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I didn’t think I would be able to watch it again either and I can’t go much beyond 3 quarter time, but I wanted to listen to some of the other commentaries and see what they were thinking in some of those critical moments. Particularly because I can’t stand the Channel 7 commentators like BT and Brayshaw and the crap they spew out so I wanted to hear some more balanced commentary.I'm not sure I'll ever be able to watch that game again, so kudos to those of you who can compartmentalise so well. I've had a big week at work and my kids are on school holidays so it's been fairly hectic, which has helped, but in the late evenings when my mind drifts off I can't help but think about the midpoint of the third quarter and how I felt then compared to 10-15 mins later.
I'm fine, but from a footy sense I'm still a little drained emotionally. I've never really liked the long gap between the end of the season and the start of the next one, but I'm actually fine with it this time around.
In general most thought the same as us, that Melbourne were in trouble if they didn’t arrest the momentum when they did. Plus I wanted to look for some of the things that we did that changed it, and also to confirm what I thought at the time which was that in general, other than for small periods, the game was not played on our terms or very cleanly even though we were 19 points in front. Therefore I think we had a bit of false hope. Too many players were having down days, stupid fumbles, bad decisions etc…. But still with some individual brilliance and pressure over about a quarter and particularly in the first half of the third quarter we were staying on top and looking good.
The fact it all fell so quickly and we went to water like we did, well we saw that in the final 3 rounds of the season and unfortunately the problems were still there and Melbourne just exposed them again.