Quote Originally Posted by bulldogsthru&thru View Post
If we don’t win tonight, the competition better hope Melbourne beat port. Port have had such a legup it’s not even close to fair. Melbourne have had the same challenges except for the injuries. Whilst that gives them an extra legup in this environment, it’s a legit, albeit lucky one. Port however have just had things handed to them above and beyond what would be considered reasonable. And even moreso given what we’ve been through is by far the worst of any of the final 4. Yeah we probably dug that hole ourselves by missing the top 4, but this quarantining and these restrictions we’ve had to follow are beyond unfair. We’ve basically had to prepare with one arm tied behind our back. It’d be an absolute monstrous effort to get up tonight given the un level playing field. Everyone always talks about how if you’re even 5% off, you can get beaten by anyone. Well, Port probably have an advantage that gives them an extra 30% on us! Let’s just hope that pressure gets to them.

It’s amateur stuff from the AFEL. You main event, the finals series, being played like this. Should have been in Perth the whole way but certainly from the prelims.

Agree Port have had a pretty much normal lead in, should be a huge advantage.

Injuries in this environment are probably 5x normal pain. Mitch Duncan is a jet and he looked like a bad VFL player. Dunkley Treloar etc...