He's got to be a sneaky chance to nick another one this year. I wouldn't have him as favourite, but we've won enough and he's been fantastic in most of them without a heap of obvious midfield vote stealers...
No discount for early pleas any more.
Well that's one way to set us up to disappoint.
It's an interesting one. Our record in finals on paper is really poor. But in 2 of them we were completely robbed. Last year we were cooked but still robbed. And in our first year we played ok but were inexperienced and a little overawed.
Oliver is the one who everyone woke up to was a great player last year so the umps don't feel guilty about gifting him a few votes.
Brayshaw has been clear BOG in 3 games that I can clearly recall and I don't see most of their games so yeah , he could romp it in if he's the young guy on the up where he's a lot better than everyone realises and the umps get it right before everyone else. Like a Fyffe or an Akermanis.
If we hadn't stunk it up against Richmond and Essendon we'd be clear 2nd with potentially 2 home finals.
Agreed, would be a lot more concerned if our window was closing which despite what some people say just isn't true. If anything our older players are the ones that let us down more often than not imo and with good replacements in the reserves and with the timing of Ashcroft coming in I think we're well set for another few years at the top yet.
Was thinking the same. 12x24 hr periods says Cal good for a 7.30 start Friday.
Got rid of it I just heard.
Thought we’d drop the bombers game after the amount of outs we had. The other real bad one that was always going to cost us was that Hawks game. Another one where we let a lead slip. Think we were up by 4 goals with momentum halfway through the third. Still dunno how we ended up losing that one.
i dunno, it is pretty evident that when teams get a roll on they roll right over us. Today we were lucky that Carlton did it too late. It is our achilles heal and i reckon every team knows it.
