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Nonetheless, it\u2019s been a golden period for the Lions including the club playing in the last seven grand finals combined across both AFLW and AFL programs combined.<\/p>\n
And Starcevich, despite acknowledging some \u201cmonumental blunders\u201d would haunt his group, had the upmost faith it\u2019d reunite and bounce back in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is going to hurt and it\u2019s going to hurt some individuals more than others. But as a group and a collective, our footy club is super strong and a great place to work,\u201d he said after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t change, we keep showing up at the big dance in both our programs, so that\u2019s a real strong point. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut we just said to the group, we just refuse to be upset about life tonight. Just refuse to be too annoyed with things. Just get on with life and be happy and move onto the next challenge. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s easier said than done, but that\u2019s you\u2019re only way forward, really. Just to put on a brave face and move forward. That\u2019s your only choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
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There was a particularly crucial passage of the game that Shannon Campbell will struggle to watch back.<\/p>\n
Campbell in the second quarter gave away a costly 100m penalty to Kate Shierlaw that gifted North Melbourne a certain goal and extended the Kangaroos\u2019 lead to 10 points after a competitive first quarter.<\/p>\n
North then stacked on two more goals to take full ascendancy by half-time.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Campbell is) OK. Watching the game back is going to be painful viewing for a couple of them, because there were some monumental sort of blunders there along the way, with giving away 50s and so forth,\u201d Starcevich added.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that happens in a footy person\u2019s career. You just don\u2019t want it to happen in the really big game. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re great people, our people, so they\u2019ll absorb it, and it\u2019ll be really hard. You\u2019ll have to sit with it for months before you can get back and rectify things. That\u2019s just life as a footballer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It extended North Melbourne\u2019s epic winning streak to 27 games and marked the back-to-back premiers\u2019 second-straight win over Brisbane in the grand final.<\/p>\n
Starcevich said North\u2019s ability to absorb pressure then go up a level and hurt you the other way was what separated Darren Crocker\u2019s juggernaut team from the rest of the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The Kangaroos) were really, really good with absorbing pressure. We threw the kitchen sink at them from a pressure point of view,\u201d the Lions coach added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they ramped that up again in the second quarter, and it was like, \u2018whoa\u2019, the level just kept going up and up. <\/p>\n
\u201cTheir ability to get from something that looks like a really nasty, contested situation, and then get it quickly out by hand, and then someone out in space and they\u2019re gone is elite. Like, seriously elite. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, full credit to them, because there\u2019s always someone there waiting for it, and they trust each other … that\u2019s really hard to counter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane isn\u2019t going to feel sorry for itself for too long. Lions AFLW coach Craig Starcevich says his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,684,3237,124761,135432,12180,52767,667,179252,11288,111747,179251,147268,179248,179249,7204,179250,179254,49319,668,101424,179253,85],"class_list":["post-317765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-craig-starcevich","tag-darren-crocker","tag-dominant-display","tag-emma-kearney","tag-footy-club","tag-footy-person","tag-grand-final","tag-grand-final-history","tag-juggernaut-team","tag-kitchen-sink","tag-lions-veteran-shannon-campbell","tag-monumental-blunders","tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","tag-painful-viewing","tag-powerhouse-duo","tag-premiership-decider","tag-press-conference","tag-pressure-point","tag-second-straight-win","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}