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Spirit of Carlton · **Joined:** Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:13 pm **Posts:** 487

Not one team will be happy facing us at the MCG in the finals.

We are in this season up to our eyeballs.

teknodeejay · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:30 pm **Posts:** 2897

Agreed. We seem to be a force at the G. But right now all I want is a win over the Doggies this week.

The Normal One · **Joined:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:35 pm **Posts:** 20076

We've taken over the role of the Bulldogs in the top 4, never good enough to beat top teams to win the Premiership when the pressure is on in finals. Will be interesting to see what happens.

molsey · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:20 am

I disagree King Kenny - we've done nothing of the sort. We are now a top 4 candidate after having a few years edging back to the finals, but on an erratic basis. We've come very close to knocking off Geelong and I think we learned a fair bit from Collingwood. By season's end we'll know what the take on the WCE game was but Id choose to see it at this stage as a lesson in footy + what happens when we dont have grunt in the midfield.

The Bulldogs have been thereabouts for ever.

if we dont beat Collingwood over the next 3 years I might agree with you, but at this stage we're an emerging team still working out if / how to compete with the very good teams.

Id take this over false dawns (2010 wins over geelong and saints).

bondiblue · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:24 am

molsey wrote:

I disagree King Kenny - we've done nothing of the sort. We are now a top 4 candidate after having a few years edging back to the finals, but on an erratic basis. We've come very close to knocking off Geelong and I think we learned a fair bit from Collingwood. By season's end we'll know what the take on the WCE game was but Id choose to see it at this stage as a lesson in footy + what happens when we dont have grunt in the midfield.

The Bulldogs have been thereabouts for ever.

if we dont beat Collingwood over the next 3 years I might agree with you, but at this stage we're an emerging team still working out if / how to compete with the very good teams.

Id take this over false dawns (2010 wins over geelong and saints).

That's an apt descroiption there molsey.

We are an emerging club.
We haven't played in a preliminary final for more than a decade whereas the Doggies have featured in many.
Big difference.

CK95 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:44 am

I think our style is quite similar to the doggies.

Megaman · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:27 pm

Never good enough?

Time to rebuild by the sounds of it..

stroby1 · **Joined:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:20 pm **Posts:** 84

CK95 wrote:

I think our style is quite similar to the doggies.

mmm, there seem to be similarities, I agree. silky skills, lots of running mids. Maybe lacking a tall or two - it even feels like Jamo began playing like Lake at his best.

I hope we don't share their propensity for near misses. I do think we are becoming harder than they have been, and our emphasis on that is really strong which is so important.

The main difference is we are the Navy Blues. Finals will reveal all....

CK95 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:40 pm

Actually I was just engaging in a bit of school boy humour, but you raise some good points nonetheless stroby :lol:

tommi · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:00 pm

.......?

kindest regards tommi

Adelaide Blue · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:02 pm

Although Hawthorn have had the wood on us all these years, i think come round 22 we will show everyone how much better than them we truly are. (providing injuries dont hurt us, and our form stays true)
My prediction is that we will cement our place in 3rd spot.

bluechucky · **Joined:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:29 am **Posts:** 13689

tommi wrote:

.......?

kindest regards tommi

My first thought was Deano!

everblue · **Joined:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:19 am **Posts:** 2

missnaut wrote:

Dominator_7 wrote:

Until we take a big scap, its a label we ll have to live with...

If we'd beaten Geelong it would have been written off as the Cats having an off night anyway. Can't win either way.

If Sydney had beaten us twice, they would be in the top 4. Sydney's 30 premiership points moves up to 38, they leapfrog WCE, Freo and CFC. Blues would be on 34 points, still sitting in the top 6.

Springsteen · **Joined:** Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:08 pm **Posts:** 813

lets just beat the dogs and pies and shut em all up

Bluey44 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:13 pm

Sh$ts me to tears that we can't shake this tag.

:banghead:

We got so wrapped up in that one win at the SCG, and we have made no real statements since.

Blueboy_Dan · **Joined:** Sun May 08, 2005 1:09 am **Posts:** 5245

Well we beat Richmond by 103, Brisbane by 60, port by 60....we must be good????

nightcrawler · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:48 am **Posts:** 2891

Bluey44 wrote:

Sh$ts me to tears that we can't shake this tag.

:banghead:

We got so wrapped up in that one win at the SCG, and we have made no real statements since.

Fair go, we were competitive as long as Razor was paying us a 50 metre everytime the ball went forward. It's just a shame someone told him at half time that's not good sport.

Headplant · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:21 pm

Blues learning a few lessons .... hopefully.

Kouta · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:26 pm

Blueboy_Dan wrote:

Well we beat Richmond by 103, Brisbane by 60, port by 60....we must be good????

I guess we didn't show up against Geelong and Sydney either.

Betts only kicked the goals that got us home against the odds in Sydney. Even if we lack tall targets and a functioning forward structure, Eddie should still dominate. Just whip him again because the midfield and rucks didn't play well enough.

camel · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:26 pm

Bump!

Oh sorry, did that hurt?

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