(06-28-2024, 10:14 PM)kruddler link Wrote:With all due respect lods, your take on last season is tainted by current performances and flat out wrong.
You are saying that you can't look at mid season form and need to look at end of season finishing position. What is the difference? Both are some arbitrary number of games plucked out of a hat. If the season went 5 more rounds for some reason you'd get a different top 8 and potentially a different premier.
So which is the true indication of actual talent?
Vossy says the ladder doesn't lie.
You are saying it lied then.
All the media speculation about sacking vossy, for months, has been quickly forgotten. We were a rabble. Had it been previous head hinchos in charge we would have another coach currently.
Your dismissal of our team performance (with no rucks) against very much our peers at the time and against a top 3 ruck at the time in Darcy is twisting history to suit your argument.
The fact that we not only on won, but won by 9 goals, in the west, is monumental effort.
The train of thought that we need a backup ruck in case our #1 ruck gets injured is for an emergency scenario that may never exist.....and even when it did, it didn't matter.
Do you think that had we had 2 rucks playing in that game against freo that we would've performed better than a 9 goal win? You're dreaming.
At the end of the year you've played every side at least once.
They weren't our peers when we played them....we'd gone past them at the rate of knots
The ladder lied.
Matches either side of those two games against GC and Port showed just how much we'd gone past those other two sides...and how our ladder position was no longer relevant in comparison.
We'll never know how we would have gone with a bit of ruck equality.
We may have won by a hundred.