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Bad result for us.

I'm a bit over all these blasted draws.

Can anyone with a good understanding of the ladder explain where this leaves us now?

yup very bad result and the fact i tipped swans and thought i was gana be 5/5

damn you brown!!

Hmm... 111% against our 92%

Now we'll slip to 11th...

We can still make the 8. Just have to win against Richmond and West Coast and hope that most of the favourites win.

Upsets aren't good for us.

We can hope for another draw tomorrow...

Has anyone tipped 8 this year? I have gone 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 5 the last 2 months and I'm yet to get a 7.

Beat Richmond by over 50 and Eagles by anything and Saints, Crows and Lions lose their last two games. So annoying should've won against Carlton back in Round 3 hope it doesnt haunt us.


Predicted Ladder # Team Pl W L D PF PA Pt Perc
1 Geelong 22 18 4 0 2481 1661 72 149.3
3 Port Adel 22 14 8 0 2306 2067 56 111.5
4 West Coast 22 14 8 0 2104 1930 56 109.0
5 Kangaroos 22 14 8 0 2077 2005 56 103.5
7 Sydney 22 13 8 1 2057 1759 54 116.9
2 Hawthorn 22 13 9 0 2092 1863 52 112.2
6 Collingwood 22 13 9 0 2035 2022 52 100.6
13 Essendon 22 12 10 0 2187 2298 48 95.1
11 Adelaide 22 10 11 1 1894 1804 42 104.9
9 St Kilda 22 10 11 1 1857 1938 42 95.8
8 Bris Lions 22 9 11 2 2054 1897 40 108.2
12 Fremantle 22 10 12 0 2214 2185 40 101.3
10 W Bulldogs 22 9 11 2 2172 2360 40 92.0
14 Melbourne 22 5 17 0 1866 2366 20 78.8
15 Carlton 22 5 17 0 2169 2795 20 77.6
16 Richmond 22 3 18 1 1936 2551 14 75.8

JumboPaddy wrote:Beat Richmond by over 50 and Eagles by anything and Saints, Crows and Lions lose their last two games. So annoying should've won against Carlton back in Round 3 hope it doesnt haunt us.


Predicted Ladder # Team Pl W L D PF PA Pt Perc
1 Geelong 22 18 4 0 2481 1661 72 149.3
3 Port Adel 22 14 8 0 2306 2067 56 111.5
4 West Coast 22 14 8 0 2104 1930 56 109.0
5 Kangaroos 22 14 8 0 2077 2005 56 103.5
7 Sydney 22 13 8 1 2057 1759 54 116.9
2 Hawthorn 22 13 9 0 2092 1863 52 112.2
6 Collingwood 22 13 9 0 2035 2022 52 100.6
13 Essendon 22 12 10 0 2187 2298 48 95.1
11 Adelaide 22 10 11 1 1894 1804 42 104.9
9 St Kilda 22 10 11 1 1857 1938 42 95.8
8 Bris Lions 22 9 11 2 2054 1897 40 108.2
12 Fremantle 22 10 12 0 2214 2185 40 101.3
10 W Bulldogs 22 9 11 2 2172 2360 40 92.0
14 Melbourne 22 5 17 0 1866 2366 20 78.8
15 Carlton 22 5 17 0 2169 2795 20 77.6
16 Richmond 22 3 18 1 1936 2551 14 75.8

According to that ladder we could even lose to the Eagles and still make finals.

Of course the more likely scenario is that Richmond will give us a touch up and the season will be over.

Mmmnn... I hear ya TS but surely they have enough motivation to play for.. surely.

JumboPaddy wrote:Mmmnn... I hear ya TS but surely they have enough motivation to play for.. surely.

you would think so wouln't you? But we had that motivation v the Hawks v Frem and even v Coll before that. On all occasions we barely turned up.

also, the saints play richmond in the last week of the season - I seriously doubt we will beat the Weagles at Subi and the Saints will lose to the Tiges on the same weekend!

we can hope like hell that everything falls our way - but all that hope does is blind us to the fact that we are a below average football side in all respects and the sooner we get a coach and assistants who do something to get us fitter, more skillful, more aggressive, and more competitive than we have been for 3 years - we are going nowhere except bottom 4 again.

We won't finish bottom 4 this year... we'll either just squeeze in out just be squeezed out of the 8 come the end of Round 22.

With 10 wins so far, this season is decidedly better than last, with much the same list.

As long as we don't slip to bottom 4, which looks unlikely now, I'll be satisfied. We've done alright this year. Won some we probably should have lost, won some close ones that, last year, we would've lost and lost games to just genuinely better teams (exceptions being the scum and fremantle) that are to be expected. Bring on 2008.