Sustained success without the ultimate prize

[ilovethelegs]

Some interesting stats re sustained success over time. This captures the home and away results Round 1 2005 - Round 16 2015. We have been the most successful side to not win a flag.

It really is time we turned our on field success into some bolded entries in the record books!

 

[DD#23]

as far as I'm aware from 2000-2009 we were at the top of that ladder which is even more damning

 

[betterthanu]

2006 was our flag and we dropped it.

 

[little graham]

2006 was our flag and we dropped it.

We dropped 2005 when Selwood was pushed in the back by Van berlo and Ricciuto received a week for it ( am i doing this whipping boy thing right?). In 2006, we had a half a side in the prelim, playing an icy west coast missing one player, supported by corrupt Victorian umpires.

 

[FR0GGY]

Shouldn't geelong and us be one game less than the rest?

 

[ilovethelegs]

Shouldn't geelong and us be one game less than the rest?

I just included that game as a draw. We haven't actually had a real draw since 1994 against the Saints!

 

[Smoooothy]

We dropped 2005 when Selwood was pushed in the back by Van berlo and Ricciuto received a week for it ( am i doing this whipping boy thing right?). In 2006, we had a half a side in the prelim, playing an icy west coast missing one player, supported by corrupt Victorian umpires.

stay off the drugs.. it was already an all interstate grand final, why would the "corrupt victorians" care?

this chip on shoulder in regards to victorians is pure drivel, usually supported by the most dimwitted of our supporter base

 

[Carmo]

A bit arbitrary, why not go from 2009, 2004 or 2000? Anyways that aside, it highlights two things for me. One our crap recruiting until around the Craig era where we were finally willing to go down to the early rounds. We were also willing to assemble a team that were good at doing this. Prior, we lived off our initial recruiting that got us the likes of Roo, Goody, Jameson etc. Second, from around 2002 when our stars were beginning to fade until the Craig era recruiting started to pay dividends around 2012, we were a group of over performing lower quality players. We never should have won as many games as we did, but we got there through professionalism, gameplan and fitness. However, we lacked the talent to go with top sides and when they finally stepped up a level in finals, we simply didnt have another level to go since we were there all minor round just to make the finals with the talent we had. Hence us regularly being bundled out in finals.

All in all, its played out exactly how I think it should have. Just a pity in the late Blight and most of Ayres era we didnt go to early draft rounds and threw away draft picks in trading and didnt assemble a good recruit team otherwise we might have done a bit better from around 2006-now. Also lack of trade in Craig era made our list a bit more stale than it could have been. Craig's stubborness to implement modern tactics (for example rotations) also cost us some good opportunities where we might have done a bit better around 2008/9. Though I doubt that even through any of that era that without the better recruiting we ever had any chance of a premiership.

 

[Golumless]

2006 was our flag and we dropped it.

I agree it was our flag year, but, we didn't have that required luck to capitalize.

Injuries hit at the wrong time, that's for sure.

 

[Wright Away]

If we had a better coach we probably would have won in 2005.

 

[little graham]

stay off the drugs.. it was already an all interstate grand final, why would the "corrupt victorians" care?

this chip on shoulder in regards to victorians is pure drivel, usually supported by the most dimwitted of our supporter base

You played left field in soft ball last night?

 

[PCORF]

as far as I'm aware from 2000-2009 we were at the top of that ladder which is even more damning

We had the 2nd best home and away record from 00-09 behind Geelong. But we couldn't handle finals pressure and blew it after 2006. Frustrating as heck!

And it was not McLeod or Ricciuto that cost us, but our less experienced players.

That 2005 Adelaide team would smash the competition today.

 

[fabs33]

With people talking about the 2000 to 2009 period it reminded me of the new millennium celebrations that happened when we went from 1999 to 2000. I thought that all decades, centuries and millennia started with year 1 and not 0.

 

[Bosley]

Ah the pain of it all. I felt like not grabbing a flag in '05 or '06 was some karma for the 2 unexpected flags the decade before. Not that I believe in that stuff at all, but it was the only way I could accept it without going crazy.

Just so wish we had one more flag.

 

[relapse]

Ah the pain of it all. I felt like not grabbing a flag in '05 or '06 was some karma for the 2 unexpected flags the decade before. Not that I believe in that stuff at all, but it was the only way I could accept it without going crazy.

Just so wish we had one more flag.

The 2006 Prelim was our last genuine shot to win a premiership, when the siren went and the realisation set in that it was over, I actually felt like I had been punched in the stomach.

I remember my mate telling me that "there's always next year", but deep down I knew that day that we'd had just pissed away our last opportunity to potentially win a premiership. Unfortunately sometimes you need a bit of luck, but everything that year seemed to go against us. We had Hentschel's injury, Roo's parvo virus, Sydney beating WCE in Perth and putting them on our side of the draw, Biglands doing his knee in the prelim etc sadly we seemed to be cursed that year with horrible luck. It felt as though the footy gods had evened the score after 97/98.

 

[PCORF]

Gotta say we fought our butts off 6 years later in that 2012 preliminary final a game where very few gave us a chance but I knew all week it was going to be a close game. And maybe if that final centre clearance went our way then who knows? .... I sat on the couch and did not move for 3 to 4 hours after that game thinking what could have been if we pulled it off.

 

[Bosley]

Gotta say we fought our butts off 6 years later in that 2012 preliminary final a game where very few gave us a chance but I knew all week it was going to be a close game. And maybe if that final centre clearance went our way then who knows? .... I sat on the couch and did not move for 3 to 4 hours after that game thinking what could have been if we pulled it off.

2002 we were a very good chance to get to the GF too. I was at that Prelim. These losses stay with me, they fester.

Grrr, now we have a rep for choking in prelims. Guess we will carry it until we can prove it wrong.

Seriously tho, late 2009 was some of the best football we ever played. How we lost that semi I will never know, we were absolutely all over them in the first half.

 

[Vooligan]

Has any side lost more preliminaries than us since the 00's?

Can't believe someone mentioned 2006, now I feel depressed... I felt physically ill sitting in my seat at AAMI Stadium that day. I felt as if someone has literally taken the premiership cup out of my hands. Sad, sad day. Was nearly nine years ago, but it feels like it was only yesterday. No other loss in the history of our existence burns as bad as that one for me.

 

[Geoffa32]

We would have won at least one flag in 05/06 if we had a decent key forward.

Paul Roos would not be as highly regarded either. They were our bitches then.,

 

[Vooligan]

We would have won at least one flag in 05/06 if we had a decent key forward.

Paul Roos would not be as highly regarded either. They were our bitches then.,

If only we took Pav instead or McGregor. If only we took Pav instead of Carey.....

 

[Geoffa32]

Has any side lost more preliminaries than us since the 00's?

Can't believe someone mentioned 2006, now I feel depressed... I felt physically ill sitting in my seat at AAMI Stadium that day. I felt as if someone has literally taken the premiership cup out of my hands. Sad, sad day. Was nearly nine years ago, but it feels like it was only yesterday. No other loss in the history of our existence burns as bad as that one for me.

Worst I have ever felt after a Crows game.

 

[Geoffa32]

If only we took Pav instead or McGregor. If only we took Pav instead of Carey.....

If only Carey didn't hit that post.

 

[ilovethelegs]

Has any side lost more preliminaries than us since the 00's?

Nope. We have the most with 4.

Multiple preliminary final losses since 2000:

Adelaide 4
North Melbourne 3
Port Adelaide 3
St Kilda 3
Geelong 3
Collingwood 3
Bulldogs 3
Sydney 2
Hawthorn 2

 

[Pilchard_Adams]

That 2006 game... The room at my house had about 15 of us guys all dead silent. You could hear the sound of people swallowing their beer. I walked out back, just about ripped the door off its hinges, grabbed the biggest orange i could see on my orange tree, and hurled it as hard as I could at the fence. It missed the top of the fence by about 10mm, went straight over the back and smashed the neighbors window. And zero f$%^s were given. I was frustrated for days

 

[JP Sauce]

Thread title has been our club mantra for a while. Hopefully that's not the case anymore after the recent off-field changes.