Squids wrote:under achievers? crows the last 5 years?
I admit losing to GC and Port is absolutely terrible but at least we beat the pies, twice

Hardly under achieved with and aging/average list and stale coach in recent years. We definately under achieved in the early 2000s when we lost the prelim finals, straight set etc We should have atleast got to one GF from those seasons, but our FWD line was below average.
For anyone to suggest the crows are a 'genuine' top 4 side is over estimating the season we have had. We have improved considerably, beat the opponants we have come up against and the club looks set for the future. Thats all im and the majority of crows fans are happy about (the vocal minority form a different opinion unfortunately). The constant undeducated/unsubstantiated bashing of the AFC on this site due a vocal and just as undeducated minority annoys me no end.
Win or lose the season has been a sucess, and even without the so called 'soft draw' we still would have been playing finals this season which is a massive improvement from the tripe we dished up last season.