top 4 a fraction harder - includes spoilers of Sunday games

[Legs Akimbo]

Originally posted by alison.z
wow i sense your confidence and belief in our team! in the end we can't control other results and all we can do is play our best footy in the next few weeks and hope for the best ...

The Geelong game was tragic. We did not turn up to play and our chances of a serious tilt at back to back were decimated by that loss. In one game we went from being in control of our fortunes to being totally out of control. After the game, the inextricably nonchalent 'it happens' attitude of the coach (wider wings - yeah right!) and some players made me realise that they don't have the hunger and drive of last year. No doubt we have a very good team with some great players, but there are other teams out there that want it more.

It would be a pleasant surprise to make inroads in September, but personally, I cannot see it happening.

[hammo]

Maybe Roos should have taken the pre season more seriously so we turned up in rounds 1-4 ready to play.

The losses to Essendon and then the home losses to Port and Melbourne will cost us big time.

Roos was far to relaxed about it all and now its left us (potentially) with an improbable mountain to climb.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by anne
Neither is going to happen. Freo are all over WC and Adelaide are a mess and probably wont beat Melbourne so we wont make the top 4. It's their own fault for all the losses that they shouldn't have had.

Yep. I agree. The chances of us making top 4 are becoming more remote.

We've lost a lot of games we shouldn't have - Essendon, Port, Melbourne, StKilda, Collingwood, West Coast, Geelong.

Amazingly, with one week until finals, Fremantle are the team in best form, with the best balance, in the competition!!

[Bart]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
We've lost a lot of games we shouldn't have - Essendon, Port, Melbourne, StKilda, Collingwood, West Coast, Geelong.

Yeah you're right. we should be sitting at 20-1.

[Jeffers1984]

Originally posted by Bart
Yeah you're right. we should be sitting at 20-1.

Exactly. Was it too much to ask?

[Jeffers1984]

I guess we can start blaming the blind goal umpire who @@@@@@ up the missed poster when Rix got a goal in the St Kilda match earlier this year. If that was seen, we'd be 3rd on %.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Bart
Yeah you're right. we should be sitting at 20-1.

I didn't suggest we should have won all seven of those games. However, if we had won just one of them, then we'd be set for third spot. If we had won three of them, then we'd be set for first or second.

[melbloods78]

we will finish fourth, melbourne won't win in adelaide and havent for sometime. even as bad as adelaide's injuries might be they surely wont drop a game to melbourne.

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by melbloods78
we will finish fourth, melbourne won't win in adelaide and havent for sometime. even as bad as adelaide's injuries might be they surely wont drop a game to melbourne.

Why not?

[Bart]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
I didn't suggest we should have won all seven of those games.

Many of those games weren't even close. Port/ Essendon /Geelong /Pies were just bad losses.

[hammo]

They should have been a lot closer. We were complacent in all those losses.

[graystar]

Originally posted by Jeffers1984
I guess we can start blaming the blind goal umpire who @@@@@@ up the missed poster when Rix got a goal in the St Kilda match earlier this year. If that was seen, we'd be 3rd on %.

Why? Freo and Melbourne are ahead on points.

[ugg]

Because we would have won that St Kilda match! (disregarding the causal effects)

We've been shafted a few times in dodgy goal umpire decisions including last night.

[barry]

Originally posted by melbloods78
we will finish fourth, melbourne won't win in adelaide and havent for sometime. even as bad as adelaide's injuries might be they surely wont drop a game to melbourne.

Adelaide dont have much to play for. They are guaranteed top 2 spot, so could rest all partially injured players.

Melbourne, need to win to stay top 4.

Its 50/50 at best.

[swantastic]

# Team Pl W L D PF PA Pt Perc
1 West Coast 22 17 5 0 2201 1893 68 116.2
2 Adelaide 22 16 6 0 2282 1643 64 138.8
4 Sydney 22 14 8 0 2087 1661 56 125.6
5 Collingwood 22 14 8 0 2309 1991 56 115.9
7 Fremantle 22 14 8 0 2032 1938 56 104.8
3 Melbourne 22 13 8 1 2149 1908 54 112.6
6 St Kilda 22 13 9 0 2063 1798 52 114.7
8 W Bulldogs 22 13 9 0 2273 2139 52 106.2

9 Richmond 22 11 11 0 1946 2175 44 89.4
10 Geelong 22 10 11 1 2001 1978 42 101.1
11 Port Adel 22 9 13 0 1942 2097 36 92.6
12 Hawthorn 22 9 13 0 1810 2159 36 83.8
13 Bris Lions 22 8 14 0 1890 2228 32 84.8
14 Kangaroos 22 7 15 0 1780 2131 28 83.5
15 Essendon 22 3 18 1 1987 2431 14 81.

My hopeful prediction