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Thanks your explanation was easier to understand. I didn't realise it happened after the rookie nomination deadline.
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Thanks your explanation was easier to understand. I didn't realise it happened after the rookie nomination deadline.
Purple Jesus
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How do you figure?
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Hawthorn are the side that made three GFs in a row and won consecutive premierships. How do you figure that Freo could have demolished them in 2013?
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Yeah, Mundy continued that one quarter effort for every game in 2014.
We were favourites leading into the GF because we were playing better.
I am convinced it was the enormity of the occasion that got us. I have just watched the replay again and Ballantyne, for one, missed goals that he would usually slot. The first half signed our warrant and I put it down to nerves. Once we settled we were as good as Hawthorn but it was too big a gap to make up against a good side.
I understand the eagles bias and that ash Hanson is a whipping boy around here but I stand by my comment that those eagles players showed more at AFL than our players have done yet. They combined in over 450 games over 400 goals played in 2 GF's and won a premiership. Our 5 young talls have combined for 25 odd games and maybe 2 from Tabs have been quality by afl standard.
I didn't say they can't develop in time and I'm confident they will but I only see the AFL games and they've hardly set the world on fire.
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The difference is that West Coast had three MVP/Brownlow quality mids in the same team. Fremantle have one at the moment, no one else over 21 comes close to that quality and it will be a few years before we know whether the those who have been drafted are near it.
West Coast's 2006 set up is an outlier, not the pattern.
The theme is fyfe is gunna become our hybrid gunston.Weller,Blakely,crozier,
Barlow,Neale,hill,sutcliffe,sherro,mz etc etc will handle the bulk of the midfield duties.
I reckon a forward line consisting of Apeness,fyfe,tabs,Walters,ballas and mayne being pretty dangerous in a couple of years time.
Barlow,Neale,hill,sutcliffe,sherro,mz etc etc will handle the bulk of the midfield duties.
I reckon a forward line consisting of Apeness,fyfe,tabs,Walters,ballas and mayne being pretty dangerous in a couple of years time.
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I'm not particularly worried about KPPs when we have tall mids who can rotate through the forward line and create havoc. Mundy could even move forward permanently to free up a spot in the midfield.
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By settling down and kicking straight. If we hadn't been so put off by the conditions early, we would have won the GF by 5 goals.
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Yeah nah. People forget that Hawthorn played as shockingly as Freo did. The ifs and buts about settling earlier and kicking straight are crap. Hawthorn also could have played much better than they did.
That was the closest Freo has gotten to Hawthorn away from home in 10 years. The last time Freo beat Hawthorn away from Subi Ben Allan was coach.
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We'll just have to agree to disagree then, because you're wrong.
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Evidence stacks up in my favour.
We can only learn from history, we weren't good enough on the day to beat hawks, or Port last year. These are the two favorites for 2015?
Injuries, leg speed, skill , were lacking in both games, and we seem to be on the right track with addressing some of these issues.
The two west aussies appear to be plug and play types, with Weller capable of debuting next year.
Injuries, leg speed, skill , were lacking in both games, and we seem to be on the right track with addressing some of these issues.
The two west aussies appear to be plug and play types, with Weller capable of debuting next year.
Strangely, I'm not too worried about our offense. It's the KPD I'm more concern about
Say what?
That is my recollection. We were favourites after our demolition of Sydney.
According to the bookies we weren't anyway.
pavsbootlace
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Not according to the bookies or the majority of expert tipsters we weren't. Hawthorn were the team to beat and they were better than us on the day, which is not suprising. They won, and deserved it.
I think we can also say retrospectively after their demolition job of Sydney that anyone who had us level or even ahead of Hawthorn last year was a tad misguided and/or mindlessly bought into BT's hyperbole. The inexperience factor alone was always going to be a massive hurdle.
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.
I agree that we kicked ourselves out of the game but there is no way imo that Freo would have won by 5 goals, the game very likely just would have went either way in a tight finish. Also as Clay said people also forget Hawthorn were very ordinary early and missed a lot of chances themselves.
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I think you've been listening to too many precious Hawthorn supporters whinging that a couple people in the media dared suggest the Hawks may not romp it in.
The sooks have tried to rewrite history and turn their win into some kind of underdog triumph, but the truth is they were the favourites all along.
