Honorable Loss

[Sw3Et]

Just wanna say well played tonight. We thought we could turn up at 50% and win, but brissy showed true talent and desperation and made west coast play with every ounce of effort. With no injuries and maybe a couple more calls in your favour and you could have snatched the win, but with this game and last weeks against the pies and hopefully a better run with injuries, we can expect big things from Brisbane in 2012! Good Luck

 

[Schache It Off]

Great post but...

"Honorable" should be reworded as "Not good enough"

 

[Cousin Jed]

Pretty sure we are on top of the honourable loss ladder this year

 

[policegetthatman]

Quit triyng to win friends champ

Good luck in the finals.
Atleast Carlton have no chance of top 4. They were probably getting there hopes up but we quickly buried them with our last half

 

[Mr Ripper]

Quit triyng to win friends champ

Good luck in the finals.
Atleast Carlton have no chance of top 4. They were probably getting there hopes up but we quickly buried them with our last half

Thankyou. I think we've just discovered the evening's silver lining.

 

[BlackCaviar]

love it

Thankyou. I think we've just discovered the evening's silver lining.

 

[AndrewD]

"Honorable" should be reworded as "Not good enough"

I think 'wasted our opportunities' is more appropriate.

We were certainly good enough to win but didn't make the most of our opportunities, especially in the third quarter.

 

[Rally]

Story of our season...

 

[Sw3Et]

I think 'wasted our opportunities' is more appropriate.

We were certainly good enough to win but didn't make the most of our opportunities, especially in the third quarter.

This is exactly what we were saying last year about the eagles and less then a year later we got our sh!t together and are on our way. You guys will get yours!

 

[paulige]

Nothing 'honourable' about this one I'm afraid. We had it all but sown up, and just completely lapsed. Honourable is fighting it out for 4 quarters, and not coming up trumps. Tonight was unfortunately, just a wasted, completely blown, opportunity.


Oh well, I should look on the bright side. No top 4 for Carlton.

 

[LIONHART]

Pretty sure we are on top of the honourable loss ladder this year

There's no question on that front.

These losses are the hardest to deal with i find, i could cope with 80+ point drubbings better, at least you could say we were not good enough.

but to continually be in these winning positions so late into the game and lose is almost unbearable.

i'd be interested to know what others feel

 

[Tim the Toolman]

No, I prefer the honorable losses. To know we can get this clost to the top four sides with the kids we're playing - whom have re-signed to the club - and without our bookends means we are on a very good path!

 

[Hanley]

I agree with Tim, I think people try to string seasons together too much. Every team convinces themselves in preseason they can at least make the finals, and then those hopes are either nixed or validated in the first month.

The self-belief in a team seems very season-to-season to me.

A win like the round 22 '98 is lovely, but I would imagine better for the confidence of the supporters than any carry-over confidence in the players for Round 1 the next year. So, good to know you can win, but the players (correctly managed) always think that anyway.

 

[Gibbo_88]

There's no question on that front.

These losses are the hardest to deal with i find, i could cope with 80+ point drubbings better, at least you could say we were not good enough.

but to continually be in these winning positions so late into the game and lose is almost unbearable.

i'd be interested to know what others feel

Proud to be a lions supporter because of it. How many team have 4 (almost 5) players from the 08 draft in their best 22...

I've had a few things on when the lions games have been on so I haven't had to sit through all the pain. There is only a handful of games that we weren't good enough. We have been one of the better top 4 sides in recent times.

 

[western royboy]

Winning is a habit - so is losing. Despite the enormous upside, Saturday night was disappointing because we had the opportunity to nail down a win and let it slip through poor skills and mental errors. A few will stick with me, Cheynee Stiller's miss in the third, Drummo soon after and the horrendous turnover error at the end of the 3rd that let the Eagles get a shot at goal when the ball should have been down our end.

I was rapt at the effort, but concerned later that they were up for Luke Power's last game.

So while you can call it an honourable loss, I'm pretty worried about what this week might bring. At the end of the day we have won only three games for the year, which must be disappointing to all involved. Sure we have been decimated by injuries but we have had opportunities to win the 6-7 games that most of us would have considered reasonable. When the pressure has gone on, too often we have folded up.

 

[chopperduck]

The good thing with that royboy is that i think it only takes 1 game to snap that mental lapse that we have. 1 game where we blow someone away or claw back for a win and the belief will be there. I think ATM, we just aren't experienced enough, as a team, to keep hold of a lead. We are pretty good at catching up to teams, but if we get 4 goals up we kinda start going into unfamilar territory and we just stop.

 

[Cousin Jed]

Winning is a habit - so is losing. Despite the enormous upside, Saturday night was disappointing because we had the opportunity to nail down a win and let it slip through poor skills and mental errors. A few will stick with me, Cheynee Stiller's miss in the third, Drummo soon after and the horrendous turnover error at the end of the 3rd that let the Eagles get a shot at goal when the ball should have been down our end.

I was rapt at the effort, but concerned later that they were up for Luke Power's last game.

So while you can call it an honourable loss, I'm pretty worried about what this week might bring. At the end of the day we have won only three games for the year, which must be disappointing to all involved. Sure we have been decimated by injuries but we have had opportunities to win the 6-7 games that most of us would have considered reasonable. When the pressure has gone on, too often we have folded up.

Which game aren't you counting?

 

[western royboy]

touche

 

[western royboy]

The good thing with that royboy is that i think it only takes 1 game to snap that mental lapse that we have. 1 game where we blow someone away or claw back for a win and the belief will be there. I think ATM, we just aren't experienced enough, as a team, to keep hold of a lead. We are pretty good at catching up to teams, but if we get 4 goals up we kinda start going into unfamilar territory and we just stop.

Just on that - Collingwood rarely stop - regardless - the system keeps on going. 4 goal leads turn into 15-16 religously. They never belt anyone like Geelong (perception) but look at their %. They have lost one game (unluckily) should be heading into the finals as the greatest team since the Bombers of '00 yet my perception is that they are flying under the radar. Geelong aren't anywhere near them, Maybe and it's a big maybe but if Buddy & Cyril went off it would be close, but at this stage I can't see anyone getting near them.

 

[greendiesel]

Maybe and it's a big maybe but if Buddy & Cyril went off it would be close, but at this stage I can't see anyone getting near them.

We probably thought the same thing about Geelong in 2008.
.........and Essendon 2001.

 

[western royboy]

We probably thought the same thing about Geelong in 2008.
.........and Essendon 2001.

No on both counts in my book. I could certainly see the Hawks beating the Cats in '08 and in fact made a pile on it. Similarly I was supremely confident in '01, the Bummers were shot and as long as we didn't get blown out early we were always going to be strong at the end.

The one I will concede is the Bummers in '99 - they blew it.