‘There are no scars’: GWS regroup for another shot at gloryJamie Pandaram
The Daily Telegraph
December 7, 2019It’s 5.05pm on September 28 at the MCG. The scoreboard reads Richmond 114 GWS 25.
Utter dejection.
Coniglio never made it onto the field. He gave up the Wednesday before, and watched in his suit.
“Being on the field with Richmond after the game,” Coniglio identifies as the most profound football moment this year.
“I had a couple of close friends play for them, having chats post grand final about their love for each other, even Dusty (Martin) – he wins the Norm Smith Medal then puts it under his top straight away and just has his premiership medal – little things like that you can’t help but admire.
“It makes you envious, not in a bad way, but you just want that for us.”
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Davis played after passing a last-minute fitness test on the ground moments before kick-off.
But after his rival, Jack Riewoldt, kicked five goals alone in the match, Davis was labelled “a liability” for the Giants by some commentators.
“They don’t know what I did from 8pm the Saturday before to 2pm grand final day, how I felt, anything like that,” Davis said.
“There were certain markers I had to hit, we were very strategic and objective in what I had to do to play, and I felt really good.
“Did I play as well as I wanted to? Probably not. Did I think my body hampered me from doing what I needed to do to be part of a winning team? No.
“I still maintain my decision was the right one. I’m very content with that.”
Giants coach Leon Cameron, having taken the eight-year-old club to its fourth finals series in as many years, knew their first grand final was over by the third quarter as the Tigers romped through his team, also missing co-captain Callan Ward due to injury.
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“I understand Richmond were the better team. But I don’t think they were that much better than us." - Phil Davis.
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