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3 hours ago, Beetle said:

Zero interest in this finals series now. [censored] you Brisbane and [censored] you Zorko.

Ideal scenario.

Lions lose to the cats by 1 pt. Zorko does his knee.

Swans pump the power and then hand the cats in a humiliating GF defeat!

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    2 excellent finals this weekend. thoroughly enjoyable

    the finals still have plenty of interest for me. I'll be hating hard on the cats from here. I really hope they don't win it.

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    7 hours ago, Ollie fan said:

    I wonder if GWS would have done better if a few more fans had been there. Terrible attendance for such a game!

    Also poor by Brisbane fans.  Sydney is a 1 hour flight. They sell out the home games. Surely they can get a few thousand to the game 

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    Daniels cost Giants.

    2 x 50m goals to Lions.

    Played on from a Hogan free 10 metres out, kicking the ball off the ground for a point. If he stops Hogan kicks the goal.

    Several fumbles which would have given Giants more scoring opportunities.

     

     

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    22 hours ago, DubDee said:

    Gonna be another tight one tonight

    Lions by 4 points

    Most importantly, whoever wins needs to beat the Cats next week

    Close. Missed by that much

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    9 hours ago, cookieboc said:

    do we take any solace out of the fact that the last time we played the preliminary finalists we lost to 3 of them by less than a goal and beat the other one?

    We lost to Sydney by 22 didn’t we?

    We also beat one of the two SF losers and lost to the other by less than a goal. 

    Do we take solace? No. We finished 14th. 

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    37 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    We lost to Sydney by 22 didn’t we?

    We also beat one of the two SF losers and lost to the other by less than a goal. 

    Do we take solace? No. We finished 14th. 

    how about richmond then?

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    According to the logic ( sic ) of some on this site, I make the following observations:

    1: Hawthorn's year was a total failure. They failed to even make a Prelim. Their kicking for goal - Sicily's shot - is as bad as Melbourne's in their narrow Finals losses last year.

    There is internal strife at Hawthorn: one of their players goes to the pub before a Finals Match.

    The Coach must go.

     

    2: GWS had another total failure year - they didn't even make a Prelim.

    The players are selfish and don't trust each other - the fatal kick off the ground when Hogan had a Free Kick owing.

    The Coach must go: the players dislike each other.

     

     

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    38 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

    Did anyone think that deliberate free to Daniher wasn’t there? Shockinh

    Agree 100% with you. Pathetic decision almost as bad as earlier instead of a free to Hogan, play on and the ball was kicked off the ground for a point. They will be kicking themselves after being 44 points ahead at one stage. Reminded me of the Dees being around the same against "the druggies" and they beat us decades ago. Still hurts.

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    Hogan compared to Petty.

    What a difference it would have made.

    That's the way it goes.

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    8 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    Hogan compared to Petty.

    What a difference it would have made.

    That's the way it goes.

    Ridiculous thing to say. 

    Hogan leaving led to us getting May. Without May where would we have been the last 6 years?

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    11 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    Nope. Watching these finals teams shows me how far back we are. Big changes needed at the Demons if we’re to match them. 

    In terms of real talent and actual output, we would not have been able to compete against any of the teams who played this weekend

    You are what your record says you are

    Our midfield in particular was no better than C+ looked at from an overall perspective ... probably no better than bottom 6 for the whole season

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    19 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Ridiculous thing to say. 

    Hogan leaving led to us getting May. Without May where would we have been the last 6 years?

    Spot on Hogan was mentally shot & we got May & the best defensive team & a flag 

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    29 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

    Spot on Hogan was mentally shot & we got May & the best defensive team & a flag 

    We would have had to put up with at least another 3 seasons of Hogan being a distraction hoping he would come good. His behaviour in his last game for us was a disgrace. He failed worse at Freo after he left considering the huge effort and resources they threw at him and the go home factor was supposed to make him happy. He was never going to be any good until he shed his internal demons and grew up. 

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    12 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

    I never said anything about stunning success. 
    We [censored] the bed in front of goal. But we didn’t choke after being 44 points up

    What gets forgotten (or deliberately put aside) was that Petty, Melksham, JVR &  Brown were unavailable.  T-Mac was an almost total liability, yet played

    Fritsch was banged up and we couldn't use Petracca forward with the absence of Brayshaw

    We had no real structure, no KPF's doing what needs to be done etc etc

    So the replacement, D Grade forward line wasn't good enough.  Stands to reason when the term D Grade is used to describe things in an accurate way

    Yes, we kicked inaccurately but that's what lesser players do (kick inaccurately)

    Petty, Melksham, JVR & Brown are all accurate kicks for goals, but they didn't play

    And yet, we very nearly won both finals ... we did well to get close

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    Was the Giants choke the biggest in football history? (in terms of big games) 

    They just disappeared en masse and there was nothing unlucky about how they lost

    But they are largely anonymous up in Sydney so the recriminations will be mild.  Imagine if it was the Demons, Pies or Carlton? Or Essendon! 

    The Pies meltdown in the 1970 GF stands out

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    2 Demon chokes that come to mind

    The 2018 Preliminary Final.  Stage-fright paints a too kind picture.  We choked

    The last quarter of the 1987 Preliminary final. Missed easy shots and ignored players in better positions (the Eishold miss and ignoring Flower in the goal square stand out) 

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    2 hours ago, Superunknown said:

    Did anyone think that deliberate free to Daniher wasn’t there? Shockinh

    I thought the call was spot on.

    Made no genuine attempt to keep the ball in play despite the pressure.

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    12 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    Nope. Watching these finals teams shows me how far back we are. Big changes needed at the Demons if we’re to match them. 

    And I agree about the big changes, FD

    In my view we need to go hard at the trade table as long as we can get real value back

    Load up on draft picks and rebuild

    We need speed, talent and vigour.  The current midfield needs a big refresh.  We're too slow and our ball movement and game plan needs to be fixed

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    3 hours ago, Superunknown said:

    Did anyone think that deliberate free to Daniher wasn’t there? Shockinh

    The worst deliberate was the Zorko one. Tried to hit a leading target 50m down the line and shanked the kick. 

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    On 14/09/2024 at 09:46, Jaded No More said:

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    Ginni's prefrontal cortex has got a long way to go yet 🙃

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    2 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    Ridiculous thing to say. 

    Hogan leaving led to us getting May. Without May where would we have been the last 6 years?

    What did I actually say.

    You are so judgemental it's funny.

    All I posted was what a difference it would be to have a Hogan like player than a Petty one.

    Geez. Get a grip on life mate.

    Ha. Maybe lie down and take a pill or something.

    Life is too short to deal with rubbish judgements and posts like yours.

    Seriously at first I was like WTH but now It's become amusing.

    How in the world could my post be ridiculous?

    Thanks for the laugh Uranus. I needed it. Dare I say pick up the funny papers yourself and get yourself one. I'd say you need to more than I.

    Cheers.

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    6 hours ago, Oxdee said:

    Also poor by Brisbane fans.  Sydney is a 1 hour flight. They sell out the home games. Surely they can get a few thousand to the game 

    Tells us the TRUE state of the northern markets.  AFL can't spin this one.

    Gold Coast- where national sporting teams go to die. Ditto western sydney - just for AFL  tough. Stranglehold by Penrith and wanderers.

    After 10plus years of GWS, what have we got?   Nothing!

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