Finals Flashback: Swans v Cats 05

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I remember how that was derided as a horrible game of football - when it was a tough, hard, engrossing encounter the whole way that Geelong had managed to get far enough ahead to win - until Davis happened.

Ripper game and one of the last I've been engrossed the whole way through.
 

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I remember that game because I almost turned it off because of how biased and poor the umpiring was.

I honestly would have turned it off if I hadn't already thrown the remote at a wall and had to get up to do it. Then Davis just went off and it is probably the 2nd greatest moment in my sports watching life just behind the mark!
 
In terms of excitement and amazing come from behind, against the odds victories, I rate that quarter as the most amazing piece of sporting footage I've ever seen... obviously I'm biased, but I have never witnessed something as unbelievable as that 4th quarter effort from Nick Davis from any sport...

If you were to script a sporting movie, where the main character is the hero, this is the type of script that you'd say, how corny was that ending...everything just went according to script...from him scoring the final 4 goals of the match to win it...to the last goal being a freakish kick, to the fact it was scored with like 5 seconds left on the clock
 
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With Hunt and the late, great Grybas.

Heart breaking night but we wouldn't have been able to field a team the week after.

Amazing finals series for Sydney.

Lose the qualifying final by a kick in Perth.

Down three goals to seven in the last quarter in the semi to win with the last kick.

Down at three-quarter time against the fresh Saints in Melbourne, then kicking seven straight goals in the last.

And breaking a 72 year drought in the big dance by a kick.
 
Ironically enough, I was going nuts because I wanted the Swans to win because we'd beaten them in the Semi Final at the G' the year prior, and I just naturally assumed we'd win again and be into the Grand Final.

How wrong I was.
 
One of my all time great sporting experiences - in some ways, as extraordinary as the GF.

That passage in the goal mouth that leads up to the final bounce was the most intense minute of football I can ever remember.
 

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Shocking moment in my life. Still can't believe it happened. I haven't felt like that until the end of last weeks Cats/Saints game! Just pure disbelief.

I was watching it at my mates place, and was on edge all the way through. Even when we were 4 goals up towards the end I was nervous. My mates just laughed at me saying dont worry idiot, you've got it wrapped up, just relax!

Unfortunately, those bastards were still laughing at me 20 minutes later when I was laying on the ground in SILENCE, too shattered to even contemplate what I'd just seen!
 
I remember throwing something really hard at the floor, maybe the remote, when he kicked that last one. Was pretty shattered, but went straight to a party and got cheered up :D

I like to think it probably had a hand in steeling the club for their good period lately. And I enjoyed watching the Swans go through and win it from there, so not all bad.
 
BobbyMorri said:
There has been some pretty good close finals at the SCG. U have the Lockett kick, this, we beat hawks by a goal in 96, Saints by 2 points in 88.

The only other game played there in a final was a 30 point loss to Adelaide.
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98

Would need for the NRL to get their way for the Swans to play finals at the SCG.
 
legend166 said:
The first three quarters were probably the most depressed I've been at a football game.

The last quarter made up for it completely, however.
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That's my main memory of it too. I was morbid most of the night, even deep into the 4th. The closer we got with each Davis goal just seemed a tease, a way of making the loss even harder to take. Only with Davis' 3rd, that great running snap from 50, did I lift.

When he kicked the 4th, I went nuts. The feeling post-siren was probably the most elated and (non-violently) insane I've ever experienced. And Jesus, the faces on some of the Cats fans leaving the ground. I remember a guy talking to his wife/girlfriend on a mobile outside the ground: "Honey, yeah, I know, I just...I just don't know what happened". I don't say that with any triumphalism - it was, as Grybas said, the greatest act of thievery since Ronnie Biggs. As buzzed as I was, I felt like quietly and respectfully walking past the Geelong mourners and making my way home. It must have been brutal.
 
Matching Mole said:
That's my main memory of it too. I was morbid most of the night, even deep into the 4th.
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That's also how I felt 10 minutes into the 4th on GF day when WC were all over us and Luke Ablett "passed" to Cousins in the square. It wasn't until Baz kicked straight from outside 50 and we regained momentum that I thought we were in it. Had flashbacks last Sunday too with Judd going nuts in the 3rd & early into the 4th.
 

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