Everything posted by bing181
- Post Match Discussion - Preliminary Final
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GAMEDAY - Preliminary Final vs Eagles
Hard to argue with most of what's been said here. It's all in the head. Nervous, not coping, and then everything that flows from that.
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GAMEDAY - Preliminary Final vs Eagles
Rattled, not handling the pressure.
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GAMEDAY - Preliminary Final vs Eagles
Anything can happen in finals. If the players all lift and it clicks ... you only have to look at the Dogs a couple of years back, even Richmond last year. We can certainly improve on last week - but will we? I'd love to get into the GF, if only to see Bernie Vince come in, throw caution to the wind in his last match and wreak havoc.
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GAMEDAY - Preliminary Final vs Eagles
I get an extra hour in France: just time to walk the dog and grab a baguette and settle back for what I hope will be a champagne breakfast. I happened to be up in central Paris today, so called into Belushi's where they have AFL on the big screen, and watched most of the other Prelim. Never again! Those Pies' supporters really are something else, I'd forgotten.
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The Other Preliminary Final
There goes Goody's coach of the year award.
- Match Preview and Team Selection - Preliminary Final
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Welcome to Demonland: Bayley Fritsch
If we get into the granny, suspect that they will hold Fritsch back from the VFL final. Others as well. (as reported).
- Match Preview and Team Selection - Preliminary Final
- Match Preview and Team Selection - Preliminary Final
- Match Preview and Team Selection - Preliminary Final
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Casey Demons v Essendon VFL Preliminary Final
I think so as well. Not forgetting injuries to the likes of Stretch and Maynard.
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Perth flights
Just to put this into context, I can get a Paris > Perth return, going out Thursday, come back Sunday, for 900 euros (around $1460). (Etihad/Thai if anyone's curious). Ridiculous prices and just blatant profiteering.
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Changes v Eagles - Preliminary Final
FWIW, I think this is the one game too many that will catch up with us. Not being pessimistic, it's just that the physical demands of the last 4 matches, and especially the last two where it's all gone up a notch, will start to catch up with youthful bodies. Not only are West Coast older, bigger, stronger (especially the first), they've had a week off, a week of not putting your body on the line and getting knocked from pillar to post. As always, I could be wrong, and the 8 day rest including effectively a full weekend to rest/unwind could prove invaluable, but I wouldn't be surprised if we just can't match them physically for the whole game.
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Changes v Eagles - Preliminary Final
In J Smith, Fritsch to wing, Tyson out.
- Post Match Discussion - Semi Final
- Post Match Discussion - Semi Final
- GAMEDAY - Elimination Final
- GAMEDAY - Elimination Final
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Finals Week 1 - Non-MFC Games
Need to get past Geelong before we start talking about the Hawks.
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Finals Week 1 - Non-MFC Games
Put away your glasses, Richmond for the flag, only question now is who makes the GF. Scary good, and the buy-in from the players is a thing to behold.
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Open Mike with Mark Neeld on Fox Footy (4/9)
Agree. I think the interview brings home once again how on-field performance only comes on the back of club-wide behaviours, and you can never really lay the blame for failure or the credits for success at the foot of a single individual. Yes, after this we got Roos, but it was the changes on the admin and Board side that really started to steady the ship and put in place the foundations for what we see now. Yes, Neeld made some poor decisions, but so did many others around him at the time, and from the top down. Still, easy to say in hindsight.
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Sam Murray under ASADA Investigation
That's not the way it works. You don't escape being done for drunk-driving just because you managed not to run into anyone.
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Casey Demons v Geelong VFL Qualifying Final
Good to see Hannan, Hunt and Joel Smith included. Gives us some options for the following week.
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Changes v Geelong - Elimination Final
Not sure that we can presume that Hannan will be available.