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I was pretty young in 2002/03 when we lost those Grand Finals but I was at both games and was crushed after the nail biter in 2002.

This year is my first GF loss as an adult and boy it hurt. I've refused to watch any football related shows, watch the replay or read the sports section of the newspaper (and I love reading the sports stuff). I also have never been able to watch GF1 from 2010, I don't know why.

Is anyone else as effected by the loss as me or have we moved on pretty well since Saturday?
 
I think the hurt's lessening slowly; but like you, I've been avoiding watching the sports report on any news that I watch, reading the sports section of the paper, listening to sports reports on the radio, or reading anything AFL related online (except the Collingwood board on BigFooty) like the plague since Saturday afternoon. I just can't bring myself to do it.
 
I'm trying to look forward to next year already and trying to stay positive but I can't stop thinking about what could have been :( .
 

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To be honest, this didn't hurt anywhere NEAR as much as I expected, or as much as 02 and 03.

Why? Few reasons.

1) We won it last year! If someone came up to you 5 years ago and told you Collingwood going to play in 2 Grand Finals and win 1 would you take it? Hell yeah you would.

2) 02 and 03 were worse because we hadn't won a flag since 90 and they were our first cracks at it and we got so close in 02 and Rocca missing in 03 will always be the 'what could have been' scenario. Also, the umps stole 02.

3) For those of us willing to admit they're in the 'Buckley camp', this helps keep the whiners over Malthouse away since Chris Scott is proof of what a fresh new coach can bring to a side being that has been coached by the same person for a decade. Even at Geelongs old age.
 
Still heart-scalded. In fact yesterday was worse than the weekend when it was about putting on a brave face with Geelong-supporting friends keen to rub it in.

The nights have been desolation; in part because footy is finished for the year. Last night I finally fell asleep tracking back to where the loss originated.

Was it because we went that extra week last year and started pre-season behind everyone else? Was the fact that Mick, Swan and Goldsack were involved in the international series significant? When were Maxy and Nathan brown hurt - during the NAB cup? And our success there made it a particularly long season once we got injury after injury, and then those two stupid suspensions.

Also, as the last few days have shown, the off-field issues must have drained the collective psyche. Was the forced agreement that guaranteed us one flag instrumental in denying us another?

I think all of these things played a part, and in the end the Footy Gods were not with us this year.

I'm very excited about Bucks coming in. I have complete faith in him. But season 2012 and the redemption it will bring seems a very long way off.:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
 
For me it hurts more. I thought after 2010 it was the clubs chance to forge a new golden era, starting off with back to back flags. And it looked like it was going to happen for most of the season. To just falter at the final step and waste a year where the club was supposed to stamp it's foot and become the new superteam of the league, ugh, just terrible. To compound it now we need to hear all summer long how Geelong are the best side to ever grace a football field, yada yada. Could've...Should've been us, but nope. Unles we win next year I'm certain we'll all be looking at 2011 as a massive **** up.
 
2003 hurt the most for me - I was crying my eyes out (hey **** off I was in primary school! :p)

This year, I was disappointed, but not hurt.

1. I am still happy that I saw a premiership in my life time - can't say the same for a lot of other people
2. If you were realistic, you would have known that the Cats were in way better form and had a healthier list then us. If you were realistic, you would have realised that the Cats should have belted us earlier in the year - and that they belted us when the game was still there to be won in round 24.

Honestly, we were not the best team on the day - which is why I am disappointed, but not hurt.
We lost to one of the best teams in AFL history - its not like we lost to a quarter from Stuart Dew!
 
03 was the worst. Still haven't watched the second half. We went in favorites, I was certain we had it and we missed out. 02 was heart breaking because it was so close and the umps were shocking. This year wasn't so bad. I actually wasn't that hurt because we won last year and were beaten by a better team on the day.
 
Somehow doubt that dude actually follows geelong. Anyway, this year doesn't hurt too much at all for some reason? I guess part of the reason is the flag last year, but i can't totally put my finger on why it's not so bad. I have, however, avoided afl.com, haven't read a newspaper or put on SEN since the loss, but it's not so bad, i guess I'm genuinely looking forward to next year, coaching changes etc. and have solace in the fact we have a very very good football side and we'll be competing for years to come..
 

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I'm still gutted.

People here at work are still taling about it and i avoided coming in here yesterday.
 
catsfan070911 said:
haha eat shit the lot of you.

Hope it hurts well into next year.
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Been a bit off this around thats fine its going to be a long 12 months but when we get that flag back you are all going to hear about it
 
to be honest it hurt for about 10mins after the game and i was over it.
i was more angry with our coaching in the 3rd and 4th and then it led to me not giving a shit. Copped a fair amount of abuse but took it and put it into the memory bank.

Looking fwd to next season already.
 
I actually got over it pretty quickly..... naturally I'm still reflecting on the 'what if's' .... but the initial sting of it is gone!

Bring on 2012!
 
Ignore the newbie troll.:cool:

I'm not hurting anymore, it's more a sense of emptiness, that we had a chance to create history, and through no fault but our own, we failed.

The good thing about our game is, after tomorrow when the Pussies have their parade, we won't have to read about it any more, as everyone now looks towards trade week and the 2012 season.

It hurts a little less knowing what Mick Malthouse did towards the end, and the fact we have a replacement that is a hero of the masses.:)
 

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Hey guys.

Just wanted to give you a Geelong supporter's perspective.

Losing 2008 absolutely killed me, and it didn't make me feel better that we'd won it the year before. If anything, it made me feel worse - opportunities to win back to back flags are so rare, and we blew it.

But we bounced back and won it the following year which almost erased the pain of 2008. Winning a third flag on the weekend has definitely done it. I genuinely believe that if we'd won 2008, we wouldn't have had the resolve to go again in 2009. Certainly when the last quarter of the 2009 GF was in the balance, our pain from the previous year was one of the factors in us winning.

We had a massive point to prove this year after turmoil last season with Bomber and Gaz. I see similarities with the Pies next year. There are players who for whatever reason fell out of form late in the season and they will be desperate to redeem themselves under Bucks. Having a new coach will drop any sense of complacency any players have about their spot in the team and no doubt Bucks will make minor tweaks to your gameplan like Scott did to ours this season.

If you have a reasonable run with injuries next season (funnily enough we had a horror run in 2008 as we were going for B2B - Chapman, Kelly, Stokes among others carried injuries into the GF) I think you will be extremely hard to beat next season. A Collingwood v Hawthorn GF is my early tip.

Best of luck and keep your chins up.
 
I was hurting till Sunday night until I spoke to some Collingwood supporters and that shifted my focus to next season. The loss will always be in the back of our minds until next year if we win the GF. My position is pretty much the same as the OP. In 2002 I was 9 but that GF deffs hurt me the most I was crying for houres. This GF hurt less and it took less time to look forward to next year and thats because we have a great young list and a young smart coaching panel. Just remember the people giving you grief this year and next year give it back to them all.
 
i was hurting far more for this grand final than the 02/03 years, back then both games the funnell came out before midday and both times woke up over 100km from were i started trying to work out how to get home.
 
loki04 said:
02 hurt the most for me, really put a hatred for Brisbane after that and 03 just made my dislike for them much greater.
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Yep. By far.

There will forever be a place for Brisbane in my bowels where I will never 'like' them, or feel sorry for them when they're down thanks to 02 and 03.

I even felt a bit sorry for Carlton when they were at their lowest ebb.

Would never and could never feel that for Brisbane. The longer Brisbane stay down the better as far as I'm concerned. Hard to feel for a club that had 3 flags gift wrapped for them.

At least Geelong earnt them.
 
I stopped hurting Sunday morning, I'm more just disappointed that we played well enough for three quarters and fell away in the last.

'02 was definitely worse. So close, yet so far. And 2003 was not a contest at all.
 

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