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23%
OK, not as good as 30% after round 10, but better than 20% after round 11.
And it's t-w-e-l-v-e straight!
And it's t-w-e-l-v-e straight!
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Only 13 more wins till an early christmas.
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I'll take the 23%. Agreed, would love the gap to be more, but the Cats have played two bottom four teams in the last three weeks and although I understand that's two trips to Subi, they have still had the chance to reel in on our percentage but have walked away with just a 22 and 18 point win in the bank.
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"Cats have played two bottom four teams in the last three weeks and although I understand that's two trips to Subi, they have still had the chance to reel in on our percentage but have walked away with just a 22 and 18 point win in the bank."
They are not as good as people think , or are they just doing enough to win ?
They are not as good as people think , or are they just doing enough to win ?
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5 prelims in 7 years. 40 wins from 49 games.
2009 and 2010 were 2 of the 5 best years ever by the St.Kilda FC.
Thanks for all your efforts Saints.
2009 and 2010 were 2 of the 5 best years ever by the St.Kilda FC.
Thanks for all your efforts Saints.
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to be fair to them, do you think we would have done any better?aussiejones wrote:"Cats have played two bottom four teams in the last three weeks and although I understand that's two trips to Subi, they have still had the chance to reel in on our percentage but have walked away with just a 22 and 18 point win in the bank."
it's not easy to win on the road (or hasn't been for us over the years) and i think the cats have won 14 straight - or some similar amazing stat that - interstate.
i'd love us to burst their bubble in round 14 and announce a new top dog.
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Don't think either team (Saints, Cats) is firing 100% right now... but I think on form, the Cats are definately further from their demonstrated best.aussiejones wrote:"Cats have played two bottom four teams in the last three weeks and although I understand that's two trips to Subi, they have still had the chance to reel in on our percentage but have walked away with just a 22 and 18 point win in the bank."
They are not as good as people think , or are they just doing enough to win ?
In the Cats case, it has appeared at times v Dogs, Eagles and Dockers as if they've switched into cruise control. There's an old sports rule of thumb that after any patch of hot form or winning streak, there's generally a losing streak - the mark of the good team is not undoing the good of the wins through the losses. Another maxim is that it's very tough to flick a switch. Very hard to keep the arrogance out when you dominate as the Cats have, and we are in the slog, meaningless part of the season... but their recent efforts have brought Port of the early 00s to mind. Almost unbeatable to most of the comp, but in Port's case, bad habits made it hard to flick that switch.
My expectation is that both Saints and Cats will come out hammering for each other in rd 14. St Kilda will have all the desire to prove themselves that Carlton had in round 12, and for Geelong it will be the first time since round 1 that they'll play a team given a genuine chance. It almost might be better for Geelong if they not only lose, but lose badly (ala Collingwood last year) to drive out complacency.
What I'll be most interested to see over the next couple of weeks is whether Geelong can start bringing the team effort that's gotten them where they are, because they could easily have lost 2 of their last 3.
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Perhaps not, but had that been us only just scraping for a win in the west, the critics would continue to drone on, saying "Saints were lucky, they look further away from Geelong each week", etc. Though when it's Geelong just doing 'enough to win', its all "Geelong are just bored because they have no new challengers".bigcarl wrote:to be fair to them, do you think we would have done any better?aussiejones wrote:"Cats have played two bottom four teams in the last three weeks and although I understand that's two trips to Subi, they have still had the chance to reel in on our percentage but have walked away with just a 22 and 18 point win in the bank."
it's not easy to win on the road (or hasn't been for us over the years) and i think the cats have won 14 straight - or some similar amazing stat that - interstate.
i'd love us to burst their bubble in round 14 and announce a new top dog.
Sick of this hypocritical rubbish. But, face it, in the end, the only way the football world will think otherwise is if we beat Geelong.
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I think to be fair, the media have every right to be slightly easier on a side that has won 53 of 56 than on a team that has won 21 of 25SydneySainter wrote:Perhaps not, but had that been us only just scraping for a win in the west, the critics would continue to drone on, saying "Saints were lucky, they look further away from Geelong each week", etc. Though when it's Geelong just doing 'enough to win', its all "Geelong are just bored because they have no new challengers".bigcarl wrote:to be fair to them, do you think we would have done any better?aussiejones wrote:"Cats have played two bottom four teams in the last three weeks and although I understand that's two trips to Subi, they have still had the chance to reel in on our percentage but have walked away with just a 22 and 18 point win in the bank."
it's not easy to win on the road (or hasn't been for us over the years) and i think the cats have won 14 straight - or some similar amazing stat that - interstate.
i'd love us to burst their bubble in round 14 and announce a new top dog.
Sick of this hypocritical rubbish. But, face it, in the end, the only way the football world will think otherwise is if we beat Geelong.