Watching Hawthorn be 47 points up at the 10 minute mark of the 2nd term against us last year in Round 22 was embarassing. Who would have thought a year such as this was around the corner?
Had you ever lost hope?
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Many times. I think thats the reason many of us were unwilling to take the lid off. 1997 SF definitely springs to mind, we were screwed over by the umpires see Leigh Colbert mark not paid (plus playing in Adelaide despite finishing 2nd WTF?), after that loss I knew the era was over and we hadn't managed a premiership.
Sorry for jumping onto a Cats board out of the blue, but as an Adelaide fan I hate seeing the same old misconception persisting. Like any decision in a game of footy, a wrong decision can change the flow of the game and ultimately the outcome, so we can argue any game really. But that mark not paid to Colbert has gone down in Cats folklore as though it was on the siren and you were 1 point down or something. In reality, he was a fair way out and no certainty to goal it, you still lost the game by more than 1 goal anyway, and Tony Modra took a magnificent diving mark in the same game, not far out from goal, that was also incorrectly disallowed by the umpire.
So yes it was a close game, but Geelong were by no means robbed. Maybe it was all the pent up frustrations and fears of the long premiership drought that made fans look back as though it was one (of several) that got away?
Anyway, congrats on this year's win. Obviously very deserving.
You know that uncomfortable feeling you had all year - when you knew you should win but weren't going to feel safe until you were 10 goals up with 10 mins to play? I kind of felt that way with Adelaide in 2005. Everyone was saying call the season off and give Adelaide the flag now. To which I said "okay, please do, because anything could still go wrong". Any of course it did - slipping from unbeatable halfway through and a % like Geelong's this year, to losing a prelim final two years in a row to West Coast. And of course in 2007 we saw the start of the slide.
Now a Cats fan at my work assures me that Geelong won't peak for another year or so. A "Cat-trick" might be a bit hard to take!