Would have been better if Pies had made it. I can't remember Sydney ever capitulating like this. Hopefully we don't need to hear about their superior 'bloods' culture for a while after this.
Honestly we'd have put up a much better fight.
Losing to the Lions was bloody poor of us.
Yep, this finals series and flag were for the taking. Even more so in hindsight. Only got ourselves to blame, sadly. Ignoring the ARC, we threw away too many close games including the Elim through dumb schoolboy errors on-field and we had way too many soft-tissue injuries due to whatever we were doing off-field with our strength and conditioning.
IF we had got past Brisbane, we would've faced Melbourne who were wobbly and went out in straight sets. We would've then faced Geelong who we at least would've been competitive against as their bogey side in finals (surprise surprise they are going to win flag by avoiding playing us). Get past the Prelim and we would've got the Swans in the Granny suffering stage-fright. All up a missed opportunity
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