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  • NMWBloods
    Taking Refuge!!
    • Jan 2003
    • 15819
    #16
    Originally posted by pillowtalk
    It might actually be good for the boys to keep playing rather than have the week off (although I guess it would be good to rest niggling injuries). In the bye weekend this year, we came back and lost didn't we? If they keep playing it could keep them more focused - not that they won't be - but a weekend off might be detrimental.
    Finals football and H&A football are quite different. A week off in the former is a huge benefit and in the latter often a detriment. The evidence strongly suggests that the teams with the week off generally do better. Recently, Adelaide is about the only team to have done well in finals without the week off.
    Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

    "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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      • sharp9
        Senior Player
        • Jan 2003
        • 2508
        #17
        Originally posted by sharpie
        I think you are making it too complicated. If we win, we get a home PF. If we lose, but then win in week 2, we play the winner of Collingwood v Brisbane at the MCG in the PF.

        J S, if we win this week, we automatically become the "highest ranked team", hence we will play our PF at home, and Brisbane may have to play a "home" PF at the MCG if they win this week.
        Sorry Sharpie (thanks for stealing my name, BTW, people used to call me "Sharpie" round here) .......

        but you are wrong with this one. We do NOT become the highest ranked team if we beat Port. The winner of Bris/Coll becomes the highest ranked team and gets the (only) guaranteed home PF.
        "I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005

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          • j s
            Think positive!
            • Jan 2003
            • 3303
            #18
            Originally posted by sharp9
            Sorry Sharpie (thanks for stealing my name, BTW, people used to call me "Sharpie" round here) .......

            but you are wrong with this one. We do NOT become the highest ranked team if we beat Port. The winner of Bris/Coll becomes the highest ranked team and gets the (only) guaranteed home PF.
            Which is why (as stated earlier) if (and ONLY if) we win then we also want Collingwood to win. It's the only way we can get a home PF.

            It's a pity we don't play first so we would know who to cheer for.

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              • barry
                Veterans List
                • Jan 2003
                • 8499
                #19
                Originally posted by j s
                Which is why (as stated earlier) if (and ONLY if) we win then we also want Collingwood to win. It's the only way we can get a home PF.

                It's a pity we don't play first so we would know who to cheer for.
                I disagree, we want melbourne teams out of the picture. We dont want to meet either of them, then we can make the MCG ours.

                Collingwood have a tough draw. Brisbane, then Adelaide (fully fit). They could easily slip out in straight sets.

                If we let Collingwood have a prelim, so we can have one, then their's a fair chance we will meet them in the granny....at their home ground.

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