Finals positioning

[Topdog]

Re: Finals positioning

Iove the way it still burns some people, particularly those of the Swans, Saints and Kangaroos persuasion.

Spot on. Even Richmond supporters. The whole "well if the Bulldogs can win it so can we" is just brilliant.

People seem to be neglecting the fact that we have never stopped producing the goods. Our young team aspect is completely ignored, I hear Melbourne supporters be forgiving of their complete lack of bottle because they are "young", yet we are actually younger.

A battle hardened young team that wins the close games (8-2 in games decided by 10 or less) with 1 loss over 30 points in the last 33 games.

[jeemak]

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Spot on. Even Richmond supporters. The whole "well if the Bulldogs can win it so can we" is just brilliant.

People seem to be neglecting the fact that we have never stopped producing the goods. Our young team aspect is completely ignored, I hear Melbourne supporters be forgiving of their complete lack of bottle because they are "young", yet we are actually younger.

A battle hardened young team that wins the close games (8-2 in games decided by 10 or less) with 1 loss over 30 points in the last 33 games.

Plus three sudden death finals in a row - two in hostile territory - and a grand final victory makes our record in those 33 games pretty solid.

Or lucky........because of the bye.

[Sedat]

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Iove the way it still burns some people, particularly those of the Swans, Saints and Kangaroos persuasion.

And Geelong, in particular their arrogant coach.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Well Geelong won all their flags because they got lucky with the lenient father-son rule.
They got lucky in 09 because there was no video review.
They got lucky in '11 because of the sub rule
Hawks got lucky in 08 because there was no deliberate rushed behind rule
They got lucky in '13, '14 and '15 because of free agency
Swans got lucky in '05 and '12 because of COLA
Eagles got lucky in '06 because of cocaine
Port got lucky in '04 because of expansion
Lions 3-peat was lucky because of the fitzroy merger

See we can play that game too

Oh and Chris Scott got lucky in '11 because he inherited and fell backwards into a list that could coach itself.

[LostDoggy]

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Well Geelong won all their flags because they got lucky with the lenient father-son rule.
They got lucky in 09 because there was no video review.
They got lucky in '11 because of the sub rule
Hawks got lucky in 08 because there was no deliberate rushed behind rule
They got lucky in '13, '14 and '15 because of free agency
Swans got lucky in '05 and '12 because of COLA
Eagles got lucky in '06 because of cocaine
Port got lucky in '04 because of expansion
Lions 3-peat was lucky because of the fitzroy merger

See we can play that game too

Oh and Chris Scott got lucky in '11 because he inherited and fell backwards into a list that could coach itself.

Brilliant!!!

[Flamethrower]

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In 2016, we used the new pre finals bye to win it from 7th.

In 2017, we win it from 9th, only making the finals when it is found that Port came home from China with suitcases full of the latest synthetic HGH and are "Bombered" out of the finals.

And in 2018 we go bark to bark to bark from 18th, taking advantage of the new 17-5 fixture. We rest our entire team and finish 0-17, then win our last 5 games to claim the 2nd Wild Card berth. (I can't believe the AFL are actually considering such a system that awards a finals berth to a bottom 6 team). Then we win the flag from 10th, winning all 5 finals.

[boydogs]

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everyone bar maybe the Crows at home, look capable of dropping any game.

You were saying?

[Danny the snakeman]

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Somethings fell our way ladder wise this week, now we really need to beat the cats or things could slip away.