Roast 25 Years without an AFL Premiership

[Scorpus]

There's a lot of unforced errors in that list. Sure some clubs get unlucky. Not us

 

[Firewalker]

Yeah there’s a lot of doubt about whether it’s true though

Pav used both SA clubs a lot whenever he needed a contract raise. Was definitely coming, a lot.

If we’d go all in on an urban myth we could have been left without either

If the Crows actually put the effort in and make a close to Carey offer & offer Fremantle Pick 2 to take local boy Daniel Wells I still think it definitely gets done despite Pav being their reigning B&F, they had already recruited Croad and McPharlin the year before as key position players but lacked midfield talent with only Hasleby and Bell there.

 

[Owen_AFC97]

This will be the 3rd year in a row where an ex Crow becomes a premiership player.

 

[Sanders]

If the Crows actually put the effort in and make a close to Carey offer & offer Fremantle Pick 2 to take local boy Daniel Wells I still think it definitely gets done despite Pav being their reigning B&F, they had already recruited Croad and McPharlin the year before as key position players but lacked midfield talent with only Hasleby and Bell there.

Pav never once followed through with all his imminent departures, I can’t see why that would’ve been different

 

[Firewalker]

Pav never once followed through with all his imminent departures, I can’t see why that would’ve been different

Fair, the Carey recruitment even without any Pavlich subplot is still a top 8 moment for mine, that 2002 team was not far off it and the magic beans/Carey Circus upsets the apple cart and eventually ruins all the hard work that group had done to build over 2001 & 2002

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Having the AA captain suspended absolutely ****ed us.

Neil Craig letting Harvey do whatever he pleased didn't help. Would've thought he would bother to put a tag on him sometime during the match, but nope.

 

[Carmo]

Mine's not even on the list.

2003.

Wayne Jackson leaves as CEO. Starts the descent of AFL from a improving, very fair, very ethical competition where you get reward for effort to the joke arse, make it up as you go, look after VFL, good mates and certain clubs get looked after, corruption rules quagmire it is now.

 

[maxlilly]

I tend to think it's not so much moments in the history of the club that has got us to this point but more about the people in the top roles being out of their depth, Chapman, Trigg, Hamish and Reid.
Phil Harper, Burton and Adam Kelly as Football managers

 

[MrBarry]

With the list/chances we have had, we should have had at least 2 flags since then. 2005/2006 were both a massive ****ing **** up in the final stages of the seasons. Then in 2012 we ****ed it again losing to Sydney at home in the qualifying final....

2017 finally came and we had reached the summit, but for some reason the entire team decided to have their worst game of the season.

 

[FR0GGY]

2012 prelim for me, still angry.

 

[Brett Cummings]

2012 prelim for me, still angry.

Clarko has yet to win a flag as coach without handouts. So don't feel too bad lol.

 

[conVINCEd]

2005 qualifying final was a disgrace, Craig absolutely shat the bed.

We were dominating in the first quarter when he decided to double-team (no St Kilda Mad Monday jokes please) an ice cold Nick Riewoldt with Hentschel and McGregor, leaving our forward line impotent and sapping our momentum.

Plus the Robert Hervey stuff as already mentioned.

 

[Firewalker]

2012 prelim for me, still angry.

I sat on the floor in a doorway of a kitchen for 2 hours… sober, just frozen & heartbroken, prelim final loses hit differently, in 2006 I sat in an empty garage and looked at my watch and it’d been for 3 hours.

 

[Brett Cummings]

2005 qualifying final was a disgrace, Craig absolutely shat the bed.

We were dominating in the first quarter when he decided to double-team (no St Kilda Mad Monday jokes please) an ice cold Nick Riewoldt with Hentschel and McGregor, leaving our forward line impotent and sapping our momentum.

Plus the Robert Hervey stuff as already mentioned.

Ah yes robert harrvey. Still feels so good denying him of a medal in '97.

 

[MrBarry]

I sat on the floor in a doorway of a kitchen for 2 hours… sober, just frozen & heartbroken, prelim final loses hit differently, in 2006 I sat in an empty garage and looked at my watch and it’d been for 3 hours.

2006 prelim was the most empty I have ever felt, I was at the game - think I was 18 at the time. After two straight years of finishing in the top 2 and to not even get a grand final appearance was really just heartbreaking.

 

[The Perfect Stranger]

Having the AA captain suspended absolutely ****ed us.

Yep. Another complete brain fade from Riccuito which cost us badly. From memory Bock also missed that game.

We need to cherish 97/98 because we are a long way off ever winning another one.

 

[The Perfect Stranger]

2006 prelim was the most empty I have ever felt, I was at the game - think I was 18 at the time. After two straight years of finishing in the top 2 and to not even get a grand final appearance was really just heartbreaking.

I was celebrating with a friend at half time not knowing that Cousins had smoked a kilo of crack during the long break and then went on to play the quarter of the decade. This game and the 2005 first final are the only time I have walked away from a game in complete shock/numbness.

 

[adelaidecrows]

Is there a single other club with a comparable list like that? Tippettgate for mine, that stink wafted around for 10 years.

1000% Carltons list would be worse.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

When you have that indefinable something (swagger? bravado? nous? c unit?) it doesn't matter that Vardy breaks his collarbone or Modra does his ACL or you kick a bunch of points or you have to travel interstate 5 weeks in a row or the Swans have a 17-3 free kick advantage at half time

You ride out those speed bumps. The show goes on. You get the job done as Phil would say.

Collingwood could be bemoaning their Grundy / Treloar cap gaffes (set our club back 5 years...) but have instead rolled with the punch and gone on.

When you don't have that indefinable something the bad things tip the apple cart over.

Does Nicks have "it"?

 

[Southerntakeover]

I think being out coached and out foxed by a Grant Thomas team missing it’s entire back line in 2005 is hard to stomach

Harvey ran around like an unregistered dog and James freaking Gwilt…

It was the moment the shine came off the club imo, when we went from having a genuine perception of club superiority over Port to just another choker club.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Mark Stevens is close to the most underrated player in Crows history

Before injury, he was an A++ stud.

One of the things that often gets overlooked about the Carey trade / the 2003 team. He was supposed to be a complementary piece. And it was working early in the season.

Stevens stays fit, and we've got a genuine multi faceted attack up forward, and might have given that year a shake.

 

[George Kramer]

1000% Carltons list would be worse.

No it wouldn’t, they had some howlers but no where near the volume.

 

[George Kramer]

I’d forgotten some of those, what a depressing list. Some real bad luck, some shooting ourselves in the foot.

I swear Reid did a deal with the devil for 2 flags in 97/98. They came out of nowhere and since then it’s turned to shit even when we were good.

 

[adelaidecrows]

I’d forgotten some of those, what a depressing list. Some real bad luck, some shooting ourselves in the foot.

I swear Reid did a deal with the devil for 2 flags in 97/98. They came out of nowhere and since then it’s turned to s**t even when we were good.

We had some mediocre levels of club administrators for a very long time. Im hoping that we have moved past this and the above is something we've learned from.

 

[Sanders]

It was the moment the shine came off the club imo, when we went from having a genuine perception of club superiority over Port to just another choker club.

We had a mystique in that year, and the severely undermanned Saints scrubbed it off us. Maybe never to return