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Angus Young said:
I know everyone doesn't want to blame Smith but I knew when he missed that the fourthorn was gone.

As for tonight. Bruest was 15m out directly in front tonight to put us up by 5 goals. He misses they take it straight down there and goal. massive turning turning point too.

But the Smith miss is devastating....
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Just seeing smith walk off tonight, you just know he's kicking himself a little bit, looked dejected like the rest but more so.
 
bigton08 said:
Just seeing smith walk off tonight, you just know he's kicking himself a little bit, looked dejected like the rest but more so.
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yep. facts are for us to win 4 in a row we needed to beat geelong and get a home prelim. unfortunately it all came down to smiths kick 35m out on a slight angle and he ****ed it.
 
Ordovician said:
I have fairish smattering of geology from various sources academic and familial (in the blood for 200 generations), but I have forgotten an awful lot and well FMD they have changed the date ranges from some of the eras. When TF did the Cambrian start beginning at 542 million years ago? o_O In my day it was 600 million! :mad:

Of anything in that field and related fields I retain far more soil science that true geology although my soil mechanics has sadly atrophied.

The user name comes from the derived soil types which are typically yellowish brown and form the central backbone of Victoria from the Mornington Peninsula through Melbourne and up to the central gold fields.

:)
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Ex-Ballarat Uni boy myself, so am very familiar with that Era and geology in that neck of the woods.
 

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Gralin said:
I'd never want to be Chris Scott Ordo.

And no matter how bad Smith stuffed up that kick it was a team effort to be in the situation where we needed that kick to go through
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Not quite sure what you mean.

We played very well against the cats for MOST of the night but could not put them away and every time we failed to do that we let them waltz straight back into the game.

So there were two very different team efforts at play there the good to get into the lead in the second and third quarters and the truly appalling like the last 5 minutes of the third quarter.
 
Angus Young said:
yep. facts are for us to win 4 in a row we needed to beat geelong and get a home prelim. unfortunately it all came down to smiths kick 35m out on a slight angle and he stuffed it.
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Even if Smith kicked the goal we were never good enough to go all the way as evidenced last night and during the season.
 
LuckyHawk said:
Even if Smith kicked the goal we were never good enough to go all the way as evidenced last night and during the season.
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We would be favourites playing an injury depleted Swans off a 6 day break at the G.
And as we have seen, anything can happen on GF day.
 
blue harvest said:
We would be favourites playing an injury depleted Swans off a 6 day break at the G.
And as we have seen, anything can happen on GF day.
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Don't understand how some on this forum do not understand this...apparently we had 2-3 players with injuries after the Dog's game but these people forget an extra weeks break makes a huge difference. Absolutely we most likely make the GF, and yes its on the day, mind you history generally tells me Hawthorn's about a 70 percent chance!
 

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LuckyHawk said:
Even if Smith kicked the goal we were never good enough to go all the way as evidenced last night and during the season.
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Tend to agree with this, but if we had made it to a GF against a nervy young GWS we will never know how it may have gone.
 
William Wonka said:
We would be playing either GWS or the Doggies in the GF.
Both have our measure this season
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We wouldn't have lost to the Doggies prior to the GF in this alternate reality. If we'd then faced them in the GF it would be with them having played an additional 2 tough games and us one less.
 

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cryptor said:
We wouldn't have lost to the Doggies prior to the GF in this alternate reality. If we'd then faced them in the GF it would be with them having played an additional 2 tough games and us one less.
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They could have beaten us by 10 goals the other night, the only reason it was respectable in the end is because they stopped and we played it out.
 
JordyLuke said:
Birchall hasn't been at his best for a while. Wonder if he is injured?
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He has no problem contesting and running.

His problem is that he's too confident in his ability to not have to step back when he's on the mark or step back/run forward and then kick through the footy.

What he's been doing is cocky and lazy.

When he takes a mark he turns to the side on the spot that he's on, or just looks straight forward, and kicks it off one step. Half the time it gets smothered or falls short and buries the bloke it was intended for.

When he wins the loose or hard ball he doesn't run and kick through it any more, he takes half a step and tries to nail a target and over the last season the kick falls short and it again buries his teammate.

He's not lazy or cocky getting to the ball, it's when he has it that that mentality appears to set in.

At least that's my observation.
 
blue harvest said:
That's what everyone said in 2008 and 2014 and we pantsed both of them.
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I really rate the Doggies- they smashed West coast in perth when West coast had all but penciled in another GF at least.
And they were clearly the better team against us.
This year was just a bridge too far.
We will get em all next season
 

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