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Fun fact - Richmond has mentally ruined two teams in three years
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Gonna be a loooong pre-season for Tex
Bloke should call it quits.
The game has gone passed him.
Bloke should call it quits.
The game has gone passed him.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
It's not hard to imagine that some good GWS players on average pay under their top-heavy salary scale will realise that their window is shut and look to move to a contender. Especially with Leon Cameron extended.
And it's not hard to imagine some of them preferring to have the Tiger Army with them rather than against them.
And it's not hard to imagine some of them preferring to have the Tiger Army with them rather than against them.
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Because they dont see us as a force.
If you own and accept it, you can recover.
Its the same with us after the 2018 Preliminary final we could've folded and had in-house fighting but we accepted the loss and we learnt from our mistakes.
What did adelaide do? They couldn't accept losing to us and started blaming each other. They put themselves on a camp listening to our theme song. Its ridiculous.
GWS thought changing their style will fix everything without owning the loss. They lost by 15 goals, it shouldve been the first thing they spoke about prior to the preseason.
All we heard was Cameron saying they have changed a few things to their game style.
Own it or burn it.
I am pretty sure Brizvegas will be next. I do think they have a bit more gumption than the crows and the giants and will not fall as far but they don't think they can beat us so i consider them mentally ruined already.
Port on the other hand beat us when we were weakened so may mentally think they can beat us, but they won't.
Geelong and Collingwood are the ones who dont have the mental softness yet, but we have our chance this year to put the hurt on them.
Go tigers.
Gotta laugh...........news now the Cats may opt out of the Cameron deal. Could we, just could we, have mentally dismantled three of our GF opponents!!!!!!
Thread title mentions two teams in three years that we've mentally ruined. Who knows for certain just yet, but we might actually have damaged four teams in four years.
Crowbaits n GeeWhizz are the obvious two mentally damaged by playing us in a Grannie, but there's subtleties yet at play for the other two teams.
Consider Colonwood's journey since the day we inadvertently stumbled in the Prelim and allowed them to gaze upon the Holy Grail of footy with fingers outstretched. Five goal lead early in the game with a hand seemingly grasped around the cup, then they let it slip and allowed an interstate team to run over the top of them at their home ground and steal the glory away.
2019 Colonwood claw their way back into a losing prelim, running all over the top of Gee Whizz yet failing again by millimetres to gain another chance at the glory of another flag attempt.
2020 their covid hub infringements almost on a par with ours, they again stumble in their finals series, missing all opportunity for another flag assault. This is then compounded by their implosion of salary cap pressure resulting in possibly the dirtiest, narkiest trade period any club has experienced. followed up by the rolling avalanche of systemic racism that has plagued the club n forced El Presidente Eddieeeee into a humiliating stumbling retreat from all things footy.
2021 has barely begun following the Moggies second half premiership choke against the might of our Tigers. But to this point the Moggies in their desperation for one last flag for all their champions have bolstered their playing list by bringing in several more old age pensioners and traded away the future of the three first round draft picks they had, to strengthen their current attack. Pity they've paid no attention to the rule changes the AFL have brought about and retained their coach who has implemented no changes to their game style retaining the same old stodgy pass n prop match tactics that has seen them fall short in finals year after year. No one can yet be certain what this year will bring for the Moggies but with half their regular senior players being the stars that are hovering over the pensioner precipice and only a smattering of reasonable players in either their premium years, or young stars shining brightly already. There's likely to be an avalanche of massive proportions to yet roll down over the Moggies.
Crowbaits n GeeWhizz are the obvious two mentally damaged by playing us in a Grannie, but there's subtleties yet at play for the other two teams.
Consider Colonwood's journey since the day we inadvertently stumbled in the Prelim and allowed them to gaze upon the Holy Grail of footy with fingers outstretched. Five goal lead early in the game with a hand seemingly grasped around the cup, then they let it slip and allowed an interstate team to run over the top of them at their home ground and steal the glory away.
2019 Colonwood claw their way back into a losing prelim, running all over the top of Gee Whizz yet failing again by millimetres to gain another chance at the glory of another flag attempt.
2020 their covid hub infringements almost on a par with ours, they again stumble in their finals series, missing all opportunity for another flag assault. This is then compounded by their implosion of salary cap pressure resulting in possibly the dirtiest, narkiest trade period any club has experienced. followed up by the rolling avalanche of systemic racism that has plagued the club n forced El Presidente Eddieeeee into a humiliating stumbling retreat from all things footy.
2021 has barely begun following the Moggies second half premiership choke against the might of our Tigers. But to this point the Moggies in their desperation for one last flag for all their champions have bolstered their playing list by bringing in several more old age pensioners and traded away the future of the three first round draft picks they had, to strengthen their current attack. Pity they've paid no attention to the rule changes the AFL have brought about and retained their coach who has implemented no changes to their game style retaining the same old stodgy pass n prop match tactics that has seen them fall short in finals year after year. No one can yet be certain what this year will bring for the Moggies but with half their regular senior players being the stars that are hovering over the pensioner precipice and only a smattering of reasonable players in either their premium years, or young stars shining brightly already. There's likely to be an avalanche of massive proportions to yet roll down over the Moggies.
Was actually having an old fart cogitate over this very matter over the last hour or so n we've fairly messed up just about every team that's played finals against us this generation.
2013 Carlscum beat us n look where they've been since then.
2014 Pordadalayde beat us n they then went nowhere for a while until we ruined their prelim last year.
2015 #lolnorf beat us n they've lived a nightmare since then.
2017 Crowbaits have collapsed since they lost the flag they owned all year, then bought themselves a spoon as compensation. Moggies n Gee Whizz both hovered since but achieved only almost.
2018 We played Hawforn n Colonwood. Hawforn have promptly collapsed n Colonwood then simply choked another flag n while still playing finals since then have suffered the nightmare from hell over the 20 / 21 summer off season.
2019 Brisvegas, Moggies n Gee Whizz. Gee Whizz are another mob who've simply collapsed after getting a flag reaming while the Moggies n Brisvegas have remained up for the fight they're still not achieving anything.
2020 Brisvegas, St Kiddenme, Moggies. Both Brisvegas n St Kiddenme are in up n coming mode but are as yet to achieve anything while the Moggies once again ran into the Tiger monster and were obliterated when it counted most. Not sure the Moggies can keep coming back to the finals and achieving anything after their last three years. Brisvegas n St Kiddenme still have questions over whether they are good enough to even make a Grannie, never mind win one.
Damn it feels good to be the evil empire once again.
Our destructive vandalism of other teams' treasures goes back further than just this generation TM but still within living memory.
In round 12 1965 we, who hadn't seen a final for nearly 20 years, knocked off Melbourne, then the current reigning premier by 6 points. Melbourne board in their wisdom decided that their coach deserved the sack for this outrageous loss.
Although they re-instated him within a week the Norm Smith Curse was visited upon them and has ensured they never attained those giddy heights of 1964 ever again and hopefully for nevermore.
