Would you rather go undefeated then lose the GF to your biggest rival or go winless?

[dockshark]

Stupid thread. Any supporter that would prefer a winless season to making the big dance is not a real supporter. Having your club make the GF is awesome, and the GF experience totally worthwhile win or lose.

Sure we lost to the better team in 13, but it was still an awesome weekend.

 

[Tyler Hodges]

Undefeated, not the worse thing tbf losing a grabd final, it's so fun watching your side on grand final day. Helps when you've recently knocked off your rivals in the big dance already though. Geelong will do it to us this year to stop the 4 in a row, and it will be one for the ages!

 

[JackFlash]

It is all pointless without the flag, but 23-1 is far better than 0-22. It makes me wonder if anyone saying 0-22 has ever seen their team close to it. I suggest not.

All Grand Final losses are a waste of time, but to lose to a team i loathe, nope, i 'll take the 0-22.

 

[LB#16]

All Grand Final losses are a waste of time, but to lose to a team i loathe, nope, i 'll take the 0-22.

0-22 would include losing to a team you loathe anyway.

 

[dockshark]

I made a similar argument last year. I thought Hawthorn would make mince meat out of us the the GF (which they did) and I thought we'd be a good chance against the injured, out of form Freo team. Yet I wanted Hawks to win the PF against them because I couldn't contemplate the idea of Fremantle beating us the GF........

Why do West Coast supporters maintain this irrational Freo hate?

I seriously wouldn't be any more upset losing GF to West Coast than any other team.

 

[Tiger Toffee]

I've played ( albeit cricket ) in a undefeated and lost the GF season, it's ****ing horrible and stays with you forever and i wish it never happened, would rather lose every game than had to have gone through that shit.

 

[dockshark]

Losing to Freo would be no different than any other team for me. Sure, some of the bandwagon Freo fans would be insufferable but that is the same with every team.

Agree 100%.

 

[LeverPuller]

Having gone horribly close to winless, the GF loss.

 

[MightyHawks]

Why would you choose either option

I choose to go to the moon

 

[underthestars]

It is all pointless without the flag, but 23-1 is far better than 0-22. It makes me wonder if anyone saying 0-22 has ever seen their team close to it. I suggest not.

seen us pretty awful and for a long time. but never felt as bad as i did after 09. gutted. wasn't a week of pain, it was an entire off season of self pity and what ifs. what if milney didn't brubber kick it, what if the goal ump saw it hit the post, what if that toe poke wasn't guided by god, what is ross played ball in the last, what if the ump didn't ignore the blatant foul against schneider, or didn't blow the iffy one for ablett? best team all year - should have gone undefeated but ross basically engineered a defeat believing it would ease pressure. and it still haunts, whilst the joy of the season up to that day has long left my memory.
but heck, who wants to be the laughing stock of the AFL and go 0-22?

 

[TwentyNine]

Would I rather win 24 matches or none - you're kidding right?

 

[JD Tomahawk]

couldn't handle a cats v Hawks grand final I'd have a heart attack sometime during grand final week, and my heart is currently in good shape.

 

[Whiskers]

I agree with your sentiment but I imagine the pain Geelong fans would have went through after the 2008 Grand Final would be worst than winning a wooden spoon

We wouldn't know much about wooden spoons.
Losing all year means you lose to everyone, including your rival. So I'll take another GF loss to Hawthorn, it's not like we haven't done it before.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Make the Grand Final. Easily.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

This thread is as out of touch with the average person as the LNP.

 

[specq]

Seems like the choice is easy. I'd spend all season cleaning up on my bets - probably getting some good upset odds early in the year before they really start to get rolling.

And then I put it all on Geelong to win the GF.

A big fat pile of cash should help ease any lingering guilt I'd feel about making the boys go through the pain of losing on Grand Final Day.

 

[pazza]

Undefeated.

 

[Ricky Vaughn]

Undeafeated. By a huge margin.

Going through a season winless would be pathetic and a permanent stain on any club.

 

[mcgarnacle]

2nd to 18th in any given year - in 10, 20, 30, etc years time, it's the same thing. the premiership counter hasn't ticked over.

obviously, winning games in seasons generally is important for the health of the club.

 

[Bokonon]

I've tbought about it and definitely go undefeated and lose to greatest rival. Mostly because we haven't really got any deep rivalries at our young club. I have a personal emnity with Port and losing a GF to them would hurt like hell, but it's not about me

 

[mcgarnacle]

All 17 other teams should be your biggest rival, they are all in your way of winning a flag. You should always move heaven and earth to beat as many of them as humanly possible.

can you now please enter the realm of reality?

competitor and rival aren't the same thing.

 

[mcgarnacle]

I've tbought about it and definitely go undefeated and lose to greatest rival. Mostly because we haven't really got any deep rivalries at our young club. I have a personal emnity with Port and losing a GF to them would hurt like hell, but it's not about me

i think it's fairly obvious who western suburbs main rival is. regional rivals don't need any manufacturing or history.

bulldogs are supposedly a rival for giants, but will that be sustainable? as the only two clubs that share sydney as a metropolitan, swans vs giants will.

swans and eagles died in the arse. swans and hawthorn will subside too when either or both are not competitive or at significantly different levels in performance.

in saying that, north are the swans other rival IMO but there has been some decent history there with a GF, finals, a potential move to Sydney in the 90s, and they are at relatively the same historic level of premierships.

 

[Bokonon]

i think it's fairly obvious who western suburbs main rival is. regional rivals don't need any manufacturing or history.

bulldogs are supposedly a rival for giants, but will that be sustainable? as the only two clubs that share sydney as a metropolitan, swans vs giants will.

swans and eagles died in the arse. swans and hawthorn will subside too when either or both are not competitive or at significantly different levels in performance.

in saying that, north are the swans other rival IMO but there has been some decent history there with a GF, finals, a potential move to Sydney in the 90s, and they are at relatively the same historic level of premierships.

I dont really get that. To me the Swans rivalry is manufactured. I see us as an inclusive club based in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, but you've also got to consider our Canberra members at every step. I favour the Crows this year and that only leaves one slot, if it's us great but I suspect it wont be. In future years we'll focus on whoever we need to beat, if we're good enough to make it.

 

[Franc de Borges]

Tennyson mused over a similar question, though even he can't get his head around Brisbane actually having an arch rival .

 

[Blueboys11]

It depends if the following season you had an equal chance of winning the flag with both options.

I'm sure Essendon in 99 would rather have finished last than lose to Carlton in the prelim the way they did. But then they came out and won in 2000.