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The Big Dance - Grand Final Day, 2017

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18 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

we must have the longest premiership drought now by a very big margin

I know Bulldogs were the longest but were not Richmond next?

Saints next longest by 2 years. 

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Serves Adelaide right. I always thought it was the wrong thing to do when the slacked off in Round 23.  Karma.

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The premiership was there for the taking this season, the most even ever. Richmond took their chances, which is more than can be said for our club.  They deserve the flag. 

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It shouldn’t be deliberate when the opposition can actually grab the ball before it goes out 

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2 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Worst premiership team ever

Disagree. Like Adelaide in 97/98, it shows what team football can do. A great TEAM performace won it today. 

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6 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Worst premiership team ever

To me what this shows that you don't have to have a most skilled team, just the most committed. Particularly this season, pressure and commitment when it counted has been the name of the game today. 

Richmond brought the hunger, Adelaide couldn't handle it. It's what we lacked at the key moments this year. Learn from it Melbourne and it could be us holding that trophy (I honestly believe that). 

Difficult NS medal to call this year, I'd have gone for Houli myself but it was a very even team performance, when someone dropped off another player stepped up. Everyone did their part. 

Adelaide didn't have a single winner on the park today, even though they got smashed with hit outs very few went to decent advantage and even when it did the Adelaide players were swamped. 

Can I just also say for a year that had so many great finishes this was the worst finals series for a while. Apart from Port losing to WC in extra time (sickening) every game was a blow out. 

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If anyone on here talks about Premiership windows or the brilliant job that Roos did in rebuilding the MFC, they can GOGF. Dogs and Tigers both won flags through manic pressure by largely no-names. It could have been us last year or this year.

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If anyone on here talks about Premiership windows or the brilliant job that Roos did in rebuilding the MFC, they can GOGF. Dogs and Tigers both won flags through manic pressure by largely no-names. It could have been us last year or this year.

That word, pressure. Thats what is came down to. All year they were the best at it and look at the result?

 

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22 minutes ago, rufus said:

Well that completes the set now. Every Vic club has 'got it' at some point during the AFL era except the dees! Yes i am being bitter. By 'got it' i mean showed some resolve and stood up when it counted.

Sadly this just annoys me even more in regards to the dees. Now i think back to the disgusting and embarrassing showing in the 2000 grand final...jeepers even when we were decent we didn't get it...

Ridiculous.  Essendon were far and away the best side in 2000, I was there, I was gutted.  But it wasn't "disgusting"

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6 minutes ago, Redleg said:

A bunch of no names plus 3-4 stars, who all play manic pressure footy, can win Flags.

That's two years in a row it has happened.

 

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If anyone on here talks about Premiership windows or the brilliant job that Roos did in rebuilding the MFC, they can GOGF. Dogs and Tigers both won flags through manic pressure by largely no-names. It could have been us last year or this year.

Nup, 'Red' is on the money.

You still need the stars.

No Martin, Rance & Cotchin...no Premiership. In fact no Grand Final appearance.

You can't undervalue the presence of star players.

...at the moment we have none, but we do have a few who will step up to become stars and that's when our opportunity will open up.

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If anyone on here talks about Premiership windows or the brilliant job that Roos did in rebuilding the MFC, they can GOGF. Dogs and Tigers both won flags through manic pressure by largely no-names. It could have been us last year or this year.

I get what you're saying but a premiership window exists. Look at the Hawks, or are you saying the Lions or the Blues can win the premiership next year?

We are in a premiership window and you're an idiot if you don't recognise the incredible job Roos did to pull us back from the brink. It's over the Goodwin now who has shown some good coaching traits and ideas, but seems to struggle to get us up at the right times so far. One year in the though, Hardwicks been at the tigers for a fair while now. 

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36 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

The premiership was there for the taking this season, the most even ever.

Richmond took their chances, which is more than can be said for our club. 

They deserve the flag. 

Yeah, I half get you here, but FFS you would expect Adelaide to at least put up a fight though.

To be honest, I thought we really should have won the flag in 2000, but Swartz Neitz and others were weak as Pissss.

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