For the second year in a row, a finals flame that burned so brightly for much of the season is threatening to be extinguished.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday morning basking in the winter glow with their side second on the ladder, the Bombers faithful are counting down the hours until they are knocked out of the eight. On recent form, with five losses from their last seven games, it may not be temporary.
While Jye Caldwell’s late absence is a minor mitigating factor, the Bombers squandered a 15-point lead just before time-on in the last quarter despite riding the wave of energy from a partisan red and black crowd with greater resources on the bench. As far as bottle jobs go, they don’t come much worse than this.It would be understandable, perhaps, if it had been a team like Sydney who pulled the Houdini act, but not the 14th-placed Crows.
Half their starting 22 have played more than 100 games but who of that group outside of Zach Merrett, Jordan Ridley and perhaps Andrew McGrath can be relied upon to carry, rather than be carried, when times are tough, like the 17-minute period in the second term when the besieged Bombers gave up eight goals in a row?
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