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I don't like these type of pre-season hype articles. They weren't there for Doggies or Richmond before the start of their premiership-winning seasons. I just hope we don't get sucked in. I'd rather prove the doubters wrong.

Go Dees!

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If we had beaten North and had done the job against Collingwood in round 23 we would have been equal on points with GWS who finished 4th last year.

In that sense a top 4 finish is no pipe dream.

Winning the big one requires luck ... something we haven't had lots of for around 50 years.

I live in hope !!

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4 minutes ago, juzzk1d said:

I don't like these type of pre-season hype articles. They weren't there for Doggies or Richmond before the start of their premiership-winning seasons. I just hope we don't get sucked in. I'd rather prove the doubters wrong.

Go Dees!

I like that this view is so diametrically opposed to the view of Robbo last week. I think I'm sitting cautiously somewhere in the middle. I believe we can be a top 4 side but Round 23 still haunts me and I have severe trust issues as a result.

We need to win the Freo, North, Hawthorn & Rd 23 games that we dropped last year to be a serious contender for anything.

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51 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Awesome, we always respond well when the media pumps us up.

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And our ability to ‘respond’ seems to have no gender bias. The MFC girls were being talked up as flag favourites just a couple of weeks ago. 

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1 hour ago, juzzk1d said:

I don't like these type of pre-season hype articles. They weren't there for Doggies or Richmond before the start of their premiership-winning seasons. I just hope we don't get sucked in. I'd rather prove the doubters wrong.

Go Dees!

I think the problem was that everyone thought the Bulldogs flag was such a fluke, that there was no way it'd happen again.  Then bugger me, Richmond came out and fluke a flag the very next year.  All of a sudden it's a possibility that any time that finished 5-18th the year before could come in and get their fluke too.  The media now know this and run with it to fill papers, so that they can then fill more papers later in the year when that team fails.

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6 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

I have us down for the next 3 flags. 

Relax, we've got this

Gee why so pessimistic, I expect the next 5 flags.

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5 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Didn't we do a Richmond last year by finishing ninth in the most cruel and agonising way possible?

I think that's now called 'Doing a Melbourne'.

 

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Not sure there are any teams out there who can dominate a year (18,  19 wins) so a top 4 finish probably means that a team just needs to get to 15 or 16 wins.  Probably. 

Given a reasonable run with injuries we can win about 11 - 16 games ... anything less than that means we've either had a wretched run with injuries or we're in strife. 

The area we need to get a lot better - pace and quick movement away from the packs & stoppages.   However,  we are sometimes very good in that area when the opposition allows us to be very good.  Other times we're ok or reasonable.

In round 23 last year we got exposed in that very area.  Fix that and maintain improvement in other aspects and we'll win games that we should win.

But lets face it,  Rome wasn't built in a day and we've come a long way in 3 or 4 years (from a very ordinary base)  We've building a decent list of players so the coaches will have something to work with.

If a lot of things go our way we can contend.  Our list isn't that good (yet) where we could be described as a dominant team.  What is in our favour is that the league is more of an even competition these days. 

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Funny, 12 months ago 'doing a Richmond' was choking and finishing 9th.  We did that last year.

Now 'doing a Richmond' means what?  Keeping your squad on the park and winning a flag?  

We did a Richmond last year, lets follow in their footsteps again.

On a serious note, Ninthmond were all about their pressure style, which is the basis of our game.  With better quality skills and players, we may be about to 'outRichmond' the tigers...

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I don't think this warrants it's own thread so I will put this here. https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/02/26/everyones-playing-for-second/

KB thinks everyone else in the league is just playing for second place based on the 4 games of practice matches. Is he high or off his meds?

Is this footy's version of The Onion?
 

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You can read into these games whatever you want...this is what I saw:

West Coast vs. Port Adelaide – They both kicked eight goals each in a ho-hum game.

Adelaide vs Fremantle was a fun 10-point game margin

Melbourne beat a struggling North by 53 points

And Richmond, my God how scary were they in destroying a much hyped up Essendon by 87 points and never got out of first gear.

No premiership hangover for the Tigers who looked a class above any of the teams that played on the weekend.

As you know we never get ahead of ourselves at Tigerland but surely after watching them be so clinical, aggressive and hungry it seems everyone else is playing for second in 2018.

The Tigers are looking at a five-peat, something the game has never seen before.

I’m KB, that’s my take

 

 

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24 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I don't think this warrants it's own thread so I will put this here. https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/02/26/everyones-playing-for-second/

KB thinks everyone else in the league is just playing for second place based on the 4 games of practice matches. Is he high or off his meds?

Is this footy's version of The Onion?
 

 

KB.  Oh god.  Creaming his dacks already.  What a [censored].  They are 2 injuries away from average.

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8 hours ago, Demonland said:

We would need a massive mentally mind-shift from the whole football club. 

Can we average 40,000+ bums on seats over a sustained period of time - even after finishing 14th ? 

Can we hit 75,000 plus members in a year - even after finishing 14th ?

 

4 hours ago, Demonland said:

I don't think this warrants it's own thread so I will put this here. https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/02/26/everyones-playing-for-second/

KB thinks everyone else in the league is just playing for second place based on the 4 games of practice matches. Is he high or off his meds?

Is this footy's version of The Onion?
 

 

KB is a complete turd head - Tigers have spent many years managing their supporter base expectations. But I dont give an f KB can have his year of pumping the tyres up - I actually like that. Last year was awesome so as far as Im concerned KB can say what he wants. 

Many people wrote the Tigers off last year - I did not. 

As a sponsor of their club ( and it dont come cheap ) - we pay over 10K per membership. You get rare access to many of their key personnel ie Dimma, Blair, Francis - you dont win a premiership by luck. Many hard years or hard work is unseen by the public and the newspapers.   

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1 hour ago, DaveyDee said:

We would need a massive mentally mind-shift from the whole football club. 

Can we average 40,000+ bums on seats over a sustained period of time - even after finishing 14th ? 

Can we hit 75,000 plus members in a year - even after finishing 14th ?

 

KB is a complete turd head - Tigers have spent many years managing their supporter base expectations. But I dont give an f KB can have his year of pumping the tyres up - I actually like that. Last year was awesome so as far as Im concerned KB can say what he wants. 

Many people wrote the Tigers off last year - I did not. 

As a sponsor of their club ( and it dont come cheap ) - we pay over 10K per membershnow

In our game you make your own luck and BOY, YOU NEED IT. Hardly an injury, now that is luck! Oh, 3 Finals including the Grand Final at the  M C G home ground of the Tigers   now that is not unlucky is it..   You can take it anyway you like.  Good Luck to them the Tigers. I can't see that LUCK happening again. Call it what you like. 

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56 minutes ago, nosoupforme said:

In our game you make your own luck and BOY, YOU NEED IT. Hardly an injury, now that is luck! Oh, 3 Finals including the Grand Final at the  M C G home ground of the Tigers   now that is not unlucky is it..   You can take it anyway you like.  Good Luck to them the Tigers. I can't see that LUCK happening again. Call it what you like. 

I can hear what you are saying. And you are right - you can take it any way you like. 

I'm not sure the Tigers see it the way you do and after a premiership last year - I'm sure many of them really dont care at the end of the day what KB says. Why, for me that little turd head KB can say whatever he wants. 

Think its generally accepted KB is nothing more than an AFL journalist looking for some "click bait". 

 

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4 minutes ago, DaveyDee said:

I can hear what you are saying. And you are right - you can take it any way you like. 

I'm not sure the Tigers see it the way you do and after a premiership last year - I'm sure many of them really dont care at the end of the day what KB says. Why, for me that little turd head KB can say whatever he wants. 

Think its generally accepted KB is nothing more than an AFL journalist looking for some "click bait". 

 

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I’d rather do a Richmond (win a flag and have a good season after to reward new signed up members) than do a Footscray (don’t even make the finals after winning one.)

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