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Probably Freo. From memory they won a heap of games by pretty narrow margins at home to start the year and got exposed relatively badly as the season wore on. Were well behind Hawthorn and West Coast that year and maybe even (depending on the time) Sydney and Richmond too. Adelaide 05 kinda similar I guess but the gap between them and Sydney/West Coast/St Kilda was pretty narrow unlike 2015.
Adelaide 17 won less games but that season was very close, they still felt like the best team for basically the whole year.
No disagreement that we are probably the weakest minor premiers in recent times but your memory is playing tricks with you. We were imperious for 9 rounds and Fyfe was on track for the single finest year in the history of the game (29 Brownlow votes by Rd 14). We were literally blowing teams off the park:
- R2: away to Geelong - pretty close at half time and then kicked 7.1 in the 3rd
- R3: Our away Derby - were 9.2 to 0.4 at the end of the first and 14.5 to 3.5 at half time
- R4: Home to Sydney - 9.3 to 1.3 at half time
- R5: Away to the Demons: won the second half 10.4 to 1.10
- R6: Home to Bombers: were 9 goals clear at 3/4 time
- R7: Away to Doggies: Kicked 5.3 in the first nine minutes
- R8: Home to North: kicked 8 goals to 1 in the second half
- R9: The Fyfe vs Danger shoot out in the wet in Adelaide (both with 40+ possessions) Freo finally kicking on in the last qtr
The problem is we played the season in the same way we were playing games - a burst of amazing footy and then put the cue in the rack. Partly because Fyfe got injured, but also because I think we got very complacent.