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2022 - March to the finals
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I believe we are good enough to go through the remainder of the H&A season undefeated. That would mean 16 wins and top 4. Brisbane can’t win on the MCG. Freo will be harder to beat because its at Marvel, but if Carlton can beat them, so can we. The other 2 tricky games are Gold Coast, where we have a great record. And Port away, who will be out of contention by the time we play them.
Was thinking that earlier.
WCE
Suns away
Norf
Freo in Melb
Lions at G (they havent won there since 2014)
Port away
Port away is the least likely and the Suns won't be a walkover. The others are very winnable.
Port away is the possible loss but is winnable. Freo at the Dump showed they couldn't beat Cartoon there, and if that was at the G, Freo would've won as they did to Flashinthepanbourne.
8-6 now, so 16-6 can be done if we don't make simple errors.
Probably, it is unlikely we will win 8 in a row given our propensity to drop games this year.
I do however think back to 2017 when we dropped 4 games by a goal or so in 6 weeks and we all know how that worked out
Anything can happen after that bloody Geelong debacle.
If we are all still seething, imagine how the players feel.
This either galvanises us and we go up a gear, or we drop away.
Both options have occured last few years.
Dimma looked pretty angry at the presser, I vote we start taking no prisoners
If we are all still seething, imagine how the players feel.
This either galvanises us and we go up a gear, or we drop away.
Both options have occured last few years.
Dimma looked pretty angry at the presser, I vote we start taking no prisoners
Out of the 8 with 9 weeks to go… all in front of us - but - our best is good enough.
Slobbo just pretty much said the same thing on 360. Said we are the best team behind Melb. at the moment.
and he's right. Without these irritating flogs and bone head incidents, we can do it.
Perspective, Flashinthepanbourne bet a team who hasn't won at the G for years.....and barely played there.
The formula is simple: win 7 or 8 of our next 8 games. We must treat every match from now on as a must win. Looking at our fixture, Port Adelaide away is our hardest match and if we can get the job done there we should be fine.
Usually I wouldn't care if we made the four. But our assignment is a bit different this year. Melbourne is the champion - we are a challenger.
Melbs flogged Footscray in the GF last year because the Scrays were *smile* because they played each finals week. Not to say the Dees wouldn't have beaten them any way. But the margin was wrong.
Melbourne fitness/soundness people managed the 2021 campaign brilliantly. (RFC has done plenty of this.) Get better after the byes. More explosive. Stay fresh. Improve weekly in September and peak GF day.
Melbs got byes. Footscray worked. Melbs peaked - Footscray floundered.
We still don't know how to benchmark the company Melbourne destroyed in that GF. We know the Dees were awesome.
Looking so fresh after the byes, Melbourne despatched a maimed, thin, road Brisbane. Baners may be no good but Melbourne was 15 goals better. Improving after the byes is a huge indicator.
If we can get our *smile* together we don't want to be grinding out each finals week. Sure, things can still go belly up for Melbs but it's trending hard the other way right now.
We have to plan to meet Melbourne in the GF. Posters have been all over the challenge for months now. And we all saw Mr Damien Hardwick measuring the challenge in the phoney season.
We're in the mix. But not favoured. Better to make the four because we don't want to be at a disadvantage should we meet Melbourne. If we can get it together it won't matter with the other sides. And, it's not out of the question that other sides have bad luck. We've had some.
Melbs flogged Footscray in the GF last year because the Scrays were *smile* because they played each finals week. Not to say the Dees wouldn't have beaten them any way. But the margin was wrong.
Melbourne fitness/soundness people managed the 2021 campaign brilliantly. (RFC has done plenty of this.) Get better after the byes. More explosive. Stay fresh. Improve weekly in September and peak GF day.
Melbs got byes. Footscray worked. Melbs peaked - Footscray floundered.
We still don't know how to benchmark the company Melbourne destroyed in that GF. We know the Dees were awesome.
Looking so fresh after the byes, Melbourne despatched a maimed, thin, road Brisbane. Baners may be no good but Melbourne was 15 goals better. Improving after the byes is a huge indicator.
If we can get our *smile* together we don't want to be grinding out each finals week. Sure, things can still go belly up for Melbs but it's trending hard the other way right now.
We have to plan to meet Melbourne in the GF. Posters have been all over the challenge for months now. And we all saw Mr Damien Hardwick measuring the challenge in the phoney season.
We're in the mix. But not favoured. Better to make the four because we don't want to be at a disadvantage should we meet Melbourne. If we can get it together it won't matter with the other sides. And, it's not out of the question that other sides have bad luck. We've had some.
Makes it hard when you've had a 3-1 against free kick differential though, but still frustrating nevertheless.
We played in 4 finals in 2020 and won the big one.
We played the pretenders coming off their second bye in a month, and were more hardened because of it.
The pre finals bye makes the top four largely irrelevant. For us, anyway.
Maybe not top 4 but finals looking good as long as we hold form.
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Nice to be back in the 8 before we even play this round.
Although if Aarts and Castagna play this week, it won't be for long.
Although if Aarts and Castagna play this week, it won't be for long.
Bris: beautiful in Qld
Very Beatable away
Only Beat Essendon and Adelaide on the road
No idea how they beat Sydney away
Very Beatable away
Only Beat Essendon and Adelaide on the road
No idea how they beat Sydney away
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