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WarrenerraW
Joined: 18 Apr 2008
Location: Melbourne
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| Post subject: Re: We haven't beaten a top 4 team!! |  |
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| E wrote: | | Still dont know whether we are legit! Time will tell. |
You're taking the piss, surely.. |
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Joined: 05 May 2010
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| WarrenerraW wrote: | | E wrote: | | Still dont know whether we are legit! Time will tell. |
You're taking the piss, surely.. |
maybe a little. Its sort of been an ongoing joke given the real anomaly of last year where it seemed we were never going to beat a top 8 team but beat every single bottom 10 team. since this year, the top 8 bottom 10 anomaly doesnt exist, i thought i'd clutch onto this final straw.
However, given that for me, success or failure this year will be measured in a binary fashion (i.e., we either win the flag or we don't), i do think the jury is still out on whether we have the upper echelon of teams covered.
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tbaker
Joined: 02 Jul 2018
Location: Q19 Southern Stand MCG
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| E wrote: | | i do think the jury is still out on whether we have the upper echelon of teams covered. |
No we don't have the top teams covered, but nor do I think that any of the other top teams (including the supposed all powerful cats) has all of them covered either. As we showed in last year's prelim, anything is possible in the finals.
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Pies4shaw 
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Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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| Although I am, by nature, a pessimist and could scarcely be accused of having a rosy view of Collingwood's prospects, I do think that the loss to Geelong was just a matter of happenstance. I was surprised we lost that game after we stormed back to the lead - and if our defensive structures had been as we intended them to be I think we would have won. It was round 1 and - without in any way meaning to criticise any of the defenders - the first time we had fielded the new-look, radically-altered back structure with Roughead and Moore as its pillars. I am confident we would beat Geelong comfortably, now. |
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Streak 
Joined: 05 Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne
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| Not true. Two weeks ago, we beat the second-placed team on the ladder. |
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Joined: 05 May 2010
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| Streak wrote: | | Not true. Two weeks ago, we beat the second-placed team on the ladder. |
i like it.
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Joined: 05 May 2010
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As the cream starts to rise to the top, 0-3 against the top 6 is not a good sign!
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Mossi
Joined: 20 May 2002
Location: Vittorio Veneto TV Italy
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^ Really I couln't give a ....... As long as we get a top 4 finish and the boys are ready to give their all in the finals. There are no premierships to be won in July but there sure is one in September!  |
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David 
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: Andromeda
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| E wrote: | | As the cream starts to rise to the top, 0-3 against the top 6 is not a good sign! |
Well, at least we're not 0–5. The fact that two of those losses have been by single figures means we shouldn't be too concerned. And still a chance to go 3–3 with games against GWS, Adelaide and West Coast (again) still to come (presuming the top 6 actually holds, which I think is plausible). Lose all those and we'll actually have something to worry about. I'm not losing any sleep just yet!
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mattdally
Joined: 21 Feb 2003
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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This is untrue.
- Tigers were 5th
- Lions were 4th
- Dogs were 5th
- Port were 5th
- Bombers were 6th
We beat all these teams.
Yes we have lost to Cats, Eagles and not played GWS.
Let's see how we are placed later in the year. |
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Joined: 05 May 2010
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| mattdally wrote: | This is untrue.
- Tigers were 5th
- Lions were 4th
- Dogs were 5th
- Port were 5th
- Bombers were 6th
We beat all these teams.
Yes we have lost to Cats, Eagles and not played GWS.
Let's see how we are placed later in the year. |
i just double checked the ladder and none of them are in the top 6. Sorry, but you appear to be mistaken.
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mattdally
Joined: 21 Feb 2003
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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| I was referring to the ladder at the time we played against them. Not their current position. Could it perhaps be that our victory moved them down the ladder? |
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Skids 
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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| mattdally wrote: | | I was referring to the ladder at the time we played against them. Not their current position. Could it perhaps be that our victory moved them down the ladder? |
Stop making sense.
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
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We play 3 of the (other) top 6 in the next half of the season.... let's see what happens then hey 
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Joined: 05 May 2010
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| mattdally wrote: | | I was referring to the ladder at the time we played against them. Not their current position. Could it perhaps be that our victory moved them down the ladder? |
No shit Shirlock?
I think your defense of the pies is weak on this one. Cream rises to the top.... Quality of a team is judged at the end of the season, not in round 2 when we play them...... For now, the best sample size we have of quality is ladder position today. Might change by the end of the year and we'll see whether we beat any of the teams in the top 6. As of now, nada, zip, none. 0-3. Damning!
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