Grand Final supporter pressure

[Racing line]

Richmond can hardly be considered "underdogs". Victoria has being going wild for them this week. So much hype. Everyone on Talking Footy last night tipped them. Adelaide is strolling into town today completely under the radar, bizarrely.

Honestly its got me ****ed how everyone heres been picking the Tiges. No ****ing way are they faves. Sure anything can happen but crows have to be clear faves imo. We got touched up by both teams but the skill and class of crows and how your boys manage to pile on the goals is incredible. Your transition outa defence and from turnovers was immense so the tiges gotta make sure every disposal hits a target or youse'll make em pay big time on the counter.

 

[pjcrows]

I'm sh*tting bricks.

 

[Gavin Excell]

I'm sh*tting bricks.

Right attitude

 

[Captain Morgan]

Feeling pretty good about it all to be honest. I think being underdogs and not even being expected to play finals definitely helps.

Ok so I recognise I am looking at it through crows supporter eyes but the feeling in SA is that the vic / national media have all jumped on the tigers bandwagon.

Do you think being at the epicentre of it all in melbourne this week (especially with dusty and all his media engagements this week) has artificially increased the pressure on richcmond ? Not trying to suggest you will break under pressure, just curious.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Ok so I recognise I am looking at it through crows supporter eyes but the feeling in SA is that the vic / national media have all jumped on the tigers bandwagon.

Do you think being at the epicentre of it all in melbourne this week (especially with dusty and all his media engagements this week) has artificially increased the pressure on richcmond ? Not trying to suggest you will break under pressure, just curious.

So despite betting, you see yourselves as underdogs?

 

[Acinath]

Ok so I recognise I am looking at it through crows supporter eyes but the feeling in SA is that the vic / national media have all jumped on the tigers bandwagon.

Do you think being at the epicentre of it all in melbourne this week (especially with dusty and all his media engagements this week) has artificially increased the pressure on richcmond ? Not trying to suggest you will break under pressure, just curious.

The media is 100% pumping the pressure with a large contingent of the media having the opinion we will win.

It feels like it has a much larger impact on the fans than the players. I'm not convinced the players necessarily feel it. They may or may not feel it, but it feels like they are embracing it and taking it in their stride.

All the media hype does for a Richmond fan is make life difficult with the pot shots from other supporters if we do lose. 10 years of Ninthmond just becomes annoying.

 

[madmug]

From a realistic fan point of view, we are an underdog. From a betting point of view, we are an underdog.

Media hype is media hype, it always surrounds the Tigers.

The hype always surrounds the Local side playing an 'expansion' team. Its the small town mentality in a big city. Its strange one but being outside the Victorian glass bowl, its childishly parochial & pretty obvious.

 

[Tuco]

Feeling excited!

The unexpected surprise I sense is nothing negative will happen if we lose... it would be a missed opportunity, but the whole world won't tear us apart for months if we don't win. Nobody even expected us to play finals, there's literally no pressure on us.

So I'm feeling a sense of freedom now.

And every now and then a primal urge in me says:

Go out there and kill 'em!!

If we lose, so be it.

We've got a young list and will only get better.

Told myself the same thing in 96. Didn't climb tbe mountain again for about another decade.

 

[gangsta deluxe]

Feeling pretty good about it all to be honest. I think being underdogs and not even being expected to play finals definitely helps.

Yeah mate, you just soak it in. No better week, particularly if you win!

 

[telsor]

Ok so I recognise I am looking at it through crows supporter eyes but the feeling in SA is that the vic / national media have all jumped on the tigers bandwagon.

Do you think being at the epicentre of it all in melbourne this week (especially with dusty and all his media engagements this week) has artificially increased the pressure on richcmond ? Not trying to suggest you will break under pressure, just curious.

Vic media has been focused on Richmond, just as (I imagine) the SA media has focused on the Crows. Probably less so actually, as many of them would at least be trying to at least appear even handed for the sake of their national market.

Pressure has been pretty huge on Richmond all along, so if they weren't handling it OK, they wouldn't have got here.

As for Dusty....I think being in the GF is the best thing for him as a person post-Brownlow, as it would mean he could avoid a lot of the 'usual' engagements. Not sure it would really have much effect on his performance on game day either way though...All the contract talk during the season didn't seem to after all.

Much as I think Adelaide is the favorites, outside pressure isn't something I think will be a negative for Richmond (I don't suppose it would be for the Crows either, but I can't claim to have any real insight into that).

 

[zucchini]

Items around the home have been colour coded according to value. Red means it can't be replaced - don't throw (mums ashes). Orange means you can replace it but it'll hurt after (photos of the kids).Green means okay to throw (mum in law ashes).

Shitting myself but I'm feeling really prepared actually.

The funniest.

 

[Bokonon_]

The media is 100% pumping the pressure with a large contingent of the media having the opinion we will win.

It feels like it has a much larger impact on the fans than the players. I'm not convinced the players necessarily feel it. They may or may not feel it, but it feels like they are embracing it and taking it in their stride.

All the media hype does for a Richmond fan is make life difficult with the pot shots from other supporters if we do lose. 10 years of Ninthmond just becomes annoying.

16 clubs didn't make the GF, none have the right to pour scorn on the two that did.

 

[Captain Morgan]

So despite betting, you see yourselves as underdogs?

I see it as an even split. But that's just me.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

Losing a prelim is worse. Even if you lose a gf you get to experience the build-up and the day...the anthem, the roar at the 1st bounce and the belief your team might just win a flag

To me, it's all circumstantial. Surprisingly, the Eagles have lost two prelims in 31 seasons and one was in 1990 and I never saw it and the other in 2011 which I never expected them to win anyway. Was actually quite content with the spoon to prelim rise that year.

Losing Grand Finals... urgh. 2005 was soul destroying. To get so close and be so far is absolute torture. No "oh well, we weren't good enough". It's all "if just this ONE thing happened or didn't happen" that changes the result. I'm so so so fortunate they atoned the following year. That healed.

It's why I absolutely bleed my heart for Saints fans. These poor people have had far too much of that torture. It's one thing to never get there and finally get to a GF. But to have a few cracks at it, especially recently, and still come away with nothing. It's a cruel sport sometimes.

 

[skipper kelly]

I'm sh*tting bricks.

That's gotta hurt

 

[Speck]

**** Grand Finals and the week before.

I think both sides will be quite excited, similar to the Bulldogs last year neither team has been there for quite a while so there's a sense of taking it all in.

 

[telsor]

16 clubs didn't make the GF, none have the right to pour scorn on the two that did.

You'd think so, but 3 years of making finals only to lose didn't stop fans of clubs that didn't make finals giving us crap about it...

 

[BlazeOfGlory]

Most neutrals down in Vic are backing the Tigers due to them been a Vic club and probably because we see them as the underdogs. The underdog story is always great.

 

[Golumless]

Eerily confident, and I have been all finals series.

 

[StonesThrow]

I get ultra excited at the thought of winning. Gonna go out dancing for sure. Then I get so nervous thinking about losing that I almost feel sick. Just think about not being back here for a long time.

 

[Sloane4pm]

Have been watching all the shows and listening to SEN on the app all week.... who are richmond even playing?

 

[enobrien]

Have been watching all the shows and listening to SEN on the app all week.... who are richmond even playing?

Victorian station. Victorian side with a massive support base. Im sure listening to an Adelaide station would be the same thing.

 

[Suma Magic]

Feeling excited!

The unexpected surprise I sense is nothing negative will happen if we lose... it would be a missed opportunity, but the whole world won't tear us apart for months if we don't win. Nobody even expected us to play finals, there's literally no pressure on us.

So I'm feeling a sense of freedom now.

And every now and then a primal urge in me says:

Go out there and kill 'em!!

If we lose, so be it.

We've got a young list and will only get better.

The last sentence is interesting. I think most teams think this.

But it doesn't always work that way. Gotta take your chance while you are there.

 

[beta_condition]

Losing a prelim is worse. Even if you lose a gf you get to experience the build-up and the day...the anthem, the roar at the 1st bounce and the belief your team might just win a flag

Yep 2012 was disappointment but least I got to enjoy the week build up and watch Franklin almost tear Sydney apart by himself. I've never been as flat from a football games as the 2011 preliminary final watching Collingwood coming from behind was just awful.

 

[Bulldog1954]

Going to bed tomorrow night is when nerves will really kick in. Walking towards the ground on Saturday is exciting, but scary