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Walesy said:
The lions have a shocking run home, and are coming of loses to us, and the BOTTOM SIDE.

Adelaide are also in shocking form and I can easily see them dropping their last 3 games...

Both of these teams are vunerable at the moment.
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Pretty handy for Brisbane to have home games against West Coast and Carlton though.

Adelaide is an interesting one though. Can they score without Burton and maybe Porplyzia? You might be right about them, but games against Port, Carlton and Richmond at AAMI helps!
 
Walesy said:
Yeah, but you seem to be of the opinion that high draft picks are all you need to be successful.

Yanno what you really need to be successful? success.

Carn you bombers@!
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9th is useless, you don't make the finals and you miss out on the best picks in the draft. What a waste of a year.
 
bombersno1 said:
9th is useless, you don't make the finals and you miss out on the best picks in the draft. What a waste of a year.
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Our list still develops and gets better yanno.

Our team finishing 3 spots higher than last year, playing a younger list, isn't a waste of a year.

It's experience. and it's a vital part of the rebuild.

You don't go from 12 -> 14 -> 2. You go from 12 ->. 9 ->. 5 ->. 2/1
 

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kelvin_sheedy said:
Doggies finished 9th in 05.

Cats finished 10th in 06.

Wasted years for both clubs. :rolleyes:
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Well said Kelvin. :thumbsu:

Besides I'd rather have a winning culture then a losing one.
 
Bombermania said:
I have bolded the two that I expect us to win!! and have underlined the ones that are 50-50 with only game I would expect us to lose is the Bulldogs game! so if I'm right that will be six more wins that would give us 12 wins!

On this forecast I expect us to finish one or two games outside the eight!! but as long as we are winning we are a chance!
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If we don't beat West Coast we won't deserve to make it, we should brain them as they r a bunch of shit
 
bomba4eva said:
I am officially on the FINALS BANDWAGON. Jump on now. All reservations you held can be thrown out the window. I refused to entertain the thought until last week but thought Id better wait until tonight. We belted Brisbane. Confidence is back. GET ON THE BANDWAGON NOW!

Rest of our season:
Richmond
Collingwood
Melbourne
West Coast
Adelaide
Bulldogs
Saints

Chance in every single one of them. Im on the bandwagon. GO THE DONS!!!
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We definitely could win any of them games and would b very diasappointing if we definitely didn't beat Melbourne,West Coast and Adelaide as for the others its 50-50.
Old cliche take one week at a time
 
Beating Adelaide will be tough. We will have a 5 and a half day break after the Subiaco trip. This trip is nowhere near as hard as it used to be but it is still a killer trip.
 
Walesy said:
one or two games out? nah, I don't think 8th has *ever* needed 14 wins. Heck, there have been seasons where 14 wins will get you third.

Over the past 10 years.
2007 - 12 wins
2006 - 13
2005 - 11
2004 - 12
2003 - 13
2002 - 11
2001 - 12
2000 - 12
1999 - 11
1998 - 12
1997 - 10

the kicker however, will be our percentage... so we need to smash teams. :)

The door has been left ajar, but I certainly won't be jumping on it until we are undefeated through to round 21... :)

That said, finishing on 12 wins, 1998 style, would be quite exciting...
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I agree 14 wins would be top four!

My post was navel gazing for at best we could win all seven and finish with 12 wins and make it but as others have said we need a few big wins and a bit of luck going our way!
 

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As soon as I heard McVeigh was injured I wasn't confident about the game yesterday. Monumental effort by the lads yesterday though. Injuries have simply destroyed our season. With a little bit of luck we could have made the finals this year. Pity but it is great to see the likes of Lonergan, Reimers and Jetta prospering this year. That's what this season was all about and finals would have been a bonus.
 
Im back on lads. Still certainly a chance. Pity that we lost last week but the win over Collingwood makes up for it as we had pencilled that in as a loss. Bulldogs look very vulnerable at the moment also. I think back to our last game against them and rue what may have been but now it instills me with confidence that we can get over them! Melbourne and West Coast should be two guaranteed wins. There are plenty of teams looking shaky in the 8 and this bodes well for Essendon. Im looking at Collingwood, Brisbane and Adelaide. Should get over the ageing Crows and will come down to Saints and Doggies. The belief is flowing through my veins and no doubt many of you are also starting to get a rise in your lower regions.

Get back on the bandwagon. This season is not over yet!
 
Sam the RAMA fan said:
Spewing the Blues won...but then again,
our percentage isn't that great to climb up the ladder.

CARN THE DONS :thumbsu:
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If we are going to make finals we will get above Carlton. Our respective draws incline me to feel we will finish above them. Of course one unexpected loss and our season may well be officially over. For now there is still hope.
 
It is going to be almost impossible for us after the way this round worked out.

There are 3 teams in the 8 that have 36 points and 1 in ninth.

We have 28 points.

The lowest % is StKilda who are ninth at 100.63% and the highest Collingwood with 113.47%

We have 86.02%.

So we have to win 3 more games than any of those four on 36 points and that is without even considering Richmond or carlton.

It's possible, but extremely unlikely.
 

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Would have thought the round went in our favour for the most part as it leaves many more teams vulnerable. Needed Adelaide to lose but if everything goes as Ii hope we should be able to surpass them later in the season. At this stage we have to rely on quite a few results to go our way which is not ideal, but if you were to tell me 2 months ago that we would be in a position to make the 8 after 17 rounds I would have scoffed at you. As it stands we have a favourable draw and a stable team that is learning every week.

Richmond loss could be costly though.....
 

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