Comforted myself that its just guesswork that far...it'll probably be fine by Saturday.
This optimism grew when the weather was crap all through the week...this just can't continue!!!
Driving up I had a bad vibe that the weather was not only going to disavantage us but that Geelong would relish the conditions.
As it turned out I really believe that Geelong handled the weather better probably due to playing in those conditions more often than us and that it reduced our key forward advantage making the leading game of Roo and the the power marking of Kosi less effective and more easy to defend against .
In a game of inches this was undoubtably a factor.Think in hindsight that we did extremely well against a very strong and proven wet weather team.
Not an excuse but a logical observation.Lets hope we are exposed to more games [especially at the G]in these trying conditions.
What we must make sure of is that going forward we become an all weather side ...those pushing up this year Steven,Armitage,Eddy and Geary all strike me as players who will handle these conditions well.
We also need to keep this in mind when recruiting young talent.Speed and strength over the ball should be our top priority next year.
Lets hope that 7 days out from our next grandfinal that we don't give a rats clacker about the weather
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and that we will just be unstoppable in all conditions
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