Both Gold Coast and Essendon scored one top 8 win each this season and neither was against a top 4 team. That means all their wins outside of one came against bottom 10 teams. Sure, you could argue Essendon's wins were slightly better but losing to West Coast hurts the Essendon argument too if you're going to look at everything. Plus the travel factor that the Suns were able to overcome and Essendon weren't. Overall I think their seasons were pretty similar in terms of achievements and that's reflected in their ladder positions. Ultimately I think their performances in the finals will determine which club will be viewed as having the better season because there are no easy games left. If one of them can pull off a big upset against a top 4 team in week 2 of the finals then that will obviously be the tiebreaker.There’s nothing wrong with being bullish about your team, but if you’re going to be so ridiculously selective about it, you’re setting yourself up for failure. It becomes delusion.
It’s great that Gold Coast travelled well, but they won 6.5 games this year, and 3.5 of them were against the bottom 4 teams. Essendon only played a bottom 4 team once - and they lost that game - all their wins were against teams placed 6-14th. So you can see the point robbieando is making.
I was referring to interstate wins against your team (10th) and Collingwood (11th). The Bulldogs (18th) win was on our home ground. Also, we were very close to scoring another interstate win against Carlton (12th) in round 1.Top 12 Melb teams…wtf
You obviously don’t mean the 4 point win over Bulldogs I spose.
Well you're the first person I've seen actually give our club some credit for a good conversion rate in front of goal. So I guess thanks for recognising that... even though you've sort of suggested we don't deserve the recognition in the previous paragraph.Mate, enjoy being in the finals but give us a spell with the “we don’t get the respect we deserve” stuff.
Couple of things didn’t go your way last year and a couple did this year.
It’s the fixture and a great conversion rate in front of goal that’s got you into finals.
You’ve had 111 scores with 61 goals.
That’s 55% that might be the best in the comp this year.
Ave 11 scores a game.
Perhaps. Although not having Rowbottom didn't seem to really affect us that much on Friday night. We scored 7 goals with Rowbottom the week before and 6 goals without her on Friday night. Whitfort, Single and Drennan stepped up in her absence and we dominated Essendon for large parts of the game. Leads me to believe the Suns aren't quite the 'one-woman team' that some think they are. FWIW Sydney seem far more Molloy-centric. Shut her down and the Swans seem to really struggle.GC have had 13 goalless quarters this season and without Rowbottom this week I think you just may end up with a couple more.