They have had all the advantages you could ever wish for to cruise into finals, even down to playing the final at their home ground instead of their higher finishing opponents.Isnt that just a sign of a good coach?
The real benefit of Hawks winning next week is not just the draft picks for us.
It’s exposing the much spoken about myth amongst a (thankfully diminishing) portion of freo fans that we are still tracking just fine with JL over the last few years, that we are too young to expect to contend and that our players aren’t quite mature enough or good enough for us fans to expect to be playing finals.
If ours aren’t, how come Hawthorns are?
Maybe a bit more scrutiny and expectation might be placed on our performances as a club in light of a team that was very clearly well behind us in their rebuild, and now appear to be leaving us in their rear view mirror.
One example from last night - the way they systematically dismantled Bont with Nash reducing his influence greatly. Let’s be honest here - had it been Bulldogs v Freo last night Bont would have had 35 touches and kicked 3, just like he always seems to destroy us when we play them and we never seem to learn or try anything different
Funny, they don't win prelim finals either. They haven't won one since 2007.
They play Sydney every year, they don't play prelims every year
What do you think is the bigger mental barrier for Port? I recon they are shot anyway.
I guess Sydney are lucky that port will choke and go out this week then.
Anathema in this thread! Booooo Port!!
