The positive thread

[GVGjr]

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My positive? I now appreciate more than ever how much fun it is to be in finals, to have a successful, premiership challenging team to support..because for the next year or two..I won't say any more, it's the positive thread!

[Rocco Jones]

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My positive? I now appreciate more than ever how much fun it is to be in finals, to have a successful, premiership challenging team to support..because for the next year or two..I won't say any more, it's the positive thread!

Yep. Not don't we should settle for 3rd (hush mediocrity haters) but it sure does put 'we only made the prelim, again!' whinging into perspective. Feels odd thinking we were genuinely contemplating sacking a guy because he kept on coaching us to prelim losses.

[BulldogBelle]

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I can find a positive (or two) ...... Isn't it marvellous that Chris Grant re-captured his love of AFL this year and as a result we get to see and hear alot more of him on TV and radio.

Also, I find it positive that we resisted the urge to dust off, wheel out and crank over Mitch Hahn at any point in the season.

[The Adelaide Connection]

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I can find a positive (or two) ...... Isn't it marvellous that Chris Grant re-captured his love of AFL this year and as a result we get to see and hear alot more of him on TV and radio.

Also, I find it positive that we resisted the urge to dust off, wheel out and crank over Mitch Hahn at any point in the season.

You may have spoken a bit too early. With Lake going under the knife they can put him on the Long term injury list and promote Hahn should they want to.When we mathematically can't make it they will reisist the urge to play him, but if we make the finals we may see him yet.

[LostDoggy]

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You may have spoken a bit too early. With Lake going under the knife they can put him on the Long term injury list and promote Hahn should they want to.When we mathematically can't make it they will reisist the urge to play him, but if we make the finals we may see him yet.

I give you Matty Panos! Surely it is time.

[Chicago1]

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I'm just glad that I was able to see us win two of our matches this year. Oh, yeah... I have to admit that it's nice not feeling the pressure to book a flight to fly out for the Finals this year. And it's fantastic not having to be up every Friday at 2.45am to do footy tipping on 774.

I wish I could be more positive about my Cubbies. They're 18 games under .500 with only sixty games to go. I've been to three games - the same number of Doggies matches I've been to this year. Oh well...

[jasopan]

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Hey guys whose seen the preview on AFL's website? Dogs to win by 3 being the prediction with no real reasoning :/ Means nothing but surprised to see it
Thoughts?

[LostDoggy]

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You may have spoken a bit too early. With Lake going under the knife they can put him on the Long term injury list and promote Hahn should they want to.When we mathematically can't make it they will reisist the urge to play him, but if we make the finals we may see him yet.

If that happened i'd look for our results in the Monday paper.

[Ghost Dog]

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Personally, I think all our injuries can be looked at as being a blessing in disguise.
We have to learn to live without Boyd, Morris, Lake, these types.
What we will lose in games, our second tier players will gain in experience.
At the end of the day, we were never going to catch Collingwood this season.

Still, this season is a huge disappointment. The above doesn't change that.

[Maddog37]

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Personally, I think all our injuries are a blessing in disguise.
We have to learn to live without Boyd, Morris, Lake, these types.
What we will lose in games, our second tier players will gain in experience.
At the end of the day, we were never going to catch Collingwood this season.

This has been my view of the entire season. We were not going to ever challenge the Pies based on the fact we were worse last year than we were the year before.

The trouble is you get sucked in to thinking players like Wallis and Libba and to a lesser degree Skinner etc are somehow going to magically make a difference.

In all honesty I believe Gilbee, Gia, Hudson, Shaggy and Cross should all be told they will not be guaranteed a game and if they would prefer a trade then no worries. The problem is that the players that should be pushing them out like Reid, Hill, Stack, Cordy, Roughead etc have not come on enough to challenge them.

The old warriors cannot take us to a flag and that is fact. Are the young kids any better though?????????

[Desipura]

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This has been my view of the entire season. We were not going to ever challenge the Pies based on the fact we were worse last year than we were the year before.

The trouble is you get sucked in to thinking players like Wallis and Libba and to a lesser degree Skinner etc are somehow going to magically make a difference.

In all honesty I believe Gilbee, Gia, Hudson, Shaggy and Cross should all be told they will not be guaranteed a game and if they would prefer a trade then no worries. The problem is that the players that should be pushing them out like Reid, Hill, Stack, Cordy, Roughead etc have not come on enough to challenge them.

The old warriors cannot take us to a flag and that is fact. Are the young kids any better though?????????

Having been saying this all year. Im pi$$ed off we had no real contigency for when the likes of Hudson and Hall retire.

[Curly5]

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Hey guys whose seen the preview on AFL's website? Dogs to win by 3 being the prediction with no real reasoning :/ Means nothing but surprised to see it
Thoughts?

Tell 'em they're dreamin'.

In a positive way of course.

[Mantis]

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Having been saying this all year. Im pi$$ed off we had no real contigency for when the likes of Hudson and Hall retire.

I call crap Desi.

Roughead & Cordy were both drafted in 2008 and are being groomed to take over from Hudson. We have Minson as well.

Jones & Grant have been drafted in the past 4 years and are seen as tall forwards when Hall retires.

[Desipura]

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I call crap Desi.

Roughead & Cordy were both drafted in 2008 and are being groomed to take over from Hudson. We have Minson as well.

Jones & Grant have been drafted in the past 4 years and are seen as tall forwards when Hall retires.

Have you been to a game this year? And I dont mean watching it on tv.
Tell me when Grant has played full forward?
Roughead being groomed at Williamstown? Well he is in for a real shock if Huddo retires at seasons end with only a few senior games under his belt this season.

Cordy has not played a game yet, not that I think the MC have erred in not playing him. I agree that he needs to string together more games at Willi.
There is a big gap between groming a player and a contigency which means actually getting games at senior level.
You might be happy that we continued to play Huddo without giving Roughy games, makes the transition next season even bigger for Roughy.

[LostDoggy]

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Its the positive thread Desi - what are you doing here?