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All 3 teams that played foxtel cup wont be playing finals!

Discuss!

whufc wrote:All 3 teams that played foxtel cup wont be playing finals!

Discuss!

Oh, I have been

Yeah, I remember all 3 clubs saying it wouldnt hurt their finals chances

We didn't play finals last year either, and we finished two places higher.

Oh, and we didn't sack our coach.

Discuss.

pipers wrote:We didn't play finals last year either, and we finished two places higher.

Oh, and we didn't sack our coach.

Discuss.

There's your problem. Had Port dismissed Bamford after a dismal Foxtel Cup campaign, it might have made the half-game difference needed to make the finals.

Pseudo wrote:

pipers wrote:We didn't play finals last year either, and we finished two places higher.

Oh, and we didn't sack our coach.

Discuss.

There's your problem. Had Port dismissed Bamford after a dismal Foxtel Cup campaign, it might have made the half-game difference needed to make the finals.

Dismal?

We finished in the Top-4!

pipers wrote:

Pseudo wrote:

pipers wrote:We didn't play finals last year either, and we finished two places higher.

Oh, and we didn't sack our coach.

Discuss.

There's your problem. Had Port dismissed Bamford after a dismal Foxtel Cup campaign, it might have made the half-game difference needed to make the finals.

Dismal?

We finished in the Top-4!

Must be hard beating NSW sides that most Amateur clubs in Adelaide would beat.

No team that palyed Foxtel Cup made the finals!

doggies4eva wrote:No team that palyed Foxtel Cup made the finals!

this year or last year, I think it had more of a positive effect at North than negative.

I really don't undertand why this is such an issue.

If you had asked me in Rd 1 if I thought we would have made finals I would have said no.

(and I would have been right)

Fact is, the competition provided two chances for our kids to get away as a team and have experiences that not many SANFL players get.

I think it was possibly a mistake for West to take part, but for North and us it made sense.

If I were Glenelg I would consider taking part next year. They might enjoy the one or two wins it could offer them.

Ian wrote:

doggies4eva wrote:No team that palyed Foxtel Cup made the finals!

this year or last year, I think it had more of a positive effect at North than negative.

ditto for Port.

pipers wrote:

Pseudo wrote:

pipers wrote:We didn't play finals last year either, and we finished two places higher.

Oh, and we didn't sack our coach.

Discuss.

There's your problem. Had Port dismissed Bamford after a dismal Foxtel Cup campaign, it might have made the half-game difference needed to make the finals.

Dismal?

We finished in the Top-4!

So did Glenelg, and their season was dismal...

Lots of comments about the Foxtel Cup Pseudo but no comments on your teams chances of winning in the finals. Already given up on that?

pipers wrote:I really don't undertand why this is such an issue.

If you had asked me in Rd 1 if I thought we would have made finals I would have said no.

(and I would have been right)

Fact is, the competition provided two chances for our kids to get away as a team and have experiences that not many SANFL players get.

I think it was possibly a mistake for West to take part, but for North and us it made sense.

If I were Glenelg I would consider taking part next year. They might enjoy the one or two wins it could offer them.

I think we played Port after one of their games and while i can't remember the exact circumstances I thought it effected you rperformance that night. No doubt it hurt West.

ca wrote:

pipers wrote:I think we played Port after one of their games and while i can't remember the exact circumstances I thought it effected you rperformance that night. No doubt it hurt West.

We got rolled by 100 points. Had we not played in Sydney the week before maybe we could have held that to 60 points.

Brodlach wrote:Lots of comments about the Foxtel Cup Pseudo but no comments on your teams chances of winning in the finals. Already given up on that?

weve given up before it started - no need to get our hopes up for another failure

pipers wrote:

Ian wrote:

doggies4eva wrote:No team that palyed Foxtel Cup made the finals!

this year or last year, I think it had more of a positive effect at North than negative.

ditto for Port.

Yes, imagine where they would have finished if they hadn't competed? :-
I'd be quite happy if those teams competed next year, again. They can wreap all the benefits all over again.

Shove the Foxtel Cup you know where just MICKEY MOUSE RUBBISH a complete failure dud nada zero skada !!!

Claremont are currently top in the WAFL. East Perth and Swan Districts won't play finals.

Northern Bullants, Williamstown and North Ballarat are still alive in the VFL finals.

I haven't checked the QAFL or how Clarence are going.

Port and North went down to the wire in the SANFL but history says that most years any 3 of the bottom 4 SANFL teams from the previous year won't make finals the following year.

Regardless of what you think of the Foxtel cup itself, I am not sure any conclusion can be drawn on how participation impacted any of the teams in their normal competitions. Certainly not the implied conclusion in the OP. It didn't harm the VFL teams at face value.

Coincidence? Impossible to know really what impact the FC had.