- Aug 21, 2007
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Not sure how having no Lycett would've helped us at stoppages though. Lycett didn't have his greatest night but what was the alternative? We had Ladhams too, but obviously he was poor too when he played in the ruck. After that what were our options? Dixon, who just so happened to be an all australian forward that year, so we would've been robbing Peter to pay Paul in a big way there.
We just got beaten by a bloody good team that night by 6 points, out of all our prelim final exits over the AFL journey that is the one that probably angers me the least about how we went about it. 2021 it was there for the taking and we were absolutely pathetic that night, and 2014 we should've definitely won that but we burnt way too many chances in front of goals, and how we didn't convert at least another GF from those 2002-03 teams is beyond me.
Had we won the 2020 prelim i don't think there are any guarantees we wouldn't s**t the bed against Geelong up in Queensland like we had done earlier in that year either.
We're basically even money to shit the bed in any given final so that's fair.
I'm not sure how Ladhams would have gone as the #1 ruck, I just know that Lycett had a disaster of a game and has had several other big game disasters since. He plays some decent physical negator style ruck games in between but he's so unreliable. Like the whole team I guess.