Unheralded Grand Final Moments

[bulldogtragic]

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What Prelim was it where we couldn't hit the side of a barn? Against Geelong? I remember it being the sole reason we didn't play in the Grand Final cause we had them drawn and quartered for the entire last quarter.

2008. Eagleton, Minson & Gilbee I think we're the main bad misses. I think Eagleton failed to make the distance from 40m.

[1eyedog]

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2008. Eagleton, Minson & Gilbee I think we're the main bad misses. I think Eagleton failed to make the distance from 40m.

I remember Minson missing a pretty straight forward one and just knowing it wasn't going to end well.

[westdog54]

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2008. Eagleton, Minson & Gilbee I think we're the main bad misses. I think Eagleton failed to make the distance from 40m.

I have a vague recollection of TCD starting a thread entitled "Kick a *!*!*!*!ing goal!" a day or two later.

[westdog54]

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2008. Eagleton, Minson & Gilbee I think we're the main bad misses. I think Eagleton failed to make the distance from 40m.

Watching the DVD, there's a passage of play in the first quarter where Morris flies for a mark, gets pushed in mid air y Gary Rohan, and lands square in the middle of his back.

Looking back now, how agonizingly painful most that have been for Moz?

[The Doctor]

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I want to go to last year's grand final again

[Twodogs]

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That 2008 was pretty bad. Eagleton missed an easy goal in each quarter.

[comrade]

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That 2008 was pretty bad. Eagleton missed an easy goal in each quarter.

I'm surprised Mantis survived that game

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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2008. Eagleton, Minson & Gilbee I think we're the main bad misses. I think Eagleton failed to make the distance from 40m.

I think Higgins missed an easy one too.

[bulldogtragic]

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I think Higgins missed an easy one too.

Probably. I've tried to erase it from my memory, we had them on the ground, foot on their throat, and we choked badly. But we are reigning premiers, so I'm now like, whatever never mind.

[The Pie Man]

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I remember Minson missing a pretty straight forward one and just knowing it wasn't going to end well.

Minson's miss from roughly 30 out in the 3rd was very deflating - the crowd was up and about after he marked on the lead, and he'd normally been a pretty reliable shot at goal up to that point.

I remember M Boyd slicing a set shot of the side of his boot at the start of the last quarter when were a chance to narrow it to 2 goals. Wind sucked right out of us.

Such a frustrating night.

Thank .... for 2016

[bulldogtragic]

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Watching the DVD, there's a passage of play in the first quarter where Morris flies for a mark, gets pushed in mid air y Gary Rohan, and lands square in the middle of his back.

Looking back now, how agonizingly painful most that have been for Moz?

Yep. Watching him talk to Mike Sheahan about playing in immense pain, and how he 'goes until he can't go anymore, and then keep going', I was thinking if he wasn't a footballer he'd be an elite SAS soldier. I don't know how he did it, other than he's Dale Morris and that's the stuff that Dale Morris does.

[LostDoggy]

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That '08 Prelim hurts. When I think back, the number one thing that stands out for me are also the missed opportunities at goal. I can recall all those missed goals that have been mentioned in the past few posts.

I don't think we would have come close to the Hawks, though.

In 2009, different story. I reckon we would have been a good chance to beat Geelong.

[Twodogs]

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Yep. Watching him talk to Mike Sheahan about playing in immense pain, and how he 'goes until he can't go anymore, and then keep going', I was thinking if he wasn't a footballer he'd be an elite SAS soldier. I don't know how he did it, other than he's Dale Morris and that's the stuff that Dale Morris does.

I reckon if you did know how he did it then it would make it all the more amazing. Ex footballers must watch it and think all sorts of things.

That '08 Prelim hurts. When I think back, the number one thing that stands out for me are also the missed opportunities at goal. I can recall all those missed goals that have been mentioned in the past few posts.

I don't think we would have come close to the Hawks, though.

In 2009, different story. I reckon we would have been a good chance to beat Geelong.

A lot of the pain of all those prelims has washed away for me. I'm still a bit annoyed about 1997 because it was just so spectacularly stupid and idiotic and we were a fair chance against the Crows the next week.

[KT31]

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I reckon if you did know how he did it then it would make it all the more amazing. Ex footballers must watch it and think all sorts of things.



A lot of the pain of all those prelims has washed away for me. I'm still a bit annoyed about 1997 because it was just so spectacularly stupid and idiotic and we were a fair chance against the Crows the next week.

We would have smashed the Saints.

[Twodogs]

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We would have smashed the Saints.

That's how traumatic it was. I wanted to play the bastards again. Next week!