Round 21 Preview: Nobody Likes Playing Port Adelaide

Because although you're almost guaranteed a win, it's just not fun playing in front of 13 bogans wearing Ford (or Holden) jackets. It's  also no fun playing a team with so little motivation, self-respect, intensity or effort. They also have little talent, with coach Whiskers still possessing more ability than his players. But still, you have to earn a win in the AFL; by earn I mean going through the hassle of going to the airport and hopping on a plane...and going to Adelaide.

Honestly though, we have to win and barring the entire Eagles squad contracting a flesh eating virus, we will win comfortably. Last week was a great effort and an important confidence booster. We need to put in a good performance tomorrow to both boost our percentage and to maintain our form ahead of two HUGE games against the Pies (boo) and Hawks (hiss).

Win all those (I know unlikely) and we 'may' finish 4th. We have to give ourselves a chance though by winning well this week. Regardless of top 4 though, we still have to ensure we finish 5th or 6th to secure a home final...so our feral fans can instill more fear in interstate coaches and scar 10 year olds for life. But seriously, if we finish 5th and win our first final anything can happen.

Dalziell returns after a knee injury....I don't really have a strong feeling on Brad D. But he replaces Swift so...

Port Adelaide
B: Nathan Blee, Alipate Carlile, Paul Stewart
HB: Thomas Jonas, Jackson Trengove, Danyle Pearce
C: Kane Cornes, Bradley Ebert, Matthew Broadbent
HF: Matt Thomas, Justin Westhoff, Andrew Moore
F: Brett Ebert, Jay Schulz, Daniel Stewart
Foll: Matthew Lobbe, Travis Boak, Domenic Cassisi
I/C: David Rodan, Jarrad Redden, Tom Logan, Aaron Young, Chad Wingard, Darren Pfeiffer, John McCarthy
In: Alipate Carlile, Daniel Stewart, Aaron Young, Thomas Jonas, Chad Wingard Out: Troy Chaplin (Knee), Hamish Hartlett (Suspension), Redden, Logan, McCarthy

West Coast Eagles
B: Beau Waters, Darren Glass, Eric Mackenzie
HB: Shannon Hurn, Will Schofield, Adam Selwood
C: Chris Masten, Matthew Priddis, Andrew Gaff
HF: Josh Hill, Jack Darling, Patrick McGinnity
F: Luke Shuey, Quinten Lynch, Dean Cox
Foll: Nic Naitanui, Scott Selwood, Daniel Kerr
I/C: Andrew Embley, Mitch Brown, Bradd Dalziell, Andrew Strijk, Ashton Hams, Jacob Brennan, Lewis Stevenson
In: Bradd Dalziell
Out: Thomas Swift

In other news, this sounds strange. In more exciting news Kennedy should return against the Pies next week. 

So enjoy the win tomorrow and let's hope the Roos get up tonight.