dogs105
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Would have been very unlucky to lose though. Better team over the game.
Game Day Crows v Essendon. Friday Night Footy at AO
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dogs105
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I wish I'd watched Better Homes and Gardens. Better than 3 hours of dogshit football.
Sure Adelaide played some putrid football and shocking skills but I don’t buy into the narrative that the obvious non free shouldn’t matter because they didn’t deserve to win. Equally if it was paid and Essendon lost they’d be saying bad kicking for goal is bad football.
The point is Adelaide we’re good enough to be close enough for that free to matter.
The point is Adelaide we’re good enough to be close enough for that free to matter.
I’m not sure the bolded is quite true
We weren’t “good enough” to be close on merit, we were lucky and not through our own efforts
That said, there is something to your point about the Dons blaming their kicking if they lost.
Sure, and it is a teetering stance due to the colossal shitness but the facts are that they were good enough to be close enough to win had the free been correctly paid.
The other perspective for supporters to consider is what would be the commentary if the roles were reversed, Adelaide had kicked as bad as Essendon, the free was paid to Essendon and they won the game after the siren…my guess is that the outrage towards the Adelaide, Nicks, et al would be much the same as it is now in reality.
Would Essendon have not deserved the win also?
Bump: I still look back at this game when Sam did that worm dance and look at Essendon's season now. I was furious after this game, there was a lot of hidden anger in me. I still think the way they celebrated after this game destroyed their season in some ways, as well as expectations of winning a final. Same thing happened to Adelaide as well, high expectations but too much fear of themselves on the field and this led to countless panic football dominated by awful turnovers. Hopefully they will go into 2025 on a more positive and focussed mood. Look at Hawthorn for example how they have played this season.
Josh Rachelle played fairly well that night but copped heaps after his dropped marks in the 4th and late miss. Come next meeting, our season long done by the slow start, we head into Melbourne and stun the Bombers in the next meeting when Rachelle kicked the winning goal which bounces through. It was an incredibly satisfying but rather empty feeling in what has been a mostly forgetful season.
A funny twist between two sides that will be gone fishing in September.
Josh Rachelle played fairly well that night but copped heaps after his dropped marks in the 4th and late miss. Come next meeting, our season long done by the slow start, we head into Melbourne and stun the Bombers in the next meeting when Rachelle kicked the winning goal which bounces through. It was an incredibly satisfying but rather empty feeling in what has been a mostly forgetful season.
A funny twist between two sides that will be gone fishing in September.
Ive started fishing
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