Luck of the draw

[rexy]

Listening to the ferals on SEN who want to sack the coach after round 3, get a tiger back in charge and tape their memberships back together whilst they still have time to salvage something. Made me think.

Any club who drew Carlton the Western Bulldogs and the cats for their first 3 rounds could have potentially been 0-3. Any team that drew Sydney Adelaide and the Eagles could have been 3-0 (except Melbourne).

Public and in particular media perception so early in the season is flawed by this but more importantly it would seem, confidence of professional athletes is also highly effected by the luck of the draw.

After 4 rounds we will not really know a lot about most sides yet history tells us that there will only be 2 changes to the make up of the final 8 at the end of the year. Over the last 15 years there have never been more than 2 changes between round 4 and 22.

[iwantmeseats]

All very true, but HOW would they have won them? Thats the thing thats impressive about the saints. Take a look at the tackle stats thread, for one.

Again, agreed, its only Round 3!

[Beej]

Keeping Sydney scoreless for over a half of footy. A Sydney side who went on to beat Hawthorn convincingly albeit a depleted Hawthorn side.

A win in Adelaide speaks for itself. But an Adelaide team which had recently beat Collingwood in Melbourne and then went on to beat Fremantle at Subi. They're not a bad side, Adelaide.

West Coast aren't great, but we put them away emphatically.

The tests will come thick and fast though after the Freo game...

5. Port Adelaide(AAMI)
6. Western Bulldogs
7. Collingwood

That's the litmus test. Those games will tell us a lot more.