The Prelim Final, the game we usually lose!

cats2rise

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#26
Keep this on the front page peoples. Has only let us down once in the past 4-5 months.

If we win the Prelim, does someone who hasnt start one do it to continue a trend, or the person who did the first one? Or first in best dressed?
 

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#27
I think it'll be first in best dressed - don't think people will be able to contain themselves ;)

A day and a half to go, bloody hell, I'm pumped and I can't even be there to see it!
 

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I think it'll be first in best dressed - don't think people will be able to contain themselves ;)

A day and a half to go, bloody hell, I'm pumped and I can't even be there to see it!
I'm dragging each and every Geelong supporter I know out for celebrating IF we happen to go all the way when I come home in February.

****ing typical, I leave the country for a year and they pull their finger out :mad:
 
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#30
Round 17 MCG Brisbane 149 d Collingwood 56

Going by that score it looks like they were well and truly smashed

Just having a quick read and NOT stirring sh*t but after the break the Pies lifted there training and I think in round 19/20 tapered off.
This may account for some of our losses ie Richmond/Brisbane.
I don’t know if we will win or loose but when the Pies are on and underdogs the game is usually close.
Lets just hope that both teams put on a show that the AFL world will talk about for a long time.
 

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#33
I have to admit, guys, I'm terrified of the Collingwood game.

I think if we do actually get to the GF we will give an excellent account of ourselves, but I've convinced myself we're doomed to fall again at the final hurdle.

I don't know why, based on our recent form, but I guess I've followed the Cats for long enough to be waiting for the inevitable banana skin to trip us up again.

I'm 32 years old, I bleed blue and white hoops, as does my mum. I cried all night at the age of 13 after 1989, at 17 after 1992, and we got so badly hammered in 94 and 95 that it wasn't worth getting that upset about.

I cried again at the age of 30 when I sat at the SCG and watched the Swans in that final quarter. The boys tried so bloody hard, were decimated by injury, and just didn't deserve to lose like that. I know they gave it everything they had.

I want to believe we're the real deal. I've seen things this year I've never seen before in a Geelong side. If these boys were wearing any other jumper, their club would already have the venue booked for the post-match celebration.

But this is us. Geelong. We've never gone out and deliberately lost finals since 1963, but we've come so close so many times that I start to wonder if it will ever be our turn again. I go through my superstitious rituals all week, convinced if I don't that I'll curse the Cats like I have before. I got a brand new GFC cap for my birthday in August, but it's never touched my head. If I put it on, we'll surely lose.

I should be enjoying the success, and in all honestly a big chunk of me is loving it. But an equally big chunk is telling me not to get excited, because it will only end in the inevitable heartbreak.

I don't think I can spend another night after a final crying my eyes out.
 

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#34
I haven't been this nervous in a long time, and I imagine I will be much if we win and its the eve of the Grand Final. I completely agree with this passage from the geelongblog...


Logically , I can see our side this year is probably the most dominant version of the Hoops I’ve ever had the thrill to experience. Logically , I can see if it was Essendon or West Coast that was doing , what we are doing , Id be saying it’s a “done deal”. Logically , I can see that we are the best side , to this point , but emotionally I’m still looking for what’s going to bring it all down , I’m still just waiting for the thing that’s going to crash my mental stability like a Supercar in a wet Bathurst. I’m just not used to it going this well. For so long I’ve been seeing this pin point of light at the end of the tunnel and now that the light is as bright as the midday sun , I’m feeling slightly uncomfortable. Like a rabbit that prefers the comforting darkness , I too am finding that I’m just not used to being the follower of the standout team.
That sums it up perfectly for me. Its going to be a very sleepless night tonight I think; many dreams, good and bad. And its not even a godamn Grand Final.
 

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#35
Today is the day ladies and gentlemen. In just over 12 hours we will know whether this is our year of glory, or another year of disappointment.

This is not the team of the 90's. It's a fresh set of 22 players hell bent on winning the premiership. All the BS in the papers, all the mind games from Malthouse, will count for nothing if our boys summon the spirit and team work ethic they've shown for the vast majority of this year.

Be confident, be proud and cheer your guts out for the boys as they give their all tonight on the arena. Let's drown out the ferals and show them that the Cats are the team to fear this year. We can do it. We deserve it.

STICK IT UP EM CATTERS!
 

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#36
Like the Kangaroos game, I have once again dreamed that we will lose. In this version though, I was playing. Held to one goal by Wakelin. Crap! Still, dreams for me generally mean absolutely nothing for the result. For some reason?
 

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#41
Can't see us winning. Collingwood never get smashed and we're only good when we're smashing teams. It will be close during the game and even if we're a goal or so in front we'll start to worry that we aren't smashing them like we've done to most teams this year and then we'll fall in a hole.
thats ridiculous --- that's because noone can get close to you! the only game you've lost since what --- round 5? was to the second best team, by 5 points in the last few seconds! how can you not have faith in your team? you've beaten adelaide and collingwood this year by slim margins, and you haven't 'smashed' everyone this year by any means - unless your definition of smashing is 4+ goals
 
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