Round 8: North v Port - Saturday 24 May @ Prospect Oval

North v Port

Saturday 24 May
Prospect Oval

Reserves: 11:25am
League: 2:10pm

Last Week
North 12.14.86 d Eagles 24.19.163 @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval
Port 18.14.122 d South 10.2.62 @ Alberton Oval

Last Time They Met
North 15.9.99 d Port 3.8.26 @ Prospect Oval

Ladder
North 6th 3-4 46.27%
Port 1st 6-1 65.14%

North got belted last week, Port belted another side last week. Is this another 10 goal win for Port or will North pull off a miracle?

Water will not be turned into wine this week for North, probably finish up with vinegar.

Port by 14-15 goals.

Port by a minimum of 10 goals

Port by heaps

Are we still bothering to make tips on Port?

Reckon if we start at 8 goals in and work + / - from there.
Anything less is a "win" for the opposing club, anything more is a "loss".

Or just type the number of goals and not bother with saying "Port".

Port by stacks

56

Messy.

Well, I was 100% wrong there.

It definitely wasn't messy. Apart from Round 1, North put up easily the best performance of the SANFL clubs against Port this season and all credit to them.

North were gallant in defeat, indeed, but it probably helped their cause that Port had two players stretchered off and gone for the rest of the game by the halfway mark of the opening term...

Port's poor kicking for goal, particularly in the 3rd term when they kicked 2.7 to North's 2.2, also meant that the Roosters were perhaps closer than the final margin seemd...

I certainly felt North put it in a very admirable performance in but it also seemed like Port did enough to just keep them at arms' length for the majority of the day as well...

The home side put too much of focus and reliance on big forward Luke Mitchell and they were sorely lacking some additional goal kicking presence in attack to assist the big man...

North should take that as a "win".