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Message: [QUOTE="m1c, post: 2455091, member: 1944"] The AFL just does everything so much better than League - It's embarrassing. Have a read of Alistair Clarkson's words to the media following the Hawks' loss. It's one of the press conferences of the year IMO. So gracious, and he articulated the realities of the situation so well. Was it so hard for the Dogs to grit their teeth and put on a similar show? [url]http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/life-goes-on-for-shattered-hawks-20120929-26snj.html[/url] The highlights - ''It's a bit raw at the moment. We played a very, very good football side today. When you front up for grand finals it's always going to be an epic battle. It's like Nadal versus Federer, two heavyweights having a crack at one another, you are going to win some, you are going to lose some,'' Clarkson said. ''We are shattered in terms of the outcome of the game but we played against a very, very good football side and they have experienced their heartbreak in the last six or seven years as well. ''At the end of the day it still is the theatre of sport and you have to deal with those emotions. It is not anywhere near the loss of something like what happened to Jill Meagher last week or a brother-in-law that I lost this year through cancer, a brain tumour, or what happened to Jarrad McVeigh's daughter last year. You have got to keep these things in perspective, too. ''We go hard and we compete hard, one of my best mates is coaching the opposition side, it does not mean you don't go hard, that is the theatre of sport, but, just as importantly, [you have to] keep life in perspective and understand that we will try and get better, but we still have things in our lives that make us very fortunate to be living the lives we do.'' [/QUOTE]

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