How many times can this bloke use excuses?
What's next? The blue was too faded??
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What's next? The blue was too faded??
If this Luke Prendergast is on here, well said on twitter.
I get your point but I look at Geelong who had the same timeframe as us. They made semi finals in 2021 and are the oldest playing group. Finishing in October wasn’t our reason for our 2021 12th position.
We’d done it 4 years in a row. Geelong had no where near the injuries we had last year.
injuries and conditioning. Our players looked tired last year.
I thought he was complaining because the game was on so late. The players all had their dinner at 4 and were ready for bed. The old age home lock their doors at 8 and they wouldn’t have been allowed back in
A bug? Was it covid? If it wasn't then where do you draw the line?
"Hang on, Danger's got a hammy, we need to postpone the game."
I didn't know that sort of thing was allowed.
Could have postponed our season last year when Martin went down.
"Hang on, Danger's got a hammy, we need to postpone the game."
I didn't know that sort of thing was allowed.
Could have postponed our season last year when Martin went down.
Geelong also added 'fresh' veterans Cameron, Smith and Higgins to the oldest list ever assembled. They are masters of home and away footy, but as Gyps rightly pointed out, their aim is to finish top 4 and hopefully Bradbury it from there.
For all their success in phase 1 of the plan, fact is in the last decade they are 1-6 in qualifying finals, 1-5 in prelims, 0-2 in elimination finals and 0-1 in grand finals. That's 2 wins, 14 losses in finals against teams that finished in the same half of the 8 as them. You'd almost call them frauds. They are good at beating also-rans in semis, I'll give them that. They might have made the finals last year but they got flogged by Poort, beat an average GWS and were obliterated by Melbourne.
For all their success in phase 1 of the plan, fact is in the last decade they are 1-6 in qualifying finals, 1-5 in prelims, 0-2 in elimination finals and 0-1 in grand finals. That's 2 wins, 14 losses in finals against teams that finished in the same half of the 8 as them. You'd almost call them frauds. They are good at beating also-rans in semis, I'll give them that. They might have made the finals last year but they got flogged by Poort, beat an average GWS and were obliterated by Melbourne.
True.
3 flags in four years against nil flags in four years may just slightly have tempered the appetite for manic hard work. Throw in a constant surge of injury disruption through the mid field and defence and it's pretty much a recipe for disaster.
Refresh the mindset, refresh the appetite n refresh the playing group n fingers crossed we should be back in the hunt this year.
If you run the first lap of an 800m race at 400 pace, you will lead at the bell. But you won't win.
2 wins, 14 losses. It doesn't get starker than that.
Never mind about 'sides'. Twice Geelong has led Richmond at half time. Yet the 2019 prelim was as good as over five minutes into the third, and the second half of the 2020 grand final was one-way traffic. It suggests they threw all they had at us in the first half and ran out of petrol tickets.This is when i need to to ask L2R2R for the percentages of winning sides in prelims and grand finals when they lead at halftime.
Pure and simply they don’t have a game plan that holds up in finals.
And they particularly don’t like it when the umpires put their whistles away in Grand Finals
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