Will we make finals?

[dogwatch]

I'm glad we're playing first. The game has real meaning instead of the perfunctory sort of fixture North and GWS will be playing. We will see what sort of effort our boys (and coaches) put up knowing they have a genuine chance of playing finals if they win.

If Carlton played first and won we'd never know.

 

[Next Waiting]

I'm glad we're playing first. The game has real meaning instead of the perfunctory sort of fixture North and GWS will be playing. We will see what sort of effort our boys (and coaches) put up knowing they have a genuine chance of playing finals if they win.

If Carlton played first and won we'd never know.

If nothing else, we owe it to the footy viewing public generally to win by 3 or 4 goals to ensure there is plenty riding on the Pies Blues game.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Hewett, Cerra and Williams back for the Blues. Three pretty big ins

 

[footscray1973]

Hewett, Cerra and Williams back for the Blues. Three pretty big ins

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. (Hopefully)

 

[Doggy]

Hewett, Cerra and Williams back for the Blues. Three pretty big ins

Williams hasn't played at any level in 3 months.

Hewitt I thought had been out for a while too.

Cerra is overrated.

 

[Optimistic Dog]

I have a dream

It is Perth and the dream goes into a purple haze where a smiling bulldog appears. It then changes to black and white where a magpie tries to swoop on a bulldog but the dog is to smart and triumphs. It then changes to a bridge and an opera house with a flock of swans ganging up on a bulldog but a man in yellow appears blows a whistle and the swans disappear. The last scene was a vast packed ground with giant ground stands full of people dressed in blue and white and red, blue and white. The blue and white look like cats but try as they might they cannot defeat the bulldog.

 

[Golden_6]

Williams hasn't played at any level in 3 months.

Hewitt I thought had been out for a while too.

Cerra is overrated.

They were talking about Hewett hopefully being right for the first week of the finals during the week. I can only assume that this is a last pitch desperation move.

 

[Doggy]

They were talking about Hewett hopefully being right for the first week of the finals during the week. I can only assume that this is a last pitch desperation move.

They're desperate understandably

 

[Dogs Rule]

Williams hasn't played at any level in 3 months.

Hewitt I thought had been out for a while too.

Cerra is overrated.

Bringing back three from injury for a desperate last gasp match versus a top 4 side at the MCG. I so hope this blows up in their smug, arrogant faces.

 

[bobs head soup]

Hewett, Cerra and Williams back for the Blues. Three pretty big ins

Williams and Hewett are only on the extended bench. Would not be at all surprised if it's ducks and drake's.

 

[Doggy]

Williams and Hewett are only on the extended bench. Would not be at all surprised if it's ducks and drake's.

Severely underdone as well

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

I just got back from holidays, and everywhere I looked on the way home I saw Hawks supporters, it’s a bad omen.

 

[Munnez]

Only needs to be 2 - 3 goals and that's if Collingwood just win by under a goal

That said, none of that will be easy..

If we can't beat the wounded Hawks we have no business being in finals. Feel that we should be good enough to get the W. Pies have incentive to win with a Top 4 spot on the line.
Things are finely balanced we just have to get the win to start the ball rolling

 

[Dazb86]

Bringing back three from injury for a desperate last gasp match versus a top 4 side at the MCG. I so hope this blows up in their smug, arrogant faces.

Top 4 in position only. Feel like the Pies are around 10th-8th in reality

 

[The Inbetweener]

Now the top 3 are set, we played each of the top 3 twice, while Carlton only played them once each. If we make it over Carlton given the ease of their draw, it’s got to be seen as a pretty big failure

 

[Doggy]

Now the top 3 are set, we played each of the top 3 twice, while Carlton only played them once each. If we make it over Carlton given the ease of their draw, it’s got to be seen as a pretty big failure

The top 3 isn't set yet... it's adducing Shitney win and it's not a given

 

[stefcep]

Whether we make it or not the club needs an honest internal review.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Whether we make it or not the club needs an honest internal review.

My hope is that happens most years, but that we keep it quiet.

 

[Custard Guts]

 

[_Mike_]

I’m sensing that Carlton’s loss to Collingwood will be negated by our loss to Hawthorn.

Call me glass half empty this time around but I just don’t see it happening

 

[LittleG]

Why so much doom and gloom around here?


We can be the first team to not only have won the Premiership from outside the top 4 but to have won when not even being in the top 8 when the final round starts…. Maybe not even in the top 8 when our match finishes…. Completely relying on Carlton bottling it.


Now that is a record that no other team will ever take from us. Just imagine the saltiness of not just the other finals teams but the Aints and Blues added to it.

 

[MYOB]

If we make the finals, would you prefer to play Brisbane or Freo.
With Freo currently 5 goals down, we would be playing Brisbane

 

[Foxman98]

If we make the finals, would you prefer to play Brisbane or Freo.
With Freo currently 5 goals down, we would be playing Brisbane

Brisbane for me

 

[_Mike_]

Why so much doom and gloom around here?

Their best and worst are miles apart and they’ve been anything but consistent through the season. Their body language last week painted a pretty clear picture

 

[Del165892]

We won't make finals but if we do then we're a lock for the flag