CK95 wrote:
OK here goes. Had to wait a day to post my reflections of the game, just couldn't think or feel a thing last night.
Firstly, call me a shit supporter, but I left early. Very early. I'd said to myself through the week that I wouldn't be able to cope if it was close at 3q time & as I saw it, 24 points was too close for comfort. In fact even though we looked great in the 3rd, I had no confidence at all. That's what this footy team has done to me. Something about us & 4-5 goal margins just makes me vomit. As does the thought of sharing the Eltham line with the Collingwood supporters. So I said farewell to bluehammer & went on my way - but stopped in standing room on the way out & had a bit of a look at the start of the 4th.
I saw Charlie take a mark then play on & hook it around his body instead of taking the set shot. My memory is sketchy but I think the ball rebounded up to their forward line & Ash Johnson golaed. Margin 17 points or something. Charlie reminded me of Jarad Waite yesterday. A good player who lairised & just did dumb shit instead of using his powers appropriately. That bit gave me the sinking feeling. It was the Nick Reiwoldt 2010 moment of the game.
So the remainder of the game I just followed score updates on my phone on my way home. That was it. Refresh, check again. Saw we kicked a bunch of behinds in a row. Then I got the final notification when I was at Clifton Hill. So that last period of horror that you guys have disected on here - Charlie, Durdin, Fish, Obrien - I never saw, & never will. I'm off media for a week.
We moved the ball too slowly in the first half. I said to bh at the game, have a look at how quickly Coll just play on as soon as they get it. It was so obvious. Geelong moved the ball slowly for 2 years & finally worked out they needed to change things up, & have, so I am confident we can get this sorted. The Cats have largely changed their ways with output from new personel, like Close, Atkins, Stengle, so I don't see any reason why we can't pull the same moves given a number of our players back from injury are going to be like virtual recruits next year. Plus with the addition of a pacy mid or two from the draft or another club.
I was thinking last night, was there an incident where Jack Elliot insulted indigenous Australia & someone responded by putting a curse on Princes Park? Or was that Alan McCalistar? Memory is sketchy, but if we have had a curse put on us, would that seriously surprise anyone. It wasn't just this & the Dees game. It was the Dogs trailing Hawthorn by 3 goals & coming back. And going further, effing GWS taking it right up to the Dogs the week before then losing by a goal.
Someone else, bluedog I think, referenced the 2000 Bombers & how they responded to 99. As gutting as it is to look to that club as an example to follow at anything, maybe there is something in it. They came out the following year on a flower mission. Didn't sing the song after any victory until the GF. We need that level of hurt & obsession but I'm still not sure if we are ready yet. Even though yesterday was like a final, it wasn't a final. We haven't played in or won a final yet. That said, the Cats of 2005 were written off after Nick Davis. I remember Rex saying on radio that night that they'd never win a flag. Richmond 3 EF losses in a row & looked set to throw in the towel, got up, & bang.
That Fremantle coach, Longmuir (who I reckon is great) pulled his whole club into line midyear. Said they'd all got ahead of themselves. I think he was including supporters in there too, & it seemed to work. I just wonder if maybe that would not have been a bad thing for Vossy or someone to do also, even though it wouldn't have been very original. I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but these decades of utter shitness have made us get our jollies over small things, baby steps, 2 point wins over Hawthorn etc. The bar needs to be set much higher next year.
Credit to Cerra for his game. Very professional 4 quarter effort. Got ourselves a beauty there. And even though he is struggling, I thought Pitto had a good 3rd quarter.
This was our 99 prelim in reverse, to an extent. OK there was no GF on the line, & we weren't red hot favourites, but flower. One point to Collingwood, with so much at stake. They have decades worth of revenge to spew at us & we are just going to have to cop it, until we properly do something about it. That's the nature of this game, you kind of have to take the hit when it's your turn I guess. It sucks. Footy sucks some times.
My 10 y.o. son called me after the game & was just lifeless, & asked me to come over for a cuddle. I needed one too! So over I went, & I guess, being a parent, it helped put the game in a little perspective. I simply had to put on a brave face & get over my shit & not sook it up too much in front of my 10 y.o. Being a dad makes a lot of things that used to matter so much, seem just that little bit more inconsequential than they once did. OK I'm really reaching there, but hopefully you get my drift. Reckon Sam Docherty would be filthy at not bringing it home for the club he's loved all his life, but he could probably tell us all a bit about perspective also.
I hope everyone is doing as OK as one possibly can. If anyone wants to chat, or even catch up & do meth or peptides or something, drop me a PM. I'll try my best.
I'll always believe in the greatness of Carlton.
You're a shit supporter!
With 10min to go in the last, I told my wife to take the girls outside to play because things were probably going to get ugly. After the siren went, I just walked outside and sat on the porch by myself for 30-40min like an empty shell. My 4yo daughter walked out and said "Daddy, did the Mighty Blues win?" and I almost teared up. I then realised that I was being a sulky man child and needed to snap out of it. It does bring things into perspective for sure. That being said, I am still totally livid 24 hours later. What a devastating loss given everything that was at play, especially against the arch enemy that have had every bit of luck go their way all year. Just gut-wrenching.
....BTW I have PM'ed you about the meth and peptides.
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