Game Day Around The Grounds Rounds 16 - 20

[Dadda Dave]

Gets me a big shiny.......4.

....and I really tried this week, looked at the fixture for a good 30 seconds before judgement.

I think I matched you ..
I'll check and get back to you...

 

[Dadda Dave]

Gets me a big shiny.......4.

....and I really tried this week, looked at the fixture for a good 30 seconds before judgement.

5 for the good guy

 

[Dadda Dave]

We should be fighting tooth and nail for a podium finish Stig O'Hara

 

[norway blue]

* Essendon and well done Giants.


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[carlton_99]

Hahah the AFL media's love affair with * continues

 

[Gethelred]

Can't believe we are reduced to again deriving pleasure out of the Bombers losing and stuffing up...which I did.

If we go on to win the next eight flags and make the ninth grand final only to lose to Port Adelaide, I will still be content if Essendon lose.

 

[Gethelred]

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Hahah the AFL media's love affair with * continues

Are they ******* serious?

All year, the pressure is on us to make finals, "finals or bust!", and when it's Essendon's prospects they're better off not making it because if they do they'd have to play away?

Piss off. Holy s**t!

 

[lukep_86]

Will be interesting to see the different narratives on the Bombers compared to us. Can't wait to read about the potential they showed, how brave they were and how much they've improved this year

 

[carlton_99]

First team in history to be better off not making finals. But if we don't make it with way more injuries, literally no tall forwards and a similar age demographic its the end of the world (despite pretty much no AFL "expert" having us in their top 8 at the start of the year)

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[Kruezing]

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Hahah the AFL media's love affair with * continues

So if we actually gave a * and had won yesterday every chance to make 8th from there … bit of luck get Sydney … can guarantee you that won’t be played in Sydney …

 

[NewDarkNavyBlues]

Isn't it beautiful. Bad luck Dons

 

[Wickzki]

If Essendon miss finals by a (half) game and/or percentage it'll be glorious to know we played a hand in that.

 

[RedFury]

That's a ripper tweet.

I'm wondering, when was the last time that a team with 8 wins after 18 games was in the eight?

Nobody seems to want that 8th spot.

 

[Wickzki]

That's a ripper tweet.

I'm wondering, when was the last time that a team with 8 wins after 18 games was in the eight?

Nobody seems to want that 8th spot.

St. Kilda 2011. 8-1-9.

This is the only other time it has happened with a top 8.

 

[RAPPA]

All those essendon flog supporters coming out the woodwork, professing how good their kids are and how Carlton is going nowhere. Regardless of how good their kids are looking, $hit can change in the space of year.

I am finding their posters on BF as intolerable as the bulldogs posters. I find those two supporter groups are the worst on BF. So for that reason I wish nothing but utter failure for their clubs for this year and to bask in the joy of that misery.

 

[jj1978]

I’m happy to aid the Giants in holding * out of the eight by allowing us to put up a North like performance against them in a couple of weeks.

 

[footyfan1978]

That's a ripper tweet.

I'm wondering, when was the last time that a team with 8 wins after 18 games was in the eight?

Nobody seems to want that 8th spot.

I believe when we ended up on top of ladder by four wins in 1995, the 8th team was only on 10 wins.
Bears I believe, Walls was coaching them for last time and first time they made finals and only team all finals series to push us.

1995 AFL ladder

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts
1	Carlton (P)	22	20	2	0	2357	1711	137.8	80	Finals
2	Geelong	22	16	6	0	2558	1939	131.9	64
3	Richmond	22	15	6	1	2096	1943	107.9	62
4	Essendon	22	14	6	2	2464	1931	127.6	60
5	West Coast	22	14	8	0	2079	1692	122.9	56
6	North Melbourne	22	14	8	0	2311	2013	114.8	56
7	Footscray	22	11	10	1	1879	2054	91.5	46
8	Brisbane Bears	22	10	12	0	2104	2207	95.3	40
9	Melbourne	22	9	13	0	1938	1925	100.7	36
10	Collingwood	22	8	12	2	2043	2111	96.8	36
11	Adelaide	22	9	13	0	1749	2184	80.1	36
12	Sydney	22	8	14	0	2314	2299	100.7	32
13	Fremantle	22	8	14	0	2051	2209	92.8	32
14	St Kilda	22	8	14	0	1814	2258	80.3	32
15	Hawthorn	22	7	15	0	1857	1975	94.0	28
16	Fitzroy	22	2	20	0	1617	2780	58.2	8

 

[footyfan1978]

Win four in a row and we make finals with Charlie and Harry our key forwards all finals series and a young Kemp in his first ten games of a stellar career...
A man can dream... if only we had a coach..

 

[Wickzki]

I believe when we ended up on top of ladder by four wins in 1995, the 8th team was only on 10 wins.
Bears I believe, Walls was coaching them for last time and first time they made finals and only team all finals series to push us.

1995 AFL ladder

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts
1	Carlton (P)	22	20	2	0	2357	1711	137.8	80	Finals
2	Geelong	22	16	6	0	2558	1939	131.9	64
3	Richmond	22	15	6	1	2096	1943	107.9	62
4	Essendon	22	14	6	2	2464	1931	127.6	60
5	West Coast	22	14	8	0	2079	1692	122.9	56
6	North Melbourne	22	14	8	0	2311	2013	114.8	56
7	Footscray	22	11	10	1	1879	2054	91.5	46
8	Brisbane Bears	22	10	12	0	2104	2207	95.3	40
9	Melbourne	22	9	13	0	1938	1925	100.7	36
10	Collingwood	22	8	12	2	2043	2111	96.8	36
11	Adelaide	22	9	13	0	1749	2184	80.1	36
12	Sydney	22	8	14	0	2314	2299	100.7	32
13	Fremantle	22	8	14	0	2051	2209	92.8	32
14	St Kilda	22	8	14	0	1814	2258	80.3	32
15	Hawthorn	22	7	15	0	1857	1975	94.0	28
16	Fitzroy	22	2	20	0	1617	2780	58.2	8

Brisbane were 7-11 after round 18. Went 3-1 to end the season on fire.

The team that was eighth after round 18 that year was Melbourne with 9-9 record. They lost their final 4 games of the season to miss finals.

 

[footyfan1978]

Brisbane were 7-11 after round 18. Went 3-1 to end the season on fire.

The team that was eighth after round 18 that year was Melbourne with 9-9 record. They lost their final 4 games of the season to miss finals.

I know, had a look at all that after I posted the last round ladder. Crazy to think how Demons and Pies ****ed up so bad and Bears caught them both in last round. Then they pushed us in the 1 v 8 final at the MCG. It was the sign the likes of Voss, White, Akermanis etc were building the nucleus of the team to come that won three flags in a row , early the next decade. *, they had to go through a few coaches to get there though...

 

[RPCB]

All those essendon flog supporters coming out the woodwork, professing how good their kids are and how Carlton is going nowhere. Regardless of how good their kids are looking, $hit can change in the space of year.

I am finding their posters on BF as intolerable as the bulldogs posters. I find those two supporter groups are the worst on BF. So for that reason I wish nothing but utter failure for their clubs for this year and to bask in the joy of that misery.

And yet * are a game and percentage above a Carlton side that has played Murphy/Levi/Newnes/Cottrell in the same side in a lot of games thanks to injuries and developing kids in the twos, a head coach who unfortunately doesn’t seem up to being a head coach, assistants and line coaches who need replacing, John Barker who left mid-season when it should have happened years ago, a non-existent game plan and an internal review hanging over their heads.

If the very best football that * could produce under a head coach that the media praises is a game and percentage above 13th on the ladder after Round 18, there is nothing noteworthy about that. If *’s best 22 could only muster up that against all those issues that Carlton have had this year, they really shouldn’t be getting too excited.

 

[RPCB]

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“Stirring run through the middle part of the season” - what is the middle part?

If they said the second half of the season, we could have started at Round 10-18. * have gone 5-4 with wins over Kangaroos, Eagles, Hawks, Crows and Kangaroos again (Thank You, Uncle Gill). Stirring run of form!

 

[myblueroan]

All those essendon flog supporters coming out the woodwork, professing how good their kids are and how Carlton is going nowhere. Regardless of how good their kids are looking, $hit can change in the space of year.

I am finding their posters on BF as intolerable as the bulldogs posters. I find those two supporter groups are the worst on BF. So for that reason I wish nothing but utter failure for their clubs for this year and to bask in the joy of that misery.

I pointed out the irony to one of them in the Tour de France thread when they said all riders were on the juice or they couldn't compete.

 

[RAPPA]

I pointed out the irony to one of them in the Tour de France thread when they said all riders were on the juice or they couldn't compete.

the only team rewarded (with a number 1 pick) for cheating