csbowes wrote:Spargo wrote:Cambridge Clarrie wrote:Those grapes are pretty sour aren't they Southee...
You'd have been lucky to beat the Kenilworth B grade playing the way you did against Adelaide.
Southee only stated factual points which you're clearly missing.
You had your chance to give South a bit of stick after you won the Qualifying Final. Hanging shit on them now with what has transpired is really poor form.
I don't disagree with what Southee wrote, but...
... supposition is not fact mate.
Southee expressed an opinion.
I'd say he "repeated an opinion".
I'd even venture it is bordering on a SANFL sanctioned fact, based on their philosophy of finals programming.
Consider why the SANFL programmes the SANFL Grand Final the week before the AFL Grand Final. If I am not mistaken it is so that they have their reserve players practicing right up to the penultimate week, so there is always a potential supply of practiced players. So why not the week after the AFL Grand Final?
Would it not make sense that their reserves sides would be more likely to still be participating as far as the semi-final stage (as would be the case if our Grand final was one week after theirs) rather than a grand final (which is currently played the week before theirs)?
I think the answer is that the SANFL has the opinion that a reserves side has no business playing the week after the AFL side has finished. Am I right or wrong on that front?
Does anyone have the official reasoning for their decision to play our Grand Final the week before theirs? What is it about the inclusion of the reserves in our comp that has caused the need for us to wind up two weeks earlier than we used to? I am sure they have expressed the idea in the fanciest most benevolent sounding terms, but anyone can put a spin on even the meanest of messages to make it sound like they are doing you a favour.
If I am on the right track, and the SANFL will go to the extent of actually reprogramming its finals series to avoid the reserves playing superfluous matches after their seniors are finished, are they not in fact acknowledging that the reserves will, in fact, give up if their seniors are no longer competing?
Would the SANFL's enforcement of rules based on that thinking therefore push that thinking closer to FACT rather than just opinion? Maybe not, but we could definitely say that it is a fact that according to the SANFL's philosophy of programming finals matches, the Ravens had possibly no motivation in beating Sturt on the weekend.
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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