The quality of our football in 2007 is a long way down on where we were in 2006.barks4eva wrote:We won THREE games by less than a goalmeher baba wrote:
We were robbed by the worst display of umpiring in recent years (even worse than last night) in the game against Port at AAMI.
We were robbed of two points by the AFL. (I know we didn't "deserve" the draw against Freo, but we achieved it under the rules of the AFL. We didn't "deserve" the loss against Port either.) If we had not been robbed of these 6 points we would have finished 3rd and played the Crows in Adelaide in the first final once again: just as we did in 2005.
We beat Sydney by two points, allegedly a goal umpiring error incorrectly awarded a goal to Rix, were Sydney robbed?
We only beat Port the second time after Daniel Motlop missed a goal directly in front 20 metres out after the siren
Against Essendon in the wet Jason Johnson (who incidently Thomas wanted to trade Milne for ) missed a goal from 15 metres out directly in front which would have given Essendon a 15 point lead late in the game, he missed we stayed alive and eventually won by 3 points
Conversely if we'd lost those three games, we would not have even made the 8 last year
but you chose to ignore that because it didn't suit your agenda, did it?
FAIR DINKUM
The quality of our football in 2006 was a long way down on where we were in 2005
How about the fact that we should have got 2 points for the draw in tassie (according to the AFL's own rules). We would have made the top 4 and who knows, we might not have lost 5 players in the first week of the finals.
We can all play what if's barks.....
anyway back on the last myth, I'm not too sure, I think lyon has a certain TYPE of player he likes for his game plan and has not found it at Stkilda yet. He came in late and therefore has not put his stamp on this list yet. I think we will be able to better look at the game plan half way through next year.