Should be 12 in a row.
JL has been completely vindicated in his insinuation that the round ‘1’ game was compromised due to Geelong playing in round ‘0’…
There was a bit of a pile on at the time.
Interestingly, all the teams that were given the advantage of playing in Opening Round also sit in the positive umpire free kick differential category, except for GC and GWS who receive so much outside of umpiring favours. 🤔
@JasonSman21 Yep. Even at amateur levels it’s widely understood that you can train as hard as you like in preseason, but nothing beats that first game to build match fitness.
Wasn’t that long ago I was having to defend Matty Johnson’s potential against fools like the two snakes that pretend to be Freo podcasters. They also wanted JL sacked with a passion. And Walls sacked because they thought he couldn’t pick first rounders. And they don’t rate Andy