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Bucks5 
Nicky D - Parting the red sea
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If you constantly need to go flat out most of the time during the H&A season it is far more likely that you will run out of puff during the finals. Even the best team will eventually succumb to fatigue and injuries after a series of tough matches.
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| Bucks5 wrote: | | If you constantly need to go flat out most of the time during the H&A season it is far more likely that you will run out of puff during the finals. Even the best team will eventually succumb to fatigue and injuries after a series of tough matches. |
case in point.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VGuRSHtF3bM
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Pies4shaw 
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| That post really should have a viewer warning on the link. |
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | That post really should have a viewer warning on the link. |
sorry. I got annoyed when a friend sent it to me yesterday, so i thought i'd share the pain.
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Pies4shaw
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| Ex-friend? Why do people think sending Collingwood supporters footage of grand final losses is OK? |
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Joined: 09 Sep 2011
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| thebaldfacts wrote: | To be the best, you have to beat the best.
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Hmm... Maybe... but to win the premiership, you do not necessarily have to beat the best. (And there may not be a "best".)
| Bucks5 wrote: | | If you constantly need to go flat out most of the time during the H&A season it is far more likely that you will run out of puff during the finals. Even the best team will eventually succumb to fatigue and injuries after a series of tough matches. |
Mental fatigue too. (But don't mention "blockbuster fatigue".  ) |
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | Ex-friend? Why do people think sending Collingwood supporters footage of grand final losses is OK? |
to be fair to my friend, i did send him the first quarter of the 2010 Preliminary final declaring it the greatest quarter of football EVER played (which it was by the way). His was sent more in retaliation than instigation.....
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AFL drawing closer to equality, but still needs a bit of a fix
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-drawing-closer-to-equality-but-still-needs-a-bit-of-a-fix-20190422-p51g8u.html
Baum: "So the scales balance in all ways - except the draw. It is the only glaring anomaly in the AFL structure: 18 clubs into 22 rounds still doesn’t go. It skews the competition, tilts the playing field.
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Two years ago, the handicapped draw gave Richmond a slingshot ride up the ladder. Last year, it boosted Collingwood. Then it set both up for a fall. Before that, the Bulldogs bobbed up heroically before plunging again. The AFL set out to create a cycle, but might have come up with a rollercoaster instead.
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But it’s wrong to say that the fixture is weighted when really it is manufactured. The idea that some can be more equal than others is as absurd now as when Orwell first coined it.
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And so we plough along from year to year, marvelling at the upsets even as we know they’re the whole idea, hoping to cause the next rather than be the next, celebrating the great equalisation enterprise while trying to put to the back of our minds the inherently unequal bits of it." |
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BazBoy
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Fifteeen round,s left and we won’t play top side ,well not before finals if even then
Who do you consider will be the biggest challenge
West Coast—-a thorn in our side at present
Hawks ——— a side we haven’t got over for years
Crows ———-they appear to be building some momentum
Any one else ?????
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piedys 
Heeeeeeere's Dyso!!!
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Resident Forum Psychopath since 2003
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| BazBoy wrote: | Fifteeen round,s left and we won’t play top side ,well not before finals if even then
Who do you consider will be the biggest challenge
West Coast—-a thorn in our side at present
Hawks ——— a side we haven’t got over for years
Crows ———-they appear to be building some momentum
Any one else ????? |
Would everybody be happy with a W16/L6 season, under the circumstances?
That might still net us a top 2 finish the way the competition is.
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BazBoy
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16 wins be one more than last yr
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Pies4shaw
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| I've just looked at the draw after the bye. What is the f*&^ing point of us having a week off and then playing 3 games in 12 days, the first two at Docklands? It's despicable. |
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Joined: 09 Sep 2011
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| piedys wrote: | ...
Would everybody be happy with a W16/L6 season, under the circumstances?
That might still net us a top 2 finish the way the competition is. |
Predictions out there do put us at 16 wins, Geebung 18, GWS 15, which would give us a first-up home final against GWS. |
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tbaker
Joined: 02 Jul 2018
Location: Q19 Southern Stand MCG
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | I've just looked at the draw after the bye. What is the f*&^ing point of us having a week off and then playing 3 games in 12 days, the first two at Docklands? It's despicable. |
Whilst that is indeed the case, it's perhaps not as bad as it seems: ok, we play North after a 6 day break with North coming off their bye (that shouldn't happen); then 6 days later we play the Hawks but whom are also coming off a 6 day break.
Also, Collingwood has the most favourable "days break differential" across the whole season (comparing the no# days break we have against our weekly opposition), so we can't really complain (last season it was much worse, having many 6 day breaks against opposition who had 7+ day breaks).
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buzzlightyear
Joined: 13 Jun 2008
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| piedys wrote: | | BazBoy wrote: | Fifteeen round,s left and we won’t play top side ,well not before finals if even then
Who do you consider will be the biggest challenge
West Coast—-a thorn in our side at present
Hawks ——— a side we haven’t got over for years
Crows ———-they appear to be building some momentum
Any one else ????? |
Would everybody be happy with a W16/L6 season, under the circumstances?
That might still net us a top 2 finish the way the competition is. |
A few weeks and everything changes. After Hawthorn, we play WCE, then GWS (both away) and Richmond. Win 2 of those 3 and that would be a great result.
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Looking for sweet 16..... |
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