Dumb punters

[Sanecow]

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
I just think crap like that is a load of bollocks.

You should rewatch the game.

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
Our biggest piece of luck as regards injuries was not their absence but that Maxfiled had one that kept him out for most of the year.

I just think crap like that is a load of bollocks.

[Sanecow]

We only won because Skylab killed Aunt Betty and not Jason Ball.

Debris was found between Esperance, Western Australia, and Rawlinna, Western Australia, 31?34?S, 122?126?E. As this area was sparsely populated, the only casualty was an Australian cow.

[Tuesday]

Originally posted by Sanecow
How lucky was Craig Bolton to have his face smashed in!

How lucky was Sampi to get away with it?

[Carolyn]

You can't win the Grand Final based purely on luck, there's got to be some skill in it as well.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Carolyn
You can't win the Grand Final based purely on luck, there's got to be some skill in it as well.

I don't recall anyone disagreeing with this view.

[Nico]

As the saying goes, "the harder you work the luckier you get".

We won 13 of our last 16 home and away games (I think they are the numbers or thereabouts) by sheer hard work (running) hence made our own luck if you like, and worked our butts off in the finals.

When we were headed in the last Q of the GF we just worked harder and turned it around.

Regardless of injuries and any other factors our work ethic won the flag because it was a few points or a fraction of a % better than the Eagles.

In the end we won the flag and the "punters" can suffer in their jocks for all I care. Particularly the whingers from StKilda. Looked at Big Footy lately?

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by Nico

In the end we won the flag and the "punters" can suffer in their jocks for all I care. Particularly the whingers from StKilda. Looked at Big Footy lately?

Are those idiots still going on about being losers?

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by Sanecow
You should rewatch the game.

I guess a preparedness to bleed for each other is fine so long as each player is going to give 110% of the red stuff but only do it one week at a time.
[QUOTE
I just think crap like that is a load of bollocks. [/QUOTE] Maybe, but there was a touch of tongue in cheek in my comment. I am not sure Brett could say the same.

[Pommie Swannie]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
So does that mean a team decimated by injuries did not "make its own luck" and is thus somehow to blame?

... or does it mean thhat the Swans made their own luck with training and recovery methods that meant no serious long-term injuries among the key player group?

I guess we'll find out this season whether it really was luck if there are numerous injuries!

[anne]

In the end we won the flag and the "punters" can suffer in their jocks for all I care. Particularly the whingers from StKilda. Looked at Big Footy lately? [/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah - it makes me really angry reading it. Sydney only won the flag by default and ST Kilda has it in the bag already for this year! Even in the general threads predicting this year's results no-one picks Sydney to win and half the people don't even pick them to make the 8! It is as though last year didn't even happy. I really hope we do well, especially at the start of the season. I hope we win our first 7 straight. Maybe that might shut them up.

[anne]

Oops - I meant didn't even happen.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by anne

Yeah - it makes me really angry reading it. Sydney only won the flag by default and ST Kilda has it in the bag already for this year! Even in the general threads predicting this year's results no-one picks Sydney to win and half the people don't even pick them to make the 8! It is as though last year didn't even happy. I really hope we do well, especially at the start of the season. I hope we win our first 7 straight. Maybe that might shut them up.

But they have to have brains to be shutup by facts, and we are talking about St Kilda supporters.

A St Kilda supporter with a brain...now there's an oxymoron. Or is that just a moron.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Pommie Swannie
... or does it mean thhat the Swans made their own luck with training and recovery methods that meant no serious long-term injuries among the key player group?

I guess we'll find out this season whether it really was luck if there are numerous injuries!

A team can do everything it needs in terms of preparation, training and discipline, but unless the team is far superior to the others, with a bit of bad luck the campaign can very quickly lose its way.

As for making your own luck with injuries, certainly it can help with some, such as soft-tissue injuries, but it's hardly going to help if a guy falls and does his knee or breaks a leg.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Sanecow
Barry Hall being reported at all was terrible "luck" forced upon the AFL by the high-pitched-scream of television commentary.

Hall was always going to be reported for punching a guy in the stomach. We were lucky that we had footage to get him off. We were also lucky that there was no footage of the Grant incident a couple of years ago or there would have been no good behaviour discount.

[Sanecow]

There's no proof Hall even touched the guy. A total dive. Worse happens every game of every week.