Mega Thread All things positive (the Rainbow connection) thread

[ManWithNoName]

Vince
Viney
Brayshaw
McDonald in the first half of the year
HOGAN
Gawn
ANB

More wins than last year
Winning in Geelong

Just a few positives

Beating a side competing for Top 4.

 

[booshboy]

Beating a side competing for Top 4.

Two sides

 

[rhaz]

THE HOODOO IS OVER!

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Everyone other than Petracca debuted and all showed a bit.

 

[Tulip]

Everyone other than Petracca debuted and all showed a bit.

Hunt too.

Everything feels great now.

 

[Topkent]

Even though you wouldnt have guessed it from the commentary we have won more games than StKilda this year

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Hunt too.

Everything feels great now.

Meant the guys new to the club but even he showed enough to get another look at.

 

[Ando727]

Even though you wouldnt have guessed it from the commentary we have won more games than StKilda this year

And yet I still feel like St Kilda had a much better year than we did. The figures don't support my feeling though. Weird.

 

[Topkent]

And yet I still feel like St Kilda had a much better year than we did. The figures don't support my feeling though. Weird.

They were far more consistent than us which is wear it comes from, where as we had great wins and then got raped for a month

 

[PitchBlease]

13th is mid-table isn't it?
And looking at it the Saints beat no one but the dogs.

 

[Topkent]

13th is mid-table isn't it?
And looking at it the Saints beat no one but the dogs.

Mate flip the 2 games against the saints and dont bitch out against Essendon and Carlton and we could have had a very very good season

 

[PitchBlease]

Mate flip the 2 games against the saints and dont bitch out against Essendon and Carlton and we could have had a very very good season

I completely agree which goes to show how far perspective shifts after a win... I swore I was done after Carlton .

 

[Ando727]

I completely agree which goes to show how far perspective shifts after a win... I swore I was done after Carlton .

I dunno, beating GWS in the last round still feels like a junk time victory to me. We got rid of the Etihad hoodoo, but we also dropped a place on the draft. I also think we are still as terrible against actual Etihad tenants as we always have been. In short, not that excited about the win.

 

[maxmustard]

Could not care less about draft order. We need to win games and that was a good way to head into the off season.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

I dunno, beating GWS in the last round still feels like a junk time victory to me. We got rid of the Etihad hoodoo, but we also dropped a place on the draft. I also think we are still as terrible against actual Etihad tenants as we always have been. In short, not that excited about the win.

It's not the team, it's about our effort. We lost to the Dogs by 3 points at Etihad, got hammered this year. We lost by just two points to the Saints there but by 40 odd points at the G. The MCG works for us when we try to play slowly and shut opponents down, but when we do play fast footy both grounds serve us equally.

 

[PitchBlease]

I dunno, beating GWS in the last round still feels like a junk time victory to me. We got rid of the Etihad hoodoo, but we also dropped a place on the draft. I also think we are still as terrible against actual Etihad tenants as we always have been. In short, not that excited about the win.

Right, sad face reattached.
I don't think the win proves much except in the absence of its opposite: a loss would have been more telling.
The season was inconsistent but we beat the Dogs, Toigs (who are apparently good), Pies and Cats, and head off to actual Bali (rather than mid-game day-dream Bali) with a bit to show and more to prove.
I'm an incorrigible optimist but that's how I see it.

Will there ever be a rainbow?
Lately my answer would have been a terse 'no' but now it'll be that fat Hawaiian guy singing til round 1 next year.

 

[Topkent]

Giving carlton a packet of chips and can of coke for a 40 goal small forward who had his best defensive season as well

 

[Wizardy]

13th is mid-table isn't it?
And looking at it the Saints beat no one but the dogs.

Mid-table mediocrity is better than relegation, right?

 

[givemethecure]

There is a lot to take from a final match victory - can't believe people are being negative about it. I'd rather pick 6 and seven wins than losing that match, which any other year we'd have lost. This is a very positive day.

 

[PitchBlease]

Mid-table mediocrity is better than relegation, right?

Mate relative to where we've been its the bloody Elysian fields

 

[deeco]

Could not care less about draft order. We need to win games and that was a good way to head into the off season.

You'll notice all the teams who shot up the ladder didn't shirk a win at the prospect of a draft pick. Winning breeds winning. Thank * we got rid of the toxic bundle of sticks who were perpetuating that vicious cycle!

 

[Benwah83]

The positivity generated from a final game win far outweighs the slightly lower draft positioning.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

With the way the draft works we'll probably get the player we want at #6 anyway.

 

[Bluelegs]

Improvement!

 

[Sylvia Saint]

I dunno, beating GWS in the last round still feels like a junk time victory to me. We got rid of the Etihad hoodoo, but we also dropped a place on the draft. I also think we are still as terrible against actual Etihad tenants as we always have been. In short, not that excited about the win.

I thought those days were behind us. Evidently not, for some.