The Official Run Home/Can We Make the Finals Thread

bus24 · Jul 21, 2007

Mr Crow! said:
It's all over.

Yup. It's a terrible run home too.

Essendon (TD)
Port (AS)
Geelong (SS) - Oh Dear

Bulldogs (AS)
Brisbane (AS)
Collingwood (TD)

We need to win 5 of those to even consider making the 8.

S'over people :thumbsdown:

Mr Crow! · Jul 21, 2007

It looks like the Premiership clock has CHIMED, and it has finally hit midnight.

Asgardian · Jul 21, 2007

Re: Analysing the Ladder After Round 15

Asgardian said:
Surely to god, if Freo have any pride at all, they'll bounce back hard against the Crows, who'll be missing some vital players.

Frankly the writing was on the wall before today for this result

crowman_23 · Jul 21, 2007

Disgusted

Why can we not win bloody games? Freo who have struggled to win a game all year have won comfortably.

Finals chances are now all but over.

Damp Squarie · Jul 21, 2007

The fat lady hasnt sung ....but she's picking up her sheet music.

We can still make the eight so I'm not getting the olfa knife out just yet; but Im thinking about making a will.

At least we'll be underdogs in the next two weeks which means we should win.

them.

sumavich · Jul 21, 2007

Re: Disgusted

crowman_23 said:
Why can we not win bloody games? Freo who have struggled to win a game all year have won comfortably.

Finals chances are now all but over.

We've actually beaten you twice this year !!

Kane McGoodwin · Jul 22, 2007

We can still make the finals, but we will be just making up the numbers.

We have blown any decent chance of making a run in the finals by our last 2 weeks.

Alex99 · Jul 22, 2007

We can still make the finals but we won’t.

I doubt we will beat Essendon at the Dome next Sunday and then we have Port Adelaide and Geelong the following 2 weeks after that. If we cannot beat Fremantle at home, how can we beat the in form Port Adelaide (neutral) and Geelong away?

Our form is untenable and not looming like changing.

bus24 · Jul 22, 2007

crows98 said:
We can still make the finals but we won’t.

I doubt we will beat Essendon at the Dome next Sunday and then we have Port Adelaide and Geelong the following 2 weeks after that. If we cannot beat Fremantle at home, how can we beat the in form Port Adelaide (neutral) and Geelong away?

Our form is untenable and not looming like changing.

IMO we've played 4 good games all year. Those being against the Bulldogs (R2 - MCG), Brisbane (R7 - GABBA), Kangaroos (R12 - Carrara) and Hawthorn (R14 - AS)

Of our other 4 wins

Port (R3) - I thought we were lucky to win to be honest. We played scruffy footy and had their kicking been better, they probably should've won.

Sydney (R4) - Thought we were terrible. Skills were shocking and once again poor kicking from the opposition kept us in it. (9.7 to 5.14)

Richmond (R8) - Never thought we were ever going to lose, but we played a 1/4 of footy and 3/4's of something else. At this stage these blokes hadn't won a game and after 16 games, they've only won 1 (2-2 was a racehorse). Hardly an inspiring performance. Put the shutters up at 1/4 time when we should've buried them.

Carlton (R9) - Another very average performance. Didn't rock up until 1/4 time and other than the 2nd term, and late in the 4th we didn't really do much. Some hopeless turnovers kept them close. Having said that the Carlton side we played, was not that pathetic mess I saw out there today.

We've also had some horrible losses.

The game against Melbourne sticks in my memory. How hopeless was that. Gifted them their first win with soft, unaccountable crap football. We went backards, sideways and any way but forward.

Other shocking losses include the Essendon debacle first up, Collingwood at home (granted they played well), but Chris Bryan kicking 4

.

Other ordinary performances include Fremantle at home, against West Coast (were the goalposts out on the flanks that day) and the St.Kilda game was less than impressive.

Thought we tried manfully against Fremantle in Round 5 at Subiaco and against Geelong.

the mighty adelaide crows · Jul 23, 2007

i cant see why we cant make the finals this year.we have done this before in 97 and 98.we are the only team too win from out of the top 4.any team from the top 8 can win the flag :thumbsu:

bus24 · Jul 29, 2007

ThePeckers · Jul 29, 2007

I know how we can make the finals

Port Adelaide- Win
Geelong -Win
Western Bulldogs- Win
Brisbane- Win
Collingwood- Win

13-9

Perfect run into the finals

Now all we need is to clone 22 Judds

the mighty adelaide crows · Jul 30, 2007

good by finals cya in 2008

edgar_davids · Jul 30, 2007

Adelaide can still make the 8

Round 18 - Port Adelaide (Away)
Round 19 - Geelong (Away)
Round 20 - Western Bulldogs (Home)
Round 21 - Brisbane Lions (Home)
Round 22 - Collingwood (Away)

We can win all 5 games. I can only see Port Adelaide beating Carlton from there last 5, and possibly a spirited charged Fremantle in Round 22. There is still hope for Adelaide, we have nothing to lose, so just play free boys...and thrash those Port toothless ferals.

bus24 · Jul 30, 2007

Re: Adelaide can still make the 8

We'll go 1-4 with the win coming against the Dogs.

Ending at 9-13.

Red Crow · Jul 30, 2007

bus24 said:
IMO we've played 4 good games all year. Those being against the Bulldogs (R2 - MCG), Brisbane (R7 - GABBA), Kangaroos (R12 - Carrara) and Hawthorn (R14 - AS)

Of our other 4 wins

Port (R3) - I thought we were lucky to win to be honest. We played scruffy footy and had their kicking been better, they probably should've won.

Sydney (R4) - Thought we were terrible. Skills were shocking and once again poor kicking from the opposition kept us in it. (9.7 to 5.14)

Richmond (R8) - Never thought we were ever going to lose, but we played a 1/4 of footy and 3/4's of something else. At this stage these blokes hadn't won a game and after 16 games, they've only won 1 (2-2 was a racehorse). Hardly an inspiring performance. Put the shutters up at 1/4 time when we should've buried them.

Carlton (R9) - Another very average performance. Didn't rock up until 1/4 time and other than the 2nd term, and late in the 4th we didn't really do much. Some hopeless turnovers kept them close. Having said that the Carlton side we played, was not that pathetic mess I saw out there today.

We've also had some horrible losses.

The game against Melbourne sticks in my memory. How hopeless was that. Gifted them their first win with soft, unaccountable crap football. We went backards, sideways and any way but forward.

Other shocking losses include the Essendon debacle first up, Collingwood at home (granted they played well), but Chris Bryan kicking 4 .

Other ordinary performances include Fremantle at home, against West Coast (were the goalposts out on the flanks that day) and the St.Kilda game was less than impressive.

Thought we tried manfully against Fremantle in Round 5 at Subiaco and against Geelong.

In the words of the great man Danny Frawley... correct weight! That sums up our season to date perfectly!

I did one of those ladder predictor things, and the only way we can make the eight is to lose only one match from here on in (most likely against Geelong). It's do-able... but not likely.

amer · Aug 12, 2007