16 hours ago, hardtack said:

I'm torn on this one...I want it to be in Sydney so my son and I can go along to watch the game.

You'd rather see a loss in person than a win on T.V?

tsk tsk tsk. 

 

How awesome would a game against the tiggers be? A crowd of eleventy bazillion for the first time most of the team plays finals.

What a way to experience your first September action.

15 hours ago, monoccular said:

FCS (i) get there (ii) beat whoever comes at us

One step at a time.  This is all the type of cr@p I heard around round 20 last year.

 

Yep. And then beat whoever we meet. Can't whine and say 'but only if we didn't play them a X ground, or that team in that final.

 

If you want to be the best, then you have to beat the best. No ifs, no buts. Do it or watch another team hold the cup.

1 hour ago, faultydet said:

You'd rather see a loss in person than a win on T.V?

tsk tsk tsk. 

 

How awesome would a game against the tiggers be? A crowd of eleventy bazillion for the first time most of the team plays finals.

What a way to experience your first September action.

Unfortunately we can't afford a trip to Melbourne at the moment and my son goes in for a full knee reconstruction this Thursday (his arthroscopy of 2 years ago failed) which means travel is out of the question anyway ?

I wouldn't write us off against the Swans quite so readily... yes they're the form team of the comp, but they are due for a loss.

Having said that, mine was purely selfish motivation and yes, a final against Richmond at the 'G' would be fantastic... I think we would actually send them packing.

1 hour ago, bandicoot said:

Sydney are beatable up there. Lost to hawthorn and essendon had them on the ropes. The smaller ground also helps our contested game style. If we are on andrhey are slightly off we will win 

I'm not convinced.

Sydney are rarely 'off'. Their start to the year was an exception and they had some injuries to key players as well.

Their formline since is by far the best in the comp. They have been ultra consistent and Hawthorn were able to get their kicking game going against the Swans up there. We don't have a kicking game, we'd be relying solely on our contest work to get us on top.

And Sydney are the contest kings. At the SCG, they'd squeeze us into a pulp with their pressure and superior ball-handling and ball movement skills.

Can we please just make it first

Its a tough situation for the excited people. If we win on Sat they will only have a short window of discussion on who they want to play so I understand they want to discuss now. 

Being a realist, it's very very very very very unlikely we're going to win the premiership this year.

That being the case, I wouldn't mind playing Sydney in Sydney, because that's the kind of finals experience that will hold all our players in good stead in the coming years.

And hey, given our form interstate. maybe we'd even give them a shake ...

 

 

Still, let's just make it first, eh?

MFC Elimination Final vs ?

Richmond  10%

Port             30%

Swannies   60%

I'd like to play Sydney simply because all the pressure would be in them and we'd have absolutely nothing to lose. We seem to play well when we're underdogs as well. 

It's going to come down to who between Sydney and Port can dish out the bigger hiding to their opponents in Carlton and Gold Coast.

Sydney by 10 goals and Port by 6 goals will see us play Port in Adelaide on Thursday night - providing of course that we account for Collingwood and Adelaide dispose of West Coast.

Our nightmare scenario is West Coast winning and pipping us by less than 1% if we cave into the Pies.

If that happens, no TV in the house will be safe.

Edited August 22, 20178 yr by McQueen

I'll also be barracking hard for the Giants to beat the Cats on Saturday because if they do, they'll move to the top of the ladder and put extra incentive for the Crows to beat West Coast so they can finish top.

33 minutes ago, McQueen said:

It's going to come down to who between Sydney and Port can dish out the bigger hiding to their opponents in Carlton and Gold Coast.

Sydney by 10 goals and Port by 6 goals will see us play Port in Adelaide on Thursday night - providing of course that we account for Collingwood and Adelaide dispose of West Coast.

Our nightmare scenario is West Coast winning and pipping us by less than 1% if we cave into the Pies.

If that happens, no TV in the house will be safe.

You'd think Port will beat that rabble Gold coast by more than what Sydney will beat Carlton by.. Hope I'm wrong though! If that happens in a strange way if we lost to Collingwood we'd play Port would be a better outcome but I couldn't handle the 24 hours from our game to West Coast/Adelaide and run the risk we don't make it but if Adelaide salute then there's merit in a loss to Collingwood

Im tipping the saints to beat the Tigers.  they are filthy with how their season has ended and its Reiwolts last game.

all other games going to form, it would mean they play us regardless of %

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

MFC Elimination Final vs ?

Richmond  10%

Port             30%

Swannies   60%

Get on the Saints DC, they flogged them 6 weeks ago and this will be Roo's send off.

7 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Get on the Saints DC, they flogged them 6 weeks ago and this will be Roo's send off.

certainly possible, bomba, but less so at the 'g' than darklands

5 hours ago, DubDee said:

Im tipping the saints to beat the Tigers.  they are filthy with how their season has ended and its Reiwolts last game.

all other games going to form, it would mean they play us regardless of %

I reckon the Saints are still a smokey to actually make the 8. Adelaide wins, Freo beats Essendon (possible, though unlikely. Freo will want to show something after their putrid performance last week), and Saints cap it off with a win over their bunnies the Tigers.

That would put Saints in 8th and us in 7th regardless of the Collingwood game. St Kilda would play Sydney most likely, and we'd front up against a demoralised Tigers outfit in the Elimination final. It's the absolute dream outcome I reckon.

Sydney misses out on the top 4, so have to do it the hard way, Port and Adelaide get a Showdown qualifying final, Melbourne and Richmond play each other in a final for the first time in 76 years or something, and Riewoldt gets one last final to go out on. Oh, and Essendon miss out on the 8 as they deserve. Perfect outcome.

 

And with that, our potential finals opponents could be Richmond at the G, Geelong at the G, Adelaide at Adelaide oval, and whoever at the G for the granny. I'd back us as a legit chance in all those games at all those venues. Dream run? Maybe, but it's possible.

Edited August 22, 20178 yr by Chook

7 hours ago, JV7 said:

You'd think Port will beat that rabble Gold coast by more than what Sydney will beat Carlton by.. Hope I'm wrong though! If that happens in a strange way if we lost to Collingwood we'd play Port would be a better outcome but I couldn't handle the 24 hours from our game to West Coast/Adelaide and run the risk we don't make it but if Adelaide salute then there's merit in a loss to Collingwood

 

disagree there is no merit in losing to collingwood and going into the finals having lost the week before does absolutely nothing for the teams confidence. We need to go into the finals having wooped Collingwood, not just beat them but wooped them. We are not playing great football compared to most if not all other finalists, so we need a rousing win to lift our confidence and spirits, on our day we can beat any of these teams. Problem we are going to need to have to beat at least 4 of the remaining 7 finals teams, that is after last weeks win and then a win against collingwood. That will require us to win 6 games in a row against the best to win the flag. Fight like hell and give it a red hot go Dees.

What Chook said.

2 hours ago, Chook said:

I reckon the Saints are still a smokey to actually make the 8. Adelaide wins, Freo beats Essendon (possible, though unlikely. Freo will want to show something after their putrid performance last week), and Saints cap it off with a win over their bunnies the Tigers.

That would put Saints in 8th and us in 7th regardless of the Collingwood game. St Kilda would play Sydney most likely, and we'd front up against a demoralised Tigers outfit in the Elimination final. It's the absolute dream outcome I reckon.

Sydney misses out on the top 4, so have to do it the hard way, Port and Adelaide get a Showdown qualifying final, Melbourne and Richmond play each other in a final for the first time in 76 years or something, and Riewoldt gets one last final to go out on. Oh, and Essendon miss out on the 8 as they deserve. Perfect outcome.

 

And with that, our potential finals opponents could be Richmond at the G, Geelong at the G, Adelaide at Adelaide oval, and whoever at the G for the granny. I'd back us as a legit chance in all those games at all those venues. Dream run? Maybe, but it's possible.

I like what you've done with ladder predictor, but with regards to Fremantle, I thought they'd bounce back against the Tigers....

Fremantle would struggle to beat Casey on current form, just won't happen.

Words can't describe how much I'd love for it to be Richmond and to knock them out.

On 21/08/2017 at 3:05 PM, hardtack said:

I'm torn on this one...I want it to be in Sydney so my son and I can go along to watch the game.

Will be very difficult to get a ticket. Capacity only 45,000. 

18 hours ago, McQueen said:

I'll also be barracking hard for the Giants to beat the Cats on Saturday because if they do, they'll move to the top of the ladder and put extra incentive for the Crows to beat West Coast so they can finish top.

Not sure what the benefit in finishing top is as opposed to 2nd?

I just don't see us beating Sydney up there. Port we are a better chance

19 hours ago, daisycutter said:

MFC Elimination Final vs ?

Not making it 20%

Richmond  20%

Port             20%

Swannies   40%

Fixed

One moment that's stands out this year was how seething the players were after the Richmond loss.

We can beat all three of 'em, no reason why we can't go all the way this year, believe! Reckon Trac would go next level if given a September chance.

Edited August 22, 20178 yr by 3Dee