Finals experience will be invaluable if we make a run next year. So many of ours still have no finals experience and we may lose more if Walters hangs up the boots. We need to scrape in, if only for that.
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Make no mistake making finals would be massively beneficial for this group .
Go back through last 20 + years and show me a side that’s come from no where to win the flag without some semblance of finals Exposure the previous.
It just does not happen ,period.
Said before it’s what cost us so bad in 2006.
Clubs just can’t “flick the switch” and go from virtually no or minimal finals experience to premiers.
Plus and especially this year , get to finals and anything can happen -
It s as open as it’s ever been this year.
Now do I think we’re genuine chance of make it ,no but it’d still be an exciting time to be involved in for both club and supporters
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Why? Worst they can finish is 4th.
cats have joined 18 other clubs that have lost the week after they play freo
(only Swans and hawks bucked that trend, doggies also but they had a bye to help them recover)Will be tough for GWS to buck that trend; we must be doing something right for that to be happening
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Bingo .
Yea I’ve harped on about but it’s for this exact reason why it’d be so infuriating if we miss , especially from where weve been positioned.
Missing this year almost consigns 2025 ito yet just ANOTHER year of waiting longer in gaining experience
Teams show up against us because we have a reputation of being a bit soft, we need to change that by not being soft.
Geelong losing to Saints shows how pathetic we were last week and those selections were an extra hindrance.
It could be coach ending for Jlo. Just awful.
Today we were much better, but yet Jlo couldn’t do anything to stop Hogan( like didn’t try a thing), Banners debacle and didn’t put a hard tag on Daniels.
It could be coach ending for Jlo. Just awful.
Today we were much better, but yet Jlo couldn’t do anything to stop Hogan( like didn’t try a thing), Banners debacle and didn’t put a hard tag on Daniels.
Starts in the box and selection integrity.
Darcy too fat and unfit to play footy atm.
Banners not up to it.
Fyfe is past it. Just past it.
Jlo plays his favourites and we got to get someone who puts everyone on an even playing field and have them get a game on form. Players need to be challenged like RTB did. How come Darcy can show up every year 120 kegs plus.
Insane to think we’d currently be in a better position if just one of the close results went our way - but the other 5 of our heart breaking losses this year were 50+ annihilations.
How bleak can you get
God it's even worse when you put it like that, cos there's probably some team in the top 8 that fits that bill exactly.
Who cares? if you lose every game by 1 point you are still a shit team.
The players and the club have probably been thinking internally all year they will play finals , now circling the drain. I suspect we will start having trouble keeping the core group together if we keep stinking it up. i.e. the likes of Brayshaw become a flight risk.
You asked why people think we're a chance. I told you why people think we're a chance.
Yep it’s feeling like the Connolly/Harvey era again. Talented side but oh so flaky. IIRC we lost 4 (maybe even 5) games in a row after leading at 3QT. Not just 5 for the season like this year.
Melbourne in 2021
So not long ago at all.
Demons didn't play finals in 2019 or 2020.
I recall Richmond under Hardwick in the early years lost a lot of close games they should have won.
Getting better under pressure and tight games will no doubt be the focus this pre-season.
5th best % in the comp and if we beat Port next week I imagine it will be 4th best % as they are only 0.5% ahead of us
St Kilda have beaten Essendon and Geelong the week after or before those 2 sides beat us.
It’s so frustrating because it wasn’t a concern for us before. We used to finish games pretty well in the last couple years. Even last year we seemed to have a lot more games where we either won close or were able to break away when it was close in the final quarter.
I think those 2 nailbiter games in Adelaide we lost probably just put that self doubt in.
We were a Logan McDonald straight kick from being 1 draw and 7 losses in games decided by 13 points or less.
Nah both eagles and blues want us knocked out of finals so the result will reflect that.
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Its gonig to be very Dockery when Ross gets Saint humming and they beat us here next season.
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