{"id":29535,"date":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/assistant-coach-says-he-felt-sorry-for-port-adelaide-defenders\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","slug":"assistant-coach-says-he-felt-sorry-for-port-adelaide-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/assistant-coach-says-he-felt-sorry-for-port-adelaide-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant coach says he \u201cfelt sorry\u201d for Port Adelaide defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Port Adelaide assistant coach Aaron Greaves says he felt sorry for the club\u2019s defenders during their Saturday night loss &#8212; but he\u2019s not letting them off the hook.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOur pressure wasn\u2019t good enough through the middle of the ground,\u201d Aaron told Leith Forrest on Sunday. \u201cWhen Essendon\u2019s quality midfielders are able to run and carry the ball through space it makes it very hard for the defenders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were some times when I felt sorry for our defenders and thought there wasn\u2019t much that they could do,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd there was other times that we\u2019ve looked through that they probably could\u2019ve been better at some contests as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/327502472&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron paid tribute to Essendon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey were fantastic\u2026 they had us on the ropes early,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just looked stronger than us, they looked tougher than us, they looked quicker than us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully we put it down to a disappointing performance, and one where maybe we weren\u2019t physically right on the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully our response will come in our preparation and how we perform against Brisbane this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/cats-coach-chris-scott-has-made-a-big-call-on-the-adelaide-crows\"><strong>GEELONG COACH MAKES A BIG CALL ON THE ADELAIDE CROWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/report-this-year-s-agl-gf-entertainment-is-locked-in\"><strong>REPORT &#8212; THIS YEAR\u2019S AFL GRAND FINAL ENTERTAINMENT IS LOCKED IN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Adelaide assistant coach Aaron Greaves says he felt sorry for the club\u2019s defenders during their Saturday night loss &#8212; but he\u2019s not letting them off the hook. \u201cOur pressure wasn\u2019t good enough through the middle of the ground,\u201d Aaron told Leith Forrest on Sunday. \u201cWhen Essendon\u2019s quality midfielders are able to run and carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leith-forrest","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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