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Doc_ said:
You cant move forward if your looking backwards.
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Watched a replay of that 2005 game when I got home. It was like they denied us the ball nearly all game. This was such a great Adelaide side but saved their worst for the most important game of the decade. Next week vs Port was great but the damage was done, they were never going to win in Perth.

And that has been the trouble with this team. Moving forward but then doubting themselves because of the past and that results in failures.

Hopefully 2015 brings some good results. A top 8 finish and at least a semi final, but after that keeping strong and not giving up. Taking each step forward year by year. Every time this team failed, it was like it gave up and had a terrible year to follow. Don't want to see that again, need to keep going up so we can get the best results possible over the next few years.
 
WFL said:
I have broken remotes archived never to be seen again. Wifey thinks it's safer that way.
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2009 semi, as soon as I saw Ben Rutten holding the arm of John Anthony. I turned off the TV straight away and threw the remote which survived but was broken. Adelaide choked that night in epic proportions in that 3rd quarter and put themselves into a terrible situation. I also remember I walked out of the room in the 3rd quarter very distressed and very angry, fully blame us for stuffing up this game and I could see it coming at half time. If we were focused we would have won that game easily and made it to a prelim final from outside the top 4 against Geelong and I am sure it would have been way closer than 80 points.

I remember how much amazing footy we were playing before that semi final, and then we packed it in under pressure and lost our focus. I remember in 2010 when we beat Geelong, but the damage was long done. But it proves we can beat the best if focussed. Just look what happened in 2012, we achieved lots that year. Hope we can give it another shot this year, it requires focus week after week. You cannot win all games, but win 2 out of 3 games on average and who knows.
 
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PCORF said:
2009 semi, as soon as I saw Ben Rutten holding the arm of John Anthony. I turned off the TV straight away and threw the remote which survived but was broken. Adelaide choked that night in epic proportions in that 3rd quarter and put themselves into a terrible situation. I also remember I walked out of the room in the 3rd quarter very distressed and very angry, fully blame us for stuffing up this game and I could see it coming at half time. If we were focused we would have won that game easily and made it to a prelim final from outside the top 4 against Geelong and I am sure it would have been way closer than 80 points.

I remember how much amazing footy we were playing before that semi final, and then we packed it in under pressure and lost our focus. I remember in 2010 when we beat Geelong, but the damage was long done. But it proves we can beat the best if focussed. Just look what happened in 2012, we achieved lots that year. Hope we can give it another shot this year, it requires focus week after week. You cannot win all games, but win 2 out of 3 games on average and who knows.
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Good ole John Anthony. What happened?
 

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The bumping of this thread is like remembering that time you shagged that skanky bird in a drunken stupor and caught gonorrhea. Cool bump. Well done.
 
Roo Lives Again said:
Don't ******* remind me...we should've won the premiership that year. I remember watching our games at the start of the year and we are amazing. We never should've taken a full side to Subi in the final round, we should've done a Ross Lyon special and rested our team. If we'd done that we would've won the premiership.
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What?
We started slowly.
 
In Neil Craig's first year we were decimating the competition causing Mick Malthouse to say that 'Adelaide are so far ahead of the competition it's not funny'. Don't know what you're talking about.
 
Slippery Pete said:
This game opened a can of worms that we have not been able to close to this very day.

In was one of those future-changing fork-in-the-road games like the 1997 prelim.
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Thing is that statistically playing in perth means a loss the loss the next week. A case of bad timing or VFL brilliance?
 
Roo Lives Again said:
In Neil Craig's first year we were decimating the competition causing Mick Malthouse to say that 'Adelaide are so far ahead of the competition it's not funny'. Don't know what you're talking about.
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Neil Craig's 2nd year we were killing everything.
2005 we started 4-4 and were 7-5 before going on a roll to finish 17-5
2006 we started 14-2 and 15-3 before collapsing and finishing 16-6
 
Dirty Bird said:
Neil Craig's 2nd year we were killing everything.
2005 we started 4-4 and were 7-5 before going on a roll to finish 17-5
2006 we started 14-2 and 15-3 before collapsing and finishing 16-6
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I was living in Vic in 05-06 and remember reading an article written by Mike Sheehan in the HS about the Crows when we were on a long winning streak, the head line was 'Scare Crows'. Basically Sheehan wrote that the AFL ought to award the premiership to us as no team would get near us that year. That afternoon I went to Etihad and watched Richmond beat us in the infamous 'it's not bloody basketball' game.
 
diligaf473 said:
I was living in Vic in 05-06 and remember reading an article written by Mike Sheehan in the HS about the Crows when we were on a long winning streak, the head line was 'Scare Crows'. Basically Sheehan wrote that the AFL ought to award the premiership to us as no team would get near us that year. That afternoon I went to Etihad and watched Richmond beat us in the infamous 'it's not bloody basketball' game.
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2006 when we were about 6-1 or something and Richmond got a 3-4 goal lead then played kick to kick for the whole game.
 
diligaf473 said:
That's the one. My memory isn't the best but I thought we were 14-1 going into the game?
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Nah, 6-1
We were 14-2 when we were pulverised by West Coast
 
diligaf473 said:
I was living in Vic in 05-06 and remember reading an article written by Mike Sheehan in the HS about the Crows when we were on a long winning streak, the head line was 'Scare Crows'. Basically Sheehan wrote that the AFL ought to award the premiership to us as no team would get near us that year. That afternoon I went to Etihad and watched Richmond beat us in the infamous 'it's not bloody basketball' game.
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Yeah, I flew across to watch that game & was frustrated that Craig didn't instruct our players to man up. Wallace showed Craig up for refusing plan b.
 
Dirty Bird said:
Neil Craig's 2nd year we were killing everything.
2005 we started 4-4 and were 7-5 before going on a roll to finish 17-5
2006 we started 14-2 and 15-3 before collapsing and finishing 16-6
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You just described the Sixers' season to this point (but we started horrendously).
Won our last 10 games heading into the playoffs.
Please... Please don't let it end the same way.

But yeah... whoever bumped this thread... y u do dis?
 

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