19 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

saints being aints

now north being norf

1 hour ago, DubDee said:

“Carlton and Giants to play off in the GF”

hang on, it’s only April, maybe we should wait til round ten for these dumb comments?

Equally people should not be writing teams off based on a loss, or in Carlton's case two in a row (not suggesting you are suggesting that dub).

So any posters who are not not writing the blues off, or the giants for getting touched up by the swans, or port for getting smashed by the crows, please consider doing the same for the dees tonight if we lose to the team that us currently unbeaten.

Like some did when we got beaten by the swans and lions.

Home and away games, particularly in the first half of the season, mean very little in the scheme of things in terms of being a guide to a team's premiership chances.

It's all about finishing top 4, then resetting. 

How the hell we overlooked Wilson is beyond me. Would’ve set us up well. Saints have drafted well of late. Many write them off, but they have good youth coming through. Evident that they do need a key back though. 

Edited May 4, 20241 yr by KingDingAling

32 minutes ago, binman said:

Equally people should not be writing teams off based on a loss, or in Carlton's case two in a row (not suggesting you are suggesting that dub).

So any posters who are not not writing the blues off, or the giants for getting touched up by the swans, or port for getting smashed by the crows, please consider doing the same for the dees tonight if we lose to the team that us currently unbeaten.

Like some did when we got beaten by the swans and lions.

Home and away games, particularly in the first half of the season, mean very little in the scheme of things in terms of being a guide to a team's premiership chances.

It's all about finishing top 4, then resetting. 

If a team is regularly losing to other contenders in the home and away season, it’s normally a pretty good indication that their not good enough. 
 

The next couple of games are massive in the fortunes for us for this year in my opinion. 

Norf are excruciatingly bad.

Or should that be Norf IS excruciatingly bad?

I can see an argument for both ... Norf, the players (plural) of Norf the side (singular).

WCW ???

7 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

If a team is regularly losing to other contenders in the home and away season, it’s normally a pretty good indication that their not good enough. 
 

The next couple of games are massive in the fortunes for us for this year in my opinion. 

Sure. Regularly being the key word.

The giants have now been beaten by two contenders - the blues and the swans.

Is that regularly?

They haven't played another contender yet, unless you count the pies in OR. Which most wouldn't.

So, really they have beaten noone. Yet they were flag favorites and everyone was gushing over them.

Is anyone serious discounting them after being smashed today?

But I agree the next two games are important.

But not because we have to prove we are contenders. Because both are against teams who we are competing against for a top 4 slot. Classic 8 points game.

5 minutes ago, binman said:

Sure. Regularly being the key word.

The giants have now been beaten by two contenders - the blues and the swans.

Is that regularly?

They haven't played another contender yet, unless you count the pies in OR. Which most wouldn't.

So, really they have beaten noone. Yet they were flag favorites and everyone was gushing over them.

Is anyone serious discounting them after being smashed today?

But I agree the next two games are important.

But not because we have to prove we are contenders. Because both are against teams who we are competing against for a top 4 slot. Classic 8 points game.

There are two sorts of supporters in this world.

Each game is an 'audit' (ugh) of your capabilities and extrapolated out to your teams ability to reach a specific outcome

or

Each game is taken case by case, context specific, as a way of making sense of the overall trajectory of the team and it's potential throughout the season.

Choose your weapon.**

*many beers in

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28 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

How the hell we overlooked Wilson is beyond me. Would’ve set us up well. Saints have drafted well of late. Many write them off, but they have good youth coming through. Evident that they do need a key back though. 

We chose Windsor & Kolt ahead of him. I’m more than happy with JT’s choices.

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3 minutes ago, binman said:

Sure. Regularly being the key word.

The giants have now been beaten by two contenders - the blues and the swans.

Is that regularly?

They haven't played another contender yet, unless you count the pies in OR. Which most wouldn't.

So, really they have beaten noone. Yet they were flag favorites and everyone was gushing over them.

Is anyone serious discounting them after being smashed today?

But I agree the next two games are important.

But not because we have to prove we are contenders. Because both are against teams who we are competing against for a top 4 slot. Classic 8 points game.

I certainly aren’t discounting GWS after today. For me off the back of four straight finals losses if we continue to fail against other genuine premiership contenders in the home and away season we are no chance come finals time. 

If we win one of the next two games I will hold onto hope we can legitimately contend this year. 

10 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

We chose Windsor & Kolt ahead of him. I’m more than happy with JT’s choices.

Windsor has been good so far 

Kolt vs Wilson ? On exposed form Wilson is ahead 

8 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

I certainly aren’t discounting GWS after today. For me off the back of four straight finals losses if we continue to fail against other genuine premiership contenders in the home and away season we are no chance come finals time. 

If we win one of the next two games I will hold onto hope we can legitimately contend this year. 

Correct 

3 hours ago, rjay said:

Sydney getting a good run from the umps...

Get outta town @rjay. Who would have thought? There's a reason me and me mate call em the 'MC Hammers'.

12 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

I certainly aren’t discounting GWS after today. For me off the back of four straight finals losses if we continue to fail against other genuine premiership contenders in the home and away season we are no chance come finals time. 

If we win one of the next two games I will hold onto hope we can legitimately contend this year. 

Continue to fail against contenders in the home and away season?

Continue?

We have lost to grand total of one game to a contender this season. The swans.

Most rate port as a contender. I don't but we beat them on their home deck in one of the performances of the season.

You are giving the giants a pass even though they have lost to TWO contenders but not extending the same logic to us? 

You are making my point that many dees fans apply a different set of rules to us than other teams in terms of assessing our chances of winning the flag.

1 hour ago, binman said:

Continue to fail against contenders in the home and away season?

Continue?

We have lost to grand total of one game to a contender this season. The swans.

Most rate port as a contender. I don't but we beat them on their home deck in one of the performances of the season.

You are giving the giants a pass even though they have lost to TWO contenders but not extending the same logic to us? 

You are making my point that many dees fans apply a different set of rules to us than other teams in terms of assessing our chances of winning the flag.

Losing to Brisvegas in their current situation was very poor on our home deck. 
we should have ripped their little heart right out. 
But i am certain you will disagree 

Any chance Essendon can get knocked off for dessert?

Would cap off a terrific evening.

Dam what a shame essendon won

Essendon are somehow in 5th with the 14th worse percentage in the comp.

LOL.

36 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Essendon are somehow in 5th with the 14th worse percentage in the comp.

LOL.

Fake side. They will get found out soon enough.

 

Was heading to a 9 in tipping if it weren't for Sydney..

Looks like a lot of the Tiger Army have been captured by the enemy or are MIA. 

Ooz coaching the Tigers is annoying. I can’t revel in them being smacked to quite the same degree.

2 minutes ago, P-man said:

Ooz coaching the Tigers is annoying. I can’t revel in them being smacked to quite the same degree.

Will he be back into the fold in the near future? Perhaps after Goodwin passes the torch?

1 minute ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Will he be back into the fold in the near future? Perhaps after Goodwin passes the torch?

Hopefully so. Assuming he does a good job. Not getting anything close to a decent run at it with their injuries.

10 minutes ago, P-man said:

Ooz coaching the Tigers is annoying. I can’t revel in them being smacked to quite the same degree.

That’s ok @P-man, I can

And with that The pies are out of the 8 again

Blues clinging onto 8th spot

Life is good