Over a month since a rant. Amazing. Let me fix that.
Having just lost my main money league by 11 points there are some things I need to get off my chest. Beware this will be a very biased account drawing on selective facts to suit my argument.
With 1 quarter to go I needed to make up around 17 points and have Mills (C) & Heeney v Steele. In that quarter Mills scores 12 points, Heeney scores 31 and Steele 49. Therefore it ends up 12 x 2+31 = 55 v 49.
They way I figure if any of the following things goes my way then I win this league.
- I locked in Oliver for 118 rather than roll the dice on Mills (93). I would very rarely not do this.
- Oliver doesn't have 13 clangers with his 20 CPs to limit his score to an awkward 118.
- I don't get spooked by a mediocre last game and a Drew tag and entrust the C on the most reliable player in the game Laird (133) who I used my last 2 trades on last week (1 was Merrett) to shoehorn into my side. (Madness!!!)
- I don't trade out Merrett for Laird last round.
- Laird (opponents captain) doesn't score 10 points in the last 30 seconds of the game with a tackle, 3 possessions including a centre clearance.
- Darcy doesn't go backwards in the last quarter from 90 - 83 when Freo believe he should play forward and Meek should play the majority of the last quarter in the Ruck. This resulted in me using Coleman's 88.
- Lobb doesn't get injured which means Meek doesn't even play.
- I select any of Dunkley, Sicily, English, Cripps, Heeney or Sinclair to be my captain rather than Mills.
- Cripps doesn't get caught holding the ball in the last minute of a 1 point game to lose significant points.
- Mills doesn't spend 47% of the first quarter on the bench.
- Steele doesn't kick that goal from 50 out from the boundary early in the last quarter.
- Mills doesn't get stuck on the wing were no ball ever goes for the majority of the last quarter.
- That kick out from Jake Lloyd to Mills in the last few minutes hits the target rather than gets spoiled by Steele and resulting in a StK goal.
- The 2 marks and 2 effectives kicks by Heeney in the last few minutes when the game was still up for grabs score more that 4 points.
- Heeney doesn't get scaled down by 2 points but actually gets scaled up on account of the previous point.
- Mills doesn't get scaled down 4 points.
This game is character building...