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Geelong in Geelong is tough. Very, very tough.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I wouldn't.
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I have a gambling problem that's why. I'm going to bed. Goodnight friend.
If your mob finish 2nd overall, then anything less than a Grand Final appearance would be considered a fail mark (imo). You can't finish 2nd and be happy with only 1 finals win... surely not.
That would be fair to say but I think if you said to the AFC, in Sando's first year you'll be playing finals they'd see it as a good pass. If you told them they were finishing in the top 4 they'd see it as a bonus and consider themselves ahead of targets. If you told them they'd finish top two then they'd barely believe it. Adelaide have one of the youngest lists in the comp and compared to most of the teams in the top 8 they haven't got a lot of finals experience. So they are a good chance to go deep into finals but realisticly to go past a Prelim is optimistic and I'm not sure one finals win would be seen as a fail.
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Weakest team in the 8.
Underrated post.
You are not quite right there. We played Geelong (last years premiers) twice. Whether they were up and about at the time has nothing to do with anything - no-one can predict exactly how a side is going to go throughout the year. It must be based on last year. We played Freo 2 times and they are definitely in the 8 now. We thrashed Carlton when they were on a high and everyone was thinking they were premiership material. When we first played Geelong we thrashed them.
Who would have known that Carlton would get done by the Suns the week after thrashing Essendon by heaps? How come Essendon, having only lost one game at the time (by 1 point) and sitting on top got rolled by Melbourne sitting in 17th spot!!!
Who would have predicted Carlton to beat Collingwood twice. Who would have thought that Hawthorn would be thrashed by Richmond?
But most importantly no-one thought that Adelaide would be in the 8 at all this year - no matter what draw they had - and that is the essence of this whole thread.
It must be based on last year. We played Freo 2 times and they are definitely in the 8 now.
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Adelaide have played 9 games against sides in 8 - won 5 (Fremantle x 2, West Coast, Sydney, Geelong) lost 4 (Collingwood, Hawthorn, Geelong and North Melbourne) for what its worth.
Finals will dictate whether they deserve it, personally I think so. After all, Collingwood are currently in 5 position with a very average % of 115. If they make top 4, would they be less deserving? Possibly.
Finals will dictate whether they deserve it, personally I think so. After all, Collingwood are currently in 5 position with a very average % of 115. If they make top 4, would they be less deserving? Possibly.
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North are better than West Coast and Adelaide.
based on?
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Would only say that based on games being played at Etihad. Away from there they have yet to prove themselves.
Have only been playing at Etihad in the last half of the year with one game played at the "G" (narrow win against Richmond)
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The quality of opponents each team has beaten the last 11 weeks.
We beat West Coast...
Adelaide hasn't played Collingwood, Hawthorn or Sydney in the last 11 weeks. That would naturally limit the quality of the teams that we've beaten in the last 11 weeks.
and Fremantle
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Ask Carlton and Richmond (and Port) about the "gimme games" - it never happened that way for them. If you say 4 gimme games for Adealide then you are also saying at least 2 ( and sometimes 3 gimme games for all the other teams apart from GWS and GC
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You missed the other team... the Roos, they smashed you.
5 goals is a smashing?
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I was thinking that we never got home fixtures against Hawthorn and Sydney this year. If we did instead of home fixtures against GWS and GC we probably would of won 1 won of them, which means that one of them (hawth/sydney) would of lost 1 more game like us.
Which meant that in all probabilities we'd still of finnished second.
I would then say hawthorn and sydney were very lucky having not travelled to footy park in the h@a, yet we had to travel to thier home games..so we got the ruff end of the draw.
Which meant that in all probabilities we'd still of finnished second.
I would then say hawthorn and sydney were very lucky having not travelled to footy park in the h@a, yet we had to travel to thier home games..so we got the ruff end of the draw.
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