The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

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  • bulldogtragic
    The List Manager
    • Jan 2007
    • 34316
    #1

    The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

    Often, footy fans will point to something that they say resulted in their team playing finals, or not. Say, umpiring, a goal, etc. But that logic breaks when we know that the play would change, that in a missed goal, a kick out started the next play, and not a centre clearance. So it's not often easy to point to a single bit of play, like a shot at goal.

    The only sure way to say with 100% certainty that a play, or a shot at goal missing led to missing or getting into finals is a shot after the siren. Well, Harry Taylor missed his shot after the siren against us and so denied the Geelong FC four premiership points. Shame really...

    So now the Geelong sit out of the top 8 because of it with two games to play. So in the spirit of Harry Taylor, his team mates, Geelong FC and their fans focusing in on this point and Harry retiring knowing his choke against the WBFC is part of his legacy - I'd like to root this eventuality:

    Geelong losing to Fremantle & GCS (unlikely)

    So that gets them to 52 points.

    So rooting:

    Sydney winning at least two more games of their three left (so then this is the crucial root, 50/50 chance on Melb, GWS, Hawks)

    Hawthorn winning at least one more games of their two left (probable Saints & Sydney)

    Port winning at least two more games of their three left (possible/probable, Collingwood, Essendon)

    Collingwood winning at least two of their three games left (probable, Freo, Port, Brisbane)

    Melbourne winning at least one of their three games left (probable, Sydney, WCE, GWS)

    North winning all of their last three games (including us, possible, Dogs, Adelaide, Saints - crucial root too now Port dropped the ball)

    So if Sydney & North pull their root as above, or Geelong drop an easy game...


    Then we can all send out Harry Taylor as he deserves to be, in my honest opinion.
    Last edited by bulldogtragic; 11-08-2018, 07:21 PM.
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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    • Twodogs
      Administrator
      • Nov 2006
      • 27645
      #2
      Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

      I've got no respect for Harry Taylor at all and I have no idea how anyone could. Ordinary footballer and a worse human being. So he played in some good teams and got carried to some flags? What's that matter when as soon as the team needs to rely on Harry he misses a soda and is personally responsible for his team losing to close to the worst team in the comp and missing the finals. That's a hell of a load to be carrying around.


      You failed the character test Harry. Most AFL players would have been able to make that shot with their backs to the goal. Heh!Harry Taylor aye? The least deserving multiple premiership player in the history of the AFL.
      They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.

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        • ratsmac
          Coaching Staff
          • May 2009
          • 3974
          #3
          Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

          I'm in, I'm rooting
          They've done studies you know, 60% of the time, it works every time!
          Brian Fantana.

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            • bulldogtragic
              The List Manager
              • Jan 2007
              • 34316
              #4
              Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

              Unfortunately Port let us down, so this is the rooting assuming Geelong can beat up Freo & GCS:

              Sydney winning at least two more games of their three left (Melb, GWS &/or Hawks)

              Hawthorn winning at least one more games of their two left (Saints)

              Port winning their two games left (Collingwood, Essendon)

              Collingwood winning at least two of their three games left (Freo & Brisbane)

              Melbourne winning at least one of their three games left (WCE &/or GWS)

              North winning all of their last three games (Dogs, Adelaide, Saints)
              Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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                • azabob
                  Hall of Fame
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 15094
                  #5
                  Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                  Why the hate for Taylor?
                  More of an In Bruges guy?

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                    • bulldogtragic
                      The List Manager
                      • Jan 2007
                      • 34316
                      #6
                      Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                      Originally posted by azabob
                      Why the hate for Taylor?
                      Comments of a certain nature about our club to our players on field in the past. Worthy of a bit of hate in my book.
                      Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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                        • Bornadog
                          WOOF Clubhouse Leader
                          • Jan 2007
                          • 65575
                          #7
                          Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                          Originally posted by bulldogtragic
                          Comments of a certain nature about our club to our players on field in the past. Worthy of a bit of hate in my book.
                          and said sledging after the game finished.
                          FFC: Established 1883

                          Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.

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                            • bulldogtragic
                              The List Manager
                              • Jan 2007
                              • 34316
                              #8
                              Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                              Originally posted by bornadog
                              and said sledging after the game finished.
                              This in particular. Obviously I/we can't repeat everything, but posters can think back to a somewhat recent milestone game where a Geelong player had won down at Geelong. Our players were going to stand for a guard, but then didn't after Taylor continued to run his mouth about our club. So the things he said were clearly of a nature to aggrevate our players to walk away from him and consequently away from the guard area. Ergo, I'm rooting hard to see Geelong finish 9th and him being responsible for it.
                              Last edited by bulldogtragic; 12-08-2018, 10:29 AM.
                              Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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                                • ledge
                                  Hall of Fame
                                  • Dec 2007
                                  • 14027
                                  #9
                                  Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                                  Well considering we have won a flag since they last won one and he lost the game against us in their own back yard , with which we haven’t won in years and years, it’s totally backfired on him.
                                  Bring back the biff

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                                    • bulldogtragic
                                      The List Manager
                                      • Jan 2007
                                      • 34316
                                      #10
                                      Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                                      So it gets closer Harry Rooters:

                                      Melbourne to win one out of their last two @WCE/GWS (good shot)
                                      Sydney to win one out of their last two @GWS/Hawks (good shot)
                                      Port must beat Collingwood MCG & @Essendon (because they dropped a winning situation this week) (Essendon, yes. Collingwood at the MCG probably hinges this entire root)
                                      Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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                                        • Twodogs
                                          Administrator
                                          • Nov 2006
                                          • 27645
                                          #11
                                          Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                                          That's a lot of rooting. It's going to fill in basically the whole weekend. Still it's important I suppose.
                                          They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.

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                                            • bulldogtragic
                                              The List Manager
                                              • Jan 2007
                                              • 34316
                                              #12
                                              Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                                              If Port, Sydney & Melbourne ain this week it’s as good as over. If Port lose, Geelong will likely scrape in. If there’s a god, that won’t happen.
                                              Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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                                                • boydogs
                                                  WOOF Member
                                                  • Apr 2009
                                                  • 5842
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                                                  I think they'll win both and get in on percentage, with Collingwood beating Port
                                                  If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.

                                                  Formerly gogriff

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                                                    • westdog54
                                                      Bulldog Team of the Century
                                                      • Jan 2007
                                                      • 6683
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                                                      Is there a root we can organise to completely maintain the status quo, which currently has Geelong, North and Essendon finishing 9th through 11th respectively? What a world it would be.

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                                                        • Twodogs
                                                          Administrator
                                                          • Nov 2006
                                                          • 27645
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: The BT Who To Root For Against Harry Taylor

                                                          Originally posted by westdog54
                                                          Is there a root we can organise to completely maintain the status quo, which currently has Geelong, North and Essendon finishing 9th through 11th respectively? What a world it would be.

                                                          We could start a petition to stop the home and away season now and go straight into the final series.
                                                          They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.

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