Spare a thought for the runner-up

[davidc4430]

AFL grand final: Adelaide Crows players, coach and fans gutted after defeat

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-01/adelaide-crows-fans-gutted-but-philosophical-after-defeat/9005...

In footy there is probably no worse time than straight after losing a Grand Final.

[julie-in-oz2]

As a spectator we see it that making it to the finals is great work.

The hard work, the skiil, the hopes and dreams along with the sweat and the emotions coming 2nd could be a shattering experience to some, to others it might boost them to come back next year. It would take me a while to get over it, I know it has even as a fan when my team came 2nd.

[kopenhagen5]

Both teams are winners.

Yay Tigers !

[lind9650]

With all the teams and throughout the football season, to become one of the two teams to play for the Premiership is an enormous achievement.

Erica

[zanadoo_56]

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@lind9650 wrote:

With all the teams and throughout the football season, to become one of the two teams to play for the Premiership is an enormous achievement.

Erica

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I agree.  It's not as though they got there by taking team names out of a hat. 🙂

When I was a child I entered a Lego building contest on the local TV station and was one of the lucky children selected.  We all battled it out over a few weeks and I managed to get to the final.  I lost....but that wasn't surprising as in all respects the winner's construction was better.  Was I disappointed? Nope.  As runner up I won the second biggest box of bricks that Lego made in those days, plus a special metal 'Lego' badge.  I don't have the bricks but I still have the badge.  A couple of school kids taunted me as 'a loser' or 'you only came second'.  I thought they were silly.  I worked hard on getting to second place and I had won a box of Lego that my parents would never have spent that much money on in one go.

So much emphasis on coming first these days, and coming second is equal to loser in some people's opinion...forgetting it seems that it took a lot of work to get to that final.  Second is runner up....not loser.

[davidc4430]

this year more than any i can remember was week by week full of suprise games where picking winners was almost impossible.

most games seemed like either team was capable of victory.

no team, except perhaps sydney looked 'the goods' this year, once you remove their first 6 games.

but then they met geelong and were put out, then geelong were out.

so the crows looked the team to beat in the GF but richmond had a great game and well the crows didnt.

how many times did we see that this year?