Their forward line is a disaster. If they don’t kick a goal off Fritsch or Pickett or some other ground based goal, then they don’t kick one at all.
They need Buddy !
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Round 21 - the fart from a 15 y.o. dog games.
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They need Buddy !
on 1. with a full fit squad we're near. Nowhere near is ridiculous, as evidenced by the Geelong game, and last week.
It was a good game but not great.
That's what we said about Vickery, Post, Elton, Griffens and Coleman Jones.
Jackson isn't a 800k footballer, no where near it.
Huge risk. He doesn't kick goals
Give it a rest Red. No one is suggesting this. We’re simply highlighting that a team’s ‘true’ performance as a bona fide ‘real deal’ team can (and has been proven to be in the past) be misleading due to the unsustainable nature of their results.
Don't laugh he would be better then that Bozzo the Clown, he is shocking.
Was that Gawn's worse game? He looked pissed
Yep, we get Marlion to knock out Stewart early,
And we'll be pretty *smile* near
, then dimma goes
'Marlion is the best bloke in the world, thats the man he is, he makes mahatma ghandi look like shaka zulu, if i want crusts cut off little fairy breads for a little baby girls first bitthday party, marlions the man i turn to. Hes really really nice'
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Sorry that is absolute rubbish. Common sense and mathematical application tells you that you can’t be lucky winning 11 in a row.
And even if you still think that, to actually still be in the game (close) all year long, time and time and time again, tells you that you are half decent and certainly not “lucky”.
Note: I hate them with a passion and the possibility they go out in straight sets is still real. But that’s not the point. They’re not lucky to be where they are.
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Probably because he's 20 years old, and in a couple of years time he's going to be a star.
It’s not about the finals. They are NOT lucky to be in the finals or on top of the ladder.
Their finals performance is yet to be determined.
People are just trying to cope with the reality that the magpies are the real deal
They really could go all the way.
The belief they have cannot be bottled.
Credit to Macrae and Leppa,
The magpies play like the tigers did at their best.
Irrepressible. Watch them interact with each other, this is real unfortunately.
They really could go all the way.
The belief they have cannot be bottled.
Credit to Macrae and Leppa,
The magpies play like the tigers did at their best.
Irrepressible. Watch them interact with each other, this is real unfortunately.
We will see. I’d love to play them in a final. No team has put them under finals heat that I have seen.
Yes. I agree. How you perform in finals is all that matters. But you simply can not say Bumwood are a lucky club at this stage to be playing in them or their pre finals position.
That is just simply ridiculous. They’ve won 11 in a row. That’s a bloody awesome effort as much as it grinds me.
Surely it is possible to acknowledge that it's a great achievement and recognise that to win 11 in a row with the majority under 12 points, with a % that has them 9th surely suggests that a dollop of luck has been involved? It's not as binary as you seem think it is.
Luck is involved in winning lots of close games. You also have to be a competent football team to have a chance to be lucky. Both things can be true.
When Essendon squeaked into the 8 with a crap percentage and lots of close wins we saw what happened - and we saw the next year too with less close wins and a harder draw.
Maybe Collingwood will buck the trend but percentage tells you what most likely will happen. We will see.
W\L almost completely shapes the public narrative about teams. If Robinson had kicked straight then likely we would have seen that in full throttle right here. Instead of we did it for shedda on the comeback it would have been why didn’t we do it for shedda in the first half. And the obligatory why was shedda playing posts.
When Essendon squeaked into the 8 with a crap percentage and lots of close wins we saw what happened - and we saw the next year too with less close wins and a harder draw.
Maybe Collingwood will buck the trend but percentage tells you what most likely will happen. We will see.
W\L almost completely shapes the public narrative about teams. If Robinson had kicked straight then likely we would have seen that in full throttle right here. Instead of we did it for shedda on the comeback it would have been why didn’t we do it for shedda in the first half. And the obligatory why was shedda playing posts.
When was the last time anyone looked at % after the finals was played or after a premiership was won and done ?
Hint: never.
I agree with all of that, but I don't see the fact that they have had a bit of luck along the way as being mutually exclusive or contradictory, its just part of the puzzle.
That aside, in an unintended way, at this moment in time they have mastered the art of the 666, come from behind. Works really well if the other side wears themselves out dominating possession for little reward, like tonight, but that hasn't been the case in all their wins. How many of the 11 have been come from behind? They couldn't all be surely. North, Melb, Ess, Carlton, Suns come to mind?
