Better than last year?

[cat in sydney]

This Saturday, we need to keep West Coast to 77 points or less, and for us to kick more than 34 points to surpass both offense and defense of last year.

2007 - 2542 / 1664 / 152.76%
2008 - 2508 / 1586 / 158.13% (to Rd21)

Since we've had three more wins (yes, I'm assuming we'll get one this Saturday as well) than last year, I'm kind of surprised that we will only just surpass last years offensive tally in the last game.

* Does that point to less massive blowouts, and just more consistent, good footy?

* Take a stab at what percentage we will finish with after this round (will we beat Essendon 2000?). My guess: 160.41% (Cats 134, Eagles 61)

 

[bingle]

it would be good if from a mathematical point of view we are better than last year because there is no doubt we are better than last year in my mind.
Lets just hope the finals team is just as good as last year. (QF and GF anyway)

 

[canny30]

This Saturday, we need to keep West Coast to 77 points or less, and for us to kick more than 34 points to surpass both offense and defense of last year.

2007 - 2542 / 1664 / 152.76%
2008 - 2508 / 1586 / 158.13% (to Rd21)

Since we've had three more wins (yes, I'm assuming we'll get one this Saturday as well) than last year, I'm kind of surprised that we will only just surpass last years offensive tally in the last game.

* Does that point to less massive blowouts, and just more consistent, good footy?

* Take a stab at what percentage we will finish with after this round (will we beat Essendon 2000?). My guess: 160.41% (Cats 134, Eagles 61)

if u take out the first 5 rounds of last year it would be interesting to see what the % would have been

 

[cat in sydney]

if u take out the first 5 rounds of last year it would be interesting to see what the % would have been

A percentage of 164.8% if you disregard the first 5 rounds of 07.

 

[canny30]

A percentage of 164.8% if you disregard the first 5 rounds of 07.

i think we were slightly better last year then

 

[Strong hands Magee]

I'm sure the Richmond game last year helped a lot. Mind you, the WCE match earlier in the year was close to 157 points as well...

 

[randyzany]

I'm sure the Richmond game last year helped a lot. Mind you, the WCE match earlier in the year was close to 157 points as well...

And I'm forever thankful to Bitchmond for that. After that record demolition job, it gave our boys a strong unequivocal inner self-belief and that's why they're my 3rd favourite club....NOT. We can always rely on Bitchmond to play us into form.

 

[polly63]

Read a while back that Bomber reckons the team is just a little bit better at the margins this year, but pretty much equal to 2007. He's also said many times that he's waiting for the boys to put it together for a whole game (a la Weagles game I presume) - shades of QF and GF 2007. Deserve to win back-to-back, so let's hope they play their best footy in September.

 

[LifeSpan-Void]

factor in that woeful scoreline against Collingwood, plus the unimpressive wins over Freo at Subi and Hawthorn and it balances out the large margins

 

[The Casey Cat]

Better this year I think when you consider we have had to cater for no Egan all season. Taylor has been sensational though.

 

[NEMINI]

we seem to have had more injuries this year than last, I could be wrong but it feels that way.

 

[rocker_oz33]

better this year ottens missed a lot of games,no egan all year as already said,no nabs not that he kicked alot of goals but worked really well with moons.and stevie j was playing better this time last year

 

[Copernicus]

Statistically better, perhaps, but as a team? I'd say so. Barring one terrible game, we could be undefeated, and only one other team in history has won 21 games in H&A. It's a pretty incredible feat, really.

That there is still improvement left in us speaks volumes.

 

[ablettallica]

After today's game...

2007 - 2542 / 1664 / 152.76%
2008 - 2672 / 1651 / 161.84%

Ranked No. 1 in both for the league for both years. Amazing.

Fantastic effort boys. No Egan, Mooney not as dominant as last year.

And we were out of form for the first 10 games!!!!

Second best % in history.

Better than last year?

YES.

 

[winty]

Take out the Collingwood aberration, and our percentage would've been 172.97%.

Since the Collingwood game, our percentage is 193.23%. That's domination over 13 weeks. During the last 13 weeks too, we've had games where the likes of Mooney, Ablett, Chapman, Scarlett, Kelly, Ling, Mackie and Milburn miss games.

So yes, I'd say we're better than last year.

 

[Brasil2007]

My perception is that we are better than last year. Very hard to put any sort of rational basis to it but I guess part of it is just confidence and knowledge about what we can do.

 

[Geelongfor2008]

we are easily better this year then lst year no one could argue we were bettter last year

we have only lost 1 game

the competition is much better

weve been hit with injuries and we still flog teams much better this year