06-11-2024, 11:45 AM
(06-07-2024, 02:09 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Lods, I agree.
Also, I've taken an increasingly dim view of the 99 PF with the passing of time. In the moment, it gave the impression that the club could maintain its place at the upper end of the competition, when really all it did was fool people and mask a whole bunch of cultural and other problems, which came to roost only a couple of years later.
We were about the 6th best team that year that got an out of form side in the SF then caused a big upset when rank underdogs. We went 12-10 so we weren't real good. Unlucky with injury in 2000 and wasted 2001, where we beat the Grand Finalists in every game we played, one by 74pts, but lost games when we shouldn't have. Remember the 2000 game against Essendon where we lost 3 big guns before 1/4 time, including Kouta, and only just got run over at the end.

