Brisbane's 3 Premierships the easiest ever?

[MSB ROYS]

The 2001 GF team was awesome:

Chris Johnson, Justin Leppitsch, Darryl White, Mal Michael, Chris Scott, Brad Scott, Marcus Ashcroft and Robert Copeland.

Clark Keating, Beau McDonald, Michael Voss, Jason Akermanis, Nigel Lappin, Simon Black, Shaun Hart and Luke Power.

Jonathon Brown, Alastair Lynch, Daniel Bradshaw, Craig McRae, Tim Notting and Martin Pike.

 

[Crow-mo]

No and I don't project my own lack of ignorance onto others either,

Oh I think we can prove otherwise:

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13394695&postcount=99

guess you must have been 7 or 8 at the time.

if your father comes home drunk and tries to control how you think I can only suggest you move out, find a job and get your own place to live

lol. I sure pegged you wrong

 

[Alberton_Magpie]

In Reply to the OP Port Adelaide 2004 would have flogged Port Adelaide 2007.

07 Tredrea would not have got a touch on 04 C.Cornes

04 Tredrea would have given 07 Chaplin a bath

04 Hardwick and Carr would have got stuck in the 07 Softies

04 K.Cornes would have Tagged 07 C.Cornes (Good Contest)

04 Wakelin would have smashed 07 Westhoff

04 Wanganeen would have ran a riot on an 07 Surjan or Symes

04 Brogan/Lade vs an 07 Brogan/Lade? Who Knows?

 

[SteeleAt11]

I sure pegged you wrong

Don't feel bad, your psychological projection was amusing enough, many people accuse others of their own unconscious fears

 

[lionbear]

Edited to reflect reality

I am glad we agree that My editing of your post is true

Who is Asterix anyway

 

[RiverRat]

Everybody seems to talk about how Brisbane has been the strongest team of this decade, I disagree completely. Geelong and Hawthorn are far stronger teams the only issue is the two teams themselves. They are that good that the competition is too stiff for them to win consecutive flags. If Geelong or Hawthorn had to play the Collingwood of 2001,2002 and Port Adelaide (which Geelong wiped the floor with) we would be looking at a team winning 5 straight Grand Finals.


2000 - The played an injury plagued Bombers team that would of wiped the floor with them had they been not completely run down.
2001 - Played a brave but very lacking Collingwood team in regards to previous Grand Finalists before that
2002 - Again played a very weak Collingwood side that would be no match for the Hawthorn, Geelong teams of today.

Brisbane should be known as the team that dominated a very ordinary competition.

Good post.

 

[Gone Critical]

Had your little fun? You and your giggling tween, hannah montana loving little mates still think it's funny making everyone here dance to your invisible strings like little china dolls? Shit buddy you can't even spell 'everyone' for ****s sake!

Jesus you're lucky you didn't say that shit to me at a pub cause I would've seriously glassed you in the face.

I was sitting here thinking this wolf guy must be trying out for moron of the year.

It seemed that even though its January he may have the title already in his pocket when you jump up from nowhere and steal it from him. Well done

 

[Gone Critical]

My 2 bobs worth

You are talking about one of the greatest teams in 100+ yr history. Personally I rank them no 4 after Hawks 83-91, Demons 55-60 and Pies 27-30. These were not easy premierships.

2001 Essendon -Beat a team that had come off what was being described as possibly the greatest season a team had had the year before and were stilla v strong unit that fell apart after 2001 (partly due to salary cap restraints causing them to offload some of their 2nd tier players)

2002 Collingwood -Met a team that was tough and professional playing at their top. Pies had had a sensational finals series with the wins against the Adelaide teams and were underrated. Buckley our greatest ever was at the top of his powers, Rocca was dominant in those matches, we had Clement, Licca Burns Wakelin etc strong good players and the match was in tough conditions. May not have been exciting but this was the closest, toughest most tense GF I have seen , neither team broke away from the other all day and no Brissie player would have left the field thinking that was easy.

2003 Collingwood - Came into game as underdogs but just blew the Pies away in a display of one team imposing themselves on another that was awesome. Still having nightmares. THat was nort easy to do from the position they had come from.

These were all great flags, none easy

 

[SteeleAt11]

Who is Asterix anyway

Look beside your premiership flags

 

[lionbear]

Look beside your premiership flags

No Asterix there, I see a space for the next one

 

[ROates]

Brisbane would have won 4 in a row if the AFL hadn't screwed them around by making them play away finals when they had earned the right to a home final. They were made to travel all over the countryside so the AFL could get Port Power a flag.

What a stupid comment. I watched the game, and we won it, so we won the flag, simple. The AFL can't 'get' a club a premiership, the club has to earn it, and Port did in 2004.

Me thinks you are just annoyed Port Adelaide could actually beat Brisbane in a Grand Final

 

[lionbear]

What a stupid comment. I watched the game, and we won it, so we won the flag, simple. The AFL can't 'get' a club a premiership, the club has to earn it, and Port did in 2004.

Me thinks you are just annoyed Port Adelaide could actually beat Brisbane in a Grand Final

I think this quote could be put to the whole thread.

2001-03 BRISBANE won the flag.
2004 PORT ADELAIDE won the flag.

End of thread

 

[SteeleAt11]

No Asterix there, I see a space for the next one

Yeah because you've been so successful without concessions

 

[Helix]

Yeah because you've been so successful without concessions

Lol, like Collingwood have? 1 flag in 50 years, great stuff.

 

[SteeleAt11]

Lol, like Collingwood have? 1 flag in 50 years, great stuff.

Last time I checked the competition was 111 years old and we have 14 flags.. not too shabby

As for your club you've become Fitzroy again without all the AFL crutches

 

[Dan26]

All premierships teams are excllent teams, obviously, but I have no doubt that the three individual Brisbane teams that won flags are certainly the most overrated flag sides of recent times. And it's the "3 in a row" thing that makes people think they were better than they really were.

Take 2003. That year they finished 3rd, with a mediocre percentage. They then LOST a finals match, before their premiership win. All up there were 9 games (8 losses and a draw) that they failed to win.

But, because they won it the year before, and the year before, people then stupidly think that that makes the 2003 team better. The 2003 team does not become better, just because the same club won the flag in 2001 and 2002. Premierships are singular individual achievements. Always have been, always will be. They are won year to year.

Not one Brisbane side finished top of the ladder.

Not one Bridbane flag side had percentage higher than 136%

Not one Brisbane flag side lost less than 5 games.

They weren't that dominant. They just kept on doing enough to win the flag? But does that alone make one a "super" side??

After all, isn't it possible to be 1% better than everyone else for 20 years in a row, and win 20 flags? Just by bein a tiny, tiny bit better than everyone else, without actually dominating the competition? Isn't this essentally the Brisbane story of 2001-2-3? A very good side, not dominant, but perhaps a couple of percent better than the rest.

Of the 9 indivdual flag sides this decade the two that stand out were Essendon of 2000 and Geelong of 2007. Both had a percentage of 160% after 25 games, both won their three finals games by a combined total of 230 points, both were minor-pemiers, and both totally dominated their respective years.

The best of Brisbane's 3 flag sides was 2002, but they didn't dominate to the extent of Essendon 2000 or Geelong 2007.

 

[Salopek31]

Last time I checked the competition was 111 years old and we have 14 flags.. not too shabby

As for your club you've become Fitzroy again without all the AFL crutches

Honestly, you make it sound as though Collingwood are the Manchester United of Australian Football. Of those 14 flags, 13 were won in a suburban league, and being pre-1960 (most pre-WW2) they are barely worth more than an SANFL/WAFL flag, let alone a national league flag.

Also, since the '03 grand final (great day that one ) Brisbane have a greater winning percentage than Collingwood, so I don't know where you get this delusion that Brisbane have become an uncompetitive rabble from.

 

[SteeleAt11]

Honestly, you make it sound as though Collingwood are the Manchester United of Australian Football.

Your words not mine

 

[Helix]

Last time I checked the competition was 111 years old and we have 14 flags.. not too shabby

As for your club you've become Fitzroy again without all the AFL crutches

We own you. I hurts, I know. Maybe this year eh? Lol.

 

[SteeleAt11]

We own you. I hurts, I know. Maybe this year eh? Lol.

You had an unfair advantage for awhile which was duly taken away from you once the AFL dolts were happy that Aussie Rules was established in a rugby state.. you haven't owned anyone since and are starting to look like a basket case

 

[Helix]

You had an unfair advantage for awhile which was duly taken away from you once the AFL dolts were happy that Aussie Rules was established in a rugby state.. you haven't owned anyone since and are starting to look like a basket case

Except Collingwood. We own you good.

 

[SteeleAt11]

Except Collingwood. We own you good.

You don't own a car

 

[Hollow Knight]

You had an unfair advantage for awhile which was duly taken away from you once the AFL dolts were happy that Aussie Rules was established in a rugby state.. you haven't owned anyone since and are starting to look like a basket case

Thats it, keep the excuses coming down at the Lexus centre.

The longer you continue to blame everyone else for your own club's failings, the longer it will take you to fix them.

Two clubs had higher total player payments than Brisbane in 2002. Neither of them played finals, and one of them won the spoon. So tell me champ...if spending more money is all it takes to win flags... how come Sydney and Carlton weren't facing off in the grand final?

I'll also ask you one more question as you seem to think Brisbane's retention allowance was unjustified... how many players seek trades back to their home state the year they win a grand final... we lost a no.1 draft pick in those exact circumstances... but of course... there is no 'go home factor' because your fearless leader Eddie says so.

 

[SteeleAt11]

Thats it, keep the excuses coming down at the Lexus centre.

Just a statement of fact

 

[Hollow Knight]

Just a statement of fact

No, its fanboi bullshit.

There is always an excuse with you lot... it was umpires last year in round 2.

Not sure what you blamed the 93 point drubbing in 2007 on... a faulty scoreboard perhaps?