Roast The restrained fury thread

[joe444]

It's odd ... to see such a board so blase after losing a final and, most likely, surrender a gift chance of entry into a Grand Final.

What happened today - our first home final at KP, surrendered so bumblingly - should be an outlet for rage.

Supporters like me look back at the early 90s - our inability to beat West Coast, for example, when it suddenly felt like it's okay to be third-best all.

Where is the anger? The passion?

I don't see it or feel it. So Hawthorn win again, or maybe Lyon will pull off a masterstroke against them. Geelong are gallant but irrelevant. Just like 2012; just like 2010.

Part of me is so angry today. We squandered a HOME FINAL. Part of me feels this creeping sense of acceptance.

 

[vealesy]

Maybe we have run out of legs.

Id prefer we lost 5 more games throughout the year and hit finals with a full tank.

 

[Stig_90]

I think there's plenty of anger. There might not be individual rage threads, but there's plenty of angry posts in the review thread.

 

[JUBJUB]

Shit happens.Forget about it and move to next weekend.

 

[Danforged]

I'm super pissed. I dont normally post but I'm a long long time lurker (well before I made this account). What REALLY frustrates me.. if I'm being honest.. Its that Lyons game plan IS VERY GOOD. Its ugly. I HATE it. its hard to do. but it works.
Also how many times have I watched us play Fremantle and have no answer for Sandilands? I'm losing count. Wether its getting smashed in the clearances or watching him go back to take game saving marks / go forward to kick game winning goals. It just seems no one in our team can get in his way. We always play right into Freo's hands and watching it happen is like watching a car wreck your a part of happen in slow motion.

I could maybe sit around and dream up ways to beat it (and probably be wrong) but it doesn't matter. What matters is that Geelong cant often beat it. We can swindle goals here and there but it often feels against the play. Granted our defense holds up very well also but I feel this is more to do with individual brilliance and less to do with structure (although it does play a part). You hit our defense 100 times you'll get through 30 (fake numbers for strict example).
You hit Freos defense 100 times you get through 10. Lyon burns me to tears but listening to him talk I can't help but have a little respect for him. FCK!~!~

 

[Selective Retention]

I'm rather apathetic about it.

It's nearly 10 years since we lost a prelim by a kick and a bit to the Lions.

2011 was the bonus premiership, the cherry on top.

I didn't see the whole game by virtue of where I was watching it, and while you can pinpoint certain passages of play as poor, I don't think we played that badly overall from what I saw. Fremantle just defended like mad men and were better on the day, nothing to get angry and gnash the teeth over.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Shit happens.Forget about it and move to next weekend.

And when the same shit happens next weekend?

 

[Jimmy Yamazaki]

Because with the nature of Big Footy, you can't say anything without someone quoting you down the line for it to rub it in your face.

If we lose, there is a sense of " told you so" from the negative posters and if we win, the people that posted negative gets an equal "I told you so" from the people that "had faith". So I think we have learned to pick and choose what we say more.

Lets be real here too. Freo finished 3rd, we're 2nd. And they match up well on us, It's not a massive discrepancy. They where every chance as we where. We had our chances still to win it and didn't convert, that's part of footy.

We might now be gone for the next 10 years or we might be back next one. Either way you have to live with it, or you will damage yourself too much thinking "what if?"

 

[Smedts_2]

I ####ing love this team. i am depressed but sorry, I can't be angry. They have given me some wonderful moments.

You want rage, that's what i feel when I listen to BT.

 

[supahoops]

My cat begs to differ..

 

[Catgirl]

The only thing I am genuinely angry about is that we didn't win for Chapman's 250th (and that he was made sub).

If anyone, HE is the player that made us who we are today. HE is the one that motivates and grills the players after losses. HE is the player that instills unnecessary romantic passion into the side (eg. Hawthorn pact). HE is the player that insists he bleeds only for our club. If HE wanted to, HE could pull a Shannon Byrnes, and play out his career somewhere HE is almost guaranteed a spot. Instead HE is on his knees trying to milk a one year contract out of us, which we are reluctant to give him for some reason. HE is the one we should call Mr September. HE is an absolute LEGEND and HE deserved a winning 250th game on the stage HE thrives on best.

But that obviously didn't happen. I'm sure Chappy isn't thinking like that though.

 

[barmy44]

mate, this team has given us so much, and wanted to win today far more than we as supporters did.

werent good enough, freo were ferocious.

i have nothing but respect for this club - even after todays loss.

 

[jim boy]

After checking the Coll-Port score I'm suddenly much happier

 

[OldStyle2007]

We were better under Labor

 

[RegHickeyStand]

The only thing I am genuinely angry about is that we didn't win for Chapman's 250th (and that he was made sub).

If anyone, HE is the player that made us who we are today. HE is the one that motivates and grills the players after losses. HE is the player that instills unnecessary romantic passion into the side (eg. Hawthorn pact). HE is the player that insists he bleeds only for our club. If HE wanted to, HE could pull a Shannon Byrnes, and play out his career somewhere HE is almost guaranteed a spot. Instead HE is on his knees trying to milk a one year contract out of us, which we are reluctant to give him for some reason. HE is the one we should call Mr September. HE is an absolute LEGEND and HE deserved a winning 250th game on the stage HE thrives on best.

But that obviously didn't happen. I'm sure Chappy isn't thinking like that though.

You know, I haven't looked at today's game like that.

I have been looking at other reasons that have been playing on my mind. But I'm a big one for karma, and leaving off a 250 game man on the bench with the vest on is kinda asking for it.

 

[msamosco]

Maybe this loss is a blessing in disguise

 

[Maydok]

Great idea for a thread.

Perhaps if we can pool all our anger we can create a ruckman in the next 6 days and all our problems will be solved.

 

[CF]

It's odd ... to see such a board so blase after losing a final and, most likely, surrender a gift chance of entry into a Grand Final.

What happened today - our first home final at KP, surrendered so bumblingly - should be an outlet for rage.

It's hard to be that mad at the team because they played their guts out today and were beaten by a better team. Nothing more or nothing less. No point dwelling on what was lost because we're not out of it yet.

 

[OldStyle2007]

Great idea for a thread.

Perhaps if we can pool all our anger we can create a ruckman in the next 6 days and all our problems will be solved.

Yes!! Make him 4 parts Brad Ottens and 1 part... um, Brad Ottens

 

[Partridge]

Maybe this loss is a blessing in disguise

It is if Scott and the match committee can face some home truths about some of our veterans. You get away with playing them all against shit teams, not in finals. Today we got exposed. And some at the other end like Walker did as well.

 

[Partridge]

Maybe we have run out of legs.

Id prefer we lost 5 more games throughout the year and hit finals with a full tank.

Not the whole team, but some players definitely have.

 

[CF]

you can only keep reshuffling the deck chairs for so long while the titanic sinks

 

[Duskfire]

I ####ing love this team. i am depressed but sorry, I can't be angry. They have given me some wonderful moments.

You want rage, that's what i feel when I listen to BT.

I feel the exact way. This team has delivered so much, given so much excitement and joy over the years, that really, a narrow loss is nothing in the scheme of things. I am dissapointed and sad and gutted and puzzled at some of the happenings today, but it would take me alot, an extreme amount, for me to be furious with Geelong.

Dockers can have their flooding scrappy play, thats cool with me. Geelong have played fast, free flowing games for a decade now and managed to win three flags while doing so and remain extremely consistent.

 

[jazzee]

I'm ropeable, but I went to an election BBQ and I'm only just now back on the internets.

BUT... I can't spend my life screaming into the sky or typing furiously.

We seem to have two Geelong's this year and the wrong one turned up today. There are some teams we just seem to not match up against at all.

 

[LifeSpan-Void]

Two things prepared me for a loss today before the ball had even been bounced: Hawkins out, replaced by a 9-game forward with less goals than games to his name; and that Pods sprayed the free shot at goal right at the very start. beating Freo with Pav, Sandi and McPharlin all firing was always going to be pushing shit up hill - especially when both our ruck options were third-string, and our forward line lacked cohesion and accuracy when kicking. If we take that to the G next week, Port are going to bury a 2007 hoodoo all up in our faces.