titan_uranus

I'm trying to think of games where we've built up a lead and had it reeled back by our opponent. I reckon there are only three: Hawthorn in Round 18: we had a 27 point lead in the second quarter but they reeled it back, took the lead, and ended with a draw; Adelaide in Round 10: we had an early 18 point lead, and had a 15 point lead late, but lost both of those; Sydney in Round 8: we had a 22 point lead in time on in the third, but they cut it back to 3 points (There was West Coast in Round 21, who brought our 34 point lead back to 9 points, but that was in exceptional circumstances with the lightning so I say it doesn't count) Pretty much any other time we've had a lead brought back by an opponent, we've ended up kicking away in the end: Otherwise, Adelaide in Round 22 brought a 28 point lead back to 3 points, but we then kicked away to win by 41 Port in Round 17 brought our 26 point lead back to 9, but we kicked away to win by 31. Geelong in Round 4 brought our 30 point lead back to 12, but we kicked away to win by 25

Yeah it's pretty annoying. They've played one more game than us, the semi final three weeks ago when we had the week off.

Two things I don't understand: Why this thread is high up on the first page of Demonland the night before our first Grand Final in this board's existence Why anyone would suggest trading Luke Jackson, ever, for any player or any price

Do: Melbourne wins premiership Don't: Bulldogs win premiership

I was thinking about how I'll be feeling tomorrow if we drop 3 or 5 goals behind early on. Notable comebacks for us: Round 2, we fell 3 goals behind in the second quarter St Kilda; Round 3, we fell 3 goals behind in the first quarter against GWS; Round 6, Richmond jumped us early, only two goals but were all over us pressure-wise; Round 7, we were 20 points down to North at half time; Round 8, Sydney kicked the first two goals; Round 12, we were 20 points down to Brisbane at half time; Round 23, the big Geelong comeback Four of these were against finals sides, too. I've been looking through the Dogs' season to see how often they fell behind but won: Round 2, they came back from 3 goals down in the last quarter to beat West Coast; Round 8, they came back from 27 points down against Carlton late in the third quarter; Round 18, they conceded the first three goals to Gold Coast Semi final, they were 3 goals behind Brisbane in the third quarter So the semi final really is the only time they've fought back from a deficit. That really comes from their strong first quarter record, they've won almost all of them this year. I suppose the confidence I want to draw from this is that even if the Dogs jump us early, we should feel like we're capable of bringing it back. But would they feel the same way if we get an early lead...?

Ravens, Cardinals, Buccaneers.

Meanwhile, Chandler an emergency because...we're worried about Spargo?

One of Jordon and Hunt is going to be a hard luck story. Jordon hasn't missed a game all year (whether in the 22 or starting as the sub). Hunt was a mainstay of the side for the first 20 weeks, wouldn't ever have been dropped but was one of our rare injuries this year.

The more the Dogs try to change to adapt to us, the better IMO. They can beat us by just playing their regular game, so I doubt they are going to mix it up. Their path to victory comes from taking territory away from us, which they will achieve if they dominate CPs and clearances. That means they put their best mids in the middle for as much of the game as possible, in the hope of taking Oliver/Petracca/Viney's grunt away from us and forcing us to play too much of the game in our back half.

Bont 23, Macrae 22, Libba 20, Martin 19, Dunkley 14, English 8, Treloar 2.

What a blast from the past it is to see you, Ash. Thanks for the support!

Nothing wrong with Wines winning the medal. Would have loved Clarry to win it, but it's about the 10th most important thing happening for our club this week.

Far out, Seedsman and Keays the two best players on the ground in our 7 goal win?!

Wines will get 3 in Round 23 (at least), so that's 35. Oliver would need to get 8 or 9 out of the last 9 votes to win. Bont will struggle in the final three games given the Dogs lost them all. Walsh keeps polling when his side loses so he could get there. But looks likely to be Wines. In the end, Petracca and Gawn took too many votes of Oliver, whereas Wines soaked up most of the Power votes.

I was there - there were about 10 Sydney players who were better than any Eagle. They've just handed votes out to someone who collected a whole lot of touches. He had no influence, at all, because no West Coast player did.

Dom Sheed got a vote in West Coast's insipid loss to Sydney. What the actual [censored].

I'm pretty sure the GF edition has always been more expensive than the H&A season records.

Meanwhile did Gawn get 2 votes from the Queen's Birthday game? Surely not.

The Bont is going to win this. He's like Dusty in his winning years, he just stands out and the umpires notice him.

I reckon Goodwin will quietly be loving all the "what tactical masterstroke is Beveridge about to pull" talk. No one's talking about what we're going to do. I like it that way.

I don't entirely know what you're on about here, but I'm still interested.

Agree on most of this. Naughton was hardly dominant in Round 19 so was that really all worth it for the Dogs? But one issue to remember is that whilst Bruce won't be there on GF day, Martin playing means English will be in that role. So if Petty goes to Naughton, May has to go to English (assuming we want to keep Lever free).

As you'll see from this Tweet, it's not clear if either of these is correct (at least, as at 2017). Generally speaking Clint Bizkit is right, the team higher on the ladder wears its home jumper, but 2015 was an exception - West Coast finished above Hawthorn on the ladder, but in the Grand Final the AFL made West Coast wear its clash jumper, so that Hawthorn could wear its home jumper (albeit with white shorts).

My guess is for this purpose - we sent our jumpers off to get the logo, so we used these old jumpers for photos/media? I don't know otherwise.

We stopped wearing it after the 2019 season. It's not needed against the Dogs (or West Coast, a side we've also worn it against). Their jumpers are royal blue and there is no clash with our much darker navy blue.