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).