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I've been moping around for a couple of days, but now I think I'm prepared to say we were never in it.
Melbourne came out hard, made some crunching tackles and looked sharp while we were uncertain and fumbly.
We scrambled our way back, thanks to Bontempelli, but got overrun in the third.
I think Melbourne embraced the historic pressure when I thought it would be the opposite.
It would be good to hear the club's assessments of how the the leadup, playing all over the country in quarantine, affected our players physically and mentally. Melbourne had their feet up while we were touring five states.
It looked like we just hit a wall. I really don't want to blame the players for a lack of effort.
I can't remember the stage in the last quarter, but it was reasonably early, but they definitely put the cue in the rack. Whether it was effort or exhaustion, they absolutely gave up.
yeah two things that that hurt the most was lack of any coaching in the middle set up when they started to get in a roll, and the players just giving up. You don't concede 100 points in a quarter and half and kick just 1 without giving up.
Probably sour grapes as I honestly thought we were going to win this premiership, but if there's any consolation for all of us, one things for sure, our 2016 premiership shits all over Melbourne's one.
The main reason is we had to deal with an extremely compromised draft with Melbourne, Carlton GWS and Gold Coast raiding the picks , so we had to draft well with our picks and even from the rookie draft, and Melbourne's premiership came from being cellar dwellers , picking up a heap of high draft picks and basically being kissed on the dick.. admittedly they recruited well from trades.. I'll give them that..
So although Saturday was extremely hard to swallow, our 2016 flag shits on their one IMO.
3 goals in 22 seconds of game time.!
Unheard of...
Can the coaching team also look at the video of the number of times we have two players going up for the same mark.
it is on the coaches, and i wish they had of gone all in in that moment, but in their defense its the way we always play, Bevo never goes all in, he protects players for later in games and the long term, its why we normally finish games well and are a great last quarter team. he always backs the available players to fill in.It happened multiple times this year. Richmond. Port. The coaching team and the players should have been prepared for it. And once again we conceded goals in the last few minutes of a quarter. Its like we switch off looking to the break. Been happening all season.
That period when we were 19 points up and the ball was locked in Melbourne's defense was the match deciding period. We kick a goal and they are broken. They knew it too which is why they fought tooth and nail to not allow that goal. It meant the premiership.
We should have gone for broke then.
Instead we rested key players and the rest is history. That's on the coaches.
Im ok with the defeat, Dees were largely the most consistent all year and had the best defence and midfieldsI don’t know how Saints supporters dealt with those 2 straight GF losses, I’m still numb from Saturday night. Seeing Dees celebrations everywhere has made me want to jump off social media for a while but happy for their club and fans who have been deprived of success for so long - I remember that feeling.
I recall Bailey Smith saying in the post match interview after the prelim “we have a pretty strong internal rivalry with the Dees”. I wonder how hard this will drive them to make amends next year?
Yes he was .. and now he's gone to AdelaideView attachment 1248045
Well there you go
An incredible feat from their medicos and fitness staff. I think it was mentioned Darren Burgess was in charge on the fitness side.
It's still hard to fathom that we were 6 pts down with 46 secs left on the clock in the 3rd quarter, and then we're 4 goals down at 3/4 time. Game over.
Goals straight out of the guts like those are massive momentum swingers. Jackson, Oliver and petracca won them the game.
Just an overriding sense of total flatness today. Great therapy being able to read others comments.