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[Leather Poisoning]

I heard an interesting stat/fact on the radio this afternoon. Since we've had the current final eight system apparently no team who has been beaten by a bottom four team has won the premeirship. Both Sydney and Freo have been beaten by bottom four teams. Another stat I heard a while ago is that no team who has been beaten by 100 points or more in the home and away season has won the premiership. Geelong has been beaten by over 100 points. So that just leaves us, Port and all the also rans...the premiership is our folks!!!!

Like this a lot.

Quite amusing if it pans out that way.

 

[Bikefreak]

You are right. I forgot about that. I only remember the Platten part

The rest was incidental and unimportant really wasn't it?

 

[Baz_hawk]

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Bartel, if he really thinks he didn't dive, would have been better to say nothing; never complain, never explain.

 

[QuietB]

Bartel, if he really thinks he didn't dive, would have been better to say nothing; never complain, never explain.

The Geelong way is clearly a little different

 

[LegendLewis]

Would we push a player like Ball out the door like Buckley appears to have done? Maybe we would if we had a wealth of experience staying and on the field, and we definitely WOULDN'T if the two players who were goig to take that role(McCaffer and Scharenberg) did acl injuries the week before. I dont get it? whats buckley thinking?

 

[Off The Couch]

Would we push a player like Ball out the door like Buckley appears to have done? Maybe we would if we had a wealth of experience staying and on the field, and we definitely would if the two players (McCaffer and Scharenberg) did acl injuries the week before. I dont get it? whats buckley thinking?

I think the one that's worse is ROK - announcing a lap of honour for him this morning when he hasn't even notified them of his intentions - he wasn't pushed, he was shoved

I feel for Ball if it's the case - not a glorious way to end a career and I would be appalled if someone like Sewell was treated like that. In saying that, some players ie. ROK and even goodes just don't know when it's time to call time

 

[LegendLewis]

Would we push a player like Ball out the door like Buckley appears to have done? Maybe we would if we had a wealth of experience staying and on the field, and we definitely WOULDN'T if the two players who were goig to take that role(McCaffer and Scharenberg) did acl injuries the week before. I dont get it? whats buckley thinking?

edited...got my woulds confused, too much 4 x 2 with me at the moment

 

[QuietB]

Is anyone else over the whole retirement thing? Most of these guys will never be hall of famers, not even for their clubs. You want to retire, then retire. Save me the lap of honour and retirement parade.

If I were O'Keefe I would have told Sydney to stick it up their arse. They have treated him appallingly this year.

 

[Off The Couch]

Is anyone else over the whole retirement thing? Most of these guys will never be hall of famers, not even for their clubs. You want to retire, then retire. Save me the lap of honour and retirement parade.

If I were O'Keefe I would have told Sydney to stick it up their arse. They have treated him appallingly this year.

Such is the power of Buddy

 

[spudmaster]

Is anyone else over the whole retirement thing? Most of these guys will never be hall of famers, not even for their clubs. You want to retire, then retire. Save me the lap of honour and retirement parade.

If I were O'Keefe I would have told Sydney to stick it up their arse. They have treated him appallingly this year.

Aye, and the two hundred guards of honor Hayes has had this year.
'first game since announcing retirement'
'last game at stadium a'
'last game at stadium b' etc

final home game and then go quietly. seriously.

 

[spudmaster]

Such is the power of Buddy

I'll make sure I'm at Buddy's farewell with a banner reading along the lines of '$3mil down, $7,000,000 to go'

 

[Off The Couch]

Aye, and the two hundred guards of honor Hayes has had this year.
'first game since announcing retirement'
'last game at stadium a'
'last game at stadium b' etc

final home game and then go quietly. seriously.

Was it as bad as the sheedy and hird retirement show

 

[Faraway Hawk]

According to this:

http://afltables.com/afl/teams/allteams/grandfinals.html#09

It's Jack Titus from Richmond; 6 GF losses and 2 GF wins in his career.

Rene Kink holds the dubious honour of having the most Grand Final losses without a win at 5.

Dempster and Dawson have the most out of the current players at 3 apiece.

Thanks for the info mate.

 

[James Colorado]

Is anyone else over the whole retirement thing? Most of these guys will never be hall of famers, not even for their clubs. You want to retire, then retire. Save me the lap of honour and retirement parade.

If I were O'Keefe I would have told Sydney to stick it up their arse. They have treated him appallingly this year.

Still wish we'd got ROK after the 2008 season. A quality player at the time who only seemed to get better in the next couple of years. If things had panned out, there's another premiership we'd have won.

 

[Harper_Hawk]

Such is the power of Buddy

Yes...great point. They don't need to treat past players with respect now they have Buddy...just how will all this end for Sydney..

 

[TyHawk]

Still wish we'd got ROK after the 2008 season. A quality player at the time who only seemed to get better in the next couple of years. If things had panned out, there's another premiership we'd have won.

How about if Paul Roos asked for Jordan Lewis? Would you still want ROK? Nah, me too.

 

[James Colorado]

How about if Paul Roos asked for Jordan Lewis? Would you still want ROK? Nah, me too.

Fair point, and yes, I'd prefer we retained Lewis. As much as I would have loved ROK, there are some players you can't give up, and Lewis is one - the man is prototypically Hawthorn.

A similar discussion came up when I said to a friend that I wished we hadn't let Kennedy go (and I still wish we had retained him). My mate's response was that Kennedy is a similar player to Jordan Lewis, and we couldn't let him go.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Is anyone else over the whole retirement thing? Most of these guys will never be hall of famers, not even for their clubs. You want to retire, then retire. Save me the lap of honour and retirement parade.

If I were O'Keefe I would have told Sydney to stick it up their arse. They have treated him appallingly this year.

Yes. Whatever happened to playing out the season THEN announcing your retirement? Apparently Karmichael Hunt is getting a lap of honour, the guy has only played 44 games for crying out loud!

 

[IdiotBox]

Yes. Whatever happened to playing out the season THEN announcing your retirement? Apparently Karmichael Hunt is getting a lap of honour, the guy has only played 44 games for crying out loud!

What, and miss out on the opportunity for tongue-tied commentators to embarrassingly miss-pronounce his name one last time?

 

[IdiotBox]

Aye, and the two hundred guards of honor Hayes has had this year.
'first game since announcing retirement'
'last game at stadium a'
'last game at stadium b' etc

final home game and then go quietly. seriously.

To be fair to St Kilda, they've had nothing else to celebrate this year. I'm just hanging out for the news headlines next week to see if they can top last year's dwarf bonfire. Maybe they'll have a shot at the Grand Final sprint.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

So our final is on a Friday night. What a ******* surprise.

And Sydney get a Friday prelim. What a ******* rort.

 

[Off The Couch]

So our final is on a Friday night. What a ******* surprise.

And Sydney get a Friday prelim. What a ******* rort.

I'm confused

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

I'm confused

It's the principle. We make the GF and it's a 6.5 day break vs 7.5.

Just another $wans concession

 

[Off The Couch]

It's the principle. We make the GF and it's a 6.5 day break vs 7.5.

Just another $wans concession

I'm going to admit that you've still got me bamboozled - is this on the premise that freo don't smack them next week