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1 minute ago, Cards13 said:

Even though they will win GWS are the losers out of this game. Another 2 long term injuries. Shaw knee looked shredded, could be the end for him.

Shaw looks fine on the bench. Icing the knee. No ice for structural damage. I say bruising and back for Melbourne game. 

Meantime they can’t lose. 

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    What’s happened to “sauce” Jacobs? Last year he was brilliant, he has been Spencer (sorry Spencil) bad this year. 

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    2 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    Shaw looks fine on the bench. Icing the knee. No ice for structural damage. I say bruising and back for Melbourne game. 

    Meantime they can’t lose. 

    $10 his season is done.. :) 

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    7 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

    $10 his season is done.. :) 

    I hope for our sake you’re right 

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    Now that the dream of second died with a Jeremy McGovern kick after the siren, let us focus our energy on putting the mozz on North. If they lose and we win, we are two games and significant percentage ahead of 9th and 10th, and the chances of us missing the 8 go from “enough to make us s*** ourselves” to “mathematically still possible but the biggest kind of unlikely”.

    God I hope we win tomorrow. I really need to be able to put my mind at ease for a little while at least!

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    Well with tonight’s results it’s setup a nice blood boiling, heart tugging, pressure cooking Sunday afternoon/evening. Can’t wait! 

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    6 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Now that the Giants have cemented their place in finals, they may choose to rest a lot of players in the last round.

    Given there is a bye round thats playing with fire

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    10 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Now that the Giants have cemented their place in finals, they may choose to rest a lot of players in the last round.

    If we win tomorrow and beat West Coast next week, our GWS clash in round 23 will be for third. I doubt they’d be so keen to face Richmond at the MCG in a qualifying final to take it easy against us.

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    QF not prelim

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    9 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Now that the Giants have cemented their place in finals, they may choose to rest a lot of players in the last round.

    What...rest all the ones that couldn't walk at games end ? ?

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    15 minutes ago, johndemonic said:

    The Realists must be happy with that GWS win and Adelaide being ruled out of contention. We don't want to slip lower than 9th

    Us realists don't care if we slip lower than 9th if we are out of the 8.  That won't mean much given the nature of the season.  We want to ensure we don't slip lower than 8th.  I bet you idealists will scream more loudly than  any of us if we miss the 8.

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    18 minutes ago, johndemonic said:

    The Realists must be happy with that GWS win and Adelaide being ruled out of contention. We don't want to slip lower than 9th

    Are you really that surprised that after 12 years of not playing finals at all, some of us can't help but focus on actually making the top 8 this year?

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    1 minute ago, sue said:

    Us realists don't care if we slip lower than 9th if we are out of the 8.  That won't mean much given the nature of the season.  We want to ensure we don't slip lower than 8th.  I bet you idealists will scream more loudly than  any of us if we miss the 8.

    Not as loudly as you realists blaming us for putting the mozz on it hehe

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    18 minutes ago, johndemonic said:

    The Realists must be happy with that GWS win and Adelaide being ruled out of contention. We don't want to slip lower than 9th

    If you're going to troll, at least come up with something half intelligent.

    Adelaide were never in contention for finals; they're stuck on 10 wins like the Bombers with a terrible percentage. It's increasingly clear 13 wins + good percentage is the qualifier for finals this year, so any team with under 10 wins stealing points off teams above them is a win.

    Completely different story for Port who have the exact same wins as us and would've leapfrogged us if they'd beaten the Eagles today. It's really not hard to see the difference and how we benefit from Port losing.

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    15 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    Now that the dream of second died with a Jeremy McGovern kick after the siren, let us focus our energy on putting the mozz on North. If they lose and we win, we are two games and significant percentage ahead of 9th and 10th, and the chances of us missing the 8 go from “enough to make us s*** ourselves” to “mathematically still possible but the biggest kind of unlikely”.

    God I hope we win tomorrow. I really need to be able to put my mind at ease for a little while at least!

    I think you've covered all bases there Nasher.  

    My resting heart rate just shot up. Thanks 

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    Ok so we have to win tomorrow. Cannot stress that enough. 

    Gee the giants certainly copped the worst of the injuries. I know port lost a few but it looks like Shaw's out for the season, who knows how bad Kelly's concussion is and reid did his hammy. 

    Wow the crows just crumbled this season. 

    Poor Port though, they led for every minute of that game until after the siren. They did a melbourne and couldn't hold on for 44 seconds. 

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    4 minutes ago, layzie said:

    I really hope you can all sleep tonight. Goodnight Demonland, tomorrow is a huge day.

    Im drinking a bottle of Whiskey, and taking a few Temazepam tablets i had,..... ummm,..... "left over" at work tonight. ( They cant swallow them when they are already asleep can they..?)

    Sleep wont be a problem :)

     

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    3 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Now that the Giants have cemented their place in finals, they may choose to rest a lot of players in the last round.

    They may not have the option to rest players.

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    8 hours ago, Nasher said:

    Now that the dream of second died with a Jeremy McGovern kick after the siren, let us focus our energy on putting the mozz on North. If they lose and we win, we are two games and significant percentage ahead of 9th and 10th, and the chances of us missing the 8 go from “enough to make us s*** ourselves” to “mathematically still possible but the biggest kind of unlikely”.

    God I hope we win tomorrow. I really need to be able to put my mind at ease for a little while at least!

    The MFCSS ain me will still be afraid of not making finals even if it’s impossible not to make it... ?

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    Is it bye-bye Tex for this season?   

    He must get a few weeks for that half-sling/half-driving tackle on Kelly.

    Commentators were quick to play it down (as they do with better known player) arguing that Tex couldn't know the ball had fallen free.  Dangerfield got a week last year even tho he couldn't have known the ball had fallen free.  His tackle was far less malicious than Tex's.

    Likes being the tough guy but nothing tough about that tackle. 

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    50 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Is it bye-bye Tex for this season?   

    He must get a few weeks for that half-sling/half-driving tackle on Kelly.

    Commentators were quick to play it down (as they do with better known player) arguing that Tex couldn't know the ball had fallen free.  Dangerfield got a week last year even tho he couldn't have known the ball had fallen free.  His tackle was far less malicious than Tex's.

    Likes being the tough guy but nothing tough about that tackle. 

    Ryan nyhuis from Freo got three weeks for a similar tackle on Robbie gray I think.

    i remember at the time the commentary was similar ‘didn’t know the ball had jarred free’.

    didnt help him. Will be an interesting case for the afl of ‘first year rookie of an irrelevant club vs name player’ 

    will get 2 weeks I reckon

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