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It's still difficult to argue against them being the best performing team in September that season though.
I don't see it that way. For sure the Swans were shit vs GWS. But they smashed Adelaide and Geelong after it. Not denying Dogs were good. But I still feel the umps helped them. Hawks weren't that bad either. Unlucky to lose to you guys and just beaten by a better team on the night and yes in finals.
I think 2 things can be true. Sydney had a tough day from the umpires, but still performed poorly relative to their potential for the 2nd time in a month. The prelim was their level. They crumbled as the GF went on and the umpiring excuse really does get used as a cop out.
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84 you guys got smashed in the last qtr. Nowhere near it in the end. 8 goal turn around.
Yep and it still hurts!
Still won a shit load. Dunstall is the best footballer I've ever seen.
Yep that one hurt.
You could have won it from 6th.
Two years in a row we hatched it. In 94 we played out of our skins just to make it and were never beating the Eagles that year.
Yeah you look back about that 2025 grand final.... Just like the 2020 grand final, you want that 2nd half back
Towards the end of 1990 season Hawthorn absolutely obliterated Collingwood at Waverley too so the hawks win that final against Melbourne who knows what might have happened
They didn't underachieve though they ran into a brilliant team on a mission GF day, it was an insult how much we written off leading into it which fired the boys up to make a statement.
You fell into the trap alot of others did, they weren't just playing a decent team they were playing 1 of the best of the modern era. I knew we would win just by the amount of people completely writing us off.
Played Hollywood footy offensively and Hollywood footy defensively. There lies the problem. They would be better served this year reigning in the attack at all costs mentality and develop more balance. Should still kick some big scores because of the talent they have on the park
Let's not rewrite history, we were the best team that year, yes you had beaten us twice but that's the only reason you could say you should have won the flag. We should have won that prelim by 5 goals. 1 way traffic almost the entire last quarter and really had we made more of our chances the Varcoe kick wouldn't have mattered. He got the chance in the 1st place because Poppy had a brain fade and tried to kick a miracle goal when all he had to do was try and keep the ball down our end by grabbing the ball and forcing a ball up.
The narrative that you guys should have won the flag is nonsense that's the point. It keeps getting brought up too as if we didn't exist that year. Reality is we were the better side because we proved it when it mattered, most of the game leading up to 3 qtr time we were winning most of the key stats you guys were killing us on the counter and goals against the flow. Deep down most of your blokes that played that night would acknowledge we were the better side. Maybe not Chappy as he hated us
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Chappy and Enright weren't there to acknowledge anything.The narrative that you guys should have won the flag is nonsense that's the point. It keeps getting brought up too as if we didn't exist that year. Reality is we were the better side because we proved it when it mattered, most of the game leading up to 3 qtr time we were winning most of the key stats you guys were killing us on the counter and goals against the flow. Deep down most of your blokes that played that night would acknowledge we were the better side. Maybe not Chappy as he hated us
The narrative that you guys should have won the flag is nonsense that's the point. It keeps getting brought up too as if we didn't exist that year. Reality is we were the better side because we proved it when it mattered, most of the game leading up to 3 qtr time we were winning most of the key stats you guys were killing us on the counter and goals against the flow. Deep down most of your blokes that played that night would acknowledge we were the better side. Maybe not Chappy as he hated us
We beat Collingwood twice that year. It was a strange year because we had the wood on some teams in the finals and others we couldn't beat like Melbourne even though they were inferior to both Collingwood and Essendon. Last time they beat us in a big game until 2018.
The narrative is that of all the years between 2012 and 2022 there were only two where the Cats were genuine contenders and could/arguably should have won - 2008 and 2013. It's not sour grapes; it's merely addressing the claim by posters that the Cats underachieved between '11 and '22.The narrative that you guys should have won the flag is nonsense that's the point. It keeps getting brought up too as if we didn't exist that year. Reality is we were the better side because we proved it when it mattered, most of the game leading up to 3 qtr time we were winning most of the key stats you guys were killing us on the counter and goals against the flow. Deep down most of your blokes that played that night would acknowledge we were the better side. Maybe not Chappy as he hated us
I was talking about Sydney vs Geelong 2014 home and away game. You must be referring to the 2014 granny. Don't know why.
Having their two best players injured obviously didn’t help them either. A lot of stars aligned for the Dogs that day.
