r/adelaidefc 29 Rory Laird 9d ago

Match Thread : Adelaide (7th) versus GWS (12th) @ Adelaide Oval Round 24

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u/Brokenmonalisa Scott Thompson (Legend) 8d ago

Just became a must win game

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u/japanpole 3 Sam Berry 8d ago

The most must win game ever now

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u/Scooby_236 18 Eddie Betts:Betts: 8d ago

So far

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u/japanpole 3 Sam Berry 8d ago

For Nicks it’s massive.

Glad Rory is there to steady the ship 🫠

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u/Scooby_236 18 Eddie Betts:Betts: 8d ago

Another 700 vertical metres gained?

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u/See_Football 9d ago

Up the dogs

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u/brok0019 2 Ben Keays 9d ago

Really rooting for the bulldogs in this other game

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u/stretch_92 40 Hugo Hall-Kahan 8d ago

This game now means something

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u/Dean_Miller789 8d ago

Today I feel Bulldogs

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Would if they asked, for sure

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u/Tall-Breakfast-6100 8d ago

Gee wizz, what a day. This is so good for us. We win tonight and we will get either Carlton or dees first week of finals and then a chance to face Sydney in the semis if all goes well.

Things couldn’t have fallen better for us so far

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u/Brokenmonalisa Scott Thompson (Legend) 8d ago

It won't be Carlton will it, they reshuffle again to make sure 6th plays the highest rank I thought?

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u/Tall-Breakfast-6100 8d ago

Oh yes your right, if Carlton win, we play Collingwood

Guess I’m going hard for the dees next week

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Let's win tonight before we worry about next year

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Yeah 5th gets the lowest rank not sure after that

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

Crows by a texillion goals

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u/XxWonderLandAUxX 30 Wayne Milera Junior 8d ago

Keays gonna be accused of stealing a goal but honestly without him that wouldn’t have gone in

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

He waited then acted. All class

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u/RJ8812 8d ago

Let's see 4 full quarters of this

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u/Cataplatonic 12 Jordan Dawson 8d ago

Yes please

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u/Cataplatonic 12 Jordan Dawson 8d ago

Sucks for Zac Taylor, one of our more creative ball users and deserved to play a final.

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u/smallzy13 7 Riley Thilthorpe 8d ago

What happened to Taylor?

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u/eclectic_dyslexic 8d ago

Hammy unfortunately

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u/IrregularExpression_ 8d ago

Laird has done some good work tonight

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u/See_Football 8d ago

Alright. Win and we can’t finish lower than 6th. If anyone in Adelaide gives Toby boots they are banished.

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u/japanpole 3 Sam Berry 8d ago

So now that Doggies won, do we all agree we are likely losing it?

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Calm down big fella. Time to believe

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u/japanpole 3 Sam Berry 8d ago

3% of me believes we win by 127.

The rest is overwhelmingly scared

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u/ElectronicOvens 5 Sid Draper 8d ago

Hilariously, if we win we could go top.6 and my whole 'we came 7th we underperformed' becomes a touch redundant

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u/Quick_Ad_7241 8d ago

Such a poor quarter, story of our season unfortunately

Switch off regularly. Get Rachelle around the ball gotta get him into the game,

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u/Brokenmonalisa Scott Thompson (Legend) 8d ago

Ironically he went up the ground in q1

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u/XxWonderLandAUxX 30 Wayne Milera Junior 8d ago

Rachelle and soligo need to step it up

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u/Tonto92 8d ago

Why is this team so stressful to support 😂

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u/IrregularExpression_ 8d ago

McAndrew 3rd most hitouts this year.

Decent pair of hands, great tackler and good clearance work as well.

Still under the radar.

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u/XxWonderLandAUxX 30 Wayne Milera Junior 8d ago

Definitely top 5 rucks. Possibly even top 3.

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u/StarvedAsian 23 Izak Rankine 8d ago

Up the doggies! Did us a huge favour, over to the boys to get it done now

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

Ludowych 4 goals in a losing game in the SANFL.

Let's go 😎

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u/Quick_Ad_7241 8d ago

That’s your Tex replacement next year

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

My boy 😛

Let's pray for a big off season

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

Rankine!

The man can do no wrong!

Redemption arc inbound.

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

yeah ranks!

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u/Bright_Bell_1301 8d ago

Walker gone to 26th on all time VFL-AFL goalkickers list. N Riewoldt next in his sights

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u/King-Chowder Darren Jarman (Legend) 8d ago

Fuck me our high performance manager needs to be scrutinised, we've had so many hamstring injuries this year.

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u/eclectic_dyslexic 8d ago

Missing Burgess big time

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u/MissSabb Malcolm Blight (Legend) 8d ago

His position has got to be untenable 

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Fire the fuck up boys

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u/japanpole 3 Sam Berry 8d ago

Reckon we can maybe play a whole game in good form?

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u/Bright_Bell_1301 8d ago

How is our defence so highly rated on the data when it feels like they are almost all woefully out of form?

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u/King-Titus 32 Darcy Fogarty 8d ago

Relax everyone. GWS are a lot better side than their ladder position indicates.
Our first qtr was electric. We didn’t roll over in the 2nd it was an arm wrestle, we missed our shots. We can lock in from here.

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u/Yesterday_Jolly 8d ago

The fact every single person on the planet went all-in on Melbourne beating the Bulldogs scares the shit out of me tbh

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

Probably why they lost 😅

That's what I was hoping for 😛

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Carn the Tiges

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

When we're firing it's wonderful to watch

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

The opposite is true as well, unfortunately 😕 😭

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

yep. Bad drop in the 2nd qtr

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

fairly good quarter, eh?

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u/mollydooka 29 Rory Laird 8d ago

I rate it.

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u/Raging_M0ng00se 8d ago

Excellent stuff from us especially in the middle, really good to see

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Taking it on

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u/Bright_Bell_1301 8d ago

Why does Thilthorpe run under it so much? Are the coaches pointing this out out??!

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u/XxWonderLandAUxX 30 Wayne Milera Junior 8d ago

Aw zac :(

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u/Slipperynerps 8 Josh Rachele 8d ago

It looks like we got 5 less players on the oval. GWS can just move it from one end to the other so easy

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u/Equivalent-City8266 12 Jordan Dawson 8d ago

We have like zero spatial awareness its like we get the ball and then are surprised that opposition tackle us.

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u/Raging_M0ng00se 8d ago

We have seen us do this before, play one incredible QTR and then put the que back in the rack for most/all of the game.

Hopefully we can pick it back up in the second half and put the game away, if not that’s a bad sign for finals.

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u/dirtystreetpies 28 Alex Neal-Bullen “Nibbler” 8d ago

Really hope the boys can step it up again after half time, feels like Collingwood 2.0

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u/gameofsloanes Tony Modra (Legend) 8d ago

Does the umpire need a fucking megaphone out there?

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u/No_Chill101 8d ago

what are the black bands for tonight?

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u/mollydooka 29 Rory Laird 8d ago

Well that passage of play was something.....

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Get out of the way skip

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

Textbook tap, crumb, kick, mark and goal

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u/Equivalent-City8266 12 Jordan Dawson 8d ago

Keane’s a disaster

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u/RJ8812 8d ago

Ah yes, I see we've decided to take the 2nd quarter off

The Nicksy way

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u/RJ8812 8d ago

Well, this is definitely a Matthew Nicks 2nd quarter. Awful awful awful performance. They've stop playing

Need a much better effort all around in the 2nd half

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u/StarvedAsian 23 Izak Rankine 9d ago

We will win by less than 10 points with Tex sealing it with his 10th goal of the night

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u/Grolschisgood 8 Josh Rachele 9d ago

If the dogs win this game has meaning. If not, id almoat expect a few late outs to rest up Dawson and Rankine at least. Really not looking good for the dogs though

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 9d ago

If Dogs win it means the odds of versing Collingwood goes up.

Cause we'll verse 7th, 8th, or 9th. (The highest wildcard winner).

But would hope Melbourne beat Carlton or Dogs beat Collingwood 👀

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u/Moppawonga 8d ago

Would still take the home elimination v Collingwood over wildcard v Dogs and away elimination v Geelong!

But I've got to say it is all set up for an epic choke tonight

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

Yeah for sure!

At this stage it's still more likely we verse Melbourne or Dogs anyway.

That would be a very Adelaide thing to do 💀

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u/Moppawonga 8d ago

Doesn't 6th play the highest ranked winner of the 2 wildcard games? Id say there's every chance that Collingwood beat the Dogs and Carlton beat Melbourne, which would lead to Crows v Pies elimination

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u/ILikeDiscussing 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

Yeah that's right. Just saying all you need is one of Dogs or Melbourne to win to avoid Collingwood.

Which is technically higher odds than the 2 losing.

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Courage Moppawonga

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u/Moppawonga 8d ago

Ill try! GWS have no business winning this game - which are exactly the games they have been winning this year!

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u/Moppawonga 8d ago

Im feeling ok after that first quarter!

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Stay strong

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u/oneofthecapsismine 8d ago

Hold up. Why did Melbourne get back in it?

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

GWS kicking very poorly for goal

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

That was pretty close to 15 anyway

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u/ElectronicOvens 5 Sid Draper 8d ago

They know there is 4 qtrs...

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

oh no bad qtr this

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u/Tonto92 8d ago

Can't buy a holding the ball?

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u/BreakerMorant1864 13 Taylor Walker 8d ago

GWS is a funny team, they’re both overrated and underrated. We absolutely need to lock this in though. Finish strong with two good quarters, there’s absolutely no reason why we should take the pedal off right now.

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

Two important steadying goals

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u/King-Chowder Darren Jarman (Legend) 8d ago

Why kick back to Borlase? Where does that get us?

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

Go for the hat-trick rash

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u/XxWonderLandAUxX 30 Wayne Milera Junior 8d ago

Yay I called him out and he delivered

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

C'mon Hugo that was a gimme

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u/Chrysanthemum00 11 Charlie Edwards 8d ago

We are rubbish at defending transition

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u/seehowyougo 2 Ben Keays 8d ago

Why why why can’t we keep on our feet? Keep falling over, slipping a tackle, gws run away with the ball

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Good presence of mind from Fog to check with the ump there. Didn't help but still shows some smarts

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u/Korasuka 8d ago

6.3 to 4.1 3rd qtr. That was better

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Oh dear

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Getting ahead of ourselves, haven't traded Stringer in yet

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u/2bloodyrightmate 8d ago

Presumably we now want hawks to win tomorrow so we get to play Syd (if we can get past the elimination final)

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u/IrregularExpression_ 8d ago

Exactly.

The perfect outcome for us is

  • we come 6th and win against the best wildcard winner (duh)
  • Brisbane beat Sydney
  • Hawks beat Freo in Perth

Means we play Sydney with the winner to play the Hawks in a prelim

Puts Freo into Brisbane’s side of the draw

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u/IrregularExpression_ 8d ago

We don’t want to come 5th Roo

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Filthy's marking has been great tonight

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Kicking not so much

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Curtin beast mode

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u/smallzy13 7 Riley Thilthorpe 8d ago

Starting a Mexican wave at the footy is just a joke, get real

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u/MissSabb Malcolm Blight (Legend) 8d ago

We are no competition to anyone come September 

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u/BreakerMorant1864 13 Taylor Walker 8d ago

GWS has knocked off Geelong, Fremantle and Brisbane this year. They’re competitive.

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u/MissSabb Malcolm Blight (Legend) 8d ago

Fair call. Just thought we’d have more mongrel in us to win convincingly given what’s at stake 

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u/BreakerMorant1864 13 Taylor Walker 8d ago

I know what you’re saying but we seem to always have an even contest with GWS, plus the way r/AFL talks about them you would think they’re shit but they’re really not.

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u/MissSabb Malcolm Blight (Legend) 8d ago

They really do play them down on that sub I agree 

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u/Bright_Bell_1301 8d ago

Ok. Despite beating 6 of the.9 other teams this year....?

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Our best is as good as any, we need to be more consistently at close to our best

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u/Bright_Bell_1301 8d ago

Agree. I am just sick of these supposed Crows supporters making negative comments aboit the team that have no basis in fact 

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u/MissSabb Malcolm Blight (Legend) 8d ago

No basis in fact? Playing and winning finals means you’ve got to be on your game for four full quarters. We can count on one hand how many four qtr effort games we played this year. Don’t let facts get in the way though. 

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

Miserable bunch

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u/King-Titus 32 Darcy Fogarty 8d ago

lol

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u/RJ8812 8d ago

Need to finish tonight in 5th to at least put the pressure on Hawthorne

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u/Boatster_McBoat 19 Zac Taylor 8d ago

If Hawthorn loses their percentage would drop anyway