Question: This season so far…

[bulldogtragic]

Does it remind you of any particular season in your viewing lifetime, or is this altogether new and different?

[SonofScray]

Glass half empty: 08/09 in some respects.

We are very good. Good enough on our day. Not convinced we’ll have enough of our days when it matters. Can see Melbourne and Geelong doing what St Kilda and Geelong did to us in the Eade years.

Glass half full:

Rare territory for us. Our best is better than I’ve seen. If we are fit and settled at the pointy end, the flag will wag.

[comrade]

Glass half empty: 08/09 in some respects.

We are very good. Good enough on our day. Not convinced we’ll have enough of our days when it matters. Can see Melbourne and Geelong doing what St Kilda and Geelong did to us in the Eade years.

Glass half full:

Rare territory for us. Our best is better than I’ve seen. If we are fit and settled at the pointy end, the flag will wag.

08/09 always felt like we were a distant third in the flag race. This year feels like there is no juggernaut and we're in it up to our eyeballs.

[Grantysghost]

Glass half empty: 08/09 in some respects.

We are very good. Good enough on our day. Not convinced we’ll have enough of our days when it matters. Can see Melbourne and Geelong doing what St Kilda and Geelong did to us in the Eade years.

Glass half full:

Rare territory for us. Our best is better than I’ve seen. If we are fit and settled at the pointy end, the flag will wag.

I think we are already in rarified air. Freo and Eagles in Perth, GWS away, Port away, Cats in front at the final siren at Bracks Park.
I can't recall another season like it.

[Bulldog Joe]

08/09 always felt like we were a distant third in the flag race. This year feels like there is no juggernaut and we're in it up to our eyeballs.

Agree on the 08/09 version, but considering the respective injury lists etc, we can be the juggernaut.

We copped Richmond and Melbourne as opponents when we had lost a significant top level player and we needed to work some adjustment over the following weeks.

The away wins were full of merit and we are actually improving as the season progresses. If we get close to a healthy list we will be extremely hard to stop.

[bornadog]

This year is a bit like 1998 when after 14 rounds (games) we were 10/4 so similar. We finished the year second on the ladder, only beaten by a goal in the last round to make top.

However, the players and the depth this year are far better, and we won't have a Rohan Smith playing CHB on a monster CHF in the prelim.

[GVGjr]

1985 to me and we had a great team that year

[Rocco Jones]

This year is a bit like 1998 when after 14 rounds (games) we were 10/4 so similar. We finished the year second on the ladder, only beaten by a goal in the last round to make top.

However, the players and the depth this year are far better, and we won't have a Rowan Smith playing CHB on a monster CHF in the prelim.

Basically same answer word for word for me.

[Twodogs]

1985 to me and we had a great team that year

Yep. Very similar. In 1985 we had a dominant tall forward and a couple of handy small/mediums. Good midfielders, a slightly undersized but well organised defence and good squad depth we could call up from.

[Dry Rot]

Basically same answer word for word for me.

And me.

1998 was the first season I thought of when I saw the OP.

And my season as a Dogs fan and seriously following AFL

[comrade]

However, the players and the depth this year are far better, and we won't have a Rowan Smith playing CHB on a monster CHF in the prelim.

And a team that finished 5th won't lose in the first week of finals and still win the flag.

[The bulldog tragician]

This year is a bit like 1998 when after 14 rounds (games) we were 10/4 so similar. We finished the year second on the ladder, only beaten by a goal in the last round to make top.

However, the players and the depth this year are far better, and we won't have a Rowan Smith playing CHB on a monster CHF in the prelim.

We have more A-graders now I believe.

However that 98 loss was an example of both the best and worst of Terry Wallace, and to some degree that playing group. Can’t decide if they were scarred by 97 or conversely believed we were now “owed” that win & just needed to turn up, but it was equally bitter.

There isn’t an outstanding contender this year. I’m very impressed by our group’s resilience. It was no small feat after that Geelong loss to come out with such commitment. If we just have injury luck at the right time I don’t see why we can’t challenge this year. And let’s face it Aaron Naughton is an upgrade on Simon Minton- Connell.

[MrMahatma]

98 to me too.

At this point though, we could press on and be the front runners by season’s end. We were just spectacular against WC. Good luck anyone playing against us if we bring that level of intensity.

[Happy Days]

Basically same answer word for word for me.

Even “Rowan”?

[Mofra]

We're in rare air - simply because I don't recall us ever having two 100 point wins in a season. We are more ruthless, piling on goals late against the Eagles as well.