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11 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

How about a dockers demons gf. That would be ok. 

Best outcome for us, but can't see Freo beating Swans at the SCG. I think we are on the better side of the draw now and probably prefer a PF against Geelong rather than Collingwood anyway. Geelong are relatively predictable, not overly quick, nor is their pressure any better than ours. Collingwood have everything Geelong don't, which is hit or miss, but we've noticed it's been a hit against us recently

 
4 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Ha ha Howe.

Wonder how bad Adam's injury is

About as bad as it sounds to rip your groin off the bone

8 minutes ago, The Lobster Effect said:

About as bad as it sounds to rip your groin off the bone

I'd prefer to rip my spine out of its socket.

 

After seeing all that, I still believe we are the best team in it.

If we pull our bloody finger out!

I said it before and I'll say it again these results may end up going our way. I would much rather play Geelong in a prelim than Collingwood! I think Geelong are definitely overrated and we played the best team in Sydney on Friday and really couldn't have played any worse but almost got it done.

Pump Brisbane next week, and play the cats at the MCG where the crowd will likely be 50/50 rather than 70/30 in a prelim against the pies. We make the granny everything can happen. Who knows Petracca may be back to 85% by then which will be huge.

I'm not writing us off!


1 hour ago, Deenooos_ said:

I said it before and I'll say it again these results may end up going our way. I would much rather play Geelong in a prelim than Collingwood! I think Geelong are definitely overrated and we played the best team in Sydney on Friday and really couldn't have played any worse but almost got it done.

Pump Brisbane next week, and play the cats at the MCG where the crowd will likely be 50/50 rather than 70/30 in a prelim against the pies. We make the granny everything can happen. Who knows Petracca may be back to 85% by then which will be huge.

I'm not writing us off!

You could almost call it a Blessing In Deesguise

Without watching a second of the game, just looking at the scores I said a mate that Fremantle would win when they were 40 or so points down.

The reason is the Bulldogs got out to the lead so early and couldn’t quite bury them and ended up treading water.

40 points is not enough, two more goals and it was game over.

The ultimate Dangerzone.

Leaving aside our disappointing showing on Friday night that was a great first week of finals

Heart breaking losses for the Tiges and the Pies. The doggies [censored] the bed in the West again. Not bad at all. I've cheered up and looking forward to fathers day

 

The dishlickers out has made my Sunday!

7 hours ago, DeeZee said:

After seeing all that, I still believe we are the best team in it.

If we pull our bloody finger out!

You’re entitled to your opinion of course, but how can the best team in it have a 0-5 record against the top 4 sides?

Last September I would’ve agreed with you. This year we’ve been too inconsistent in the second half of the year, which is the half you want your game in order.

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2 of the 3 angry Coaches out and hopefully we remove the last one left in the PF.

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

You’re entitled to your opinion of course, but how can the best team in it have a 0-5 record against the top 4 sides?

Last September I would’ve agreed with you. This year we’ve been too inconsistent in the second half of the year, which is the half you want your game in order.

Because I know what we are capable of.

Our best is THE best, and we just have to bring it.

Freo play 2nd gamer Amiss and he did very well in the absence of Taberner. Perhaps a reminder to Goodwin that it might be time to debut VDR next game. 

Collingwood coach sooking and criticising his players for looking “defeatist” after the hard fought game as well as complaining about umpires letting the game flow. Another sore loser coach in the making.

Without the Dees result, was a great first weekend of finals footy.  Surprised so many were shootouts - can see things tightening up in the rest of the series.

Are we good enough?  Not as confident as I was a week ago, now wondering how much our system will hold up to extreme pressure and fast break styles employed by Cats, Pies, etc.

Dogs and Tigers = good riddance.  


20 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

Collingwood coach sooking and criticising his players for looking “defeatist” after the hard fought game as well as complaining about umpires letting the game flow. Another sore loser coach in the making.

I agree with him about the umpiring 

AFL has changed the HtB rule this week, the Gee and Freo games were unrecognisable compared to most of the season, dozens not paid

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7 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

I agree with him about the umpiring 

AFL has changed the HtB rule this week, the Gee and Freo games were unrecognisable compared to most of the season, dozens not paid

There was a blatant head duck in our game, I believe Mills in Front of their goals in the last , straight into the tackler and zero attempt to get rid of the ball and not pinged.

I guess we were fortunate he didn't get sucked in by the head duck.

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Our game

4 great finals. 2 standout themes: defensive pressure and taking your chances to score.

Defensive pressure. Tigers v Lions the only game where the winner didn't demonstrate it, so I would reckon the only team that can't win the GF from here is the Lions. 

Taking your chances to score. Dees and Freo were both wasteful but both teams can adjust that in a week. 

Looking at the quality of football, Cats, Pies and Swans looking the most likely at this stage.

But I have had a mantra for this entire season - our best is still the best. I hang on to this so continue to believe we can win it.

42 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

I agree with him about the umpiring 

AFL has changed the HtB rule this week, the Gee and Freo games were unrecognisable compared to most of the season, dozens not paid

Well we need to adapt to situation immediately and play to interpretation.

11 hours ago, The Lobster Effect said:

About as bad as it sounds to rip your groin off the bone

It looked terrible live.

Poor bugger was in absolute agony.

On the slo mo replay tou could almost see it happen. 

I hate to see players get injured like that.

Edited by binman


55 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

Without the Dees result, was a great first weekend of finals footy.  Surprised so many were shootouts - can see things tightening up in the rest of the series.

Are we good enough?  Not as confident as I was a week ago, now wondering how much our system will hold up to extreme pressure and fast break styles employed by Cats, Pies, etc.

Dogs and Tigers = good riddance.  

All good points.

I predicted a damp squib for these finals, with the lions tigers game being the only close one.

Could not have been more wrong.

The pressure the swans and pies brought is almost like a new style. I mean pressure is fundamental to finals footy obviously, but the pressure both teams bring to disrupt exit from stoppages is something different.

Curiously both teams had significantly less contested possessions than their opponents - the swans minus 25 and pies minus 21. 

On our sytem, I can't get my head around why we have changed it so much.

I had expected us to go hard and fast against the swans, which we did. We didn't get ant score board seperation in the first half, so cam out and played fast in the third.

But we never tried to control the tempo, which is a key part of our system. Well, it used to be.

Yes, that was in large part due to the smart way the swans stopped us doing so, for example by tagging langdon and Salem (who we use a lot to control tempo) and denying us time and space.

But we also fed into the pace of the game by going for high risk kicks into the corridor. Made more high risk by gawn and may trying them - and giving up three goals in doing so. 

So weird for us to be play such high risk, high reward footy. And we paid the price we normally make other teams pay.

I don't know what the numbers were at games end, but at half time I think I saw on the scoreboard we had scored maybe one goal from turnover and they had scored 4 or 5.

Such a perplexing game tactically. Yes, a big part of that was the great tactical work by the swans, but nonetheless we contributed to the tactical weirdness.

 

It would be fitting to see the pies lose both of their finals by a goal and get bundled out in straight sets. Come on footy gods. 

 
12 hours ago, The Lobster Effect said:

About as bad as it sounds to rip your groin off the bone

Done a Bobbitt?

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

Well we need to adapt to situation immediately and play to interpretation.

My comment was more from a spectator perspective 

It [censored] me the big swings in interpretations of key rules from week to week


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