The Game Against Sydney Will Provide The Answer

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The Game Against Sydney Will Provide The Answer

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Contenders or pretenders? Beat Sydney, and we steady ourselves, and head to Perth after the bye with a better than 50 chance. Drop this one, and the rot may just set in again.
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robbie67 wrote:Contenders or pretenders? Beat Sydney, and we steady ourselves, and head to Perth after the bye with a better than 50 chance. Drop this one, and the rot may just set in again.
Sydney will be a tougher game than fremantle.

But yeah i agree. We would want our forwards to kick straight next weekend.
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little_ripper wrote:
robbie67 wrote:Contenders or pretenders? Beat Sydney, and we steady ourselves, and head to Perth after the bye with a better than 50 chance. Drop this one, and the rot may just set in again.
Sydney will be a tougher game than fremantle.

But yeah i agree. We would want our forwards to kick straight next weekend.
What do you base that on? Our sterling record at Subi? Are you related to Windy by any chance?
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Simple Sydney are travelling better than fremantle.

Plus i think essendon are flat. The bye cannot come fast enough.
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robbie67 wrote:
little_ripper wrote:
robbie67 wrote:Contenders or pretenders? Beat Sydney, and we steady ourselves, and head to Perth after the bye with a better than 50 chance. Drop this one, and the rot may just set in again.
Sydney will be a tougher game than fremantle.

But yeah i agree. We would want our forwards to kick straight next weekend.
Are you related to Windy by any chance?
Ouch. That's a deep cut.
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Well Goodes isn't playing.... that is a great start!! vingertje

We must come out and go bang right from the first quarter... make a statement
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Expecting a close one. We MUST win the contested possession count against Sydney or we lose.
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robbie67 wrote:Contenders or pretenders? Beat Sydney, and we steady ourselves, and head to Perth after the bye with a better than 50 chance. Drop this one, and the rot may just set in again.
"better than 50 chance" at Subi?

I know Freo are travelling badly but I can assure you we could not possibly be favourites when coming to Perth. We are shit over here.
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tonysoprano wrote:
robbie67 wrote:Contenders or pretenders? Beat Sydney, and we steady ourselves, and head to Perth after the bye with a better than 50 chance. Drop this one, and the rot may just set in again.
"better than 50 chance" at Subi?

I know Freo are travelling badly but I can assure you we could not possibly be favourites when coming to Perth. We are shit over here.
Nope. Not this time. Cause I'll be there. I broke the AAMI drought last year...now to get Subi.
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We are a frustrating team. We will probably play like Premiership favorites against a pretty solid side like Sydney. Yet against a average sides, more often than not, we drop in intensity. I know this is a simplistic view but in the evidence of late, you gotta think this group is still not as mentally tough as it will need to be.
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We rise to beat Sydney because we expect it to be tough.

We didn't turn up against Melbourne. The loss we had to have - you learn your best lessons from a kick in the bum.

We should win this one.
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Gimps wrote:
robbie67 wrote:
little_ripper wrote:
robbie67 wrote:Contenders or pretenders? Beat Sydney, and we steady ourselves, and head to Perth after the bye with a better than 50 chance. Drop this one, and the rot may just set in again.
Sydney will be a tougher game than fremantle.

But yeah i agree. We would want our forwards to kick straight next weekend.
Are you related to Windy by any chance?
Ouch. That's a deep cut.
tell me about it.
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We've had 5 consecutive halves of rubbish football since the second half against the Tigers so to some extent a rot has already set in.

If we can't beat the Swans, sans Goodes, with a day's extra break, at Etihad and with us basically having a full list to choose from, my estimation of our improvement will go from "substantial" to "marginal". They've been very ordinary in their two trips to Melbourne so far this year and the only decent team they've beaten all year is Hawthorn - they are 'just another team', especially without Goodes.
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jimmyc1985 wrote:We've had 5 consecutive halves of rubbish football since the second half against the Tigers so to some extent a rot has already set in.

If we can't beat the Swans, sans Goodes, with a day's extra break, at Etihad and with us basically having a full list to choose from, my estimation of our improvement will go from "substantial" to "marginal". They've been very ordinary in their two trips to Melbourne so far this year and the only decent team they've beaten all year is Hawthorn - they are 'just another team', especially without Goodes.
Yeh same effect as the last two years.
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Hey Little Ripper, at least I am not calling for Gumby to be recalled this week. You dopey felcher.

Nice picture by the way, and if I was you, I would stick to that sort of insult. Because when you try to argue with fact and logic, your cupboard is bear.
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robbie67 wrote:Hey Little Ripper, at least I am not calling for Gumby to be recalled this week. You dopey felcher.

Nice picture by the way, and if I was you, I would stick to that sort of insult. Because when you try to argue with fact and logic, your cupboard is bear.

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nice reply.... :D

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Nice self portrait. Though dont you ride a spastic trolley around? I think it used to be your avatar? Must take a lot of weight.
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robbie67 wrote:Nice self portrait. Though dont you ride a spastic trolley around? I think it used to be your avatar? Must take a lot of weight.
gets me from A to B.
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A = Yoralla

B = McDonalds
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