Feeling Down

[Bart]

After the most exhilarating day of my life I'm feeling pretty flat this week. Knowing I'll never experience the sheer joy of being at the G last saturday again. Sure it will be fantastic if we repeat it next year, but it probably won't reach the natural high of Saturday. Anyone else got cold turkey ?

[Reggi]

I've watched it a few times.

Starting to be convinced we win the game

[possumfeatures]

I don't feel down so much as still in denial. It just hasn't sunk in yet. I have watched it about 5 times and still get so tense and nervous and then after the siren the feeling of disbelief is still there. I saw a weg poster on display in the newsagent downstairs and it came as almost a jolt when I realised what it displayed.

I am feeling a let down in the sense that last four weeks have been so intense and now there is a vaccum. But I am planning a start to finish replay on Friday night (pre match entertainment (??) ) and all so I am hoping that that will be the watershed moment.

[BayesysLeftBoot]

Yeah to a certain extent, I still get great joy out of watching the replay and reading all the articles about it but the off-season is here and it's so long to wait.

I still think another premiership would feel amazing but none will compare to last saturdays. I think ours is the only team that will ever know the feeling of winning a premiership after 72 years of suffering. While I have only had to wait 25 years, seeing members of my family who had waited much longer meant a lot to me and is something I'll never forget.

[Chubby Muffler]

I have still not touched the ground, but have dropped from 4 feet to 3 feet maybe. My mate who I sit with at the home games has just flown back in from London, he missed out on flying to the G with me, but is still over the moon that we won. I am heading to his place on Monday to take him through the Geelong, Sty Kilda and WC games that I recorded. I watched the Geelong last Q again last night and was getting very revved up again. I just can't believe we did it.

Slip the game on again Bart and have a look, I guarantee you'll be floating again. Nothing will ever touch the feeling when we won and the club song started for me (insert marriage and child birth disclaimers here) but watching some of the games again should give you a lift. We are the 2005 Champs! BASK IN IT!!

PS Baysey - you are having a top year aren't you

[ItsAllGoodes]

Originally posted by BayseysLeftBoot
I think ours is the only team that will ever know the feeling of winning a premiership after 72 years of suffering.

The only similarity would be those supporters of teams like StKilda, Footscray, North Melbourne who may have had to wait a long time till those clubs won their first. And in the case of StKilda and Footscray (their first is also their only one so far)

[swan_song]

absolutely agree....
How we'd all feel if we ever won a premiership was even the subject of a thread many years ago.
Personally, I was always confidant we would win if we could beat the drunkards, was still optimistic up to 3/4 time, was down after noggys error, in despair when they got 10pts up, exhilarated after monty put us ahead again, worried as Cox booted forward, ecstatic at Leo's mark...relieved at the siren, disbelief that we'd actually won for the next hour or so...sort of dazed and empty at the punt road oval do...and have been more or less in disbelief ever since. And that is given that between the tape and Fox Footy I must have seen the last quarter a dozen times already and the full match three or four times!!!

[sharpie]

Has this got something to do with the journey?

I tell you what, some people here a few months ago thought the journey was always gonna be more important and feel better than the destination. But they were definitely wrong.

Best. Feeling. Ever!

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Reggi
I've watched it a few times.

Starting to be convinced we win the game

I'm still not entirely convinced it was actually a grand final though...

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by sharpie
Has this got something to do with the journey?

I tell you what, some people here a few months ago thought the journey was always gonna be more important and feel better than the destination. But they were definitely wrong.

Best. Feeling. Ever!

The journey was important, but meaningless without the destination.

[goswannie14]

I'm still doing this...smiling!!! My friends keep reminding me I'll have to take off my members cap some time soon. But like others, it still seems surreal, after supporting Sth Melb/Sydney for 37 years, to be there last Saturday and see us finally bring the "Holy Grail" home still takes some understanding..yes...it has really happened!!!!

[stevej]

feeling down? NO WAY!! Can't keep the smile of my face!! A rendition of Cheer cheer over the intercom at work every morning has others feeling a little down though!

[giant]

Watched the replay again last night.

We won.

Just quietly, how good was Nick Fosdike's game? Imagine if we have this version of NF playing in 2006?

[swansrock4eva]

Must admit I still can't believe we won - it was a week ago that I was getting ready to go to Melbourne and I'm now sitting here going "wow, we won! YAY!" but at the same time suffering from footy withdrawal already. I think I'm feeling it harder than in previous years cos my local footy stuff is over too (I was only a convert this year), so now I have whole enitre weekends to myself every weekend for months on end and I don't know what to do!

[Doctor J.]

Have watched it again and again. Even in slo mo to pick myself out in the crowd. I know we won it, but I just have to pinch myself sometimes to believe it.

I'm with you Bart, Saturday was such a massive high, I know we will never experience that again. Not to say we wont win a premiership again, but to experience the thrill of being a supporter of the premier team for the first time in my life, wow, it just doesn't get any better.

The next one will be good don't worry about that, but will never be the same as Saturday. Can't say the best day of my life, (I have 2 kids) but my god it surely is equal to those two days. Beats my wedding day though. (Sorry Mrs Dr. Shes an SNScum fan so wont see this, hee hee.)

Economists have a term for it. Its called the marginal propensity to consume!! At some point our propensity to consume premierships is negative because the pleasure derived from each one diminishes the more we consume them. Somehow I don't think you can apply economics to this!!