Boris the Contradiction
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Pies fans. Calm the **** down!
Just peace out for a while and prevent yourselves from having a collective, board wide meltdown and heart attack!
Geelong are flying and are the rightful premiership favourites at the moment.
Outside of them, the accepted 'next' favourites are Collingwood, West Coast, Richmond and GWS.
We have been getting injuries lately and haven't been playing our best, but we only lost by 4 points last week after 7 straight wins.
We have lost 3 games out of 11 by a total of 33 points and comfortably sit top 4 with a chance to go back up to second tomorrow. If we win tomorrow, we will be 2 games and a tonne of percentage ahead of 5th, despite a tough early fixture, a fair whack of injuries and a form drop.
Yet, after last week's 4 point loss against a decent side playing out of their skins, half of this board went into meltdown and wrote us off as a premiership chance.
Some perspective guys....
GWS have lost 4 games by a combined 130 points.
West Coast have lost 4 by a combined 189 points and just lost, by a lot, to a bang average Sydney side with only 1 player on the bench for a big chunk of the game.
Richmond have lost 5 by a combined 244 points!
Geelong, despite their dominance this year, were led by us for almost the whole game and just snuck home with a late surge in what was comfortably our worst performance all year. We're really not that far off them.
Most good judges say that good teams find a way to win when not at their best. That's exactly what we have done recently, often by considerable margins. We are going bloody well and it doesn't matter one little bit if we are imperfect at this point in the season. All that matters is that we get the wins on the board and focus on trying to be at our best when it all matters. The finals are 13 weeks away and a lot can change in that time!
We have been in a better position than this, at this point in a season, maybe 2 or 3 times since 1990. Getting to watch our team play out seasons like this is why we invest so much time, energy and money in the club, even in the hard years. I, personally, am loving it.
Pies fans. Start enjoying the ride, and calm the **** down!
Just peace out for a while and prevent yourselves from having a collective, board wide meltdown and heart attack!
Geelong are flying and are the rightful premiership favourites at the moment.
Outside of them, the accepted 'next' favourites are Collingwood, West Coast, Richmond and GWS.
We have been getting injuries lately and haven't been playing our best, but we only lost by 4 points last week after 7 straight wins.
We have lost 3 games out of 11 by a total of 33 points and comfortably sit top 4 with a chance to go back up to second tomorrow. If we win tomorrow, we will be 2 games and a tonne of percentage ahead of 5th, despite a tough early fixture, a fair whack of injuries and a form drop.
Yet, after last week's 4 point loss against a decent side playing out of their skins, half of this board went into meltdown and wrote us off as a premiership chance.
Some perspective guys....
GWS have lost 4 games by a combined 130 points.
West Coast have lost 4 by a combined 189 points and just lost, by a lot, to a bang average Sydney side with only 1 player on the bench for a big chunk of the game.
Richmond have lost 5 by a combined 244 points!
Geelong, despite their dominance this year, were led by us for almost the whole game and just snuck home with a late surge in what was comfortably our worst performance all year. We're really not that far off them.
Most good judges say that good teams find a way to win when not at their best. That's exactly what we have done recently, often by considerable margins. We are going bloody well and it doesn't matter one little bit if we are imperfect at this point in the season. All that matters is that we get the wins on the board and focus on trying to be at our best when it all matters. The finals are 13 weeks away and a lot can change in that time!
We have been in a better position than this, at this point in a season, maybe 2 or 3 times since 1990. Getting to watch our team play out seasons like this is why we invest so much time, energy and money in the club, even in the hard years. I, personally, am loving it.
Pies fans. Start enjoying the ride, and calm the **** down!
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