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Quote from: WA Tiger on August 18, 2013, 08:54:18 AMSo, back in the day, full of ourselves as per usual, went into the semi or pre lim, got smashed by the Cats I think, absolutely thumped...... Can feel it coming again. We just cant seem to lift...DO WE WAN'T IT......???? This year has been totally different to '95 and 2001. By the midseason break in '95 we had no Richo, our captain Freezer and Whitey who killed Carey in that Monday night flogging of North had done his ankle. We lost our best forward, best defender that year and midfield leader in the space of a month. We won only 4 games in the second half of that season and crawled into the finals more on fight than class. In 2001, we got flogged by everyone of the top 4 sides. Compare this to this year where we've beaten Hawthorn and Freo late in the season. So we can beat some of the top sides. I don't believe we'll win the flag but we have a top side in the making. It's more what we do in October and November that will determine whether we take the next step into the top 4 in 2014. The problem in '95 and 2001 is we kidded ourselves that we were already a top side, signed up our big names to $$$ contracts at the expense of list management and expected it would all just happen. Compare that to now where we know we are not yet there and the club (Hardwick) has admitted that and that the hard work has only just begun.
So, back in the day, full of ourselves as per usual, went into the semi or pre lim, got smashed by the Cats I think, absolutely thumped...... Can feel it coming again. We just cant seem to lift...DO WE WAN'T IT......????
'13 because all the other blokes would be well and truly past it by now.
He'll be our best pick up ever