VFL R10 - Frankston vs Port Melbourne

This game comes at a good time for Port given all their injuries and two straight losses. But they wouldn't want to give the Dolphs an early sniff and make it a bungfight. Depth is so important, and today we'll get a bit of a read into the Borough's I think.

2015 AFL Victoria Development League

Frankston 3.2 5.3 7.3 10.5 (65)
Port Melbourne 2.0 4.3 8.6 12.7 (79)

GOALS:
Frankston: Sykes 3 Gleeson 2 Smout 2 Bennett Gogis Sutton
Port Melbourne: Henderson 2 Mahon 2 Michaliades 2 Hogan 2 Breust Waddell Dove Jenkins

BEST:
Frankston: Crowder Tuddenham Ashcroft Marks-Logan Fox Rosario
Port Melbourne: Dickson Michaliades Henderson Mioni Hogan Dove

2015 Peter Jackson VFL

Frankston 5.1 7.1 10.6 12.8 (80)
Port Melbourne 4.2 11.2 16.2 18.3 (111)

GOALS:
Frankston: Gardiner 3 Pickess 2 Douglas Pongracic Cavarra Wilson Wood Gray Post
Port Melbourne: Haretuku 5 Pearson 3 Batsanis 2 Answerth Rivett O'Sullivan Johnson Clarke Lisle Toman Langford

BEST:
Frankston: Pongracic Wood Pickess Capiron Post Tynan
Port Melbourne: Haretuku Pearson Mascitti Answerth Wooffindin Batsanis

That's a great effort by Frankston, 5 from Haretuku would hurt ...

Port were lucky the draw had them at Frankston today. With Sandilands and Sam O'Sullivan pulling out late to go with Cain, Magner, Scipione, Michaliadis and Osborne all out, they probably would have lost to anyone else. But with Essendon, Casey away and Willi in three of their next four games it's going to be hard to stay in touch with the top four while they wait to get those guys back, and today suggests the depth isn't quite what it has been.

Good game to watch but hardly a classic in terms of skill. I agree with Paul, Port a long way off the best teams at the moment but can improve. Frankston good effort, fought hard all day and played a solid four quarters except for the first half of the second quarter where they appeard to be asleep.
Yeah Khan's 5 goals hurt...was a great effort as he spent a lot of time in the ruck. Once again lack of key position players killed the Dolphins. With Wilsen as the only tall defender lining up on Lisle it meant Khans opponent was 183cm Jimmy Jennings. It was always going to be Khan with a 16cm height advantage and 12kg weight difference.
Frankston drove another wedge between itself and its supporters yesterday with the coach not allowing supporters into the rooms at half time. This is permanent I was told by an official. Along with the rope around the players at quarter time and three quarter time it seems they want the players as far away from the supporters as they can. Wonder what will be next? Interestingly, Port had a lot more people at their huddles than Frankston.I cant ever remember then happening before.
On the subject of supporters there were 4 or 5 'gentlemen'there yesterday 'supporting' the Dolphins on the Hill side of the ground. I had never seen these people there before in 28 yrs of following Frankston. Their behaviour was disgraceful, yelling out and bagging the Port players at first, then they turned on the umpires and finally zeroed in on a couple of Frankston players. Their langauge was littered with "effs" and "cee's" and was non stop all day. I imagine a lot of people would have been offended by these morons but if you were there and heard all this crap please dont think that all Dolphins supporters are like this. There was no police presence or security I could see in the area unfortunately. Hopefully just blow ins who wont be seen again.
Couple of significant injuries for Frankston in the last quarter.James Wilsen going off holding his shoulder or collarbone, and Brandon Wood going down in the last 30 seconds holding his knee.