Toast "We knew we'd break them"

[Calcium Man]

Brandon Ellis said it after the qualifying final, Prestia said it on the sunday footy shows after the prelim and Rance basically said it this morning.

This team has a ruthlessness I never expected to see from this group! And its all on hard work, we are quite simply the hardest working side in the comp and it shows not just in our unprecedented pressure numbers but how much we run in attack too, its complete two way running.

People claiming Adelaide were poor yesterday but the simple fact is we would have beaten anyone yesterday I reckon because we just would have outworked any team (even the recent great teams). We have made Geelong, GWS and Adelaide, the other top teams this season, look ordinary and it has nothing to do with them being off but how hard we work to put them off their game.

So congrats to the boys and congrats to fitness staff who I have previously been harsh on.

 

[Handsuper47]

Still haven't beaten anyone

 

[TiggerMan22]

Funny how every team we play suddenly is just really poor

Cats played us and just happened to have their lowest score for the season.
GWS played us and just happened to have their lowest score for the season (in the 2nd home and away game against them) and their 4th lowest score of the season in the final.
Crows played us and just happened to have their lowest score for the season.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Good!

 

[Ralll]

I think it was Richo at half time said he heard the players talking about our pressure 'disjointing'(?) their play style.
Something along those lines, similar to the Bellis comment from last week, a complete buy in from the playing group.

 

[hognogger]

It would be the fluke of all flukes to luck our way to solid beatings of all the other top 4 teams in the last month. But yeah, guess the stars just aligned for once, and we got them all on off days, and played above ourselves each time. Lucky to be in the 8, really. Be an uphill battle from here for us to make finals next year, I reckon.

 

[kozi]

One word.

Belief.

 

[blackcat]

So congrats to the boys and congrats to fitness staff who I have previously been harsh on.

different but same. reminded me that port adelaide had the jump on others about 5 years back, their afterburners would kill teams. then everyone matched them. i think the swarming pressure may have a shorter use-by date, like Alberton's game. But there are quality players who have risen to A graders, so dont go back like Footscray.

 

[Nostradumbass]

We dismantled first second and third. We're the top of the heap. That's just how things are now.

 

[Spluff]

 

[blackcat]

no steroids whatsover, Dolph was clean i tell o
swedes are clean, they drink the nordic scandanavian pure coolwater

 

[Neen]

It would be frustrating for coaches to find a way of breaking our gameplan. It stood up well in the finals, and the belief of the players along with the leadership of Cotchin etc will make us a hard match for next year. I would expect clubs will be looking at a small and quick player recruitment strategy.

 

[blackcat]

It would be frustrating for coaches to find a way of breaking our gameplan. It stood up well in the finals, and the belief of the players along with the leadership of Cotchin etc will make us a hard match for next year. I would expect clubs will be looking at a small and quick player recruitment strategy.

Parfitt of Geelong and Mcdonald-Tipungwuti of Geelong just had their free agent and market value value rise astronomically

 

[Tiger Toffee]

Said to a mate at half time that it fels like the quali and prelim all over again and thats how it played out, all 3 games played in almost identical fashion, grind them down and then smash em.

 

[Rustof]

We dismantled and destroyed every other top 4 team this finals.

C O M P L E T E
D O M I N A T I O N

 

[Tiger2709]

Still haven't beaten anyone

"And then there was one"
we cant really play ourselves.

 

[Ancient Tiger]

We've had unbelievable luck......

 

[chriso11]

Funny how every team we play suddenly is just really poor

Cats played us and just happened to have their lowest score for the season.
GWS played us and just happened to have their lowest score for the season (in the 2nd home and away game against them) and their 4th lowest score of the season in the final.
Crows played us and just happened to have their lowest score for the season.

I have no problem with people not rating us. Look how it worked out for them this year. Let teams continue to underestimate us. The more they do this, the more we will beat them.

 

[DrMike]

I think it was Richo at half time said he heard the players talking about our pressure 'disjointing'(?) their play style.
Something along those lines, similar to the Bellis comment from last week, a complete buy in from the playing group.

They've lost their connection.

We've got them.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

Adelaide's second quarters are traditionally their strongest. In finals, our third quarters have been huge. Would have been a hell of a confidence boost to not only peg back and match Adelaide in that second quarter but exceed them and take a lead into HT. Third quarter just blew the game apart. Won't see many better premiership quarters than that! Was like an unrelenting Tiger wave of aggression and pressure! Crows melted in the heat.

Clearly Angus Graham left a lasting legacy at the Crows of peaheartedness.

 

[Sanders]

Brandon Ellis said it after the qualifying final, Prestia said it on the sunday footy shows after the prelim and Rance basically said it this morning.

This team has a ruthlessness I never expected to see from this group! And its all on hard work, we are quite simply the hardest working side in the comp and it shows not just in our unprecedented pressure numbers but how much we run in attack too, its complete two way running.

People claiming Adelaide were poor yesterday but the simple fact is we would have beaten anyone yesterday I reckon because we just would have outworked any team (even the recent great teams).

I don't know if you would have beaten anyone but the truth of the matter is you beat us. straight up, no excuses.
everything to play for, 2 teams at the G and you were clearly the better and more deserving team.

nothing else matters. congratulations.

 

[Alfar]

Dermie for all his faults actually does an article on this.

I'll post a few good quotes from it though.

"Similarly, 99 per cent of teams drop their pressure in the second half, by a lot or if you are a good team, just by a little.

But since Round 17, the Tigers have turned this footy truth on its head. It’s freakish."

"Champion Data statistics show us that Tigers’ pressure actually goes up in the second half."

When watching the games I can actually see that. All three finals have run a similar course where we match them for the first half (or rather they match it with us) and then we take a strong lead in the premiership quarter. In short we have better endurance and they fail to do the little things or run with their opponents and then the flood gates open and then we pile on a few goals to really break their spirit. I don't think we find another gear in the 3rd and 4th quarters as our players will be somewhat tired as well but rather our opponents succumb to our pressure more easily and our efforts are more effective.

It would be incredibly taxing for the boys but the results show that it is effective and more importantly it's consistent, which is what you want come finals. I would imagine that those two breaks we got before our Qualifying Final and the Preliminary Final played a contributing factor in how hard our boys could push their opponents.

 

[Scotsguy]

We've had unbelievable luck......

The more we train, the luckier we get.

 

[MightyTiger]

Saw a stat yesterday that pretty much showed why Adelaide shat the bed, all year the highest pressure rating put to the crows was a 1.5, our average all year including finals sits at 1.9, after the first quarter our pressure rating shot through the roof to a staggering 2.3+ pressure rating apparently.

In the first quarter we had about a 170 pressure rating, in the second that jumped to 190+, in the third quarter we clamped them down at 220+ pressure rating, and still in the last quarter we were at a 190.

Anybody who says that Adelaide simply just didn't turn up does not understand the type of.pressure we exert onto teams, Josh Jenkins said it best after the game, after about the second/third quarter everytime they touched the ball they knew they would get tackled straight away, and then two or three more players would rush at them to tackle, and eventually all that pressure turned into perceived pressure, and they just started panicking, he said they couldn't play they wanted to because we didn't let them.

 

[Sanders]

Saw a stat yesterday that pretty much showed why Adelaide shat the bed, all year the highest pressure rating put to the crows was a 1.5, our average all year including finals sits at 1.9, after the first quarter our pressure rating shot through the roof to a staggering 2.3+ pressure rating apparently.

In the first quarter we had about a 170 pressure rating, in the second that jumped to 190+, in the third quarter we clamped them down at 220+ pressure rating, and still in the last quarter we were at a 190.

Anybody who says that Adelaide simply just didn't turn up does not understand the type of.pressure we exert onto teams, Josh Jenkins said it best after the game, after about the second/third quarter everytime they touched the ball they knew they would get tackled straight away, and then two or three more players would rush at them to tackle, and eventually all that pressure turned into perceived pressure, and they just started panicking, he said they couldn't play they wanted to because we didn't let them.

Enjoy your win, you deserve it

Can I ask one thing from the side of the vanquished foe - that you don’t quote Josh Jenkins?

That’s just a bit raw for us at the moment, hearing anything he has to say