Even if we had hung on against the Doggies we would have ended up with 48 points and still been out of the 8 on percentage.
The St Kilda game ultimately was the match that cost us a finals berth.
We would've finished 5th and just % outside of the top 4 if we had won both games. Then again if we had lost the Port, Brisbane and second Bombers and Freo games we won narrowly we would've been bottom 4. It just shows how even the comp is between the middle of the road sides.
The Saints game hurts the most as it's a game we should have won in a canter let alone never lost. We creamed them at the stoppages but kept turning over the footy every two seconds
and then Milne has a freaking day out in front of the sticks
. At least the Dogs game we played well in a high standard game of footy. Both sides had chances to kill the game (Dogs in the first quarter and us in the last) so a draw was probably a fair result as much as it sucked to cough up a 19 point lead because we didn't know how to knock down the clock. Why oh why Jakey did you rush that point
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