So Proud. So Gutted.

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Re: So Proud. So Gutted.

I've seen us lose 6 prelims since 1985 - by the length of the Flemington Straight the easiest ones to cope with have been 1992 and 1998, when in both matches we were hammered by a better team and raised the white flag well before the finish. The other 4 have been much, much harder to take because we were in all of them up to our eyeballs halfway through the last qtr. I know which group supporters out of the filth and the Dogs would currently be feeling less gutted.

Sorry ... but that's not my experience. Initially the close loss is worse, but it quickly fades if we have really had a crack. The haunting ones for me are the ones where we just aren't competitive. They are more troubling because they mean we are a long way off, possibly even pretenders. This years final series doesn't suggest that IMHO.