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Technically with 'Tasmaina's Hawks' in the competition 
it really is only Collingwood holding the purely Victorian claim to the flag. Let's hope this is the start of a long and prosperous era for the non-Victorians.
How relieved were they when Geelong came to the picture in 2007?
Before then all you ever heard about was how boring the game was starting to get and how much better everything was 'back in the good ol' days'. Even funnier is how the AFL rolled out a succession of rule changes to undermine our gamestyle and how Geelong is forever held up as the bastion of the 'purist' revival.
For the sake of our sainity let's hope we or one of the other remaining teams can pull a Hawks 2008 on the Hawks in 2012. The media has already started engraving their name on the cup - at least wait till they've actually achieved something before pontificating about how perfect and brilliant and awesome and delicious they are.
Anyway I had an interesting dream last night. Us vs Collingwood, prelim final at ANZ. Heading into the last quarter we're down around 20 points. Enter stage left Lewis Jetta who does an Adam Goodes and pull us back in it. The 70 000+ crowd is going crazy. Last minute and we're down by less than a goal and then who is that running with the ball down the left wing? Goodes no, not Jetta either...'who is that?' my dream state asks. '...Marty Mattner?' Dream state is skeptical. Doubtful to be sure, but let the story continue woman! Anyway 47 seconds left and he is running and bouncing the ball towards forward 50 before unleashing a massive kick... The image becomes slow mo, the crowd's noise is drowned out and dream state me is holding my breath in anticipation. Miraculously it goes through and we win.
My spidey senses are tingling!
it really is only Collingwood holding the purely Victorian claim to the flag. Let's hope this is the start of a long and prosperous era for the non-Victorians. How relieved were they when Geelong came to the picture in 2007?
Before then all you ever heard about was how boring the game was starting to get and how much better everything was 'back in the good ol' days'. Even funnier is how the AFL rolled out a succession of rule changes to undermine our gamestyle and how Geelong is forever held up as the bastion of the 'purist' revival. For the sake of our sainity let's hope we or one of the other remaining teams can pull a Hawks 2008 on the Hawks in 2012. The media has already started engraving their name on the cup - at least wait till they've actually achieved something before pontificating about how perfect and brilliant and awesome and delicious they are.
Anyway I had an interesting dream last night. Us vs Collingwood, prelim final at ANZ. Heading into the last quarter we're down around 20 points. Enter stage left Lewis Jetta who does an Adam Goodes and pull us back in it. The 70 000+ crowd is going crazy. Last minute and we're down by less than a goal and then who is that running with the ball down the left wing? Goodes no, not Jetta either...'who is that?' my dream state asks. '...Marty Mattner?' Dream state is skeptical. Doubtful to be sure, but let the story continue woman! Anyway 47 seconds left and he is running and bouncing the ball towards forward 50 before unleashing a massive kick... The image becomes slow mo, the crowd's noise is drowned out and dream state me is holding my breath in anticipation. Miraculously it goes through and we win.
My spidey senses are tingling!
Except the finish was slightly different.
Anyway 47 seconds left and every Swan pushes forward as we mount a raid. Mummy steps two at the contest before running and bouncing the ball towards forward 50 before unleashing a massive kick on the run into a goal square pack. Three defenders and three Swans go up for the ball and LRT skittles the lot of them over the top with a somersaulting mark. The image becomes slow mo and blurred as he moves in for the set shot from about 20 out, straight in front, the crowd's noise is SF 2005-ish as the kick perfectly dissects the big posts. We win.
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