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Melbourne Ladder 2020

Kent
in Melbourne Demons

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Looked back over my  2020 seasons' predictions earlier today. Losses to WC  and the GWS.

I had us at 3 wins and a percentage of 116.

Was that realistic?What did others predict? I would be very happy with that.

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    Including tonight's game against Richmond 3 and 3 was probably the most likely start to the season with 2 and 4 the next. I would have been ecstatic if we had gone 4 and 2

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    I wonder how much external pressure there would have been if we'd lost to GWS. Forget that Perth away and a grand finalist is about the hardest start you can get, the media would have sensed a story and gone for us.

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    5 minutes ago, Supermercado said:

    I wonder how much external pressure there would have been if we'd lost to GWS. Forget that Perth away and a grand finalist is about the hardest start you can get, the media would have sensed a story and gone for us.

    Rightly so, we were so bad in that round one game.

    I don't care if it was meaningless or any other excuses people have thrown around, it simply highlighted that we have not improved or worked on what made us so bad in 2018.

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    2 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    Rightly so, we were so bad in that round one game.

    I don't care if it was meaningless or any other excuses people have thrown around, it simply highlighted that we have not improved or worked on what made us so bad in 2018.

    Depends what a round 2 loss looked like. If it was close not so much, if it was a blowout then there would have been chaos.

    Hopefully the Giants would have had a nervous breakdown returning to the MCG and lost.

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    2-4.

    Wins against the usual suspects in GC and Freo.

    Losses to the rest including a fast St Kilda at Marvel.

    Nothing about our round 1 performance indicated we would’ve been taking a quantum leap in 2020. Very much same old same old.

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    On 4/24/2020 at 2:19 PM, Clint Bizkit said:

    Rightly so, we were so bad in that round one game.

    I don't care if it was meaningless or any other excuses people have thrown around, it simply highlighted that we have not improved or worked on what made us so bad in 2018.

    This is such a bad take it reads like sarcasm, but I know it isn't.

    You've literally said "even if the game had no meaning, I think it meant the following".

    There is a massive asterisk over Round 1 given what the players knew going into it, and we won't know whether what we showed in Round 1 is indicative of what we'll show in any remaining 2020 games until we start playing again.

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    Round 1:  there was actually a lot to like.  We got blasted in about 7 minutes of the first quarter, some of that WA luck running hard.  We never closed the gap, but were not smashed from there.  Some bad entries (might be a WC specific problem, as they have a backline that plays perfectly against the way we enter 50), but other elements were pretty solid.  Think we might have been 3-3 after 6.  Mid table.  

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