It didn't matter how easy or hard our draw was last year as you can see by the stats I gave in my earlier post, we not only beat the best, we SMASHED the best. Humbled Geelong in the preliminary, destroyed the Bulldogs 3 times by over 100 points in total from memory, and of the 3 last games we played against AintKilda, we managed to win by 48 points (I think) in round 16, draw the first GF and bend them over by 58 in the second.
Not sure how we could've had a tougher draw with the teams we had to play and we traveled Interstate 4 times and won 3 of them and we have an AMAZING Interstate record so that holds no fears either.
We were BY FAR the best team last year and it didn't matter how many top 4 teams we played or how many times we traveled Interstate we still would've won. So suck it up.
As for being a gracious winner, all the best with that, I've copped it for 38 or my 40 years and I am LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF THIS.