There's nothing heroic about losing.
By Caroline Wilson, Sunday Age, Sept 14, 2003
"Commentator Dennis Cometti took the unusual step last week of trying to make his peace with Fremantle supporters. He had upset them, it seems, by
daring to suggest the Dockers players stayed too long on the Subiaco ground nine nights ago after being humiliated by Essendon.
But Cometti was right and there was no need for him to clarify his radio comments. The elimination final defeat was no time for celebration and, hopefully, in the cold light that followed the Fremantle version of mad
Monday, Chris Connolly or his senior leadership group pointed out to the rest of the team that its performance was unacceptable.
The last time supporters cheered their team so loudly in a losing final was 1995, when Richmond was thrashed by Geelong in a preliminary final at Waverley Park.
The roar that echoed around the park that day seemed an emotional gesture of thanks for the Tigers' first finals series since 1982. But the team had played hopeless football that day and did not make another final for six years.
That was in 2001 and Richmond responded then, despite the dire warnings of director Herb Elliott not to treat that preliminary final flogging at the hands of Brisbane as anything but a dreadful reality check, by believing it was only a couple of opportunistic players away from a grand final in 2002."
daring to suggest the Dockers players stayed too long on the Subiaco ground nine nights ago after being humiliated by Essendon.
But Cometti was right and there was no need for him to clarify his radio comments. The elimination final defeat was no time for celebration and, hopefully, in the cold light that followed the Fremantle version of mad
Monday, Chris Connolly or his senior leadership group pointed out to the rest of the team that its performance was unacceptable.
The last time supporters cheered their team so loudly in a losing final was 1995, when Richmond was thrashed by Geelong in a preliminary final at Waverley Park.
The roar that echoed around the park that day seemed an emotional gesture of thanks for the Tigers' first finals series since 1982. But the team had played hopeless football that day and did not make another final for six years.
That was in 2001 and Richmond responded then, despite the dire warnings of director Herb Elliott not to treat that preliminary final flogging at the hands of Brisbane as anything but a dreadful reality check, by believing it was only a couple of opportunistic players away from a grand final in 2002."
Prophetic or pathetic?
