Originally posted by Johnny Tobin
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It's the only Roosters defeat that still stings on a deep level.
Granted we've had loads of depressing defeats - the GFs, the Rabbits and Broncos Prelims, the Manly prelim in the 90s before my team must have sucked - they all hurt; but I don't play them over in my head and torture myself.
But to use a Lord of the Rings reference, if I was Frodo then that 2004 GF defeat was a Morgul blade to the chest. 13 years later it still stings and I still go over the game and think "what could have been" from time to time.
Freddy's last game too. My hero. End of an incredible era. It was just painful on so many levels.
The ONLY positive I can think of is that I wasn't there as I live in Townsville so chose to attend the Prelim vs the Cowboys the week before in Sydney. Good decision I had the "pleasure" of being there for the the 2003 and 2010 GFs though
Keggs is right. This thread really is depressing.
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