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1 minute ago, Elegt said:

greatest game of  the year so far. glad swannies got the chocolates. gives us better chance of getting in the 8 which is so tight at the moment 

Beating Carlscum by 109 pts is the game of the year.

I'm less concerned about top 4 now. We had that chance and blew it. Far more concerned about finals itself, which that loss goes some way to helping. 

Besides, it's just so, so good to see Norf lose. Scott is a massive [censored]. 

 
1 minute ago, SaberFang said:

I'm less concerned about top 4 now. We had that chance and blew it. Far more concerned about finals itself, which that loss goes some way to helping. 

Besides, it's just so, so good to see Norf lose. Scott is a massive [censored]. 

 Agreed.

At any rate, Collingwood, Port and Sydney all have tough runs home (Port's gets even tougher if they somehow can't beat Fremantle today):

  1. Collingwood - North, Richmond, Sydney (away), Brisbane, Port, Fremantle (away)
  2. Port - GWS, Dogs (Ballarat), Adelaide, West Coast, Collingwood (away), Essendon
  3. Sydney - GC, Essendon (away), Collingwood, us (away), GWS (away), Hawthorn

Of course, our run home is just as hard, but our destiny remains in our hands. And you never know, with those three sides having runs home like that, if we can outperform what we all think we're going to achieve (i.e. we get past 13 wins), we could go up on the ladder (I doubt it, personally).


Sheesh, Robbie Gray out cold. That’s nasty.

 

Port beat us right ?? ???


I assume there will be some inevitable posts re: 'how did we lose to port' - similarly those who thought the first half against the dogs were awful. 

To me - this game/ the cats loss, richmonds loss, hawthorn etc -  shows how close the competition is, and how mere percentages 'off your game' or at times 'luck' means you win, or get smashed... 

It's elite sport, it's tough and the margins are always small... 

AND - I really like what Roos, Goodwin and PJ et al, are building towards...and it may not be 2018...

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@Danelska this is Port... against Freo who we just tore a new orifice !! 

Small margins...ffs 

Just now, beelzebub said:

@Danelska this is Port... against Freo who we just tore a new orifice !! 

Small margins...ffs 

ahhh, can't please some  :)

week to week - small things change for the individuals, the coaches, the systems and it becomes cumulative. how else can we account for such massive discrepancies in form lines between what are seemingly teams who are so far apart... bris/hawth, melbs/saints etc etc

3 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

@Danelska this is Port... against Freo who we just tore a new orifice !! 

Small margins...ffs 

Must be both Freo and us playing in Darwin last weekend!  ?

We both seem to have defied the script by bouncing back instead of losing due to fatigue and insufficient recovery time!

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Just now, Danelska said:

ahhh, can't please some  :)

week to week - small things change for the individuals, the coaches, the systems and it becomes cumulative. how else can we account for such massive discrepancies in form lines between what are seemingly teams who are so far apart... bris/hawth, melbs/saints etc etc

Ah I see...kum by yah ;)


Roos Swans ...great Footy

Slockers Port...train wreck

Hope shockers win. Port are pretenders who could only beat us coz of umpires.

I 'm loving round 17!  Bring it home Freo (never thought I'd be saying that, even after a few reds).


freeeeeeoh givin em the ol' heave-ho - way to go

 

 

Wow dockers, what a weekend. Watts’ one handed tackles still exist. Softest front runner of the last 10 years


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