Every AFL club's sliding doors moment since 2010Andrew Slevison
SEN
27 May 2020There are many moments throughout a football season where you look back and just think ‘what if’.
What if so and so didn’t miss that set shot? What if the ball bounced the other way? What if that handball had hit the target? What if the side simply turned up? What if, what if, what if.
With that in mind, we’ve taken a look at the sliding doors moments that have impacted your club over the course of the last 10 years.
Whether it cost the club a premiership, whether it halted momentum in a finals campaign, whether it denied them a spot in a Grand Final, these are the moments or matches that when recalled, make you grit your teeth with regret. The instances where you just wish it fell the way of your beloved team.
Supporters from each of the 18 clubs might have their own stories to tell about what may have been but here are the sliding doors moments rom the last decade as we see them.
RICHMOND2018 Preliminary Final loss to CollingwoodThe Tigers had been the most dominant team of the 2018 season and were heavily favoured to win a second successive premiership. But they had to get there first. After a comfortable win over Hawthorn, the Tigers were set to play Collingwood in the prelim. They had beaten the Magpies in round 19 but went into the penultimate match underdone with some key players under injury clouds and some even hit with gastro in the lead up. But nothing could prepare them for what the Pies were about to do. It was a scintillating performance, led of course by the since unmatched showing of Mason Cox. A prelim disappointment wedged between two flags. Could Richmond have won a three-peat? We’ll never know.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/05/27/every-afl-clubs-sliding-doors-moment-since-2010/
