Sam23 wrote:Kicking was pretty bad.

kicking was close to perfection tonight...shooting sucked though!

Bernard Shakey wrote:What if the Crows had kicked one or two goals in those last five minutes?

Do we play with fear of conceding or play with the belief in scoring?

To my knowledge just ONE team has won a flag playing defensively...ONE!

Also of interest is how many premiers had a low % - any at all?

We'll be 90 up with 5 to go and raise the hands...win the game, suffer no broken fingernails in the last minutes, and sit .01% below the crows in 5th!

Percentage at the end of the year is worth an extra point - the conservative approach has cost us that point. All other conjecture (ooh what if there's an injury... maybe the other team suddenly kicks 5 goals in 5 mins... perhaps we'll have more energy and it'll get us a win next week...) is just pi...

Looking back maybe we should've kept attacking at the end of the games against Freo and crows instead of chipping around wasting the clock.. may have made a fair difference in required winning margin needed tomorrow! That exact point was made in post re booing - but some didn't think playing hard f...

Well at least it shows that we have the most altruistic supporters - happy to throw away the home advantage in a final just to allow an extra 40,000 maniacal pie fans to inspire their team and influence the umps!

All i can say is please scream your loudest those lucky enough to get there!

if we play collingwood as the higher ranked team don't we get the dome as our home ground - or do all rules go out the window when the pies are involved (silly question)? it will be at g if its Pies. The "AFL economic rules" are enforced in that event. bloody afl have us by the short and ...

I want to play the pies at the G. We're not going to win the flag this year,but the next best thing would be knocking Collingwoods season on the head in front of there cretins never say never - recent nt elections remember - incumbents were bigger certainties than geelong - yes they fell in by a ha...

if we play collingwood as the higher ranked team don't we get the dome as our home ground - or do all rules go out the window when the pies are involved (silly question)?

fat lady has sung!
one game done!

looking good - 5th spot is coming - may need to hammer the bombers! can't quite bring myself to cheer freo but c'mon doggies!

is it possible to get one he actually wore - don't care which year or colour (bar yellow), but want long sleeves. don't want it sealed in glass, don't care if it's signed. don't care if it's smeared (actually smeared with genuine harvey vomit or blood is a plus),or faded, or torn - i just want to we...

...and the kids were the ones that brought us over the line... hmm must have missed those games... kids have improved but its been the top order and lately the more experienced players that have won games. agree with saintwal that the biggest and most important gain has been in our confidence (and ...

cousins i'd swap a late first rnd pick for - champions aren't so easily found - get just two good years and he has paid off. compare our last few years 1st rnd picks to his potential. kerr - easily worth a 1st rnd pick using the same rationale. love them both and believe we could manage them both. a...

Does he deserve to be in our current 22?

IMO yes!

Include Ball and X in last weeks side and who misses out? Down to CJ, Birss, Eddy, Raph, Gwilt, and C. Gardiner. I'd go with Gwilt, Birss, CJ and...(nervous twitching... Raph).

If every game was 50/50 (which they aint) then the odds of all 4 coming in would be 16 to 1. If we take our game as won (lets) then it shrinks to 1 in 8. Unfortunately aside from crows vs bullies the other two results are longshots. Think the bookies odds (as always) are pretty spot on - BUT no harm...

How about King's 4 GF victories in a row (VFL 2007, AFL 2007, Whatever Cup 2008, AFL 2008)?

One swallow does not a summer make. Let's not jump the gun. Remember not long ago we thought we'd turned the corner only to lose to the eagles, then served up an insipid effort against the pies. I was and still remain critical of Lyon's efforts, but if he can get us to become a genuine force in this...

Good stuff -got any of the banner and pre-game tribute?
(got stuck in town and missed the start )

...To take your pov 1 step further you shouldn't rotate/rest your best players because keeping them on will allow you to play better and score more. There is a balance between expending energy and saving energy. NO - you rotate your players so that your team has the energy to continue to play and r...

...To take your pov 1 step further you shouldn't rotate/rest your best players because keeping them on will allow you to play better and score more. There is a balance between expending energy and saving energy. NO - you rotate your players so that your team has the energy to continue to play and r...

I have now learnt and others should too, if we win and we cant catch on percentage to slow it down, is really worth the risk of an injury?!! Have you thought about WHY we 'cant catch on percentage' - putting the cue in the rack over the season has probably cost us 5th spot! No, losing winnable game...

Batnoe wrote:I have now learnt and others should too, if we win and we cant catch on percentage to slow it down, is really worth the risk of an injury?!!

Have you thought about WHY we 'cant catch on percentage' - putting the cue in the rack over the season has probably cost us 5th spot!

How well can he play, bigcarl? Nobody's seen him play well for 4 years. Harvey's 350th - yes he is a disappointment but the payoff is huge if he rediscovers his confidence and meets even half of his potential. King has perhaps a year left and on song Kosi is potentially our best forward. Remember t...

First time i can remember in a while we only had one bad quarter. (1 and 1/2 last week) Good all round effort by all. The buck stops with the coach when we play like a rabble. Today Lyon deserves his share of the credit - adjusted to and nullified Craig's changes and played players in suited positio...