I'll take that bet Lods. Albeit, not from a qualifier loss, but rather a late season meeting.
I know its happened, from a player who went through it. Not from our club though.
A move that could've been made, wasn't made, deliberately, because they wanted to keep that move should they face them in the finals, which they did, and it worked. They turned it around, GF was won in part due to that.
You'll have to be a bit more specific. Player and the move. It shouldn't be a huge secret if it's already occurred.
If we know that, we can better judge the extent to which such a move actually aided the winning of the Grand Final.
It seems pretty risky to me that if they had a plan thaty they thought was a game changer they didn't use it in the first game. My guess would be that it may have been discussed, dismissed as too risky, but when the opportunity came and a trigger needed to be pulled they made the throw of the dice with no certainty it would come off.
Which is a completely different situation to actively holding back a move they were confident would work.
(Edit: If your talking about a home and away game, rather than a qualifier, that's a completely different story. I'm sure those sort of tactics would be used or withheld for later ,when games really mattered, quite often.)
At this stage of the year it has to be all out effort (and moves)...or there may be no tomorrow.
I've mentioned it on here before. TBH, i can't recall the specifics, but it was Demons vs Dogs the year the Dees won a flag. They played eachother late in the year, dogs getting up by 20 points in a game that didn't matter to the dees. They met again in the GF and the dees ran away with it after half time. A mate of mine sponsored one of the dees players (no longer on their list) and they used to have regular catchups and used to get good inside info. He was not the player in question, but spoke about the thinking throughout the year, specifically that game leading into finals and knowing they would most likely play again.
There are examples in the men's comp of clubs coming back from a qualifier loss to beat the same team in a grand final. I'd bet those losses weren't part of a grand plan...but rather just taking a few lessons from the initial loss and working on them.
I'll take that bet Lods. Albeit, not from a qualifier loss, but rather a late season meeting.
I know its happened, from a player who went through it. Not from our club though.
A move that could've been made, wasn't made, deliberately, because they wanted to keep that move should they face them in the finals, which they did, and it worked. They turned it around, GF was won in part due to that.
OK clearly people misunderstood what i was saying.
I'm not saying we don't try and win it, but i'm saying lets not show all our hand to do so. Leave some cards up our sleeve.
eg......If we've been training Good as a key forward, and can use that as a 'cheat' to get us a couple goals on a poor matchup. Do we show that card now, and give Kangas a few weeks to come up with a way to counteract that? We're better off saving that element of surprise for a Grand Final.
Or lets put it this way. The move to play Diesel in the FP in the 95 grand final. IIRC, he didn't know about that until the week of, if not the day of. Imagine we did that earlier in the year. People could come up with a plan ahead of time. Instead, he wins a Norm Smith because they had no answer for it.
Excellent selections IMO, with (hopefully) many more great ones to come.
Interesting collection.
Had never heard of 3 of them.
The Boys soundtrack. Earth Cry and surprisingly......Down City Streets
The first two understandably as they are not 'songs' so much as you'd think of.....but can't recall Down City Streets, but can understand why its in there.
Personally i would've had 'Goanna - Solid Rock' on there.
Well done to the girls for finishing 4th, even with the few hiccups we've had on the way.
The girls need to work on their after the siren set shots. While Darcy successfully ran the clock down, even a behind could have made the difference between 4th and 5th. It would have been nice if they had nailed the torp, but a drop punt may have more chance of making the distance.
Not sure why that's occurred. It may be as the thread starter, my vote doesn't get counted in the total. Seems strange, but probably doesn't skew the vote to a great extent.
Did you limit votes to 1 only?
I've done many a poll over the journey and thats the only thing i can think of that would allow that to occur. I've voted in my own polls and never had that issue before.
We'll miss both Hendrie and Good, especially Good who is among the best rucks going around. That Tara Bohanna couldn't get a game is worrying when we need a key forward. Nice to see gab Pound back. We don't look as balanced with 2 talls out. Hopefully, we can still put it together, but we look vulnerable.
Not sure if we've given up on Poppy Scholz, but named in the backline.....as cover for Hendrie, sure, but thats when you bring in Bohanna. If we can't pick Tara for this game, have we seen the last of her in Navy Blue?
Teams we play twice.... North Melbourne - R2 + R16 Melbourne - R4 + R18 Collingwood - R5 + R21 Port Adelaide - R6 + R23 Geelong - R8 + R19 Giants - R17 + R24
Only 16 rounds (15 games) have days/times allocated so far.
From that 15 we have.... 2 - Thursday night games 1 - Friday day game - (good friday vs North) 2 - Friday night games 2 - Saturday day games 2 - Saturday night games 6 - Sunday games.... 2x - 3:15 1x - 5:40 2x - 6:10 1x - 7:45 - (kings birthday eve vs bombers)
We travel interstate 6 times.... R4 - vs Melbourne (Adelaide - gather round) R6 - vs Port R10 - vs Gold Coast (Darwin) R12 - vs West Coast R17 - vs Giants R22 - vs Sydney
We also travel down to GMHBA (R19) for the first time since Covid in 2020.
Worst Scheduling quirk... R4 - We are in Adelaide playing the demons on the Saturday for gather round. R5 - We fly back to melbourne and play Pies after a 5 day break R6 - We fly back to Adelaide to play Port on the Sunday, a 9-day break.
