deeco
Norm Smith Medallist
- Jun 3, 2012
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Travel is a s**t excuse for such pathetic performances when you're playing for finals. Poverty clubs cling onto s**t like that. We were just too s**t regardless of travel.Having a look at the venues we’ve played at this season compared to St Kilda and the Bulldogs, we certainly got the short straw. Not only we didn’t get a scheduled bye like everyone else. We play in Alice Springs in a night game and 4 days later we are in Cairns while the Saints got a bye. By the time the game finish we had him get a 2 hour flight back to Brissy and a hour drive to the Sunshine Coast, we wouldn’t of been back in our hub until at least 3am to 6am in the morning and then have a game in Cairns 3 days later. Sydney got to Cairns 2 days before the game, we got up there 5 hours before, no wonder we were flat.
Saints and the Dogs got to play 4 games at their home Marvel stadium then established home grounds at the Gabba and Metricon respectively, we didn’t play any venue more than 3 times while travelling all over the place. Saints jumped on a plane for games twice, once to Adelaide and once to Alice.
Anyway after losing to Sydney I didn’t think we deserve a finals spot above these clubs, but looking at the fixture if we finish above one of these two then we deserve it.
Melbourne
Optus 1
Marvel 1
MCG 2
Giants stadium 2
Metricon 3
Gabba 3
Ade oval 2
Alice 1
Cairns 2
St Kilda
Marvel 4
MCG 1
Metricon 3
Adelaide oval 2
Gabba 6
Alice 1
Bulldogs
Marvel 4
SCG 1
Metricon 8
Adelaide oval 2
Gabba 1
Cairns 1