Booney wrote:FlyingHigh wrote:Wanting Adelaide to win, not because I support them but because they have been the only top-four side this year. None of the others would have made the top four over the last six or eight years (last year maybe excepted).
It is akin to 2007 when Port where the last opponent standing.
Adelaide by 12 goals.
Port beat Hawthorn in Tassie and Geelong in Geelong in consecutive weeks turning around 50 and 40 odd point losses to those sides earlier in the yar, beat the 2006 premiers the first week of the finals after finishing level with them ( a classic game if you can be arsed ) and slaughtered the Kangas in the prelim.
It was Geelong, Port/West Coast or nobody that year and, sadly, much akin to this year Geelong were on a mission that day while Port were still riding a wave from a couple of seasons earlier, we did earn our right to be there that day. Lucky, hey?
This week, Adelaide on a mission, Richmond riding a wave from just winning a final.
Port kicked two goals in the last half minute in Tassie when Hawthorn thought they had it won.
To their credit, played a good game against Geelong and won by turnover in their last few seconds.
West Coast were 2nd at 3/4 time of their last game and gave up %, otherwise you would have been going to Perth.
The Port/WCE final was a good game, Cousins going down at an important time.
The Port/NM was one of the least intense finals games I have ever seen.
Collingwood just missed out on fourth, and IMO were better than NM and Port that year.
Stand by my opinion that everything went right for Port over those last few weeks until the last game.
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:21 pm
