Port Adelaide’s crew defence is a significant fear for coach Ken Hinkley after Adelaide cracked them in a pulsating AFL Showdown conflict.
The Power led early within the final quarter on Saturday, earlier than Adelaide unleashed a six-goal burst and gained by 31 factors.
Every week after Collingwood additionally overwhelmed his crew, Hinkley lamented Port’s incapability to maintain the Crows in test for lengthy sufficient.
“We had most things where we wanted them – our game, our home – a pretty good game of football for three quarters and 10 minutes,” Hinkley mentioned.
“They were probably just a bit more willing to keep going right to the end. They got a bit of belief.
“Collectively, we could not defend this week and that was final week as effectively.”
Hinkley said his players went too man-on-man, rather than sticking to the team defensive structures that served them well earlier in the match.
“We obtained a bit jumpy round what was occurring to ‘me’, greater than what was occurring ‘to the remaining’,” he mentioned.
“Once you break somewhat bit and also you let groups get by, clearly they have been capable of put some strain on us, massive time, and had high quality of their entrance half that made us pay.”
Port had won five of the last six Showdowns, but after threatening to break the game open in the second quarter, they eventually could not hold off the Crows.
Hinkley said it was no surprise that talented Adelaide forwards such as Riley Thilthorpe (five goals) and Izaak Rankine (four goals) had cut loose.
“You give them seems to be, you are ultimately going to cop a pair and we copped greater than a pair,” Hinkley said.
It was big night for Port, given they were the home team and the Power had struck a deal with Collingwood to wear their historic black and white ‘prison bar’ guernseys.
“We’re actually disenchanted that in a house Showdown, and jail bar jumper, that everybody was up for and constructed up for, we have delivered poorly on the finish of the day,” Hinkley mentioned.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
