Finals still a chance?

[chookrat 4,257]

Looked at the ladder today and we're only 4 games + percentage behind Adelaide who are in the 8. If we win our last 4 and everyone from 16 - 8th lose all of their remaining games and we can make up 20% percentage we could still theoretically play finals. Throw in a couple of doping investigations and we will rocket into the 8 and as the doggies demonstrated in 2016 and with May, Tmac, Weid, Jetta, Vanders, J Smith to come back in the remaining rounds anything is possible. Stay positive! 

[Frustrated Demon 244]

[censored] me. If there was ever clutching at straws then this is it. I do like your optimism mate.

[Demonstone 22,638]

Clutching at too many beers, not straws.

[Moonshadow 17,676]

[Red and Blue realist 2,051]

Sorry mate, Adelaide and the dogs play in the last round, so even with a draw one of them will be above us. Looking good for 9th though

[chookrat 4,257]

3 minutes ago, Red and Blue realist said:

Sorry mate, Adelaide and the dogs play in the last round, so even with a draw one of them will be above us. Looking good for 9th though

What if both sides play so bad that they both lose? 

[Red and Blue realist 2,051]

1 minute ago, chookrat said:

What if both sides play so bad that they both lose? 

Surely that could only happen in games we're involved with???

[Moonshadow 17,676]

4 minutes ago, chookrat said:

What if both sides play so bad that they both lose? 

Yeah, like neither side turns up, like, at all....

?

Edited August 3, 2019 by Moonshadow

[chookrat 4,257]

2 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Yeah, like neither side turns up, like, at all....

Kind of like when Essendon fly to a JLT match in regional Victoria. There is a precedent.

[Moonshadow 17,676]

Just now, chookrat said:

Kind of like when Essendon fly to a JLT match in regional Victoria. There is a precedent.

I'm on board Chookrat! Let's book finals tickets. Wooohooo!!!

[Diamond_Jim 12,598]

1 minute ago, chookrat said:

Kind of like when Essendon fly to a JLT match in regional Victoria. There is a precedent.

I'm thinking the mass disqualification route. Would need to be a good one to knock out 10 clubs

Edited August 3, 2019 by Diamond_Jim

[Moonshadow 17,676]

To be honest, this thread is a humerous breath of fresh air around these parts.

 

 

 

 

Snowflake's hope in hell, though.... ?

[chookrat 4,257]

5 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

I'm thinking the mass disqualification route. Would need to be a good one to knock out 10 clubs

Absolutely, I considered including an accident like a plane crash or a bus down a ravine as a scenario but that would have been in poor taste.

[Diamond_Jim 12,598]

Just now, chookrat said:

Absolutely, I considered including an accident like a plane crash or a bus down a ravine as a scenario but that would have been in poor taste.

Yes perhaps in poor taste but how about Mebourne on the road. A minor pandemic hits Melbourne (no deaths) but the city is quarantined.

Only the interstate teams and Melbourne can play and all finals are moved to Alice Springs. (Alice in Wonderland allegories appreciated.)

As there are 8 interstate teams we would need to knock GC off somehow.

There are probably TV shows with stranger plots !

[Dee Zephyr 19,267]

Have a few spare membership barcodes if anyone is keen.

[chookrat 4,257]

28 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Yes perhaps in poor taste but how about Mebourne on the road. A minor pandemic hits Melbourne (no deaths) but the city is quarantined.

Only the interstate teams and Melbourne can play and all finals are moved to Alice Springs. (Alice in Wonderland allegories appreciated.)

As there are 8 interstate teams we would need to knock GC off somehow.

There are probably TV shows with stranger plots !

That would have to happen in the final round when we play North overseas in Tassie. 

[ding 5,126]

49 minutes ago, Red and Blue realist said:

Sorry mate, Adelaide and the dogs play in the last round, so even with a draw one of them will be above us. Looking good for 9th though

Fantasic news if we can make it to 9th IMO.

Look at what happened to Richmond after finishing 9th a few times...

PREMIERSHIP CUP HERE WE COME!!!

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,250]

Steven Bradbury says hi

[david_neitz_is_my_dad 4,083]

I did notice that even after a shocking year we are only a handful of games outside the eight. Its quite funny actually.

[Sir Why You Little 37,052]

Cool I must remember to Renew MCC Membership on Monday, now I actually have a reason!!

[chookrat 4,257]

In seriousness, I'm looking forward to tonights game. Kids in bed, wife out for dinner with our eldest and me with a couple of glasses or red to watch what we are trying to do with no expectations. 

[Dee Dubya 220]

1 hour ago, chookrat said:

Looked at the ladder today and we're only 4 games + percentage behind Adelaide who are in the 8. If we win our last 4 and everyone from 16 - 8th lose all of their remaining games and we can make up 20% percentage we could still theoretically play finals. Throw in a couple of doping investigations and we will rocket into the 8 and as the doggies demonstrated in 2016 and with May, Tmac, Weid, Jetta, Vanders, J Smith to come back in the remaining rounds anything is possible. Stay positive! 

Yes. And OMac will win the Brownlow.

[Little Goffy 14,582]

Unfortunately we passed into the sad realms of "Mathematical Impossibility" last round.

Our maximum possible number of wins is 9.

Crows, Port and Bulldogs all currently on nine must win no more games.

Crows play the Bulldogs.

1 hour ago, Red and Blue realist said:

Sorry mate, Adelaide and the dogs play in the last round, so even with a draw one of them will be above us. Looking good for 9th though

Oops, yeah, what he said. Right on the money, actually, we could, conceivably, make 9th.

All it would take is for two teams to win no more games and a further five teams to only win one game each at most, including of course the issue of games against others int he same group.

I would be, hmm, satisfied isn't the word... if we were able to pass Sydney and also finish with our perfomance after the bye round being ahead of Collingwood.

Come to think of it, we could have a shot at injury-pillaged Magpies, Sydney on a bad day, and Kangaroos for an end of season laugh.

Do that and we could even slip ahead of St Kilda on percentage, provided they win no more games.

 

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE SEASON IS OVER THIS IS ALL JUST PRESEASON FOR 2020.

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

By round 30 we will be pushing for the 8. GO DEMONS!

[Diamond_Jim 12,598]

took a dive tonight but I'm still pushing the national pandemic to get us over the line