Analysis The Run Home

[Doss]

Never depend on Freo is the thing here.

15 goals in a row.

 

[jmoo wan]

Wouldn’t call it a wasted season more a failed season.

The team was meant to play finals and win one,went and recruited 3 players to archive that and they didn’t

That to me is a fail club should be disappointed.

100% agree - this is perfectly articulated!

 

[Mercurial89]

Never depend on Freo is the thing here.

15 goals in a row.

I stepped away at 26 -22 i think it was? Just turned it back on and saw freos score first thought oh maybe i hadnt been gone as long as i thought.

Nope

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

To be honest, I'm glad we've come up short through absolutely steaming home. If i remember last year, we weren't really that convincing towards the end of the year, and then of course we got destroyed against sydney.

Slow start, massive development, fast strong finish but missing finals > Playing average and getting destroyed in finals.

 

[raskolnikov]

Of our 5 double ups, if Port make finals 4 of them made the finals and we did not have a double up against a bottom 4 team.

 

[Old Stuckup]

Of our 5 double ups, if Port make finals 4 of them made the finals and we did not have a double up against a bottom 4 team.

Compare that to North who had St. Kilda, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sydney. Imagine if we had that draw!

 

[maskmcgee]

We're not licked yet. All we need to do is beat Port by 300 points

 

[JayJ20]

With Geelong winning, it means we are no longer a mathematical chance

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

Compare that to North who had St. Kilda, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sydney. Imagine if we had that draw!

We had that type of draw last year. Still managed to lose to the lions and blues tho

 

[pepsi]

If you asked me after the carlton game how I felt about 2018, I would have said an unmitigated disaster. Since then we've made significant improvements and now the feeling is one of optimism heading into next year.

But make no doubt about it, if we don't win a final in 2019, it will be a massive failure. Not making finals this year is already a failure.

 

[maskmcgee]

If we beat Port Adelaide by 50 points we will finish with the same wins and a higher percentage as last season.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Pies 3rd on the ladder

I want to see that from Essendon next year no more excuses.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

If you asked me after the carlton game how I felt about 2018, I would have said an unmitigated disaster. Since then we've made significant improvements and now the feeling is one of optimism heading into next year.

But make no doubt about it, if we don't win a final in 2019, it will be a massive failure. Not making finals this year is already a failure.

Worsfold will be on thin ice if we miss finals again

 

[JayJ20]

If you asked me after the carlton game how I felt about 2018, I would have said an unmitigated disaster. Since then we've made significant improvements and now the feeling is one of optimism heading into next year.

But make no doubt about it, if we don't win a final in 2019, it will be a massive failure. Not making finals this year is already a failure.

This year in isolation is already a failure. The expectation was to win a final and we didn't get there. Next year, we simply have to earn a home final for the first time since 2002. That was the last time we finished above 7th. We haven't done what Collingwood has done (finish top 4) in 17 years. Scraping the 8 doesn't cut it anymore.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Freo winning at quarter time.

So that went well...

 

[JT_the_Man]

With Geelong winning, it means we are no longer a mathematical chance

Yes we are.

Just need to win by 400 odd.

 

[Stopher]

Freo winning at quarter time.

I hope this post was reported.

 

[Doss]

I think we can conclude it’s all The Prosecutor’s fault.

 

[tandino]

May as well see it out to the bitter end.

North Melbourne beat St Kilda by less than ~ 90 points, or lose.
Essendon beat Port Adelaide by ~ 160 points
Geelong lose to Gold Coast by ~ 160 points.

 

[Shanghaistu]

100% agree - this is perfectly articulated!

I also agree - if you look at the teams we will finish ‘better than’ in 2018, it reads : Bulldogs, Fremantle, Brisbane, St Kilda, Gold Coast, Carlton - hardly the world-beaters of the last few years. The marketing at the club will need to work overtime to convince the media that 2018 was a ‘success’

 

[Duckworth]

We are likely to finish 12th.

 

[PressureCooker]

Almost preferred the loss on Friday night in the end. Even had we beaten the Tiges, our season would still have been over. Would have been hell watching our season end as each result fell the wrong way throughout the weekend. Best we could have finished was 9th.

 

[Stopher]

May as well see it out to the bitter end.

North Melbourne beat St Kilda by less than ~ 90 points, or lose.
Essendon beat Port Adelaide by ~ 160 points
Geelong lose to Gold Coast by ~ 160 points.

Just give us the flag already!

 

[Lore]

I think the first one of these I posted was in this thread. Here's an up-to-date one. Reads down.

 

[Maddogm]

I think the first one of these I posted was in this thread. Here's an up-to-date one. Reads down.

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So 6 of our 10 losses were against teams currently in the top 4