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MagpieGirl_13

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Yes, I am. A lot.

All I want is to win a grandfinal but it just never seems to happen. We always get so close but just can't finish it off. Even just to make the GF would better than losing. It just frustrates me that we can't seem to do it.
Last week was amazing. But this week we just fell. No one turned up with enough heart to go for it. But Geelong was way too good for us tonight.
The power of expectation was too great. We weren’t expected to win, but we were given a chance. We didn’t take that chance, we blew it.

As upset as I am at the moment, I don't want to single out anyone to blame. It was the TEAM'S fault. Not Jack's, or Davis’s or Cloke's, everyone was bad. Some players were just worse than others. We can't sit here and say "delist <insert scapegoat here>", what good is that going to do? nothing. It sucks, I know, but we can't bash all of our players over tonight, it's not going to get us anywhere.
Don’t even bother with the two words – What if? It’s not worth thinking about. “What if Pendlebury played?” “What if Medhurst wasn’t left out?”... it could go on forever. Where will that get us? Nowhere. We can’t change what has just happened, but we can move on.

I’m not sitting here & blaming the team. There’s nothing we can do about what has happened. As hard as it is, we just have to move on. Just like we say every year, “there’s always next year...” *sigh*
We keep putting ourselves through this, every year. It doesn’t seem to change. Yet we continue to do this to ourselves. We love it... well, I love it! I hate this feeling, it’s so numb. But the passion we have for this team can never be taken away from us. We will return, better than ever.
I think we should be proud of how far we actually came this year. Only 4 out of the 16 teams made it this far, two had to win & two had to lose. We were just the unlucky ones that had to lose. That’s life. That’s Football.

Tonight, I was that pissed off that I destroyed one of my many Collingwood stress balls. It has 100+ nail marks & many tears through it. I don't give a sh*t.
**** off trolls. **** off all those who have just come from under their rocks because we lost.
The Umpires were sh*t too.
It sucks, but ****en get over it.

Go Saints!!
 
You know what? I'm not hurting. Rather I am disappointed.

Last week I was nervous and my heart was in my sleeve, but tonight, after our first outburst of great play, it was like I knew what was coming our way. Uninspiring performance on a total level, and I'm not hurt. Next year will be good for our young lads, but we need to sort out forward line up. We, like the bulldogs I believe, won't win a GF with this sort of set up. But Jack could stand up next year moreso than he did this year, but we'll see.
 

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Well firstly I can say that I have never left a game early , I could not sit there tonight and watch the spineless perfomance that was shown by a few of the passengers that we have in our team .. We were soft at the ball and man tonight and Geelong showed us what finals footy was all about , we were nothing but pretenders tonight and it showed after half time. I don't mind losing but to see a performance like that was just not acceptable..

When will the match commitee take a stance on our so called SUPERSTARS like Cloke ,Davis , Jack Anthony drop them when they are down on form .. I am sick and tired of watching these players under perform then watch all the media blow sunshine up their a$$ pretending they are superstars, then when the time comes to put their heads over the ball they wait for one of their team mates to do the job for them then take the glory of finishing it off around the goals... I am a passionate supporter of the pies and I just hate to see weak efforts like tonight .. .There is no way we will win a premiership until the club has had a major cleanout of the playing list and giving some of the younger blokes who in turn would at least have a crack when they get their chance..
 
I'm hurting too but after being through it many times before you build up an immune to it and it doesn't seem as severe.

Tonight showed just how much there is a gap between us and the top level. I have no idea how that gap will be bridged. Yes the current crop of players is young, etc but their best isn't and hasn't been good enough. We have no superstars in this team like most other top clubs. We will improve but so will some other teams below us.

In my opinion we will be thereabouts next year but wont finish higher than this year.
 
St Kilda and Geelong are way ahead of everyone, they deserve to be in the granny and hopefully it'll be an epic.

Just so disappointing to go out like that, it was pathetic.
 
Nicely put Magpie Girl 13 . I'd say i am more dissapointed than hurting .
The lack of desperation was hard to swallow .
Have to disagree with you on the " Go Saints " line though , cant stand those ****s .
 
Very disappointed. It’s time for a good clean out.
Old, tired and slow players have to leave and there were many tonight.
Presti, Lockyer, Ben Johnson, Rocca should consider retiring.
We might get another year out of O’Bree.
And looking at the seconds, I just don’t see any good AFL talent.
 
Dear magpiegirl - I was hurting in 2002 and 2003 and that's when we did make it. Believe me it hurts more to lose the GF by 9 points than not to get there. I spoke to a Saints supporter at work last night and said I was hoping for a Saints v Pies final - I just thought maybe - but o well there's always next year
 
Blur said:
You know what? I'm not hurting. Rather I am disappointed.

Im with you Blur I thought we would put up a better performance than that
As for you MG13 welcome to supporting Collingwood Ive been supporting them for years been through the ups and downs but I will NEVER loose faith with our list we will more than we will loose grand finals included
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tough luck guys...

u haev a lot to look forward too...

Best of luck next year, and well done for the sportsmanship u guys haev shown!
 

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Tristagi said:
im sorry guys but from where i was, you were robbed...

right in front of me...

RIGHT. IN. FRONT. OF. ME!!
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Umm, I don't get it, it was an Adelaide supporter who said that, WHAT THE **** DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH US.:mad:

Oh, and I'm Numb at the moment, really thought we had a shot at a Grand Final at half time, then we produced that shit in the second half.

So much for not taking injured players into finals, I saw at least 5 wearing black and white tonight who were either injured who had a run in with alien body snatchers some time in the last month.

We got beat by a better side, but I couldn't give a shit about a GF between 2 worthless, meaningless football clubs with so few members between them that the Grand Final may not even sell out.

As I said, I'm numb, and maybe a little angry.:mad::confused:
 
Bad luck guys(and gals). Don't be too hard on your team, they have performed very well in a difficult season and finished up in the top four and a prelim. No shame in going down to the Cats or Saints the way they are playing this year. I think the Pies will be a strong team for some time to come. Keep your chins up and look forward to 2010!
 
I just got home from the game, and yep, it does hurt to see them go out the way they did. I agree, it hurts more watching them go down in a grandfinal than a prelim final, and we have seen plenty of those happen over the years!

Last week was brilliant. They put themselves on the line, and had a heart. This week, they looked flat, and just didnt seem to want to put the effort in chasing, contests etc.
A couple of players do need to move I think, but we also have some great young guys, and with a bit more develpoment and game time, we will be a great side. Not bad though for a bunch of mostly young guys playing off in a prelim! I think it can only get better from here. They will learn from this, and it will do them good for next time around.

Geelong played very well though, and congrats, they were much too good on the day, and we had to play at our best to give them a run for their money.
The cats and saints have been the benchmark all year, so they really do deserve to play off in the big one.

I still cant believe why so many people leave before the end of the game. You dont like it when the team gives up, and im sure they feel even worse when waves of supporters start leaving as well, thats when we need to shout louder and make our voices heard to pick the guys up.
5 people behind us left at the end of the 3rd quarter. Sure it was pretty much over by then, but another 30mins supporting your team wouldnt hurt that much would it? Especially if we freakishly pulled something out of the bag and had a 12 goal last quarter! That would of been great to see, and you would be kicking yourself if you left early and missed it all!

Anyway, thanks for a great season, and good luck to the boys next year, I think we have shown this year that even though still very young, im confident its a team that will be strong in the future.
Go Pies! :)


Sainters.... kick the crap out of them for us! ;)
 
I'm hurting,

Geelong and St. Kilda have been the best two sides in it all year and deserve their slots in the big show but we were in with an outside chance and fell away badly in the end and even though it was an outside chance it was a chance missed.
 
The wet slippery conditions suited Geelong tonight. They generally revel in these type of conditions with the mature bigger bodies. The Cats now have a full list to select from and "seem" to have clicked back into gear.

I think the younger, less experienced cattle had trouble running out the game tonight after a serious workout last week in unusually high temperatures.

Chins up. There's some exciting young talent there at Collingwood and all bodes well for the future.
 
I'm dead set shattered.

That began about mid way through the 3rd quarter though when i realised that we were going to lose and lose bad. :(

But like everyone else i will be there round 1 next year to do this all over again in the hope that maybe we can win the Grand Final.
 
sidebottoms, beams, dick (to name a few) are all pretty exciting to watch and i've no doubt that your squad will be in the mix for a few years yet.
 
Not good enough. Nowhere good enough but that's how it is. You cannot fluke flags & although i am dissapointed, we tried our best. We have got alot to look forward too & we will be a flag chance in the next 2-3 years.

The older, wiser, stronger bodies of the cats found us out tonight as we in our deep conscious knew they would. We will be back next year, the year after that & until eternity searching for the main prize. We will strive, we will have detractors but we will ALWAYS be as one for the good old Coillingwood.

Side by side we stick together.

Mitch.
 
Blur said:
You know what? I'm not hurting. Rather I am disappointed.

Last week I was nervous and my heart was in my sleeve, but tonight, after our first outburst of great play, it was like I knew what was coming our way. Uninspiring performance on a total level, and I'm not hurt.
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Exactly the same. As soon as Geelong kicked the first one in the 3rd quarter I knew it was over. Insipid performance, you can blame us being young or whatever, but I'm not buying it. It was good enough to win 12 from 13, to that lack of character in the second hard was pitiful.

If I knew we were going to play like that would have rathered not make it. Seriously.
 

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