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Round 14 - Other Games
- Thread starter AstuteTiger
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Power of the subconscious mind.
I don’t mind Gold Coast. I am a fan of Dew. Their mid tier players are terrible. But they have some top end talent. They lost the plot as soon as Witts went down. Plus they lost Day.
Apt comment. To add further, our FL has been a disguised weakness for a long time with continuous wasted i50s for poor conversion for a long time due to over-possessing and going for one more hand or foot pass too many. Disguised also by the increased reliance on Dusty to convert and kick remarkable goals because dedicated forwards were not! Then same goes for Shai.
Great player that he has been I think, JR8 is (understandably) in decline and cannot play out a full game, effective in bursts only. Really concerned with giving him another 1 year contract if it costs us CCJ or even Mabs who is a more versatile player than Soldo. I know it's a valid argument to say Jack deserves it, but I think he and Bachar will struggle to hold their place in the side in '22. Caddy may be shot already.
Will Tom Lynch get back to anything like 100% with his degenerative knee post PCL? Meanwhile our SFs look to have lost their potency.
But we did nothing in 2020 trade or draft period. As I posted then, you sit on your hands you go backwards. We have.
That was my thought until i watched our display at the West Coast and relaised we've fallen back to the pack.
It was great while it lasted
They all peak to play us, on their dog tracks, with hometown umps, and we've been bushwhacked three times. But we peak in September. We might not have to leave the G. And we get a fair go with the umps.
I had Geelong flag faves. Then I watched last night. The Bullducks are worse. Poort are fairies. (Port Fairies, geddit.) Brisbane haven't won at the G since Fagan was in nappies the first time around. West Coast? Ha! Couldn't outrun Cliff Young. Melbourne's forward line won't get a kick in September.
No wonder the bookies refuse to wind us out. They aren't total dummies.
I had Geelong flag faves. Then I watched last night. The Bullducks are worse. Poort are fairies. (Port Fairies, geddit.) Brisbane haven't won at the G since Fagan was in nappies the first time around. West Coast? Ha! Couldn't outrun Cliff Young. Melbourne's forward line won't get a kick in September.
No wonder the bookies refuse to wind us out. They aren't total dummies.
The Suns arent going anywhere for a long time, the only part of that club going places are their junior stars who will eventually leave after they realise they want success not just party lifestyle, beach babes, warm weather and easy cash which is great till your 25 26.
Port smashing the Suns was the most predictable result of the season. The Suns are hopeless and Port is the biggest flat track bully in the competition; love smashing *smile* teams.
We need BIG wins the next 3 games. Time to turn up the wick Tigers!
We need BIG wins the next 3 games. Time to turn up the wick Tigers!
There is a solution to the uneven fixture, even given the limitations of 18 teams and 22 games.
Each team plays each other once. Then they are grouped into three pools of six along the criteria of equal seeding according to the ladder at the time (it can be done, don't want to go into the maths here) and making sure the two-team towns are each in the same pool so you always get your two derbies each year. Then each team plays each other team in their pool once.
Sounds radical but the last two seasons have shown that they can dynamically adjust the fixture on the fly without too much trouble.
It's as fair as you could make it.
Something similar was done in 1901-1907. Eight teams. A double round robin took only 14 rounds, so they split the teams into two even pools of four and played another round robin within each pool for a total of 17 rounds.
This is the Suns 11th season in the AFL. We have never played them twice in a season and have played them twice out of 10 games in Melbourne. That is a little skewed as we sold the first 3 games to Cairns ( how glad are we that we’re so far from those dark days?). Again we play them once only this year and again it is away.
It is almost as ridiculously lopsided as our history against Port.
Contrast that to Geelong who have played finals in all but one year of GC’s existence and have been afforded 2 return bouts in a season and have played 7 of the 13 games in Geelong.
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