Review The Grand Final Disaster of 2017.

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Brown giving Greenwood a serve.

Things clearly ******.

Brown was horrific. Needs to look a little closer to home at his performance in big games and at his kicking skills.

 

[mick500]

Lynch miss at the start of the second half, knights open goal fumble. Those end up as goals, i believe the game would of been different.

Tigers wanted it more, had leaders perform on the day. They weren't losing.

 

[moogerfooger]

We’ll come back better next year

So will 17 other clubs

 

[TrainRoo32]

Absolutely heartbroken and hard to comment so soon after the game!
But if I really, really think about it, how surprising is it?
This club has done this over and over..... never meet expectations!
Great effort getting there but bar a couple these boys should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

 

[CrowCro]

Put a line through Mackay, Hartigan, Jenkins, Knight, Atkins, Otten
Even Kelly not sold on him

Walker was the worst, Lynch behind him, Otten. U can't play with too many slow forwards

 

[Crow54]

Love my boys. We lost. Disappointing....big time. But still love my boys!!!

I don't. I love boys that try hard, and put in an effort on the biggest day of the year.

 

[mick500]

Brown was horrific

Glad someone else can see it. Happens every time in big games. Him and hartigan together under pressure and we are ****ed.

 

[officialjc]

tbh winning big in the regular season + finals does you a disservice. you dont play enough pressure situations.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Wow, Hardwick is a premiership coach.

There's some words I never thought I'd hear.

He always got them going for half a year. Was always a chance to get it right for the full 27 rounds.

 

[Crow54]

Just f*ck off you lowlife DRONGO

Don't reply, just report.

 

[CrowCro]

No need for this, our downfall as a side came to the fore. We need run n carry. Our miss are all scraggers

 

[Redleg Crow]

Rd 6 we kicked 13 of 14 goals after quarter time; today they kicked 11 of 12.

 

[mick500]

While I'm bashing hartigan and brown I should also be big enough to admit that otten had a shocker as well as I was a big advocate of his.. having said that if McGovern were fit I would of played McGovern every day of the week ahead of him. So our hand was kind of forced on that one..

Hartigan out, otten to play his role and Milera in is a different conversation and one worth having given the result and performance of those players in their respective positions.

 

[Redleg Crow]

In retrospect the losses of Smithers and McGovern was too big.

 

[gordo2016]

Don Pyke looks as shattered as you can get. I feel for him. The pain of losing this game will see him leave no stone unturned to get back to get another opportunity.

 

[Plugger46]

Y

youre proud? Too many people like this at the afc. Mediocre BS

It's people like you who haven't even played a game in your life and think you're an expert because you post your opinions in a forum to many people like you

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Like every other game this year, if you don't turn up you lose. We didn't turn up. They pushed us around and we didn't respond. Picked a bad day for it. Hard to win on their home ground in front of their crowd.

Have heard a few people say this. Yes we did. We were 4 goals to 2 up at quarter time.

Like the semi finals of 2015 and 2016, we weren't good enough.

 

[Scorpus]

Have heard a few people say this. Yes we did. We were 4 goals to 2 up at quarter time.

Like the semi finals of 2015 and 2016, we weren't good enough.

You could see when the pressure was applied we wilted. Went to absolute water in such a pathetic, disgusting fashion. Our pressure game was never on at any point in the entire match. Really unforgivable.

When we are on, we are unstoppable. When we are off, we are horrible. Today we were off, and that baffles me, because it was the ******* grand ******* final

 

[Jars458]

Triumph and disaster

 

[Mr_Moogle]

I feel sorry for our members and die-hards who go to every game only to be let down by the club on the biggest stage. They deserved better.

 

[pjcrows]

Have heard a few people say this. Yes we did. We were 4 goals to 2 up at quarter time.

Like the semi finals of 2015 and 2016, we weren't good enough.

The way the game was being played, even early, was worrying.

 

[CrowCro]

Lost the Centre clearances 12 - 14 it was our supposed outside runners that failed the test far more than the guys at the coalface.

Our only ball carrier is Mackay and he was in the back half . We need to get some ball carriers into the side

 

[1990crow]

Brown was horrific. Needs to look a little closer to home at his performance in big games and at his kicking skills.

Brown as the guy kicking out was probably our worst decision of the game.

 

[Redleg Crow]

Have heard a few people say this. Yes we did. We were 4 goals to 2 up at quarter time.

Like the semi finals of 2015 and 2016, we weren't good enough.

Yes, but the game was being played on their terms and the sense of desperation was not there

 

[hugecannon]

Brown was horrific. Needs to look a little closer to home at his performance in big games and at his kicking skills.

Can I double like this? His composure with the ball in clutch games has concerned me since 2015 against Hawthorn, and too many of our defenders are similar.

Kelly gives his all and his skills have tidied up but he doesn't seem that strong below his knees when the pressure is on.

Laird for his ability to read the play just throws it on the boot way too often rather than lowering the eyes under real heat.