Lock this ******* thing..
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I was also at the game, so I concur!I was at the game so didn't get a chance to post at the time, so here's my post.
The umpires are dirty Victorian scummy cheats. Shameful bias.
**** you Umps.
**** you AFL
And Hawks, I hope you eat s**t and die next week against Sydney.
Ahh. That feels better. Closure.
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It's a fair point.
When people look back on history do they remember the also rans?
Who lost the 2001 preliminary finals? I sure don't remember.
you are either one of those hard-liners who think anything other than a GF appearance is a failure, or you are a normal, reasonable Crows supporter who likes watching our team win .
It's a fair point.
When people look back on history do they remember the also rans?
Who lost the 2001 preliminary finals? I sure don't remember.
0 GFs (although we have been in the finals for 4 of the last 8 years) vs 62% win rate in the games most of us actually go to. No point in debating this - you are either one of those hard-liners who think anything other than a GF appearance is a failure, or you are a normal, reasonable Crows supporter who likes watching our team win .
0 GFs (although we have been in the finals for 4 of the last 8 years) vs 62% win rate in the games most of us actually go to. No point in debating this - you are either one of those hard-liners who think anything other than a GF appearance is a failure, or you are a normal, reasonable Crows supporter who likes watching our team win .
The point I'm trying to make, is we've not been an absolute rabble. We have beaten teams, we have knocked teams out of the finals. Before this year, we had knocked Fremantle out the finals the last two times they had played. Which reiterates my point: teams hate us. I've met Bulldogs fans who despise us because of the Preliminary finals, I've met Freo fans who hate us for knocking them out also. Bitter fans mean we have beaten them in some way. If opposition supporters have a soft spot for us, it proves we are a soft team.
You seem to be suggesting that a match for you is a nice day outing, rather than a competitive contest?
You're probably not the only one who feels that way though
An interesting point...not sure if anyone's already raised it. This year's prelim was within a kick of the same score of last year. 2012...Haw 13-19 97, Adel 14-8 92, 2013...Haw 14-18 102, Geel 15-7 97. Both 5 point margins, and same scoring shots for each team.
Can't stop watching the highlights of this game and I keep thinking 'what if' when Danger had the ball in the 50 and was tackled. It's strange. 9/10 times danger would beat his opponents in those situations and that's when he needed to the most. The umpiring decisions in that match were shocking and you could say that they cost us the match.
I think he could have dove to take the mark on the lead, instead of taking it on the half volley and having to do a u-turn which is the hardest move in the book.
Plenty of defining moments in that game though.
You'd have to think that we would've lost the next week to Sydney in any case.
The thread title is thoroughly confusing. We played ourselves in the Prelim?
And still lost?
Yeah you don't know that though. Swans would have been preparing to play Hawks not us.Heartbreaking loss but I just don't think we would've beaten the Swans the following week. They touched us up in the QF and having played out of our skins against the Hawks (and the Swans playing at home the night before), they probably would've run over us in the end.
Still happy we didn't win the flag, given the whole Tippett saga, Vlad would have more than likely stripped us of the flag had we won.Yeah you don't know that though. Swans would have been preparing to play Hawks not us.
So, Grasshopper, is there ever a game in which one does not really play... oneself?The thread title is thoroughly confusing. We played ourselves in the Prelim?
And still lost?
Still happy we didn't win the flag, given the whole Tippett saga, Vlad would have more than likely stripped us of the flag had we won.