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If 8 teams finish above us, we aren’t deserving. It’s that simple - we’ve lost too many crucial games that we should’ve won - Sydney twice, St Kilda, Melbourne…
Not making finals is a fail.
Not Making finals is a fail and the coach will roll if it doesn't happen

That doesn't mean we don't deserve to be there

Both things can be right at once


Every team has lost some crucial games that they should've won, its the nature of the season, facts say that this season will statistically have the best team in 9th to ever miss finals, its either going to be 14 wins and a crazy % or 15 wins who miss
 

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Technically speaking if Hawthorn win and we draw with Bulldogs then we'd play in an elimination final against Brisbane.
Well ill take a draw right now

Can you imagine sitting around to Wednesday night hoping Essendon win.

They may as well just send us up there on a 3 day turnaround and play us a wildcard game
 
Actually, we could lose and we’d need to wait until Wednesday. Gold Coast could lose to Bombers!

Would that be the most ‘Dockery’ entry into the finals.
I would back us more playing off a 3 day turnaround on Wednesday then Essendon.

Were not playing finals if we lose on Sunday.
 

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Well well well.

Funny reading back over this.

It doesn’t always have to be doom and gloom.

What a win and what a result the Port game was.

Crazy to think that if Pies and GWS had lost we’d be sitting 4th. Both games went down to the wire there.

Anyway, we grabbed a home final.

Now the minimum needs to be win that home final.
 
If I'm being honest, we are done this year. Sad to say, best look forward to next year 😑
It's called being a realist mate, we don't deserve to play finals. We couldn't even win for our clubs best ever player. I hope we win but after that performance I don't expect it
Im not crying over it, im just being a realist, its easy to lose confidence after such a lacklustre performance. Time will tell if we are deserving of playing finals, your only deserving if you make them. As far as "defeatist attitude" goes, what would you call that performance we served up on Friday night? You're only as good as your last game, clearly you are more then happy with mediocrity.
Has anybody checked on this bloke?
 

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It’s fine. We all go to that dark place at times.
I dreamt of a flag only 2 weeks ago and really thought if we could beat Brisbane and Dogs then we could do anything from inside the top 4.
Now 6th? I still hope to do damage. There’s genuinely not a team I’m worried about playing at home or away.
But I’ll join him in being a realist and winning a flag from here is near impossible.

That said, we did beat the Dogs. In fact we smashed them.

Dare to dream.

Win our home final. Go from there.
 
Has anybody checked on this bloke?
What are you talking about? Everyone is wrong at times, I thought we would lose, so did 90% of us, alot more then just me that were wrong. But it doesn't change the fact that we absolutely stunk it up vs Brisbane. A week is a long time in footy though, fingers crossed we bring the same intensity to the first final.
 
What are you talking about? Everyone is wrong at times, I thought we would lose, so did 90% of us, alot more then just me that were wrong. But it doesn't change the fact that we absolutely stunk it up vs Brisbane. A week is a long time in footy though, fingers crossed we bring the same intensity to the first final.
I don't think any one who has been a Freo fan for more than a little while can begrudge someone else some necessary emotional hedging.

I think the Brisbane performance, while very disappointing, wasn't actually that bad in context.
What made it feel so bad was our poor performances when faced with high expectations, over the last few years particularly.
We should have been up to our eyeballs in that game but just couldn't execute our goal kicking or general decisions well.

Hopefully we've learnt from that experience and can win a final or two at least, to progress us towards a proper crack at a premiership.
Having said that, I hope the team are saying why not us and why not now.
 
I came in here looking for realists

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