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LOL.I don't have an hour to refer them all to you. Just watch more Grand Finals
LOL.
Here's a challenge for you. Name ONE moment that was more clutch than Dom Sheed's. Just one.
Out of all the dozens of moments that you, and only you, know about and the rest of us are too feeble to remember, name one of them.
Go.
One that I'd have to rate as possibly on par, would be Buckenara's shot after the siren in the 1987 PF. 40m out, siren sounded, a GF berth hingeing on the outcome. It's arguably as clutch as Sheed's.From that angle, at that stage of the game with the premiership cup resting on his boot, ****en balls of steel.
The campaigner nailed the most clutch shot in AFL history. Come to think of it, one of the most clutch shots not just in AFL history, but sporting history.
Prelim final. Scores level. Has a shot from 10m out, any score will do. Nope.
NEXT!
You haven't even named one yet.I could easily name 1000 better clutch moments in AFL history if we're considering all Finals games or any game that's season ending.
Dom Sheeds was an average set shot there was nothing clutch about it. It was a rather low intensity moment of play also. Both sides hardly fought that game given how close the scores were and what was at stake.
For reference this is the moment we think is the best clutch in history? It's not even anything special
They very definition of clutch.
I could easily name 1000 better clutch moments
I don't have an hour to refer them all to you.
A PF is not and will never be more clutch than the dying minutes in a GF.
A well-reasoned, well-argued response to the OP premise.I’d probably agree with the OP... but... when talking “clutch”, it’s generally when the pressure to kick the goal is unimaginable, and the consequences life-changing.
I think the fact it was such a difficult angle helped. Sheed could reasonably be expected to miss it - most shots from there would miss. If he had, and Collingwood won? I don’t think Sheed would’ve been blamed for one second. It wouldn’t be remembered much.
The pressure from a very long distance or an impossible angle is less. It’s all upside, the opportunity to be a hero. Like goalkeepers in a penalty shootout. They’re not supposed to succeed.
Same situation, 30 metres out, directly in front? THAT is pressure. That would be clutch. Like the kicker in a penalty shootout.
In that situation most people could be thinking “**** what if I miss this...”, not “if I kick this I’ll be a hero”.
A well-reasoned, well-argued response to the OP premise.