Cool thread.

It really is a cool thread now

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not just a pretty face.

WC - Freo, Ess, WB, NM, Adel, Rich 16

NM - BL, Carl, Melb, WC, StK, PA 18

Rich - Ess, Melb, Syd, Coll, Haw, WC 14

Melb - Syd, Rich, NM, Freo, Carl, StK 12

Freo - WC, WB, PA, Melb, Ess, Geel 12

Personally i think we should be right against sydney, we just beat port at there worst sydney imo are better.

I think we'll be ok. We just have to lose the next two and we'll be fine. I dont think we'll beat North as we would struggle to beat the little league at the Dome.

I'm thinking I'll place $100 bucks on the Dees to beat Richmond. That way I'll at least have something to be happy about If we do win.

I'm thinking I'll place $100 bucks on the Dees to beat Richmond. That way I'll at least have something to be happy about If we do win.

That is a Fantastic Idea, a True each way bet. Thanks for the tip!

Hi all,

I wonder what fellow posters think of the fact that we are so close to going over that magic 4 game barrier this season. So I ask you what would be the repercussions for the club in terms of membership and support if we relinquish these picks?

Would you throw in your membership

Not support the debt demolition

Surly if we are to loose these priority picks through the shier idiocy of pining for 2 goal losses then there will be major drums beating at the club. Personally I agree with that curly haired, mono browed champion of ours Garry Lyon when he suggests 4 games should be the limit.

I've lived with the disappointment of Barassi (my Idol) leaving us, Norm Smith finishing, Iwas too young to really understand the gravity, & all the finishes on or around the bottom,not only losing but being the punching bag of the league.

If we don't do everything to get the priority pick This Year, them I'm done. We were royally screwed by the Blues in 2007, sorry. we screwed ourselves back in 2007, we could have had Kreuzer or Cotchin & maybe Judd, instead we got a dubious 4 points & a gutfull of hollowness.

If we don't do everything to get the priority pick This Year, them I'm done.

Fear not. We are armed with mighty jurisprudence.

I've lived with the disappointment of Barassi (my Idol) leaving us, Norm Smith finishing, Iwas too young to really understand the gravity, & all the finishes on or around the bottom,not only losing but being the punching bag of the league.

If we don't do everything to get the priority pick This Year, them I'm done. We were royally screwed by the Blues in 2007, sorry. we screwed ourselves back in 2007, we could have had Kreuzer or Cotchin & maybe Judd, instead we got a dubious 4 points & a gutfull of hollowness.

TBH I didn't think we deserved to qualify in 2007, we had 5 or 6 finishes under 10 points and had a sh!tload of injuries.

So I wasn't angry when we won that game, was a strange game though. Was like going done to the local park and sitting down and feeding the ducks - very relaxed, everyone chatting away, with no atmosphere whatsoever. It certainly was a walk in the park for TJ. Besides, we were giving farewells to Bizz, Browny, and Pickett (and Matty Lappin retired after Rd 21 - how's that for tanking), so we were never going to lose.

With that said - we certainly 'deserve' that PP in 2009. This weekend will see our 50th loss since the start of 2007, and we should do all we reasonably can to get the 54th loss against St Kilda in Rd 22.

If we don't do everything to get the priority pick This Year, them I'm done. We were royally screwed by the Blues in 2007, sorry. we screwed ourselves back in 2007, we could have had Kreuzer or Cotchin & maybe Judd, instead we got a dubious 4 points & a gutfull of hollowness.

Officially, the Carlton game put us over the 4 wins. But the fact is, we were never going to lose that game. It just wasn't going to happen. Carlton were going to do whatever it took to lose. Ok, so maybe we should have done the same. I don't know. It would have been a complete frace if it wasn't already.

I remember at the time feeling sick about it during the week, feeling damned if we do, damned if we don't, but by the time the game came around I had a "F%^K it" attitude and decided that we may as well win, what else were we going to do. And it was Doggy Brown's and Biz's and Pickett's last game, so why not send them off with a win, as dubious as it was.

Knowing that we had a tanking Calrton club coming up in Round 22, and knowing we had 3 wins already, the game that screwed us in 2007 was the win over the Bulldogs in Round 19. That win simply wasn't worth it.

In the end, we somehow went from an 0-9 start to the season to winning 5 of our last 13. For what exactly? Mark Riley's resume?

We didn't 'deserve' the pick no. Nor was it Carltank, who we enabled, that was the problem.

It was the Doggies match. Yes, we lost some close matches - lost being the focus.

We didn't lose the key match, and that is .. or was .. the problem.

WC - Ess, WB, NM, Adel, Rich

NM - Carl, Melb, WC, StK, PA

Rich - Melb, Syd, Coll, Haw, WC

Melb - Rich, NM, Freo, Carl, StK

Freo - WB, PA, Melb, Ess, Geel

WC - Ess, WB, NM, Adel, Rich

Melb - Rich, NM, Freo, Carl, StK

Freo - WB, PA, Melb, Ess, Geel

May as well remove Richmond and North from that list.

So WCE have 3 winnable games that we just have to pray & hope for... and on our side we just have to hope we can out-tank Freo at the G.

Tense few weeks ahead...

From my perspective, it is COMPLETELY irrelevant what other clubs do.

We want pick 1, because there is one absolute standout in this years draft- Tom Scully.

If our next pick is pick 2, or 3 or 4 is doesn't really matter, because it is arguable who is better out of Butcher, Lucas, Trengove etc. Pick 4 could just as easily be better than pick 2.

To get Scully, we essentially have to only win 1 of the next 3 games.

I think we'll definietly beat Freo and I think we'll lose to North. Thus, basically the priority pick comes down to this week vs the Tiges