2018 - What do you expect from the club?

[Thryleon]

Tigers weren't lucky, they finished half a game behind the Crows and Geelong but always had an edge about them that the top 2 sides didn't have.

I somewhat agree and disagree.

I think that all the teams that were vying for the flag copped some fairly serious injuries except the Tigers.  Danger and Selwood were both on one leg come the end of the season and against the good teams it showed.  Brodie Smith, turned out to be a big loss for the Crows whilst Eddie Betts and Rory Sloane both had appendicitis, and lets say no more about Jeremy Cameron going down for GWS.

Would it have been enough to win though is a question that is difficult to answer.

By contrast, the Tigers went in fit and firing and had no issues aside from an errant poke in the eye to Riewoldt at training a few weeks out from finals.



As always every team that triumphs requires a little bit of luck.  I think the Tigers were no luckier than any other premiership side in history but on grand final day when the game was in the balance that soft as butter free kick they got to come back into parity in the first quarter was a bit of a game changer.  The moons alligned and they won a flag.  Same happened for the Bulldogs a year earlier. Sometimes these things happen. Sometimes they don't.

We can't complain overly.  We went into a half time of a grand final 40 points down and won partly because of a tweak in game style, but partly to do with hubris from the other side.  By the time they responded we had pinched the win.

Thats football.