Read the 2020 flag chapter in the Cotch book. Nobody wanted us to win it, and in his acceptance speech, he thanked the AFL through gritted teeth.
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Grand Final 2020 Thread Richmond Vs Geelong / Game Day Thread
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Agree with the 2018 assessment
Thank krist we made amends the way we did
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Geelong lost their Qualifying Final too. 2020 was unique in that sense.
I have a theory on that. Hawthorn and Geelong are big-ish clubs but they have nothing on the RFC. To put it into perspective, how would we feel if Carlton, Collingwood, or dare I suggest Essendon were to have an era like the one we did in 2017-20? It would annoy the be-jesus out of quite a fair chunk of the rest of the league and they might fear the era would never end.
Yeah, was very clear that Salty is not on their Christmas card list. I don’t think he’ll have many friends in the industry when his time as a coach is done.
Yes. 2017 was untoppable. The droughtbreaker after so many DECADES of heartbreak, humiliation and despair. One that a lot of people weren’t expecting. Even when being there, so many goals up and only a few minutes to go, I was still in a state of denial or disbelief, that the flag was finally ours. That feeling won’t be repeated in my lifetime I think.
2020 was satisfying in so many different ways. We were a juggernaut then. The world was against us it seemed. From covid and it’s affects. To the AFL and media seemingly wanting us to fail and constantly writing us off. Winning the flag was the cake. To beat those *smile* from pussy park was the cherry on top. Watching the smugness wiped from their faces as we came from behind was something to behold. In a way, it was good I couldn’t make it to the game because I wouldn’t have been able to see Salty’s face go from “ we’ve got this” to “ oh *smile*” right before my eyes on screen. Dusty’s last goal just humiliated the handbaggers. From the moment you see the ball, him and 5-6 cats players, you just knew something special was about to happen. Seeing them *smile* themselves, seeing dusty pounce, watching dangerflog attempting to tackle and getting shrugged off like he was a little leaguer is something that I’ll remember to my grave. I need a box of tissues every time I think of it. It was a work of art, it was poetry in motion. It was a masterpiece of football.
Jack in particular gives it to Scott & the pussies. I loved it.
Both Jack and Trent mentioned Salty’s comments and attitude prior to our finals encounters, and Trent seemed particularly put off by him saying that we weren’t as good as the other ‘era’ teams, including St Kilda, who in their entire miserable existence have never had an era.
I'm reading the Dusty book and it makes a big point about this.
Gee - he does a lot for others does Dust. That wouldn't sell papers though.
I wonder which Chris Scott is STILL feeling like the biggest tool, the..... "Lets do them Slowly" Chris Scott, or this Chris Scott.
It's got to be Salty.
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But they did have the “Streak” didn’t they. They released videos and memorabilia
Sadly neither of the books mentioned the pussies Shocking changing the rules to stop us. Actually JR did mention it a little from memory but said it ultimately wasn’t the key reason we dropped away.
Trent alluded to it, but didn’t lay ultimate blame. It’s not new with us, though. I read another book over the break called Brilliance & Brutality, about our rivalry with Carlton between ‘68 - ‘73, and the VFL as it was then and their media allies were trying to bring us down then, too. Dropping the ball came in to stop KB from exploiting holding the man.
In those days we had Graham Richmond and Octa Wilson publicly criticising the VFL and stating that it was "us against them". The fact the VFL didn't like us very much was in a large part because of those two and they actively encouraged it.
Dropping the ball was already a rule, but the extra Richmond layer was you weren’t allowed to bounce the ball if you got tackled.
KB used to bounce it right out in front of him when he got tackled, throw his arms out, the tackler would let go, and KB would run on to the bouncing ball and be off. Magic!
