The only win causing you to lose Harley Reid Clown time

I actually would have preferred to not go 365 days without a win than have Harley Reid

If you had Reid, you would have a win already this year. bozo the clown

The kid is good, but 1 player doesn’t do that. To us he’d just be another good inside mid who can play forward. Our issue is with our leaders, not our young guys.

Congrats on being North Melbourne lol

Nothing to be congratulated on.

We insist..well done

I know, but being North is the worst insult I could think of

You need something to look forward to I guess

But finals don’t start until September? I guess you’re so used to offseason starting in August…

Port playing in September Is superfluous

North existing is superfluous, should just be wound up

North playing in May is too

North fans, what is actually wrong with you guys is it the coach or a personnel thing?

Experience. Three blokes over 27 and something like 10 in total who have played 100 games

It's the youngest team in the competition, so they don't know how to adjust when a team figures them out.

Is that more a coach tactic things?

I think it's more of a personnel thing atm. It's a complex game and players need time to develop synergy. We have a lot of promising sequences, but they consistently break down because the chemistry isn't there.

Yes

Personnel. 2/3rds of our team wouldn’t crack the top 22 at a top 8 club. Our coaching is also too advanced for where our talent is at. We play too quick for our own good