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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: tiga on August 05, 2009, 04:24:21 PM
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Well I did the foolish thing in raising my hopes by trying out a multitude of options on the good ole ALF ladder predictor and found out to my complete surprise that we can still make the 8 :o :o :o thanks to that draw against North. If we win all of our remaining games and the majority of other games go the way they should except for Port who lose a couple they are supposed to win, we will be in 8th spot!!!
Try it out and you will see, that 8th spot is where we could be! :rollin
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OH YES
Thanks Tiga for that I am getting excited already.
If we do make the eight can we bring back TW as it is primarily his list and we did say if we made finals he could continue coaching. Plus his boy Jordy won us a game off his own boot.
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Oh btw, if anyone else can do a combo to get us in the 8 besides the Port one, share it with us all. Maybe a Carlton collapse?
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Well I did the foolish thing in raising my hopes by trying out a multitude of options on the good ole ALF ladder predictor and found out to my complete surprise that we can still make the 8 :o :o :o thanks to that draw against North. If we win all of our remaining games and the majority of other games go the way they should except for Port who lose a couple they are supposed to win, we will be in 8th spot!!!
Try it out and you will see, that 8th spot is where we could be! :rollin
Someone has too much time on their hands???? ;D
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Someone has too much time on their hands???? ;D
Too much something on his hands I think.
:lol
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http://www.afl.com.au/ladder%20predictor/tabid/13046/default.aspx (http://www.afl.com.au/ladder%20predictor/tabid/13046/default.aspx)
I was going to put this on here yesterday but was fearful of the mockery.....treat it like a fun puzzle.
It is possible for richmond to make the 8 with 9 1/2 wins......and I am going to win lotto this week. :cheers
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The pro-tankers will be disppointed, try as I might I couldn't get us finishing last but you can make it so no-one gets a priority pick :rollin
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Let's hear it for Ninth again :help
Some very wishful thinking involved :wallywink. Port can make it even mathematically impossible after this weekend.
Maximum points we can reach is 38.
Current ladder
8. Port 36
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Essendon 32
Hawthorn 32
Sydney 28
Richmond 22
R19
Haw vs St K
Ess vs Bris
Rich vs Syd
Freo vs Port
R20
Haw vs Adel
Rich vs Coll
Syd vs Geel
Port vs Carl
Ess vs St K
R21
Bris vs Port
Rich vs Haw
Coll vs Syd
Freo vs Ess
R22
WCE vs Rich
Haw vs Ess
Syd vs Bris
Port vs North
Wishful thinking ladder lol
8. Richmond 38
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Port 36
Hawthorn 36
Essendon 32
Sydney 28
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The media are already getting into "ninth" jokes.
Tiges on the up
Geoff McClure - This Sporting Life
August 6, 2009
WHEN you’re a Richmond supporter you grasp anything that might resemble, even slightly, the yellow and black having had a reasonably successful season. Like this: The Tigers are only 2.5 games behind a fading Essendon and Hawthorn, so mathematically remain well and truly in the hunt for ninth. That draw against North might come back to haunt them.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/my-word-8212-and-the-joke-was-on-them/2009/08/05/1249350592758.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
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So I guess it comes down to two camps this weekend. Those who will be cheering for us and Freo and those who will be cheering for the Swans and anyone else below us. Go the Tiges and Freo for mine.
Which camp are you in??
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i wonder how many more permutations and combinations end up with us finishing 9th?
i'm thinking we stay in the hunt until a north-port draw in the last round.
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:nope :weights
This is the same type of hope against hope that has enabled us to remain a mediocre club for two and a half decades! If we beat Sydney plus 2 of our remaining 3 games I will :chuck
We really are a self destructive club now aren't we! :help :'(
Stripes
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I think this thread is going to experience a quick death.The funeral will be on Sunday night.
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Understand all the ifs and buts...but it is amazing to think that if we had beaten Melbourne, Sydney and North the way we should have, we'd still be a live chance to snatch 8th spot. :help
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Fooffoo....dont forget infamous Port Adelaide match :chuck
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Forgot that one. :P
Not sure what it says about the standard of the comp.
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It says you dont have to be that good to make the 8 :help
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It also says you are a fool if you think we need a complete rebuild. And it appears that most of the prospective coaches in the marketplace agree.
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Tragic Finals fact #1
Since 1994 the average number of games won by the 8th placed teams is 11.03
We have won 11 games or more in a season 8 times since 94. ??? >:( :help
Life can be cruel at times.
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Tragic Finals fact #1
Since 1994 the average number of games won by the 8th placed teams is 11.03
We have won 11 games or more in a season 8 times since 94. ??? >:( :help
Life can be cruel at times.
Yep we've missed out on finals with 12 wins a few times while Brisbane have twice made them with just 10 wins. We've had a knack of knowing where the line of mediocrity is each year and finish just below it :banghead.
I hope this year isn't a repeat of 1997. We hardly won a game under Walls (Wallace) so we sack him and replace him by his assistant Geisch (Rawlings) and we win games at the end of the season in a rush to finish 1/2 a game outside the top 8 because the standard of the mid-ladder sides was rubbish :help. Coincidentally Melbourne were wooden spooners that year too with just 4 wins.
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Yeah and in 1998 MT we had 12 wins and lost in round 22 to Melbourne the wooden spooner from 97 by 13 goals to hand Essendon 8th spot on percentage. Coincidentally another team who finished below us in 1997.
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Another ninth in Tigers' sights
George Megalogenis | August 08, 2009 | The Australian
FOUR rounds to go. Four sets of results that no sane person would tip.
But it's there, Richmond supporters, if you give the abacus of the absurd a quick glance.
We can make the finals.
All that has to happen is Port Adelaide loses four times, Hawthorn and Essendon drops three of their next four, and Sydney gets beaten twice.
Oh, and the Tigers would have to win all four remaining matches, starting with the Swans tomorrow, then Collingwood, Hawthorn and West Coast.
OK, so Malcolm Turnbull is more likely to join Kevin Rudd's office as the prime ministerial speechwriter.
But there is a serious side to Richmond's remote mathematical chance of sneaking into the eight.
It means another ninth-place finish is on the cards.
This ninth would be our first in an odd year, and our first back-to-back. It would take our total to seven since 1994.
This ninth would repeat the nutty symmetry of last year's effort, when we left the run so late that the streak (eight of the last 11 games) could only be explained by the absence of pressure. No one expected the finals when the winning began, and they were right.
These are the phoney displays of form that give real meaning to one's membership.
You cough up the cash at the start of the season, watch the side surrender its first couple of matches, then you give up.
I've seen Richmond just thrice this year -- the round one dacking against Carlton; the round five choke against Melbourne, and the draw the other week against the Kangaroos.
There is nothing I witnessed in those efforts that would convince me to go back again this season.
But a come-from-nowhere ninth would compel me to renew my vows, if only for the sheer comic brilliance of it all. Was it really just a month ago that we were last?
Now the question that must be nagging readers at the moment: how do I see ninth place unfold when the team now in that position, Essendon, is 2 1/2 wins ahead of us with four games to go?
Don't ask me. The footy gods will find a way.
Go Tigers.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25898203-5012432,00.html
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"A come-from-nowhere ninth" :thatsgold but at the same time :chuck :help :banghead
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;D