that is an amazing stat.
Other clubs will to a lot more work into the pies this year. The draw will be harder. Some clubs (like Essendon) who they beat last year will be much harder.
They are a middle of the range club so they may struggle to make finals.
Buckley is a great coach IMO. And the players love him. Their midfield bats deeper than anyone’s, and apart from Pendles they don’t have anyone who’s a about to go over the cliff. They’ve also shown an ability to get results through periods of serious injuries so they’ve got good depth. And not to mention that Grundy is the best ruckman in the competition.
Their weakness is a big strong key defender, as shown by the fact that Darling got a hold of them in the second half of the GF.
They’ll finish top 4 no problems and will go close.
27 to 17 frees, plus the ones we should have got, minus the ones they gave to Collingwood, when they could not even see the incident, would have evened it up.
Yeh WOB, there these things called Aeroplanes. Just bet against Essendon and it will pay for your airfare or alternatively you will be happy to lose the bet.
It actually was a game where we were shafted by the umps, but I agree, they were better in the last, but only just, because Pendlebury somehow walked away from centre bounces with a couple of damaging clearances .