If we'd scraped in - would we have beaten the Hawks?

cowboy18 · Post: # 452230Post **cowboy18** » Sat 08 Sep 2007 11:01pm

I fear not.

Mid second term (when Hodge and Bateman went off) I was wondering about the "what-ifs" and how Adelaide were going to cruise into a game in Melbourne next weekend against the loser of the Geelong/Kangaroos game.

But after watching the exploits of Hodge, Franklin and Crawford I wasn't sure we had the game/team to beat them. I think MAx and Bakes would have been crucial outs. So I think I don't feel as bad about missing out as I did last weekend. I'm not sure things would have panned out that well for us.

HSVKing · Post: # 452232Post **HSVKing** » Sat 08 Sep 2007 11:03pm

We would have played Collingwood...

Liam_G · Post: # 452233Post **Liam_G** » Sat 08 Sep 2007 11:03pm

Probably not. But it wouldn't have mattered anyway, as we would have been playing Collingwood if we made it in.

Teflon · Post: # 452235Post **Teflon** » Sat 08 Sep 2007 11:07pm

wed have rolled collingwood.

cowboy18 · Post: # 452237Post **cowboy18** » Sat 08 Sep 2007 11:09pm

Oh!

So my pointless reflection on hypotheticals becomes even more pointless. That's really annoying, I could have used up my mindless analyses on tonight's game.

I guess I should have been working instead of testing the new USB TV thing.

The_Dud · Post: # 452238Post **The_Dud** » Sat 08 Sep 2007 11:09pm

...rolled them over and had our way with them

st_Trav_ofWA · Sun 09 Sep 2007 10:55am

your joking right if we had played collingwood we would of been crusifyed by the umpires heck they gave the swans the bad ddeal and the umpies/afl love the swans what do you think they would of done to us ??

Oh When the Saints · Sun 09 Sep 2007 11:03am

We wouldn't have beaten Collingwood.

- Rocca would have beaten Maguire (on form)
- No Hudghton to play on Cloke or Rusling
- No tagger (Baker) to play on Didak, who was good
- Attard was missing, so no-one to shut down Davis or tag through the middle

spert · Post: # 452367Post **spert** » Sun 09 Sep 2007 11:05am

Hawthorn showed great spirit and their midfiled is currently better than ours, plus their FF is kicking good bags of goals regularly. It goes back to what I've said about consistant footy, we have been up and down, while the teams in the eight have been more consistant in form. Lets look to 2008.

Stephen Theodore · Sun 09 Sep 2007 11:08am

I fear on last nights display by the Filth, we wouldnt have got within 5 -6 goals.

HarveysDeciple · Sun 09 Sep 2007 2:03pm

On form last night the Pies would have done us.

And even had we won, we would have travelled to perth.

Missing the finals this year might help......an appearance may have given us a false sense of praise in a poor year.
Fire up saints and use this as a kick in the ass.

saint66au · Post: # 452452Post **saint66au** » Sun 09 Sep 2007 2:38pm

True HD...I was actually thinking to myself today...which scenario would you prefer

1. Bowing out of finals contention the day before your actual game due to another result not going your way...or...

2. Falling into the 8, playing Hawthorn, leading all day but being pipped on the line by a Buddy Frankllin bomb with 7 seconds remaining.

Reckon right now Id take Option 1

SaintWodonga · Sun 09 Sep 2007 2:42pm

Where was their form last week? They came to play last night. At least there is only 2 interstate teams left & we will have a different grand final this year.

saintbrat · Post: # 452465Post **saintbrat** » Sun 09 Sep 2007 3:12pm

SaintWodonga wrote:Where was their form last week? They came to play last night. At least there is only interstate teams left & we will have a different grand final this year.

two st wodonga- Port and eagles

would like to see pies defeat eagles then get bundled out.

casey scorp · Sun 09 Sep 2007 3:20pm

HarveysDeciple wrote:And even had we won, we would have travelled to perth.

If we had beaten Collingwood, we would have stayed in Melbourne and played the loser of Geelong v North Melbourne next week (Collingwood goes to Perth only because it ended up 6th and not 5th - Hawthorn would have played Sydney this weekend and, if it won, would have had to go to Perth next week).

If we won that, we would have gone to AAMI Stadium to play Port Adelaide in a Preliminary Final.

We would have had the best possible run at the Premiership this year (in terms of scheduling matches) had only Collingwood beaten Adelaide in Round 22.

SaintWodonga · Sun 09 Sep 2007 3:22pm

Sorry forgot the 2. I have editted the post since it's what I meant.

firthy · Post: # 452475Post **firthy** » Sun 09 Sep 2007 3:29pm

Now that we've become a Swans clone team we would've had absolutely no hope --- stop start stop stop stop start stop back back forward oh no stop can't dare take a risk start stop stop etc etc etc etc. Wow what exciting times await us .

saintbrat · Post: # 452477Post **saintbrat** » Sun 09 Sep 2007 3:32pm

SaintWodonga wrote:Sorry forgot the 2. I have editted the post since it's what I meant.

that's ok I guess like many we ASSUME eagles wont go much further with injuries

Teflon · Post: # 452786Post **Teflon** » Mon 10 Sep 2007 12:13am

firthy wrote:Now that we've become a Swans clone team we would've had absolutely no hope --- stop start stop stop stop start stop back back forward oh no stop can't dare take a risk start stop stop etc etc etc etc. Wow what exciting times await us .

Sounds like your support for St Kilda.....stop start stop start stop start...

stick to the Pies then for your excitement.

cya.

luckysaint · Mon 10 Sep 2007 12:20am

Two words........ N..............O

firthy · Post: # 453043Post **firthy** » Mon 10 Sep 2007 3:36pm

Becoming very touchy the teflon is -- methinks he enjoys dishing it out but has trouble handling it when some comes back -- been watching our beloved saints wrecking themselves for the best part of my 63 years and teflon and tool4eva fit in that mould quite nicely -- tis all about ego and showing us all how knowledgeable they are --- the welfare of our beloved club is well down their care list -- every good wish

Eastern · Post: # 453048Post **Eastern** » Mon 10 Sep 2007 3:41pm

Back on Topic !!

Would we have beaten the Hawks........Had we scraped in??

That is something we will NEVER know. A good debating point, but we will never know !!

yipper · Post: # 453056Post **yipper** » Mon 10 Sep 2007 3:49pm

Well, someone mentioned to me on Sat night that Geelong missed the finals altogether last year and fans were baying for blood!! Now they have re-grouped and galloped into top 2 the next season. This bloke reckons we could do the same thing. Hope he's right. Take a step back before charging forward!!??

rodgerfox · Post: # 453057Post **rodgerfox** » Mon 10 Sep 2007 3:51pm

Oh When the Saints wrote:We wouldn't have beaten Collingwood.

- Rocca would have beaten Maguire (on form)
- No Hudghton to play on Cloke or Rusling
- No tagger (Baker) to play on Didak, who was good
- Attard was missing, so no-one to shut down Davis or tag through the middle

I think you're right.

Had we had Bakes, Max and Harves fit - we would have won the flag if we made the 8.

However without them (and Attard) we would have simply been too undermanned.