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    Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

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    Any state. Any ground. Anywhere. Anytime. We don’t fear anything.

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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    Quote Originally Posted by angelopetraglia View Post
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    Any state. Any ground. Any time. We don’t fear anything.
    I mentioned earlier in the day the whole season has had a mythbusters theme to it and for all those who thought it was at times to challenging to win interstate I'd say that Myth has been busted.
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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    Haven’t we come a long way…until 2016 we’d never won interstate (in fact I’d dread to think of what our average losing margin was). We reliably stunk it up.
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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    Including tonight we have only ever won 21 finals. Therefore in the Bevo era we have won 33% of all Bulldogs finals. In the last six seasons we have won 33% of all the finals in the VFL/AFL era. Incredible.

    So Bevo has coached for six seasons. He has coached ~6% of our years in the competition. He has won ~33% of our finals.

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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    Quote Originally Posted by angelopetraglia View Post
    Including tonight we have only ever won 21 finals. Therefore in the Bevo era we have won 33% of all Bulldogs finals. In the last six seasons we have won 33% of all the finals in the VFL/AFL era. Incredible.

    So Bevo has coached for six seasons. He has coached ~6% of our years in the competition. He has won ~33% of our finals.
    That’s insane.
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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    I was 10 when we won our first final in my lifetime. That was 1985. Prior to that we had only ever won 6 finals. So I have witnessed in person or on TV ~71% of all Bulldog final wins. It has been a good era to be a Bulldog supporter. Growing up seeing Carlton and Essendon dominate I was so envious. How the tables have turned.

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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    Quote Originally Posted by angelopetraglia View Post
    Including tonight we have only ever won 21 finals. Therefore in the Bevo era we have won 33% of all Bulldogs finals. In the last six seasons we have won 33% of all the finals in the VFL/AFL era. Incredible.

    So Bevo has coached for six seasons. He has coached ~6% of our years in the competition. He has won ~33% of our finals.
    Including the GF, Bevo would have coached the Bulldogs in 11 finals. The GF will be the clubs 55th Final. So Bevo has coached 20% of all Bulldogs finals.

    You want to hear something really depressing. Since 1987 the West Coast Eagles have played in 55 finals.

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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    When we won in 85, we hadn’t won a final since ‘61.

    It feels like we are in a golden era, with the best player in the competition, a brilliant (gloriously eccentric) coach, and a couple of young bucks in Naughton and Bailey Smith not even in their prime.
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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    Quote Originally Posted by The bulldog tragician View Post
    When we won in 85, we hadn’t won a final since ‘61.

    Between 61 and 85 we only played in two finals. Both Elimination finals and we lost both of them.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


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    Re: Between 2016 & 2021 we have won finals in six states

    The coach isn't that eccentric, he clearly has a plan and it's being executed in front of our eyes. Just concentrate on what he says, when he says it.

    The Bevo Myth takes away too much from the methodical and calculated approach and execution he and his coaching team, plus the players take into these games.

    He is a legend. He's seven and three, and will be eight and three in two weeks.
    Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

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