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so the entire key forward and ruck component = spencer

if we could dare to dream that we go into that match 3-4 wins out of 5 and some hype around us, that will be a very rare instance of us being on 'the big stage'.. saturday night at the G, Roos' new salvage project vs his old mob... many people tuning in.. ahh daring to dream.. it's dangerous

interesting that our first 5 are against sides whose current placing in premiership odds are 9th,10th,13th,16th and 18th, it's a huge opportunity for a great start

agree with that ..but no matter what the result, it is obvious we are missing a group that will probably bag 5 a week at least between them in season proper, so that should be taken into account.

why don't you just take a step further and say we should be able to beat anyone with our best 20 players out injured it's the same logic

love that perspective

as far as excuses go, missing your entire forward line is a pretty good one

oh well at least we have our rationalisations/excuses already in place if the tiges smash us

the moment you realised you are p-whipped

hmm 6 years in with 41 games, haven't seen much real output from Nev. I've always liked him but I'm afraid his window might be shut

why would it? all 6 of them are in it!

unless of course we go charging up the ladder this year

I feel that's a fair comment. Four of them are genuine near-a-graders IMO and the other two still very young with a heap of promise.. add Vince, Dawes, Watts, Howe, TMac and the kids Toumpas, Viney, Hogan and Tyson - that's 15 pretty solid players.

yep, and then you have 'awards' like this applauding the victims and people like stuie calling you stupid if you don't go along with it. Fancy overlooking the bloke who has run a charity for sick kids for 15 years... that's what a victim is, not a millionaire footballer who has to 'suffer' the occasional stupid comment from the other side of the fence.

You reckon? 5 kicks a game and 8 goals for the year in 2013.. but you won't read anything about the Eagles 'wasting' a pick 2 on him will you

jump on my bandwagon or I'll call you stupid! you wouldn't want that would you!?

next time someone insults me I'm going to have a big old sook about it to the entire country and then I'll be Australian of the year, sweet

Jack Watts is a footballer ^just wanted to contribute

you see this stuie/goffy? this is how you discuss football on a forum no amount of missing the point with pedantic nitpicking will change the fact that our matches WILL average in 2014 about 100-105 total inside 50s and if we up our portion of those from 40 to low-50s the same amount WILL logically 'fall off' our opponents and the match score will follow. Win more of the finite number of contests, get more of the finite number of disposals, get more of the finite number of i-50s, get more of the finite number of goals no need to add anything else because the numbers will speak for themselves about 8 weeks from now look forward to the backpedaling

I wouldnt have though that winning an extra 14 contested situations/stoppages and therefore going inside 50 an extra 14 times across a whole match is that big of a gulf

'you are wrong' that is not an argument

why do people post things that have already been addressed? Freo are one of the few sides that are somewhat exceptional to the rule because their conversion rate is very high. It is so annoying that I know that you know the answer to your own question but posted it anyway in the name of being pedantic and contrary. Everything else youve said along similar lines. You have no arguments just pedantry and it is NOT interesting

you are right, that scenario COULD happen, but that would simply be an extreme case at the right-hand side of the bell curve, which statistically speaking, will have an equivalent on the other side of the bell which would be a match where it is extremely bottled up and the ball spends most of the day around the middle of the ground, such as what you might see in a torrential downpour that is just part and parcel of making an average stat over the course of a 198 game season to say that if every side gets x amount more i50s next year but their opponent remains the same' makes absolutely no sense because the total pool of i50s just increased inexplicably.. the only way something like that could happen is if they reduced the weight of the ball and everyone was kicking it 100m, or there were less players on the ground, or they shortened the ground or some other absurd hypothetical

but we agree on this, that is why the table on differential is even closer to the actual ladder than the averages table. The point is that there is not a huge difference between all clubs in terms of the total per game, so it IS to a large extent true to say that for every inside 50 you get your opponet also gets one less. There are a certain a amount of stoppages and one-on-ones where a team gets the chance to create an inside 50!

can't remember ever anticipating an upcoming individual season as much as I am for JW in 14. It is hugely exciting and I am confident Watts' value to the side is about to increase dramatically. Clark, Hogan and Dawes will love seeing the ball in his hands upfield