Absolutely shattered, a F****** nightmare

[barks4eva]

After being cheated out of last years premiership, this year was all about redemption and to go so close with a draw and a contested ball situation 20 metres out from our goals in those final seconds of the first Grand Final is an absolute nightmare!

To lose to the filth, to see McGuire, Malthouse, Ball and even Hudghton with smiles from ear to ear, joffa in a gold jacket and all the feral scum is too much to bare!

I'm not sure how mentally scarred the players are but I'm gutted!

This year was all about erasing the pain of last year, now it's all just a F**** nightmare!

Hardly slept, tossed and turned all night, vomited, splitting headache, woke up, put on the TV and Luke Ball is being interviewed!

FFS, WHEN, **** WHEN ARE WE EVER GOING TO WIN!

Absolutely shattered!

[borderbarry]

I know where you are coming from Barks4eva. Felt a bit that way myself.

[Enrico_Misso]

I've place a ban on all media for that reason.

[Newman]

Yep media ban for me too. Never want to watch nay footage of the aftermath. I remember Stewart Loewe saying in 1997 - day after GF loss - I thought I felt bad yesterday but when I woke up I felt worse today. That's how I feel. And for us 'baby boomers' there's that awful feeling that we may have witnessed our last chance for premiership glory in our lifetime.

[busso mick]

Hang in there b4e, we all feel like we have been eaten by a goat and shat out over a cliff today. I got up from the couch last night to go to bed and my back went into a spasm, my wife went to the spare room and I was awake till 3am in agony.

My answer to all of this - Carna Mighty Saints!

[Stephen Theodore]

After flying down last weekend, getting caught up in the Virgin turmoil,not home till Monday night, and back down on Friday arvo, it'd be fair to say I was happy to get on a plane first thing Sunday morn. Can only imagine the Filth celebrations and media going on and on down there. We're lucky to have the NRL on today up here, and wont here bugger all about the AFL.

[Iceman234]

Plenty of us feeling exactly the same B4E.

Guts knotted to the core.

Head's thumping still.

I just want to see one, just one.

[dals_da_bomb]

B4E

I completely understand how you feel. I think we all do.

Im clearly still a little bit upset (to disappointed to think about anything) (sorry for the rant that is about to follow, but my partner has put a footy talking ban on me),
..but I just want to stop hearing about how it was our year for redemption. I dont want to hear about how the pain from losing one gives you the fight to win it the year after. Stop reminding me about unfinished business. I dont care about injuries, lack of pace, ageing list, needed to bleed new players.. costly errors, how good collingood were all year..

I want to see my team win a flag.

P.S if one more geelong supporter tells me they know how i feel i am going to pull some crazy kung fu moves out. Apparently the loss against Hawks in 08 some how relates to what im feeling now..
<end rant>

big year next year- return of Goddard, getting married, buying a membership FINALLY as i have the all clear



and starting to dream again

It always works out in the end- if it hasnt worked out- it isnt the end.

[Dal_Santos_Gal]

I know the feeling B4E, we get the paper (HS) delivered every morning and it went straight into the bin still wrapped in its plastic.

I have had to go out this morning and pick up the kids, all I kept seeing was cars with Collingwood scarfs and flags hanging out the window. They have come out of the woodwork all of a sudden.

I feel like utter crap today and I know people are already looking to next season but I don't know about everyone esle but are you sick of hearing the old St Kilda saying "there is always next year" that saying is getting a little old and wearing thin with me.

Shattered, Guttered and feeling very very low today, I am still not over losing against Geelong last year, so god knows how long this Grand Final is going to take.

I feel sick to the stomach at the thought of it all.

With time things will get better, but right now, I feel I am in a very dark place.

[LaUrEnCe]

I feel like utter crap today and I know people are already looking to next season but I don't know about everyone esle but are you sick of hearing the old St Kilda saying "there is always next year" that saying is getting a little old and wearing thin with me.

Was the first thing my sis told me (obviously not a footy fan) when i got home. Very annoying..
Our window is closing

[AnythingsPossibleSaints]

After being cheated out of last years premiership, this year was all about redemption and to go so close with a draw and a contested ball situation 20 metres out from our goals in those final seconds of the first Grand Final is an absolute nightmare!

To lose to the filth, to see McGuire, Malthouse, Ball and even Hudghton with smiles from ear to ear, joffa in a gold jacket and all the feral scum is too much to bare!

I'm not sure how mentally scarred the players are but I'm gutted!

This year was all about erasing the pain of last year, now it's all just a F**** nightmare!

Hardly slept, tossed and turned all night, vomited, splitting headache, woke up, put on the TV and Luke Ball is being interviewed!

FFS, WHEN, **** WHEN ARE WE EVER GOING TO WIN!

Absolutely shattered!

When we have the absolute ruthlessness to do what it takes. Not a minute sooner.

[barks4eva]

I'm a grown man, though some might question that, but I spent the entire third quarter with tears in my eyes and my head in my hands!

I'm so over this shyte!

My Great great grandfather followed St Kilda in the 1880's and I'll always buy a couple of memberships every year, but after yesterday I cannot see myself getting to too many H&A games next year if any!

I feel drained, exhausted and at my wit's end, it feels like the straw that broke the camels back!

This pain hurts too much!

Losing to the filth in a Grand Final replay!

The competition is rigged for starters, with Demetriou on extra salary bonuses for increased attendances which ensures the filth get 18 home games a year and 8 home games leading into the finals, aside from the $200,000 pay rise he gives himself annually and the prick makes up the rules as he goes!

It just makes the game harder and harder to get enthused about and we get screwed over at every turn!

This year was all about redemption for being ripped off last year and now it's ended up an even bigger nightmare and this time I struggle to see us getting back to get the business done!

Totally shattered, even have tears in my eyes now thinking about it!

[saint patrick]

Can relate to all of the above ...strangely after the game I felt nothing..a sort of protective numbness..my daughters were the ones to lose the plot at O'Donnell gardens[which was brilliant until the game!! ],both in tears with their wings and halos on...broke my heart a bit more!!We went to a wake at a friends place and drowned our sorrows and I actually slept ok.

It was a delayed reaction however because on my way to my Sunday gym session It hit me like a ton of bricks between the eyes...I MAY NEVER SEE ONE IN MY LIFETIME !!!

Tears welled up and I felt the same as after the Geelong hatchet job last year

What didn't help was the T.V in the gym was showing highlights of the game and I caught glimpses of the cup being raised and Ball being interviewed and looking happy...shudder !!

Post gym and after mowing the lawn I have settled a tad but just have this total feeling of emptiness and significant loss that just won't go away

Have tomorrow off so I'll probably opt for the comfort of a cold beer somewhere ..although the thought of running into still celebrating filth supporters is a real worry...

Nothing we can do Barks ,Emma,Iceman ect

We just have to let times healing power somehow numb the pain and allow us to enjoy other things..

Which I'm looking forward to...summer,Beach,Barbys,the Dava deck !!

We are not alone guys...half the bloody country is feeling this today

The most important thing is that we never give up on the dream...

I now accept that it may not happen.

But I WILL NEVER ACCEPT THAT IT CAN'T UNTIL I DRAW MY LAST BREATH !!!!!

[joffaboy]

Second rule of Buddhism - rid yourself of craven want and desire and you free yourself of pain.

We all love our club, our football, but you have to ask yourself is it worth it?

Today, i am relaxed, I am not gutted, I am over the want and desire. It would be nice, but the pain and heartbreak is just NOT WORTH IT.

I have a family and a life, and I simply REFUSE to allow something and inconsequential and trivial as football to ruin it.

Of course I will buy my membership, my SC membership, and go to the games, but the desire is fading, the want is going, and with it the pain.

All life is pain, according to Buddhist philosophy, but you can rid yourself of the pain by ridding yourself of the cause.

[bigcarl]

The competition is rigged for starters, with Demetriou on extra salary bonuses for increased attendances which ensures the filth get 18 home games a year and 8 home games leading into the finals, aside from the $200,000 pay rise he gives himself annually and the prick makes up the rules as he goes!

It just makes the game harder and harder to get enthused about

So much for a level playing field.

You will stick with it and so will I, but I know exactly where you are coming from.

[barks4eva]

Second rule of Buddhism - rid yourself of craven want and desire and you free yourself of pain.

We all love our club, our football, but you have to ask yourself is it worth it?

Today, i am relaxed, I am not gutted, I am over the want and desire. It would be nice, but the pain and heartbreak is just NOT WORTH IT.

I have a family and a life, and I simply REFUSE to allow something and inconsequential and trivial as football to ruin it.

Of course I will buy my membership, my SC membership, and go to the games, but the desire is fading, the want is going, and with it the pain.

All life is pain, according to Buddhist philosophy, but you can rid yourself of the pain by ridding yourself of the cause.

In my more sane moments which happen rarely, this sums up how I feel precisely!

Time to let go, because it's just too frustrating, almost ended up in a number of fights and had beer thrown over me by filth supporters!

Shutting footy out is the only option at the moment to gain any form of peace!







p.s I even went to a temple on Friday to pray for a St Kilda victory!

Obviously god does NOT exist, how could any god let the filth win!

[barks4eva]

Second rule of Buddhism - rid yourself of craven want and desire and you free yourself of pain.

I think we delisted Craven many years ago, so we must be half way there!

[3rd generation saint]

Can understand B4E, I am gutted, just did the sad task of going out to Springvale to take down the flags from Grandfather's and Mother's Plaques.
I feel so empty and all I know is that I am so sick of 66, I am so sick of if only this and if only that, I am so sick of losing.
I love this club, but I almost feel like there is a curse on it to make it's supporters suffer.
I agree with you about the AFL with the rigged draw that every year favors the filth.
I'm just tired of waiting for it to happen, hearing excuses, seeing the constant bad luck that seems to happen to us time and time again.
This one hurts so much because I feel so betrayed.
Hopefully time will heal the wounds, but the only thing that will really heal me is that friggin 2nd premiership.

[Tom_Aus]

Agree, it's just such a long way back now. All those games at etihad stadium (on that note, why can't we get more than 2 MCG games in the H&A season !!!!!). I think i'm not going to compromise my relationship with the gf any longer and ill go to less games next year... Why would i go to every game to then turn up and watch that pathetic woeful, sh!tful display that put out yesterday

[ralphsmith]

Agreed, that was the straw that broke the camels back.

This team will be broken next year.

The barbarians are at the gates, there are many teams ready to knock us down the ladder. Young, enthusiastic, skillful teams.

We are going to regret this one sorely....

[Dal_Santos_Gal]

I'm a grown man, though some might question that, but I spent the entire third quarter with tears in my eyes and my head in my hands!

Same Barks, couldn't even tell you what happened in the 3rd qrt, once they kicked the first 2 goals, I knew that was it, we were gone and there was going to be no come back like last week.

I was in tears, mind you I was in tears happening half way thru the 2nd qrt, after we missed 5 shots at goal in a row and then Collingwood went and kicked another goal. That was it for me, I was crying and starting to have a go at the Collingwood morans sitting behide me who couldn't shut up for two seconds when it came to a free kick. The bagging of our players mainly Rooey, I was really wanting to punch some of them in the face. Be time the 3rd qrt came around I had my big flag over my head and I was crying my eyes out. I just couldn't bear to watch it anymore. I then was guilty of leaving at 3/4 time, we grabbed pass outs and went outside. 1000's of distressed St Kilda supporters were leaving, I stopped and sat down, got up, could hear that Collingwood chant from outside the ground. I couldn't walk back in so I kept walking and headed to the station.

I think it is going to take a fair bit of time for any of us to get our head around what happened yesterday. We need to stick together, let the off season ran its course and I don't think till we hit 2011 I am going to get excited at all about the 2011 season.

[clarky449]

Thats it with the group, Should we all wait for Harvey's son?

[fingers]

Plenty of us feeling exactly the same B4E.

Guts knotted to the core.

Head's thumping still.

I just want to see one, just one.

Same I only want one.

Media ban in pace for 2 weeks.

[saintkid]

Thats it with the group, Should we all wait for Harvey's son?

The short-term poses a problem. We need to scout all the lesser leagues and try to find another Gwilt and others who have made it at other clubs without the fanfare of the obvious TAC breeding ground.

Connor Harvey is still only 12.

[mbogo]

I just cannot get over how we seem to be gifted with so much brilliance and fortune time and again only to have our ecstacy ripped from our hearts by pure chance, fate or sheer bad luck EVERY SINGLE f****** TIME ... thinking of 71, 97, 04, (even 98 in Sydney), 09 and now last week - fighting back to look like we had it after Goddard's mark and then Milne and Kossie ALMOST f****** stole it back.
Then to top it off Roos error and all those missed shots at goal yesterday when it was looking like it MIGHT be OK! To make it worse Collingwood just had everything come off. Incredible!
It is just so cruel and I have been devastated all day and night - and tears have been welling up. Somehow I need to go to work tomorrow.
I ask myself why it matters? Maybe it has to do with the 1000 odd games I have seen. f***!
I am glad I saw the draw with my son - at least we know now - albeit temporarily, what the feeling of victory MIGHT be like!