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Will need to win all three from here to give us a chance, cant seeing us passing the giants. Season all over. 

Praying there is a performance clause which allows us to sack goody for two consecutive [censored] seasons the guy is [censored] clueless. 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Even if we win our last 3 including beating the Giants, we still need to finish with a higher % than them and they play Adelaide next week and could easily pick up 15-20% there.

Damn it all to hell.

Lol... They would literally need to win 164-0 to "easily pick up 20%"

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11 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Even if we win our last 3 including beating the Giants, we still need to finish with a higher % than them and they play Adelaide next week and could easily pick up 15-20% there.

Damn it all to hell.

If we get to 10 we might pass Collingwood (who will need to beat either Port or Brisbane to get to 10) or St Kilda (who will need to beat either West Coast or GWS).

10 should get us finals. 9 almost certainly won't.

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Just now, titan_uranus said:

If we get to 10 we might pass Collingwood (who will need to beat either Port or Brisbane to get to 10) or St Kilda (who will need to beat either West Coast or GWS).

10 should get us finals. 9 almost certainly won't.

Either way.... No chance we are winning all three. 

 

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1 minute ago, GCDee said:

Either way.... No chance we are winning all three. 

 

Either way its not worth being embarrassed week 1 of the finals and papering over coaching and list cracks in this club , I think making finals we’ll be far too easily satisfied just like the players 

 

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If we can't beat that Swans team we don't deserve to play finals. 

time to have a look at the reasons why our list isn't playing anywhere near it's potential and why the gap between our best and worst is wider than any other team in the comp 

and why we're still dealing with the same issues we were in 2017

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Yes there is a good argument that making finals and being bundled out would be counter productive with this playing group who seem too content with the odd win and good performce only to trash the good work and praise a few games later with a cruising, lacklustre performance when the heat is on. Too easily satisfied with their efforts, where is the leadership demanding a higher level of performance? 

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8 hours ago, Earl Hood said:

Yes there is a good argument that making finals and being bundled out would be counter productive with this playing group who seem too content with the odd win and good performce only to trash the good work and praise a few games later with a cruising, lacklustre performance when the heat is on. Too easily satisfied with their efforts, where is the leadership demanding a higher level of performance? 

Agreed.

Finishing 9th and 10th will give this mob a bit of fire in the belly. At least this year we were motivated enough to jump up the ladder a fair bit which is something to hold our hats on. But as you said, we're too far easily satisfied and get way ahead of ourselves.

We can somehow make finals with 9 wins if Saints cop beltings to West Coast and GWS and have a narrow win over Hawthorn, meanwhile we have big wins over Freo and Essendon. And ofcourse Dogs don't beat WC on Sunday. But it's a massive long shot.

Last night stuffed our season and confirmed that we're not a finals side. End of story.

Unsure whether we can take the next step next year under Goodwin.

  

 

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3 minutes ago, drdrake said:

We will lose to Fremantle and finish the year with 4 straight loses, this is what this club does.

unfortunately that is entirely possible Dr

Didn't much like the ?body language on display last night during the game

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Yesterday we virtually had a double chance of making the 8 as 7th and 8th spots were up for grabs.   Now we will most likely be 9th.

Had we won we would now be 7th ahead of the Saints on %.  By losing we have virtually handed one of those spots to the Saints or the Giants who are a game and % ahead of us. 

Now there is one spot available, probably 8th.  We can still get there but I expect Saints and Giants to take 7th and 8th.

That loss did untold damage to our finals hope and how far we might go in the finals.  Make it to 8th and we meet Eagles or Tigers in the first Elim.  A win would have probably got us to 7th thereby playing Pies in the first final.

Yes, this is all conjecture but we coughed up a double chance of making the 8 and winning a final. 

Heartbreaking.

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Had a dream last night that we won the next two but lost to the bombers and held 7th spot going into the final round. We are jumping for joy as a club because GWS are in 9th saints are in 8th and they play each other in the final game of the season.... The club sends out purchasing finals tickets information a day prematurely as the saints and giants play in a draw in the final game of the home and away season, both surpassing us in points knocking us out. 

 

That would be the most Melbourne thing ever.... 

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2 hours ago, GCDee said:

Had a dream last night that we won the next two but lost to the bombers and held 7th spot going into the final round. We are jumping for joy as a club because GWS are in 9th saints are in 8th and they play each other in the final game of the season.... The club sends out purchasing finals tickets information a day prematurely as the saints and giants play in a draw in the final game of the home and away season, both surpassing us in points knocking us out. 

 

That would be the most Melbourne thing ever.... 

I think I've seen that movie before.

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2 hours ago, GCDee said:

Had a dream last night that we won the next two but lost to the bombers and held 7th spot going into the final round. We are jumping for joy as a club because GWS are in 9th saints are in 8th and they play each other in the final game of the season.... The club sends out purchasing finals tickets information a day prematurely as the saints and giants play in a draw in the final game of the home and away season, both surpassing us in points knocking us out. 

 

That would be the most Melbourne thing ever.... 

76 all over again. I still have a pain in my gut about that year.

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We are still a shadow of the team we were in 2018 and will only be making up the numbers if we fall in.

The only chance is to find that fire and fierce desire again.

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Wasn't finals a non-negotiable for Goody, as part of the plan?

I still think we CAN make the finals, as we have the talent and CAN play, when we want to, but given our spotty record over the last million years I almost don't want us to, as I vividly remember the last finals game we technically attended.

If we don't make finals, is that it for Goody? 

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1 hour ago, RedButMostlyBlue said:

Wasn't finals a non-negotiable for Goody, as part of the plan?

I still think we CAN make the finals, as we have the talent and CAN play, when we want to, but given our spotty record over the last million years I almost don't want us to, as I vividly remember the last finals game we technically attended.

If we don't make finals, is that it for Goody

We can only hope.

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1 PORT ADELAIDE Played 14, 44 pts, 128.4% 

TO COME: North Melbourne Essendon Collingwood 

2 BRISBANE LIONS Played 14, 44 pts, 117.7% 

TO COME Gold Coast Sydney Carlton 

3 GEELONG Played 14, 40 pts, 138.7% 

TO COME Essendon Richmond Sydney

4 RICHMOND Played 15, 42 pts, 123.6%

TO COME Bye Geelong Adelaide 

5 WEST COAST Played 14, 40 pts, 116.3%

TO COME Western Bulldogs St Kilda North Melbourne

6 COLLINGWOOD Played 15, 34 pts, 110.1%

TO COME Bye Gold Coast Port Adelaide

7 ST KILDA Played 14, 32 pts, 113.3%

TO COME Hawthorn West Coast GWS Giants 

8 GWS GIANTS Played 14, 32 points, 

TO COME Adelaide Melbourne St Kilda

9 MELBOURNE Played 14, 28 points, 108.2%

TO COME Fremantle GWS Giants Essendon 

10 W. BULLDOGS Played 14, 28 points, 100.1% 

TO COME West Coast  Hawthorn Fremantle 

11 ESSENDON Played 14, 26 points, 88.0%

TO COME Geelong Port Adelaide Melbourne

12 CARLTON Played 14, 24 points, 

TO COME Sydney Adelaide Brisbane Lions

13 GOLD COAST Played 14, 22 points, 101.8%

TO COME Collingwood Brisbane Lions Hawthorn 

14 FREMANTLE Played 14, 20 points, 86.4%

TO COME Melbourne North Melbourne Western Bulldogs 

15 SYDNEY Played 14, 20 points, 83.6%

TO COME Carlton Brisbane Lions  Geelong

16 HAWTHORN Played 14, 16 points, 80.5%

TO COME St Kilda Western Bulldogs Gold Coast 

17 NORTH MELBOURNE Played 14, 12 points, 76.3% 

TO COME Port Adelaide Fremantle West Coast

18 ADELAIDE Played 14, 4 points, 60.0% 

TO COME GWS Giants Carlton Richmond
 

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