What Nick Davis saved us from

[Sanecow]

Geelong coach Mark Thompson admits the ghosts of the last-gasp semi-final loss to the Sydney Swans still haunt him and probably will forever.

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Thanks, Nick!

[Schneiderman]

Re: What Nick Davis saved us from

Originally posted by Sanecow
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Thanks, Nick!

Strangely enough... he almost single-handedly dump us in it.

I reckon we would have been pretty upset if we had lost anyway. BUT compare the way you think you'd feel if we had lost by the full 23pts, versus if only his last kick had hit the post on the way through! Those 'if-only' losses really sting.

[cruiser]

I almost feel sorry for Geelong and Mark Thompson, because I thinks he's a decent bloke and Geelong are a decent football club.

[Lucky Knickers]

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Originally posted by Schneiderman
Strangely enough... he almost single-handedly dump us in it.

I think you are being a bit harsh there S-man. He was one of the better players - 9 possessions in Q3 and an absolutely phenomenal individual performance which warrants an individual Toyota ad for at least 3 of his 4 goals. More like single handedly saved our proverbial!

[OldE]

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Originally posted by singaporeswan
absolutely phenomenal individual performance which warrants an individual Toyota ad

I think we're all waiting on the Toyota ad. Maybe it will be ready for round one...

[goswannie14]

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Originally posted by Schneiderman
Strangely enough... he almost single-handedly dump us in it.

I reckon we would have been pretty upset if we had lost anyway. BUT compare the way you think you'd feel if we had lost by the full 23pts, versus if only his last kick had hit the post on the way through! Those 'if-only' losses really sting.

Why worry about what ifs? If you worry about that you won't go out of the house for fear of what might happen.

[Charlie]

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Originally posted by eirinn
I think we're all waiting on the Toyota ad. Maybe it will be ready for round one...

Can we be greedy and have two? Leo's mark is a certainty, surely!

[Xie Shan]

Originally posted by cruiser
I almost feel sorry for Geelong and Mark Thompson, because I thinks he's a decent bloke and Geelong are a decent football club.

Agreed. Why couldn't we have done that to Collingwood, or, in your case Cruiser, Port Adelaide?

I'm sure they're working on the Toyota ad as we speak!

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by sydfan83
Agreed. Why couldn't we have done that to Collingwood, or, in your case Cruiser, Port Adelaide?

I'm sure they're working on the Toyota ad as we speak!

St Kilda would've been another good team to have beaten like that. Sorry...I forgot...I liked the way we beat StKilda anyway

[Mark Busuttil]

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Geelong coach Mark Thompson admits the ghosts of the last-gasp semi-final loss to the Sydney Swans still haunt him and probably will forever.

Thanks, Nick! [/B][/QUOTE]
Suffer - how many games have we been haunted by (beltings instead of a close loss). Who remembers that loss in 2000 to the Dons when they kicked a goal just before the siren.
It's football - get used to it!!!!!!!
We won, they lost, we're the kings of the castle!!!!!

[cruiser]

Originally posted by goswannie14
St Kilda would've been another good team to have beaten like that.

Next year

[woo]

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Who remembers that loss in 2000 to the Dons when they kicked a goal just before the siren.
It's football - get used to it!!!!!!!
We won, they lost, we're the kings of the castle!!!!! [/B][/QUOTE]


I remember that loss very well against the dons....so does my dad...why you ask...I threw the remote control at the wall (I was living with the fam at the time) and it broke into peices...and I sent myself to my room (I was 23 at the time)....dad wasn't even upset with me as he was looking for a remote to grab and throw as well....ugghh bad memories

[goswannie14]

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Originally posted by woo

I remember that loss very well against the dons....so does my dad...why you ask...I threw the remote control at the wall (I was living with the fam at the time) and it broke into peices...and I sent myself to my room (I was 23 at the time)....dad wasn't even upset with me as he was looking for a remote to grab and throw as well....ugghh bad memories

I accidentally broke a plate when the Kangas beat us last year. When the "oob" deliberately was paid against us in the last minute I kicked the coffee table, turning it over...with a plate on it that I didn't know was there....smash

[cressakel]

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Originally posted by woo
Who remembers that loss in 2000 to the Dons when they kicked a goal just before the siren.
It's football - get used to it!!!!!!!
We won, they lost, we're the kings of the castle!!!!!

I remember that loss very well against the dons....so does my dad...why you ask...I threw the remote control at the wall (I was living with the fam at the time) and it broke into peices...and I sent myself to my room (I was 23 at the time)....dad wasn't even upset with me as he was looking for a remote to grab and throw as well....ugghh bad memories [/B][/QUOTE]

Don't worry about your grief, it was nothing compared to the canning I copped from about 300 Bombout supporters around me after bagging the Bombouts and particularly that donkey Alessio all day, only for Alessio to kick the matchwinner, four goals and play the best game for the Bombouts in five years.......

As I have lived in the Essendon area most of my life and know a couple of dozen Bombout fans, the phone never bl**dy stopped for the next three hours....

Yeah, I remember that game really well.....

[penga]

It was in 2001.