You make some good points as always - in particular you highlight the very different beast our current style of footy is against what we are 'renowned' for (by those lazy journalists that pump out the same old same old year after year). Its part and parcel of a move away from an intense game plan based around hard ball gets and running teams into the ground (grinding the will to play almost out of them), towards a team that still runs teams into the ground but in a very different way - through pace and skills.
The interesting test tomorrow will be how well we can hold the line of relying on pace/skills tomorrow - finals can be a very different beast, and I'm hopeful the playing group will continue to back themselves and the gameplan, and not retreat into their shells if things don't go quite as planned. Will be fascinating to watch and see how we go.
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