Draw in GF I now down the memory hole....

[linz]

We were the best team in 2009 and we lost it because we didn't take our chances. The ball also bounced obligingly Geelong's way (Scarlet toe-poke etc)

We weren't the best team in 2010 but we could have won it if the ball had bounced our way in the first GF. (Milne's chance)

It's an oblong shaped ball which will hopefully bounce in our direction next year and I reckon we're due for a wee bit of luck.

[Dr Spaceman]

We were lucky to draw the first GF.

Don't kid yourself children, the Pies should've had us stitched up at half time.

What you say is correct saintspremiers.

However that's the point. They should have had us stitched up at half time. They nonetheless had a very good lead. They were the best team of 2010 and had everything to play for. And yet there almost blew it.

So they were nonetheless "lucky".

Well I beg to differ.
I also wsa at the game and I remember it differently

I recal that they pounded us early in the first anf that we gradually worked our way back into the game at quarter time.
I recall them doing all teh attacking in teh second quarter adn us 'absorbing the pressure' as much as possible to be 24 points down at Half Time.
I recall us doing most of the attacking in teh third quarter adn reducing the margin.
I recall us actually hitting the front late in teh last quarter.

It all depends on your perspective.
I would humbly suggest that most people (Filth included) think we would have won the game if extra time had been played.
If we were so comprehensively outplayed, why would that be?

Maybe someone should tell Muhammed Ali that he was 'lucky' to win the 'Rumble in the Jungle' against George Foreman.
Afterall, Foreman did all the attacking and Ali just lay against the ropes absorbing the blows until Foreman got tired.
Surely that's a win for Foreman?

We were down by a goal at qr time. They surged. We rallied. We won double the clearances in the first qr too. People seem to forget that.

Second qr was abysmal by us. They were red hot.

Second half we pretty much dominated (in as much as you can say that in a close struggle), particularly the third qr where we kicked 3.3 to 0.5.

All in all a very even contest decided in the end by a couple of rogue bounces - Roo's not dribbling through, Haye's kick not sitting up for Milne - and a fall of the ball so ridiculously fortuitous (when Dawes was bumped out of the contest easily by BJ only for the ball to bobble into his hands while he was on the ground and he offloads to Cloke for a goal) that thinking about it makes me wanna puke.

We were VERY UNLUCKY not to win. They were VERY LUCKY to leave with a draw.

It's generous to afford Collingwood an even share of the game if you think about the game's ebbs and flows.

Those are the facts of the matter.

BUT kudos to the Pies for backing up a week later. Kudos for them winning the thing. Even so, completely disingenuous to suggest luck played no part.

WTF?

This is one of the most biased posts on the forum!

We were VERY UNLUCKY not win my arse!

If we were so good, why did we let the ball go forward into the Pies half for them to score TWICE after BJ put us a goal up?

In nearly every case, when we are 6 points up with 5 minutes to go, we control and WIN a game of footy.

Regardless of what your view is I can't see how anyone can say the Pies weren't lucky to escape with a draw in GF1, as were we.