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For some reason I still remember the "From out of left field" win against the odds against Freo I think in Perth when Peter Vardy ( a most underrated player) had a HUGE GAME.

Pouring rain in the last 4 or 5 goals down at 3/4 time and got up to win SENSATIONAL game!

I think Neil Daniher was coach!??

Round 11, 2004 fence.

Scores at 3/4 qtr time Freo 9.8.62 Dees 7.8.50

After an inspired last quarter in the rain scores ended up Dees 13.15.93 Freo 9.8.62

Freo scoreless, Vardy kicked 4.

Wonderful comeback win.

Carlton by 105 in 2004.

I'm not the one who brought it up.

You are the one who made it personal.

I think you'll find I've been far from negative about the game. I just don't have time for childish posters who pull the "I told you so" stuff.

Get over it petal.

Yes we did Cpt. Obvious.

Nice of you to recognise the fact Cpt. Negative.

Then you missed my point. I was trying to say that we wouldn't match the overall tone of the round so far as we rarely seem to do it. You brought up a game from 2 months ago. I don't know where else to go with it.

Fair enough, now that it's over, did we match the tone of the round ?

Thx Smthy I was kind of referring to the smashing teams bit rather than the skinny win.

The Swans win was one of the few I remember like that.

Fair call jnrmac.

Was that an unexpected win? No.

You mention GWS running tha Cats all the way for any reason ?

All teams win unexpectedly, it just seems that we don't do it as often as other teams. DemonWorshipper mentioned above that our recent history has probably muddied our view of this and he is pretty much spot on.

But I also fall into the category of seeing what has occured this round, the upset wins and GWS running the Cats all the way, and I have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that we won't come close to matching those previous 3 games. I'll be ecstatic to be proved wrong but, as I said earlier, our last decade of football doesn't provide us with as much hope as we would like.

Didn't we run Port all the way in Alice ?

Roos has made it clear that several players are on their last chances over the remainder of the season therefore there is little point in making Tapscott the sub.

Last chance for Luke I reckon.

Love the sentiment, but our recent history suggests that we generally don't win these games at all. We've won a few but there are far more that we've lost.

I guess you could throw in the 2002 example when we won against the Lions at the GABBA with Neitz kicking 7. One of my all time favourite games that one. We can do it, we just don't do it very often.

Exactly, when the Lions were at the peak of their power, I witnessed the game when we came from 40 points down in the second to over run Brisbane by 21 points.

Neitz 7 Ward 4.

My comments were based on the earlier remark that it's never us that wins when unexpected.

I thought the same thing myself. Its never us...

And we always seem to play teams back into form. Will never forget in 92 or 93 when the swans had lost 23 in a row and smashed us on their 'one chance to play at the MCG'

We are a mentally weak club and have been for a long time. Talking top ex players they all say the same thing. Get on top of us and we go to water basically. I have heard it so many times now it makes me sick.

Even good sides like Freo succumb to it as they did yesterday but ours is such a long history of it its galling.

That is not so.

In round 14,1998 we visited Subiaco as complete underdogs and rolled the Eagles by 17 points with Robbo BOG.

Entering round 10, 2012 We were last and Essendon on top yet we won by 6 poionts.

There are other examples.

Yes we are going through a diobolical period but to suggest we have a long history of weakness is simply incorrect.

What year did we smash the Swans by 70? 2010 I think.

Round 17,2010 - Dees 22.10.142 Swans 10.9.69.

Brad Green dominated up forward with 5.

Only 8 players from that performance remain on our list.

LJ just like AJ teased us with their enormous talent for all too brief a period.

In any event Tim it's nice to have an Aussie in genuine contention again.

Makes the early morning viewing much more enjoyable.

Thanks Django, appreciated.

Thanks for the memories LJ.

Geelong - cue in the rack much?

Wouldn't think so, Scott has openly declared that the Cats were looking for percentage.

Gee your comment above are truly depressing, from it I take that

Getting totally out classed by Geelong by 11 goals (66 points ) when we would have got done by 100 points in the past is a big improvement!

If Geelong had kicked reasonably it would have been 100.

Don't kid yourself we have not come very far at all.

My point was based on the premise that if we were down by 59 points at half time over the past 5 years then the resultant margin would have been significantly greater than a further 7 points.

If I'm incorrect perhaps you could point out the games I have overlooked.

I can understand your frustration however I refuse to be ultra negative when IMO the second half on Saturday was quite a good effort.

Looking forward to Jesse pulling a boot on and if he manages to play a senior game I'm sure the spirits of the faithful will receive a lift.

I witnessed his pre season game v GCS in 2013 and he is a special talent.

Been another tough season however under Roos we have improved in many areas and the second half on Saturday proves that theory.

In past years we would have suffered a 100 plus point defeat.

All clubs have [censored] supporters and similar players, Johnson and Hunt (now at GWS) to name a couple from Catland.

Geelong however are well down my feral supporter list which is headed by Essendon and Brisbane.

Thanks KC, the win was a small glimmer of light in an otherwise gloomy day for the club.

Do or die for Luke I would suggest, cannot see the wisdom in handing him the vest.

Roos running the eye over our fringe lads ?

Best of luck son.

Haven't been able to catch much of it Smithy, more interested in Wimbledon around the corner.

You'd be loving the improvement you're seeing at the mighty Dees wouldn't you Smithy? Are we out of the mire?

I'm reluctant to get too excited mate for reasons you well know but it does seem that way.

In a strange twisted way, maybe the fact that Clark and Hogan have missed has been the making of this list.

Much better midfield, Dawes has been good and Pedersen is a revelation.

Then there is the Roos factor.

I'm tempted to be roused.

Elliot is a freak, will probably stand on Dunn's head at some stage.

Too bad Howe will be standing on Elliot's head at the same moment with the ball clinched to his chest.

Love your work DA, enjoying Roland Garros ? Other than our habitual Aussie losers of course.