There are upset losses that are not that upsetting. They are the losses that mean more to the winner than they hurt the loser.

Sydney had one against Fremantle in round 16. They lost by a point, but did they lose much more than the four points in the grand scheme of things? Not really, not unless they followed it up with another loss to St Kilda. Which they did. Now their loss that wasn’t that upsetting has been followed by another upset that makes the whole last week very upsetting. The excusable one-off loss has become an inexcusable trend that challenges the growing belief that it was Sydney and daylight in the flag race.

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