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THE RUN HOME 2020

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On 9/15/2020 at 5:47 PM, DemonOX said:

We won’t make it and don’t deserve to make it tbh. When u lose to 2 bottom 4 teams u won’t be playing finals. 
 

Whoever gets the 8th spot will most likely be playing WC in Perth so good luck with that. The finals birth will be short lived for that team. 

Ridiculous. If we lose to a couple of bottom sides and still make it, it indicates we've beaten some decent teams we didn't 'need' to beat to make finals.

If we'd beaten Freo and Sydney and dropped games to Saints and Pies, people would say we didn't deserve to make it because we'd only beaten average sides.

If you make it, you deserve it*. Teams around the fringes always drop games they 'should' win and win games they're expected to lose - that's footy, and sport in general.

*Except maybe Carlton, when they snuck in due to the Bombers being stripped of premiership points.

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    6 hours ago, Rogue said:

    Ridiculous. If we lose to a couple of bottom sides and still make it, it indicates we've beaten some decent teams we didn't 'need' to beat to make finals.

    If we'd beaten Freo and Sydney and dropped games to Saints and Pies, people would say we didn't deserve to make it because we'd only beaten average sides.

    If you make it, you deserve it*. Teams around the fringes always drop games they 'should' win and win games they're expected to lose - that's footy, and sport in general.

    *Except maybe Carlton, when they snuck in due to the Bombers being stripped of premiership points.

    We have beaten 2 decent sides in the top 8 which doesn’t fill me with confidence. 

    If we make the 8 it will be because the dogs have lost which I don’t think will happen and we won against the dons. 

    Goody has had 4 years at the helm and we shouldn’t be a “fringe” team, we should have cemented our spot in the 8 by this stage of the season with the list we have. With finals on the line we shouldn’t have lost to Sydney or freo either. 

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    3 minutes ago, Demonland said:

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    Did those who designed the Vic roadmap design that as well.

    when can I get the gardener back ?

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