The official 2015 T&T who to root for thread

[comrade]

What a great night of rooting. Finish the job, Pies.

[azabob]

Great to see Menzel turing it on.

Gives us hope...

[bulldogtragic]

Great to see Menzel turing it on.

Gives us hope...

More so Clay hopefully.

[Throughandthrough]

Good rooting everybody.

First base accomplished.

[LostDoggy]

Good rooting everybody.

First base accomplished.

Is it proper rooting if we're only at first base?

[boydogs]

OK so top 8 is now mathematically 100% secure

Our next main concern is avoiding Adelaide away in week 1. If Adelaide lose to West Coast we're 98% OK. They could then only get to 54 points, with us, North & Richmond all on 52. Adelaide would need to finish ahead of at least 2 of us to finish top 6. We play North which someone must win, and North play Richmond which someone must win. Unless North win both, then 2 of us will be on at least 56 ahead of Adelaide. Even if North do win both, then any of Richmond beating Essendon, us beating Brisbane, or Adelaide losing to Geelong would still prevent Adelaide from getting a home final. And even if they do, it may not be against us

If Adelaide beat both West Coast and Geelong, they will finish at least top 7 as the losers of Richmond v North and us v North would finish behind them. Unless North lose both, and Richmond beat Essendon, and we beat Brisbane, then Adelaide would be top 6. If we won both we would be 5th but if not we would have to hope for the other side of the draw

Geelong's finals hopes ending tonight was good to solidify our top 8 finish, but not good for hoping Geelong would be up for taking Adelaide on next week

[comrade]

Geelong's finals hopes ending tonight was good to solidify our top 8 finish, but not good for hoping Geelong would be up for taking Adelaide on next week

Could be the last hurrah for a number of their legends. Surely that counts for something, though they have squibbed it in big games this year (Enright's 300th, Menzel's return).

[ledge]

Looks like we will end up between 5 and 8 ..who would we rather play ?
How Do we want the cards to fall so we play the team that we believe we can beat out of the other three ?

[LostDoggy]

Looks like we will end up between 5 and 8 ..who would we rather play ?
How Do we want the cards to fall so we play the team that we believe we can beat out of the other three ?

Adelaide the obvious presuming the match will be in Melbourne.

Richmond holds a lot of appeal. Crowd of 70,000-80,000 would be great experience for our young team and all the pressure on Tiges after their recent inability to win a final.

We've beaten both these at only meeting this year (Tiges at G) so neither hold any fear.

North would be a pretty even match, depending on what happens today.

It's all good really.

[Bulldog Joe]

Looks like we will end up between 5 and 8 ..who would we rather play ?
How Do we want the cards to fall so we play the team that we believe we can beat out of the other three ?

We can beat anyone.
What we need is to be in position to tackle Sydney round 2 if they hang on to top 4.

That means we need to finish 5th. (or 4th if Sydney falter)

We are in the same position we always have been. Lets finish as high as we can and see what happens from there.

[LostDoggy]

Good rooting everybody.

First base accomplished.

Last nights root was the best one I've had for 5 years!!!!

[1eyedog]

We can beat anyone.
What we need is to be in position to tackle Sydney round 2 if they hang on to top 4.

That means we need to finish 5th. (or 4th if Sydney falter)

We are in the same position we always have been. Lets finish as high as we can and see what happens from there.

We beat North and North beat Richmond next week would be a great outcome. Even better would be for the Saints to knock Sydney over on Sunday, possible. If Freo can hang on to top spot and we finsih 4th we're every chance to knock them over in Perth.

Lot of water to go under the bridge I know.

[Jeanette54]

Last nights root was the best one I've had for 5 years!!!!

The pies did the job for us, but it really hurt to barrack for them, even if it was only for our benefit.

[LostDoggy]

The pies did the job for us, but it really hurt to barrack for them, even if it was only for our benefit.

I agree it doesn't sit right to barrack for the Pies but last night was win-win-win.

Geelong lost, our finals spot was confirmed and Pies won a game that was utterly inconsequential for them, other than to rise a place or 2 up the ladder, and therefore down the order of draft picks

[Sedat]

Geelong's finals hopes ending tonight was good to solidify our top 8 finish, but not good for hoping Geelong would be up for taking Adelaide on next week

Perhaps Adelaide will take the chance to rest some players in the next couple of weeks now that their finals spot is secure. Would be funny as hell if they rested Danger next week at Kardinia Park.