Hot Pies - the new premiership favourites? *MB Thread*

[Dylz48]

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Saints look vulnerable.
May have peaked too early.

Wow the Saints look venerable after a loss who would of thunk it I can't believe some of our supporters are taking the OP seriously

 

[Gavin Excell]

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Absolutely.

But inadvertently he doesnt know how close to the truth he actually is..............

actually there is an element of truth in that....but as someone said before Pies have the full list. There is no denying how critical that is come September as much as Collingwood hates being anything else than the tedious "underdog"

 

[Johnson#26]

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Dogs have better chances than Collingwood.

lmao plz return when you get a key forward kthx.

 

[yeah-nah]

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Saints have one weakness. Theyre the Saints. 26 spoons must weigh heavily.

Nevermind theyll always have this:

 

[AG]

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Perfectly happy for everyone to keep underrating us and our players. Hopefully the two teams above us do the same.

You are the 3rd best team this year. Stop acting like you are the best team and everyone else is underrating you.

 

[Ochre]

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Recent form counts for everything.

so west coast who have won their last 3 should be flag faourites

 

[AG]

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Whats wrong with it? Let me guess -a soft draw?

No because St Kilda have a better gameplan, better players, harder bodies, the in form team of the 20 rounds, the loss will take some pressure off them. St Kilda are still favourites.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

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You are the 3rd best team this year. Stop acting like you are the best team and everyone else is underrating you.

We are millimetres from being equal first. I never said we we under-rated, but I have been saying for a few weeks that the gap is closing fast.

This weekend did nothing to dispel that.

 

[giantpie]

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Favourites? Nah. Threats? You betcha!

Watch the pies come finals time. Saints will be tough but qualifying final against geelong I'd be very confident going into.

HOT PIES!

 

[KissStephanie]

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Saints lose, cats on the ropes.Pies the team to beat?

Kevin Sheedy has said that the team playing best coming in to the finals is the team most likely to win the premiership and not the team that has started the season well and lowered their performances as the season progresses. Both St.Kilda and Geelong has looked shaky and beatable recently. Collingwood is now officially the best performed club since Round 9.

Collingwood beat Richmond and all of a sudden St Kilda and Geelong are easy beats?

Ummm...just in case you're unaware, Collingwood has won 11 of their last 12 matches, and not just a match against Richmond.

Over the course of the season Collingwood are the 3rd best team but how on earth do they become favourites?

St.Kilda are still favourites, but Collingwood should be second favourites because they have been the best performed team since Round 9 this season, and they have shown they can play on the M.C.G in front of huge crowds which St.Kilda has not done this season.

 

[Brent24]

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We're obviously not favourites for a good reason, but to completely dismiss us is just stupid. Quite capable of beating Geelong on our day, not so sure on St Kilda.

 

[young maggot]

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have they beaten geelong or stkilda yet?

 

[DrJekyll]

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No matter how much this Pies wagon pushes it and pushes it, a few wins and a blowout against a much weaker opponent doesn't make put them at the same level as the Cats or the Saints, sadly...It just doesn't work that way, friend.

The Doggies are still a formidable side, everyone forgot about the other 25% of the top 4?

 

[nomad pie]

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The thread is a joke - trying to get the faithful jumping on a bandwagon. The wagon is rolling but it is clearly behind the saints and cats. remember saints and geelong are not really playing for anything atm. 1st and 2nd is tied up. They will go to another level come september.

The pies are coming along nicely, still a gap behind the top 2 and marginally ahead of the doggies and crows.

Still, our chances are improving a little by little each week.

 

[watermelonslice]

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Premiership chance, not favourites. Collingwood has had some fantastic form, but very difficult to go past St Kilda and Geelong right now.

 

[MagpieJoel]

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have they beaten geelong or stkilda yet?

No, but we also haven't played them since we were badly out of form.

 

[AG]

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St.Kilda are still favourites, but Collingwood should be second favourites because they have been the best performed team since Round 9 this season, and they have shown they can play on the M.C.G in front of huge crowds which St.Kilda has not done this season.

I'm still not getting this whole lack of playing on the MCG argument? I they meant to get nervous or is the ground bigger? I would say the atmosphere the dome creates is more of a finals type atmosphere.

 

[Gak Attack]

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Saints have one weakness. Theyre the Saints. 26 spoons must weigh heavily.

Nevermind theyll always have this:

The great thing for footy fans is now the streak is over we can all look forward to 'The Winning Streak 2009'.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

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The Doggies are still a formidable side, everyone forgot about the other 25% of the top 4?

We'll know more when the Pies play them in a fortnight but with an oompla loompa list of talls, they have no hope.

 

[Pie eyed]

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Pies would have to be top of the "form ladder" now.

I happy for them to be outsiders and just keep winning.

 

[Nebula1971]

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We're obviously not favourites for a good reason, but to completely dismiss us is just stupid. Quite capable of beating Geelong on our day, not so sure on St Kilda.

On our day, we can beat anyone. On St. Kilda's or Geelong's day they could easily beat us too.

It is a simple equation and anyone that doesn't agree with this is delusional.

On top of this, as proven today anyone in the 8 can win the flag ... just a lot more difficult if not in the top 4.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

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No because St Kilda have a better gameplan, better players, harder bodies, the in form team of the 20 rounds, the loss will take some pressure off them. St Kilda are still favourites.

We're not picking the AA team now mate. Form over 20 rounds merely draws the ladder. Do you realise that in two years out of three the minor premier does not win the flag?

As much as you'd like to think otherwise, form over recent months is a million times more important than form in the first few months of the year. StKilda and Geelong have gradually found themselves struggling to dominate games like they did early in the year while Collingwood have continued to improve.

 

[KissStephanie]

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have they beaten geelong or stkilda yet?

I judge teams performances over a two year period, and not just one season. I find that more of an accurate guide, so in that case Collingwood has beaten both Geelong and St.Kilda.

 

[twoforjoy]

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nah, pies are ticking along nicely but far from GF favourites. the Sydney game will be tight and tough, and make no mistake they will be out to break the hoodoo we have on them, and the Dogs are no walk over either.

 

[Guus_Hiddink]

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Saints and Cats gone, Blues to pounce, its 1970/79 all over again

Bookmark, heard it first etc. etc.