NON MFC: Round 12

[Demonland 73,140]

Who are you tipping?

[Lucifers Hero 40,359]

Tipping those that can keep our competitors for finals out of the 8 or within striking range to overtake their spot in the 8.

• Sydney 
• North
• Dees
• Crows 
• Freo
• Saints
• Hawks
• Rich

Underlined are unlikely but it is good to dream

[whatwhat say what 22,938]

GW$
Pear
Bears
Gulp.....us?
Dockers?
Footscray
Peptides?
Meth coke
Tiggas

Only three games - including ours - that it’s hard to tip you’d think this round
 

[DubDee 26,117]

Unfortunately the Giants and dogs have easy games.

Such a big game against the the Pies!

I would call it an 8 pointer but it's still just played for 4 points

[Diamond_Jim 12,627]

That Essendon draw did us no good at all.

Had Essendon lost it would have opened up 2 spots in the 8 for us to take...Pies and Saints with both Bombers and Suns trailing us.

Bombers beating the Saints is good but it gives the Bombers a big leg up. If Saints win it gets harder to take their spot.

Lose to Collingwood and we will be well out of the 8.

Looking increasingly likely we will need ten wins to make the 8 which is probably at least one win too many for us.

LH I believe a Blues win is best for us as it puts to bed any chance of Freo making the 8 and we are yet to play them

GWS are vulnerable but hard to see them losing to the Swans

[Lucifers Hero 40,359]

4 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

That Essendon draw did us no good at all.

Had Essendon lost it would have opened up 2 spots in the 8 for us to take...Pies and Saints with both Bombers and Suns trailing us.

Bombers beating the Saints is good but it gives the Bombers a big leg up. If Saints win it gets harder to take their spot.

Lose to Collingwood and we will be well out of the 8.

Looking increasingly likely we will need ten wins to make the 8 which is probably at least one win too many for us.

LH I believe a Blues win is best for us as it puts to bed any chance of Freo making the 8 and we are yet to play them

GWS are vulnerable but hard to see them losing to the Swans

I chose Freo as their % is really poor and they would have to win an extra game to overtake us (unless we lose a few by a long margin).

 

As an aside, I feel time is starting to run out for teams that have played 11 games and still outside the 8 (or in the lower part of the 8).  I think we (and some other teams) have a real advantage over them.  Use Bulldogs as an example:  Assume 10 games needed to make finals:  Bulldogs (on 5 wins from 11 games) need to win 5 from remaining 6 games.  Whereas Demons (on 5 wins from 10 games) need to win 5 from remaining 7 games.  Same logic applies to teams at the lower end of the 8.  Maybe the Ess forced bye may come back and help us...

 

[trout 385]

GWS stinking it up big time at the moment, one goal to halftime.

[Pink Freud 370]

7 minutes ago, trout said:

GWS stinking it up big time at the moment, one goal to halftime.

Keep it up Swanees!!!

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,274]

GWS ... 2 goals from 'free kicks' ... free in every sense of the word.

[sue 9,142]

Definition of no common sense: AFL umpires

[P-man 13,366]

Cmon Swannies bring it home ?

[Pickett2Jackson 3,904]

Wow.....  big result about to go our way?    They better not choke like the Suns last night

[DubDee 26,117]

We could be in the 8 on Sat night if we win!

[titan_uranus 25,043]

GWS looks like us at our worst.

Tonnes of inside 50s but cannot score, and conceding far too easily out the back.

Sydney winning is a great result for us if we are genuine about our finals chances.

[darkhorse72 1,925]

GWS have not developed as a team, too many talented players trying to do their own thing to win.

[daisycutter 29,737]

i'll stick my neck out and say the swans have this won

[PaulRB 6,411]

Plus percentage bonus...

[DubDee 26,117]

Biggest upset of the year. Giants are full of guns. Swans missing many top players. 
 

the 8 is open!

[Pickett2Jackson 3,904]

We will be in the 8 in less than 48 hours.    Pop the champagne

[whatwhat say what 22,938]

Soulless franchise

[Diamond_Jim 12,627]

Well one things for sure out of that game....

There's  a coach more under pressure than Goodwin

Atrocious performance by a highly skilled side

[titan_uranus 25,043]

4 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Biggest upset of the year. Giants are full of guns. Swans missing many top players. 
 

the 8 is open!

GWS is missing Greene and Davis, but yes, with Sydney missing Franklin, Kennedy and Heeney, this is a major upset.

[McQueen 17,867]

These umps have NFI. 

[dazzledavey36 55,318]

Holy [censored].. GWS dropping this game and by a big percentage means that this game is a HUGE must win game.

Its simple, we beat Collingwood, we go to 8th spot.

C'mon Dees let's dare to dream!

[titan_uranus 25,043]

Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

Holy [censored].. GWS dropping this game and by a big percentage means that this game is a HUGE must win game.

Its simple, we beat Collingwood, we go to 8th spot.

C'mon Dees let's dare to dream!

A win doesn't guarantee us a spot in the 8 - if Essendon beat St Kilda they'll take it and we'll stay 9th (with GWS 10th).

Doesn't change the fact that this game for us this weekend is huge.

Hmmm. When was the last time we had such a massive game with a lot riding on it against Collingwood...?