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POSTGAME: QF vs Sydney

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  On 02/09/2022 at 13:10, CYB said:

Curious, Has anyone won a flag after losing the QF? 

Hawks somehow when to Perth twice in the 2015 finals and won the flag.

Richmond lost their 2020 qual final.

Pretty sure West Coast and Sydney lost their qualifying finals in 2006 and 2005 respectively.

 

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      On 02/09/2022 at 12:40, wizardinoz said:

    Add Salem to that lot. Putrid disposal again. Bring Bowey back.

    put spargo in with that lot  , as good as a man short  , useless 

     

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:10, CYB said:

    Curious, Has anyone won a flag after losing the QF? 

    Many. Richmond did it one year.

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    Had an hour to cool down, I’m not even angry. They just purely wanted it more than we did and did an awesome job of shutting us down. Sometimes you just get beaten and there’s not much you can do about it. 

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:09, rpfc said:

    What a melt down by some of you, we weren’t great but wholesale changes after you lose a QF to a great team? 

    You all drank your own bath water on this Demons team.

    Last year in Perth was lightning in a bottle.

    We are not some god team that will CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. 

    We are a good team with a scrappy fwd line that really struggles to move the footy in transition and good teams prey on us for that.

    I think most posters have been pretty reasonable. I haven't seen anyone want wholesale changes?

    I've seen a lot of posters point out that we had a number of players who didn't play well. They aren't wrong. Let's hope we can turn it around.

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    Charlie has been under preforming for a few months now. But our home support pet us down a lot tonight.

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:19, dees189227 said:

    I cannot believe we could not score a goal in the final quarter 

    we left 3  very gettable goals lying around that we should have kicked. so it looks worse that it was. 

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:09, titan_uranus said:

    They were incredible. Unfortunately we were not. 

    We had the two best players on the ground in Oliver and May, but it fell away badly. Fritsch aside the entire forward line struggled. Jackson struggled. Brayshaw was terrible. Wirh Trac hobbling, it was too much left to too few. 

    They scored 12 of their 14 goals from turnovers. May turned it over with two shocking inboard kicks, but across the ground we put our backline under pressure by giving up the ball all night. 

    The free and 50 against May on Buddy were two absolutely disgraceful decisions. Utterly abysmal. The umpiring was horrendous all night, both ways, but those two were just disgusting. Turned the momentum, for sure.

    But Sydney are our kryptonite. They won’t relent in the middle no matter what we throw at them, and their backline is too good for our forward line. It’s actually spooky how similar tonight was to Round 12. 

    Huge pressure on us now to beat Brisbane, a side we have the wood over. I’m hoping with the pre-finals bye, that a week off is a bad thing this year, so I’m trying to tell myself this is a blessing in disguise. But I doubt it, unfortunately. 

    Wish I could like this post more than once. 

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:15, mo64 said:

    The better "TEAM" won. Having more superstars doesn't make a team. 

    Agree. Weaker team, who played as a better team won, but [censored] me, the weapons we had on our side and wasted, it’s hard not to put it down to own goals as to why we lost. Largely strategy based, as to how a weaker team got the points. 
     

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:18, OhMyDees said:

    And 2006 - Eagles lost home QF to Swans. They beat them in the granny.

    Evenly matched sides. Both games 1 point wins and same scores.  85-84 and 84-85.

    Edited by John Crow Batty

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    How many Swans players were found unmarked in their forward 50 and it wasn't our key defenders at fault.

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:10, CYB said:

    Curious, Has anyone won a flag after losing the QF? 

    Melbourne did it in 2022. Had to do that too many negative on here at the moment.

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:19, dees189227 said:

    I cannot believe we could not score a goal in the final quarter 

    Really ?? Yes should have kicked 4 or 5 
     

    Melksham 🤮

    Melksham🥔 slips and stumbles and Spargo🥔 stops and has it smothered 

    Sparrow hits the post 

    Gawn 🤮

    Trac running inside 30 and … misses 🚑

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    Honestly if Melksham and a few others hadn't had terrible games we could have won. Small moments matter in finals and we [censored] the bed in front of goals in the 2nd half. 

    stings hut we have a 2nd chance 

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:09, rpfc said:

    What a melt down by some of you, we weren’t great but wholesale changes after you lose a QF to a great team? 

    You all drank your own bath water on this Demons team.

    Last year in Perth was lightning in a bottle.

    We are not some god team that will CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. 

    We are a good team with a scrappy fwd line that really struggles to move the footy in transition and good teams prey on us for that.

    100%. If we do anything this pre season. It’s ball movement drills . Repeat, repeat and repeat. Off HB and then into F50. Repeat. 

    We fall apart when pressure applied. 
     

     

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:20, Mr Steve said:

    Anyone know what the crowd size was tonight. Sounded like there were more Sydney fans there as will.

    78,700 fans 

    30,000 swans 

    35,000 Dees 

    13,700 casual observers!! 

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    Was at the G tonight,  siting around a lot of Dees supporters who were very very quiet. Even the supporters were flat, sounded like a lot more Sydney supporters there. The whole game had a weird vibe, every possession was under pressure and the connection to the forward line was not there. Simply beaten by a better team, not even angry or upset, it is what it is.

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    It felt like we got a bit rattled after the buddy 50, absolute gift of a goal that it was. We lost our composure and never really got it back. I wasn’t expecting us to lose the mental battle. We seemed to get frustrated that they wouldn’t let us do what we wanted and weren’t willing to turn it into a brutal grind when we should have. They were incredibly well set up all night and played to it really well. There has to be an element of luck with the way the ball fell to their set up enough over the night to do so well with stoppage but we didn’t try and stop it. They pounced on our errors and spillages time and time again. We gave them too much room particularly across contests on their half forward line. they gave us nothing all night and were very good. Can’t see us going all the way after tonight. Geelong and Sydney are ahead of us on form and we look like we have too many problems and too many holes to plug. Hope I’m wrong but we didn’t look like a convincing side tonight.

     

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    The momentum turned massively when Buddy flopped like he’d been shot. 
     

    He got into May because he hadn’t had a touch and May fell for it. Because he’s May

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:20, BAMF said:

    've seen a lot of posters point out that we had a number of players who didn't play well. They aren't wrong. Let's hope we can turn it around.

    Yes, but it's not as if the whole team has been on a roll for 6 weeks and this is just a blip. The players who didn't play well have not been playing consistently well for some time now, so the realistic chance of them "turning it around" are slim in my opinion.

    Nice to believe in miracles, but in this case ...

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      On 02/09/2022 at 13:20, Mr Steve said:

    Anyone know what the crowd size was tonight. Sounded like there were more Sydney fans there as will.

    ~78k 

    It was a very Melbourne heavy crowd, but the crowd goes quiet when the team is playing badly and not kicking goals. 
     

    Thought the crowd was good tbh.

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