top 4 a fraction harder - includes spoilers of Sunday games

***NMWBloods*** · 27th August 2006, 08:06 PM

Originally posted by Bart
Yeah you're right. we should be sitting at 20-1.

I didn't suggest we should have won all seven of those games. However, if we had won just one of them, then we'd be set for third spot. If we had won three of them, then we'd be set for first or second.

**melbloods78** · 27th August 2006, 08:09 PM

we will finish fourth, melbourne won't win in adelaide and havent for sometime. even as bad as adelaide's injuries might be they surely wont drop a game to melbourne.

**ROK Lobster** · 27th August 2006, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by melbloods78
we will finish fourth, melbourne won't win in adelaide and havent for sometime. even as bad as adelaide's injuries might be they surely wont drop a game to melbourne.

Why not?

**Bart** · 27th August 2006, 08:13 PM

Originally posted by NMWBloods
I didn't suggest we should have won all seven of those games.

Many of those games weren't even close. Port/ Essendon /Geelong /Pies were just bad losses.

**hammo** · 27th August 2006, 08:19 PM

They should have been a lot closer. We were complacent in all those losses.

**graystar** · 27th August 2006, 08:32 PM

Originally posted by Jeffers1984
I guess we can start blaming the blind goal umpire who @@@@@@ up the missed poster when Rix got a goal in the St Kilda match earlier this year. If that was seen, we'd be 3rd on %.

Why? Freo and Melbourne are ahead on points.

**ugg** · 27th August 2006, 08:35 PM

Because we would have won that St Kilda match! (disregarding the causal effects)

We've been shafted a few times in dodgy goal umpire decisions including last night.

**barry** · 27th August 2006, 08:36 PM

Originally posted by melbloods78
we will finish fourth, melbourne won't win in adelaide and havent for sometime. even as bad as adelaide's injuries might be they surely wont drop a game to melbourne.

Adelaide dont have much to play for. They are guaranteed top 2 spot, so could rest all partially injured players.

Melbourne, need to win to stay top 4.

Its 50/50 at best.

**swantastic** · 27th August 2006, 08:37 PM

# Team Pl W L D PF PA Pt Perc
1 West Coast 22 17 5 0 2201 1893 68 116.2
2 Adelaide 22 16 6 0 2282 1643 64 138.8
4 Sydney 22 14 8 0 2087 1661 56 125.6
5 Collingwood 22 14 8 0 2309 1991 56 115.9
7 Fremantle 22 14 8 0 2032 1938 56 104.8
3 Melbourne 22 13 8 1 2149 1908 54 112.6
6 St Kilda 22 13 9 0 2063 1798 52 114.7
8 W Bulldogs 22 13 9 0 2273 2139 52 106.2

9 Richmond 22 11 11 0 1946 2175 44 89.4
10 Geelong 22 10 11 1 2001 1978 42 101.1
11 Port Adel 22 9 13 0 1942 2097 36 92.6
12 Hawthorn 22 9 13 0 1810 2159 36 83.8
13 Bris Lions 22 8 14 0 1890 2228 32 84.8
14 Kangaroos 22 7 15 0 1780 2131 28 83.5
15 Essendon 22 3 18 1 1987 2431 14 81.

My hopeful prediction

***NMWBloods*** · 27th August 2006, 08:46 PM

Originally posted by Bart
Many of those games weren't even close. Port/ Essendon /Geelong /Pies were just bad losses.

Yes, bad losses we possibly shouldn't have had. We were level with Collingwood and Geelong in the third quarter of both games and then we fell away.

Even taking those out, then Collingwood, Melbourne and StKilda were games there to be won.

**DST** · 27th August 2006, 09:03 PM

Despite Adelaide not being in great form, the one thing we have in our favour is that Melbourne hate AAMI Stadium. There form against both Port & Adelaide is pathetic.

Port are not without some hope against a Fremantle side that has to have a let down soon. But they are playing by the far the best football of the 8 teams remaining.

DST

P.S Fevola looks likely to be having an early end to the year as well which is a positive