Round 19 Results
Round 19 waltzed into town, jerked off on our sleeping faces, and then left without so much as a goodbye.
I sat in AAMI Stadium on Saturday night in the cold sipping XXXX beer from a plastic up, and watched the Crows flounder around the oval like a bunch of dying seagulls who had been fed Panadol laced bread by a school yard bully.
I had a bad feeling two minutes into the game that the Crows were having one of their “off days”. Collingwood didn’t play so well either, but they played a damn sight better than the Crows and rightfully took the win. Collingwood beat Adelaide 89 to 68.
My reward for making the pilgrimage to AAMI Stadium was the resulting “Ride of Shame” back to the city centre with Richo, where we got to stand in a crowded bus and listen to the Collingwood Club Anthem sung repeatedly. We amused ourselves by striking up a conversation with a few Collingwood fans about the rest of the season and the resulting finals. It probably comes as a surprise to the foreign readers (especially the Soccer fans) that the two rival fan bases board the same buses home after a game, but that’s just the way it has always been in these parts.
We got off the bus in the city at about 11pm to catch up with mates and drown our sorrows. The venue of choice was the cocktail bar Lotus Lounge, whereby I lined up at the bar for half an hour and paid $34 for four beers (seriously, fuck that place), before we headed off for greener pastures. It had been a tiring week of Sparrow-Fart and Graveyard-shifts at work so I was hoping to have an earlyish night – which of course resulted in me stumbling out of the Crazy Horse at 5 am stinking of Stella, cheap perfume and mild shame.
The Essendon vs Brisbane game was a draw - as a slight Brisbane win was going to rate a 7, and a slight Essendon win an 8, a draw scores 7.5.
Final Grade for Round 19 = 25.5/60, or 42.5%. Which is half a percent less than last week’s result, so, yes, another mediocre weekend of football (as far as the Crows final four chances are concerned).
The peculiar problem with the Crows current position on the ladder (and the overall closeness of the teams standings), is that they still have a chance to make the top four….but also have an outside chance of not making the finals at all.
If you’re not an Aussie Rules fan, then these posts have probably been boring the shit out of you and you haven’t been reading them all the way through. But if you are wondering what all the fuss is about finishing in the final four, observe the following diagram I ganked from Wikipedia:
Finishing in the top four means you play in the first week of finals. If you win, you go straight through to the preliminary final. If you lose, you get a second chance in the semi final.
Finishing in the bottom four is not as advantageous. If you win , you have to then slog it out in the semi. If you lose? Game Over, man. Game Over.
So if your team doesn’t make it in the top for, you at least want to finish in positions 5 or 6. That would mean the first final game for your team would be a home game. The home ground advantage can make all the difference.
Wikipedia has more information on the advantage of ladder positions here. Learning is fun.
Losing to Collingwood put a serious dent in the Crows top four campaign, but there still is a slight chance we can do it, though a fifth (or sixth) place is probably the more reasonable goal.
New changes to the grading system for Round 20: the Crows game is ranked out of 25, games that affect our top four chances are ranked out of 15, games that can affect our final eight chances are ranked out of 10. In each case we want team A to win. Team A winning by more than five goals = 100%, two to five goals = 90%, less than two goals = 80%. Team B winning by less than two goals = 70%.
Here are the six games that will make a difference for round 20:
I sat in AAMI Stadium on Saturday night in the cold sipping XXXX beer from a plastic up, and watched the Crows flounder around the oval like a bunch of dying seagulls who had been fed Panadol laced bread by a school yard bully.
I had a bad feeling two minutes into the game that the Crows were having one of their “off days”. Collingwood didn’t play so well either, but they played a damn sight better than the Crows and rightfully took the win. Collingwood beat Adelaide 89 to 68.
My reward for making the pilgrimage to AAMI Stadium was the resulting “Ride of Shame” back to the city centre with Richo, where we got to stand in a crowded bus and listen to the Collingwood Club Anthem sung repeatedly. We amused ourselves by striking up a conversation with a few Collingwood fans about the rest of the season and the resulting finals. It probably comes as a surprise to the foreign readers (especially the Soccer fans) that the two rival fan bases board the same buses home after a game, but that’s just the way it has always been in these parts.
We got off the bus in the city at about 11pm to catch up with mates and drown our sorrows. The venue of choice was the cocktail bar Lotus Lounge, whereby I lined up at the bar for half an hour and paid $34 for four beers (seriously, fuck that place), before we headed off for greener pastures. It had been a tiring week of Sparrow-Fart and Graveyard-shifts at work so I was hoping to have an earlyish night – which of course resulted in me stumbling out of the Crazy Horse at 5 am stinking of Stella, cheap perfume and mild shame.
The Shogra System for Round 19:
CARL 97
GEEL 62
0/10
WB 97
WCE 102
8/10
ESS 87
BL 87
7.5/10
ADE 68
COLL 89
0/20
FRE 116
PORT 74
10/10
The Essendon vs Brisbane game was a draw - as a slight Brisbane win was going to rate a 7, and a slight Essendon win an 8, a draw scores 7.5.
Final Grade for Round 19 = 25.5/60, or 42.5%. Which is half a percent less than last week’s result, so, yes, another mediocre weekend of football (as far as the Crows final four chances are concerned).
The peculiar problem with the Crows current position on the ladder (and the overall closeness of the teams standings), is that they still have a chance to make the top four….but also have an outside chance of not making the finals at all.
If you’re not an Aussie Rules fan, then these posts have probably been boring the shit out of you and you haven’t been reading them all the way through. But if you are wondering what all the fuss is about finishing in the final four, observe the following diagram I ganked from Wikipedia:
Finishing in the top four means you play in the first week of finals. If you win, you go straight through to the preliminary final. If you lose, you get a second chance in the semi final.Finishing in the bottom four is not as advantageous. If you win , you have to then slog it out in the semi. If you lose? Game Over, man. Game Over.
So if your team doesn’t make it in the top for, you at least want to finish in positions 5 or 6. That would mean the first final game for your team would be a home game. The home ground advantage can make all the difference.Wikipedia has more information on the advantage of ladder positions here. Learning is fun.
Losing to Collingwood put a serious dent in the Crows top four campaign, but there still is a slight chance we can do it, though a fifth (or sixth) place is probably the more reasonable goal.
New changes to the grading system for Round 20: the Crows game is ranked out of 25, games that affect our top four chances are ranked out of 15, games that can affect our final eight chances are ranked out of 10. In each case we want team A to win. Team A winning by more than five goals = 100%, two to five goals = 90%, less than two goals = 80%. Team B winning by less than two goals = 70%.
Here are the six games that will make a difference for round 20:
A. ADEL
B. HAW
Out of 25
A. RICH
B. COLL
Out of 15
A. BL
B. WB
Out of 15
A. GEEL
B. SYD
Out of 10
A. PORT
B. CARL
Out of 10
A. ST K
B. ESS
Out of 10
posted by Beef at Thursday, August 13, 2009
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