Why are you yelling at me about the importance of for and against? I analysed the last 20 years worth of data and arrived at the same conclusion earlier in this thread.
I also analysed data that indicates losing early in the season doesn't destroy a team's chance of going deep in the finals.
Your fallback when you don't understand cause and effect or analysis of data is to label it as an 'excuse'. I think thats incredibly narrow minded. I prefer to try and understand why. Just becuase I do that it doesn't mean that I am excusing anything. I've been critical of the club, our players and our coach plenty of times.
...and a few other things on the above:
* Winning games counts for 75% of the equation? You totally pulled that number out of your arse!
* If we are Top 1 or 2 then we are still lower odds than 50-50 to win the comp where there are 16 teams. Thats basic maths.
* If we don't lift we wont win a GF? Goes without saying.
* Its not just about winning, its about how you win? I believe I said as much in my post on for and against. The lowest placed premier with respect to for and against was 5th (Tigers in 2005). Between 19-21 the best we have managed is 5th. As I said in that post, we need to lift if we want to be a chance.
So all in all, I'm not really sure what you are blowing up about.
Sorry mate but my point is that you and a few others here keep telling the rest of us that we are going well and playing fine and BA has his faults but overall he has done a good job to get us here and be contenders and just to enjoy the wins we get and the season overall, because that's all we as supporters can hope for from this club.
Well sure in a nutshell der we all get that to a point. The problem is we as fans of a club as big, rich and resourceful as this one expect premierships not wooden spoons to fill our cabinet. If every other pion club in this State can win a premiership in the time we haven't, then we should at least have won two in that same time.
Our team the last few seasons has basically had the majority of the same players, play with no attacking direction and confusion in defense way to often when the pressure is on. We are sick of it and we just never seem to get it right even though the players are very talented individually.
Then you and a few others just keep making excuses and tell us to chill and that it is only a game and doesn't have a baring to the result at the end of the year. Well it does and the 'for and against' shows that it does as you also have pointed out. So it does matter HOW we play not just the wins that will most probably determine how we fare at the end of the season.
So we do have a legitimate reason for blowing up at losses or even wins that we played like crap in patches. Where as you guys just fob us off as angry and never pleased merkins that never seem grateful and or enjoy the teams wins.
But what's closer to the truth is we do enjoy the games and the wins, especially the ones that are against the better teams, but years of eventual and at times spectacular failure has taught us that we need to be more consistent and ruthless in our game or we will implode once again at the pointy end of the season and so our posts generally reflect that on this forum.
But then you apologist step in and tell us to chill and who knows what the future holds and to calm down. This of course to a person that is over the excuses and is very frustrated over years, no decades of hearing them. Well forgive me but it ends up sounding very much like when pollies dribble on with positive spin and lofty arrogance, patronisingly dismissing our legitimate frustration and anger at our clubs never ending finals failings.
Especially when you tweak your comments and adjust them to suit your argument. Lets not forget what you and your mates have been saying forever on these forums. You have always been implying and out right telling us that losing or how we play in these early rounds doesn't really have a major baring on what happens at the end of the season and others like me have always maintained the opposite view. You can spin it any other way you like, but that is what you have either said or 'liked' when others have made posts with that sentiment or opinion.
End of.
P.S. I am not yelling at you or even angry at all. I may sound like that but honestly I am not. This is just a footy forum and people banter with passion and zeal about sh*t. But not angry at you or anyone else ever. I like most of you guys and I enjoy the banter. I do get frustrated sure though and that is what you are seeing here. But anger? Hell no. I have to much fun on here to get angry. I'm just very loud at times but not angry, just forthright. I can even find Giffy agreeable and even amusing sometimes. I think the only guy I can remember that seemed to be a bit off, weird and a little worrisome was Diablo, but he seems to have disappeared, so most others just seem to have differing opinions that we debate about and sometimes very passionately.
Anyway I hope I haven't offended you mate and all is good and remember, Go Parra!
