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If We Miss The Top 4, Who Is You Preferred Elimination Final Opponent, And why?
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6 of the 8 teams have beaten us last time we played
The exceptions being sydney and hawthorn.
To be honest
The team with the crappest form right now in the eight is on top of the ladder.
Are they foxing?
I doubt it :
What FREO do well is, beat the teams outside the top 8, and get the odd win inside it.
But thry've lost its last games to richmond hawthorn North WCE.
Now if you looked at a ladder from rounds 7 to 21: we would be higher up than freo.
So if the swans do lose a game, and we don't, then we get the double chance and a crack at a preliminary final on the MCG. Don't know when we last played an MCG prelim.
Maybe 1982.
Go tigers
So I'll take freo, even though I originally voted for geelong.
The exceptions being sydney and hawthorn.
To be honest
The team with the crappest form right now in the eight is on top of the ladder.
Are they foxing?
I doubt it :
What FREO do well is, beat the teams outside the top 8, and get the odd win inside it.
But thry've lost its last games to richmond hawthorn North WCE.
Now if you looked at a ladder from rounds 7 to 21: we would be higher up than freo.
So if the swans do lose a game, and we don't, then we get the double chance and a crack at a preliminary final on the MCG. Don't know when we last played an MCG prelim.
Maybe 1982.
Go tigers
So I'll take freo, even though I originally voted for geelong.
Sorry, I mis-read the question.
Geelong.
1. Payback in a final would be sweet
2. They were so blah against the saints, I thought it was their reserves.
Geelong.
1. Payback in a final would be sweet
2. They were so blah against the saints, I thought it was their reserves.
So many scenarios!
Dogs only side in the 8 who haven't played finals recently.
The rest have and as we know when finals come around , it's another season all together. They have experience and have won and we have lost our two finals appearances.
As Dimma said a long time ago , we can beat anyone on our day! But finals are different and sides will not let us play " our way"
I chose none of the options!
As some have already written- I don't care who it is, where it is.
We have a game that that will stack up in finals this time and we shouldn't fear anyone.
Yes there are sides that I would like to meet and give a touch up too but I doubt we will finish top 4. Swans will not lose their game against the Saints.
The pass though as most have said win our first, get that monkey off our back and go from there!
Go Tigers.
Finals number 3.
Dogs only side in the 8 who haven't played finals recently.
The rest have and as we know when finals come around , it's another season all together. They have experience and have won and we have lost our two finals appearances.
As Dimma said a long time ago , we can beat anyone on our day! But finals are different and sides will not let us play " our way"
I chose none of the options!
As some have already written- I don't care who it is, where it is.
We have a game that that will stack up in finals this time and we shouldn't fear anyone.
Yes there are sides that I would like to meet and give a touch up too but I doubt we will finish top 4. Swans will not lose their game against the Saints.
The pass though as most have said win our first, get that monkey off our back and go from there!
Go Tigers.
Finals number 3.
On our day we can compete against anyone and this year the team believes.
Why?
We are not falling over the line into the finals like last year - we can carefully plan our next two weeks.
Our form over the last 12 months has been consistent and outstanding.
But in saying that, I would be a little nervous is we ended up playing North - would prefer West Coast than North to be honest.
My best scenario has already been raised - Sydney lose this week and then we still have to beat North to get into the 4 and then play Freo away (odds of this happening in my mind are basically zero)
Second best scenario is we finish 6th and play the doggies at the G. The advantages for me of this happening are
1) it is played at the G
2) it is played on the Saturday, not the Sunday
3) Hawthorn also lose to WC which means we get a second final against a team who has just travelled to Perth and we have also recently beaten.
Why?
We are not falling over the line into the finals like last year - we can carefully plan our next two weeks.
Our form over the last 12 months has been consistent and outstanding.
But in saying that, I would be a little nervous is we ended up playing North - would prefer West Coast than North to be honest.
My best scenario has already been raised - Sydney lose this week and then we still have to beat North to get into the 4 and then play Freo away (odds of this happening in my mind are basically zero)
Second best scenario is we finish 6th and play the doggies at the G. The advantages for me of this happening are
1) it is played at the G
2) it is played on the Saturday, not the Sunday
3) Hawthorn also lose to WC which means we get a second final against a team who has just travelled to Perth and we have also recently beaten.
bulldogs due to so many inexperienced players whom normally play worse and worse has the season goes on.
Not worried about things we can't control. The only side in the 8 that looks formidable to me, ATM at least things can change quickly, is the weagles. And even they don't look unstoppable formidable. Imprtantly I don't think the side is worried about any North hoodoo, even if some supporters are. If we're good enough we'll beat 'em.
DirtyDogTiger said:
1973 v Collingwood when we were six goals down at half time and brought on the Royce-master and won by seven points.
Our Grand Final appearances in 1974, 1980 and 1982 were earned under the old system where you could win a Second Semi and go straight into the GF. Even then, all three of those Second Semis were at Waverley.
We played in the 1975 prelim v North and lost but that was at Waverley too (Michael Green says hello).
We also played prelims at the MCG in 1969 (v Collingwood and won) and 1971 (v St Kilda and lost).
