Prediction Next 4 Games
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Ban/delete this thread please and lets never speak of it again.
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I am 5-0 when going to see us at Adelaide Oval.
We play Adel @ AO next week
Do I stay away and enjoy my flawless record or go and sit through what could be sickening.
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We play Adel @ AO next week
Do I stay away and enjoy my flawless record or go and sit through what could be sickening.
On SM-G925I using BigFooty.com mobile app
BlueandGoldforever
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We won’t win another game until Adam Simpson is sacked and senior players realise they can’t cruise anymore.
BlueandGoldforever
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Yeah
Let's offer Clarko 2 million a year
Why not?
Roos was receiving $1.5 million to coach Melbourne.
Are we here to win premierships or be a club where everyone holds hands and sings, 'Kumbaya My Lord'?
I think our premiership ratio is very good TBH.
BlueandGoldforever
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I don’t.
Most clubs would be over the moon to win a flag every 8 years.
Interstate clubs even more so.
BlueandGoldforever
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You accept mediocrity. I strive for better.
I'm a realist, not a fantasist.
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Well it seems like most of us are fantasists.
From the poll, 87% of us had the Eagles winning 3 or 4 out of 4.
3 had already seen the writing on the wall and have written Simpson off altogether.
We're talking about grand finals since the club formed.
Winning 4 flags in the AFL era is not mediocre. Only one team has won more since we joined.
Im getting sick of these ******* late sunday games
BlueandGoldforever
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I forgot how boring you are, which is why I had you on ignore. Time to reactivate that function.
As much as I agree, I'd take a late Sunday over ******* Monday night.
LEL
Well other results are going to our way. Port and Brissy losing.
If only we could win a bloody game, geez
If only we could win a bloody game, geez
HoneyBadger35
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Mediocre
adjective
Of only average quality; not very good.
Finals in the AFL era
West Coast - 22/30
Geelong - 21/30
Sydney - 19/30
Hawthorn - 17/30
Essendon - 17/30
North Melbourne - 16/30
Adelaide 15/29
Collingwood 15/30
Bulldogs 15/30
…bunch of nuff clubs…
Gold Coast 0/11
Flags in the AFL era
Hawthorn - 5
West Coast - 4
Richmond - 3
Brisbane - 3
Geelong - 3
Sydney - 2
North Melbourne - 2
Adelaide - 2
Collingwood - 2
Essendon - 2
Port Adelaide - 1
Carlton - 1
Western Bulldogs - 1
Fremantle - 0
Gold Coast - 0
St Kilda - 0
Carlton - 0
GWS - 0
If we, the most successful club in the AFL era, are mediocre then the average must be very ******* high.
Understandably people are pretty flat with the club at the moment, but to pretend we are anything other than the benchmark of success in this league is indulgent self pity and wallowing for the sake of it.
BlueandGoldforever
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Still average with the quality of players we have had.
BlueandGoldforever
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I see you have conveniently left out the 1987, 1988 and 1989 seasons.
Anyway, 4 divided by 21 = 19%. I am not sure 19% has been the benchmark for anything in society.
Hawthorn, Richmond and Brisbane all have better premiership conversions from finals appearances.
HoneyBadger35
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I haven’t conveniently left out anything. It’s the AFL era. I can go back to 1857 if you’d like, though our numbers won’t change much.
Premierships from finals conversion rate is an odd benchmark. It’s better to miss finals for 29 years but then win a flag in the 30th for a 100% conversion rate?
Hawthorn were on the brink of being merged out of existence, Brisbane have been as bad as any club in football for the majority of their existence bar a dominant five year window (more wooden spoons than flags for what it’s worth) and Richmond…jeez let’s not. Richmond were a punchline for 25 years before coming good in the last few, to the tune of…fewer flags than we have. By no metric has Richmond had a better 30 years than we have, recency bias aside.
We make finals more than anyone - that’s a good yardstick for being a quality team.
We win flags more often than all teams bars one. Since we’ve existed, we’ve won more flags than eight teams combined. Talk to their fanbases about their definition of mediocrity.
By any metric that makes actual sense, we’ve been as dominant as anyone since inception.
Wanting more isn’t a bad thing. Pretending what we’ve delivered has been sub par is embarrassing.
Yes the bar is very high for the eagles. But we've missed opportunities to finish 5th the last 2 years because of reasons tirelessly discussed at nausium. So i do believe we have underachieved with the list we had since 2018, we should have at least played in a prelim
We are one of the more successful clubs, and that fosters a sense of entitlement in its supporter base. Would be interesting to see how successful the club would be if we entered a decade or 2 of carlton like rabble?
Maybe then i could finally get a seated membership.
