With Carlton having one of it's most disappointing seasons Mick escapes the heat. He never come under the intense Media he should have(except by Robert Walls).
James Hird really deflected the heat the whole season until the AFL who had hoodwinked the footy public the whole season finally refused the Bombers their place in the finals.
Malthouse is saved by a lucky win by a point over Port Adelaide.Carlton who lost every close encounter through the season except this one get in at the expense of the Kangas the best team out of the finals.


You have to be cynical of the AFL as they sit by and let Freo gift retiring St Kilda players a party that gives Ross Lyon on opportunity to attempt to redeem himself to the players and club he shafted two years ago

I seem to recall that Carlton beat this so called best team outside the finals by a point a few weeks back.

As things stand at this time yes, the kangas are the best team outside the finals if you look at their ladder standing, we just happen to be better than that seeing as we are actually inside the 8!

Had they been good enough to beat us in a close encounter they would have been playing finals instead of us , so i guess we earned our place ahead of them.

we beat port twice
beat north
beat adelaide
beat brisbane
beat richmond
beat west coast

we have beaten all the teams around us

i say we deserve to be where we are

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

We played Melbourne, GWS and Gold Coast only once. (west coast also)

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I seem to recall that Carlton beat this so called best team outside the finals by a point a few weeks back.

As things stand at this time yes, the kangas are the best team outside the finals if you look at their ladder standing, we just happen to be better than that seeing as we are actually inside the 8!

Had they been good enough to beat us in a close encounter they would have been playing finals instead of us , so i guess we earned our place ahead of them. [/quote


July 19 the blues fell in by a point to the Kangas i think its apparent the kangas have a better percentage but the problem with all of this is how the footy public were led on until the death nell by the AFL so as not to forfeit TV rights and gate receipts by Essendon* being eliminated earlier.
Carlton only sneaked into the finals on the unprecedented elimination of the bombers at the very last minute whilst it had been obvious for months that the bombers were not going to be in the finals.

Kangas won 10. Blues won 11.

I'm really struggling to see your point. Percentage is a secondary measure used only to separate teams should they end on the same number of wins.

We are where we are and the Kangas are where they are. 11 beats 10.

It's really not hard.

We were the 8th best non-cheating team in the league. That means we get to play finals. The cheats were disqualified because it's assumed that without the unfair advantage they got from cheating they wouldn't have been in the position they were in.

If you're going to troll you should take some lessons from Cerberus - he's awesome!

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lets face it North won 10 games with a percentage of 120. Now that is bizarre. At one point during he season they were second in % of time they were in front of games. bizarre

ironically the Blues can beat Richmond and who knows
Still a token if you ask me
and call me old fashion but those baseball caps backwards are not a good look

How's he "lucky" if we/he lost every other close encounter this year? Sounds pretty unlucky to me.

Unlucky for him we can't kick straight. There's another three or four wins.

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Obvious troll is obvious

DISAGREE! As others have said. Deserve to be there!
Beaten teams in the 8. We have had a more difficult draw then others inside the eight and really only failed miserable in about 3 or 4 games throughout the year. With a little more luck or resolve, we could have easily beaten a couple of the top 4 sides as well.

this. I don't understand this argument at all!! We have 11 wins, they have 10 ... end of story

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This is the point no one ever states. I am sick of hearing about North being the best team out of the finals.

Fact is North lost to -

Carlton
Adelaide * 2
Brisbane
West Coast
Gold Coast

Can people explain to me how they deserve it more than us? People think North didn't make the finals because of some close loses to top teams. No they didn't make it because they couldn't beat the teams around them.

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Rubbish thread.

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Rubbish thread.

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And we have to remember Essendon* were on the gear so they dont deserve to be in the finals.

So 8th is about right for us.

Don't think we will do much in the finals but out of all the clean teams we are the 8th best in 2013.

Double post

SAKC Malthouse.......... sorry clicked the wrong link.

Troll.

I guess we should decide the whole ladder by percentage and forget about wins and losses.