Sydney without Goodes and Mumford aren't that good. If you put Goodes and Mumford in the Port Adelaide team and we would be pushing for a spot in the eight.
Sydney beat Hawthorn without Mumford? Easily too. And Goodes was playing the entire game but 10 minutes of the final term. As a matter of fact we built on our lead while Goodes was out there and Sydney strung a few goals together when Goodes went off, so that blows your theory out of the water.,