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Big flop job…. 2 minutes away from playing shite Sydney!
Game Day 2024 Grand Final - South Melbourne vs Fitzroy, Sat 28 Sept at MCG 2:30pm
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I'd send both of them out to find Lasseter's Reef during the footy season.
Realise that Syd got flogged in the midfield but I’m convinced that playing the 3 tall forwards didn’t help. Think finals footy these days is about having a key that can bring the ball to ground and have a trio of smalls to wreak havoc. Other than Papley they looked predictable and easy to defend.
I have defended BT in the past , but he had a shocker today
And as others have said , the icing on the cake was the Dennis Pagan bit . and Pagan played in a GF for North as well as coaching them to flags
Right at 3qtr time i think it was when he made that blunder re Dennis , if Kerry Packer was still about and Ch Nine had the AFL football rights , Packer would have picked up that Gold Phone , and said to his producer , get rid of that idiot .
And as others have said , the icing on the cake was the Dennis Pagan bit . and Pagan played in a GF for North as well as coaching them to flags
Right at 3qtr time i think it was when he made that blunder re Dennis , if Kerry Packer was still about and Ch Nine had the AFL football rights , Packer would have picked up that Gold Phone , and said to his producer , get rid of that idiot .
Chill out and learn to disagree agreeably.
he actually grew up in Maryborough. Missus taught him at school. Getting sick of this Ballarat stuff. Only went to Ballarat in his mid teens
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Holmes was the biggest, when we lost him it completely changed the game, he continues playing without incident, finishes BOG by a mile and we walk into the GF by 7/8 goals (as it was 5 goals when he went down).
Also had Bruhn dealing with a hip injury, Danger with ribs from the knee from behind, Jenry did his ankle and Stanley was seriously injured late.
I don't care about season ending injuries to fringe/easily covered players, I was talking about how we were clearly accounting for the lions until Holmes went down and we lost all control through the middle. That injury likely cost us a GF birth, and looking at how insipid the Swans were we would have easily accounted for them, again.
Of course it's the butterfly effect, who knows what actually happens when you change 1 small detail, but still it's something to muse over.
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* still we should’ve taken him ahead of Thurlow
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We probably should have but no doubt would have sulked until his contract ended then jumped ship asap.
I enjoy that he's not won anything after the way he acted though the draft process and ensured he got to where he wanted.
Might be the nicest guy in the world now, but I'll always consider him a w***er.
If only Max's hamstring didn't ping.
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Whatever Sydney do GF week and pre-game has to end, just like 2022 they looked timid, clueless, skill-less, slow, sloppy, defeated.
I know repeated failures in big games, especially GF's can genuinely mess up teams and i feel like that's happened to Sydney. If they get back there again soon with this list, whoever they play will know they are fragile and mentally cooked on the big stage. Their 'stars' are just never there when the team needs them most. I have thought though for a while, that they are a good H&A team but to win a premiership you need more than just a good midfield, their forward line doesn't scare teams & their backline can be exploited, the Lions must've watched the 2022 GF during the week, because they repeated just how we dismantled them.
I know repeated failures in big games, especially GF's can genuinely mess up teams and i feel like that's happened to Sydney. If they get back there again soon with this list, whoever they play will know they are fragile and mentally cooked on the big stage. Their 'stars' are just never there when the team needs them most. I have thought though for a while, that they are a good H&A team but to win a premiership you need more than just a good midfield, their forward line doesn't scare teams & their backline can be exploited, the Lions must've watched the 2022 GF during the week, because they repeated just how we dismantled them.
Maybe - but when your 3 best mids kick over 80 goals between them - is that repeatable?
Don’t rate their forwards or defenders- maybe the start to slide?
Depends really on if anyone wants a trade out, who they bring in, and the mental scarring that 2 bad GF losses has on a club. People have suggested that Longmire might step down soon, if he does over the next two years whoever they bring in might not be able to do what Scotty or McRae have done in instantly identifying a gameplan for a list that brings immediate success.
And really who, in the top 8, could the Swans have played today for an easy kill GF to undo the mental damage that 2022 caused?
Port maybe? But I doubt they beat them by much and considering Swans lost the game today in the midfield which is Ports only strength, thats not a foregone conclusion.
I don't think Sydney beat any of the Victorian clubs who made finals bar Carlton who were so injury ravaged there was no chance they make the GF anyway.
I remember so many Geelong shots at goal in 2022 that I assumed had missed, because there was no emotion from the commentary box. It was only after seeing fans and players cheering that I realised "Oh, he's actually kicked it?"
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And people say we can’t draft ruckman
Dead set the kind of person who supports a football team primarily to have something to whinge and sook about.
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Pretends to 'support'........
We played a tired Lions team at the MCG for a spot in the Grand Final against a very suspect interstate team. Everything fell our way and we still managed to screw it up
Yep. We had a good year but everything fell our way in the finals and the prelim was nothing other than a disaster.
Everything fell our way until it didn’t. Losing Holmes and effectively Bruhn to injury killed our chances. Add to that Stanley’s knee and Dangerfield being hampered after his back was cannoned into then we did pretty well to take the eventual premier till the last couple of mins to beat us.
Hilariously calling Fagan "Dennis" as a nickname is pretty funny, just a shame we know BT did it because he is a buffoon and not as a nickname which is kinda clever.
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Like cooking at home over going out to dinner, you just make up for a lack of quality in sheer volume.
Feels like a side which relies on its midfielders kicking goals hit outs kryptonite in a side that flattened them through the middle
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