Share your Grand Final Pictures and memories

[swanspant12]

LOVE YOU BLOODS SO PROUD BOYS. Never dissapoint.

[graystar]

Watching in London

4:30am alarm, 5:30am first bounce - it was dark outside. Half time breakfast fry up.
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[Big Al]

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[The day was extra special because I got to watch us claim glory with my nephew who I love dearly and with one of my best mates who I also love dearly. Thank you to Wardy and Jordan for being there with me. It's a day we won't ever forget. We also got to party on the MCG which absolutely fantastic as well. Took some video of the after match which when I work out how to post on here I will.

The other great thing about the day I gut to meet and catch up with some of our best RWO stars. Got to meet Aardvark and Jewels for the first time which was absolutely brilliant. Better more passionate people you couldn't find. It was also sensational to catch up with OldRoyBoy and the always entertaining GoSwannies before the game. Also fantastic to see TripleB at the game and to see the relief and the sheer joy on his face after the game was great.

To the rest of the RWO family, we've had our ups and downs this year but there is one things that binds us all together and that this is our love for the greatest club in the universe.

[ash3]

Share your Grand Final Pictures and memories

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[Wardy]

[The day was extra special because I got to watch us claim glory with my nephew who I love dearly and with one of my best mates who I also love dearly. Thank you to Wardy and Jordan for being there with me. It's a day we won't ever forget. We also got to party on the MCG which absolutely fantastic as well. Took some video of the after match which when I work out how to post on here I will.

The other great thing about the day I gut to meet and catch up with some of our best RWO stars. Got to meet Aardvark and Jewels for the first time which was absolutely brilliant. Better more passionate people you couldn't find. It was also sensational to catch up with OldRoyBoy and the always entertaining GoSwannies before the game. Also fantastic to see TripleB at the game and to see the relief and the sheer joy on his face after the game was great.

To the rest of the RWO family, we've had our ups and downs this year but there is one things that binds us all together and that this is our love for the greatest club in the universe.

what he said - we had a great day and we were all there to support the same thing - THE MIGHTY SWANS!!! We (Al, Jordan Tim. The ORB's and I ) had breakfast at Sweethearts in south Melb on Saturday Morning and then headed to the ground - met Aardvark, lovely bloke, I hope you won the bet with your colleague and didn't have to work on Sunday. Jewels, great to meet you and I hope your nerves calmed down - but do know how you feel!! Go Swannies - loved the cowboy hat - very snazzy ! The battery on my phone went flat just after full time and I had at one point 19 messages come in right on the siren so the Swans had a lot of support from all over the world !!And as I was staying with my flat mate from 25 years ago - I was In charge of getting her rather plastered husband home from the MCC members and I reckon I was the only RWOer who was breath tested twice on the way home! (I celebrated when I got back to their place)
But the thing is that I spent the best day with some of the best people I know - so a big hug of thanks To you Al & Jordan - we cheered, we feared the worst and then cried tears of utter joy but In The end (and with 34 seconds to go) we were just beside ourselves and to hear that siren. - the most beautiful sound in the world!! Can we do it all again next year?? Hugs everyone. Wardy xxxx

[barry]

Ive been on fraser island all week so completely missed the build up. In the gold coast for the grand final, contemplated going to a venue like southport sharks, but ended up watching it in hotel with family. Missed most of the first quarter thought it started at 3pm. Great game. Watched the replay on 7mate again that night.

[Primmy]

I went with some friends to the Alex in Alexandria. Lots of work had been done to mush in as many of us as possible. Atmosphere great. Cigarette and cigar smoke made your eyes water and clothes stink. Part time fans who can get up while a major move is on at a crucial part of THE GRAND FINAL YOU IDIOTS to go and get more beer while stumbling over other patrons across the sight lines were puzzling and intrusive. Food cost extra , because it was the Grand Final (on a Saturday afternoon.......) - que!!!

But my boys won the AFL Grand Final. Just think. Third time at the G on the last Saturday in September in Seven Years, and we have won TWO of these events. I am deeply contented.

NicMal has covered himself in glory. Smooch smothered Rioli (anyone else take that fact in?). Hanners has no idea how good he is, and he is so ernestly ernest, no wonder TedBear loves him. Adam is Adam. the pictures of Macca after the game with his family go to the heart. AJ came close to being a bit of a yob, but not completely.

So what does stinking of smoke and obstructed viewing count after such a day. Not much. I get to watch it over and over again. So much better being alive now than before there was TV and DVD's and harddrive recorders! As the boys would say, So its good.

[jono2707]

I started at the Alex but when the rest of the gang couldn't get in due to the long queue, we opted for the Buckland Hotel around the corner. We ended up having a wonderful afternoon there - the place got packed with a bunch of other 'Alex refugees' and the atmosphere was heaving and the noise was deafening a lot of the time. And when that final siren went - well I won't bother describing the tears, the hugging, the jumping up and down like idiots and the dancing, because it's basically what was happening to those lucky enough to be at the 'G' and fans everywhere else.....

[Old Royboy]

RIMG0437a.jpgBefore the match - a nervous group of RWOers. RIMG0451c.jpgRIMG0457c.jpg Victory!!

[Big Al]

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My goodness that's a good looking bunch of people.

[Meg]

I was privileged to go to all three finals: Adelaide, ANZ Stadium and the MCG GF. Had great seats at all three venues by luck of the computer allocation. Went to the Grand Final Parade and by sheer fluke chose to stand in front of the Arts Centre at the very spot that our boys came out and got in their cars. Nick Malceski was chatting to people out the window of his car right in front of me - I knew then this was a good omen, didn't realise then just HOW good! The dreadful weather forecast for the match didn't eventuate. There was some rain before it started but I was snug inside my Swans GF poncho. Oh those Swans admin people are a clever lot! The momentum shifts in the match - but I felt confident we could do it in the last quarter. The absolute joy when that final siren sounded. Jetta jumping into the arms of Goodes. The Auskick kids playing in the ticker tape on the grass after the presentations. The rapture on the faces of the players as they did their lap of honour, no more than that of Adam Goodes. Pyke taking a Canadian flag from a fan and wrapping himself in it and what a match he played. The fun at Lakeside Sunday morning with so many kids - our fans of the future. The camaraderie at the airport with other Swans' fans and on the plane back to Sydney. While the match itself is now a bit of a blur (I need to watch the replay in a calmer state) the excitement, tension and sheer joy at the end will live with me forever.

[Triple B]

Kizza, AJ, Hanners and Mitch enjoying the celebrations...

[Jewels]

What a great day!!!! I think I enjoyed this one more than 05, I don't really know why other than to say that I really didn't think we could do it this year so the joy when the final siren went was overwhelming!

It was just wonderful to meet my fellow RWOers - the lovely Wardy, Big Al and Jordan, Old and Mrs Royboy, Aardvark and Go Swannies - just can't imagine a nicer or more passionate bunch of people!
Our seats were undercover so we stayed nice and dry (though good heavens that wind was COLD) and had a great view of the ground.
Just love walking around Melbourne on GF night! Cars tooting their congratulations, complete strangers high fiving as they walked past, even the cop that breath tested me driving back to the hotel at 2am congratulated us (and I think was stunned that someone dressed head to toe in red and white, scarves hanging from the windows, grinning so wide that it looked like the top of my head would fall off, with a car full of inebriated twenty somethings had not had a single drop of alcohol)!
What a fantastically great day, hope we get to do it all again next year!

Only one downside of the whole day was the dreadful behavior of the Hawthorn fans in the standing room behind us. Arrogant and obnoxious when Hawthorn were ahead and simply disgraceful in their behavior when they were behind, going so far as to physically hit the lady sitting behind me because they didn't like what she had to say to them! People knock Collingwood fans and I've experienced first hand how bad Eagles supporters can be at Subiaco but they are mild compared to these feral creatures, the only blemish on my wonderful day.

[grarmy]

[...Thank you to Wardy and Jordan for being there with me...The other great thing about the day I gut to meet and catch up with some of our best RWO stars. Got to meet Aardvark and Jewels for the first time which was absolutely brilliant. Better more passionate people you couldn't find. It was also sensational to catch up with OldRoyBoy and the always entertaining GoSwannies before the game. Also fantastic to see TripleB at the game and to see the relief and the sheer joy on his face after the game was great....To the rest of the RWO family, we've had our ups and downs this year but there is one things that binds us all together and that this is our love for the greatest club in the universe.

"THE MIGHTY SWANS!!! We (Al, Jordan Tim. The ORB's and I ) had breakfast at Sweethearts .... met Aardvark, lovely bloke, ....Jewels, great to meet you and I hope your nerves calmed down - but do know how you feel!! Go Swannies - loved the cowboy hat - very snazzy !"

The comraderie among the posters on ROW is terrific. A lot of goodwill shared even when the posts go off the Richter scale and passion outweighs common sense. Very joyful.

[grarmy]

I watched the game in Tanunda, SA. The missus and I had a longstanding agreement to go to the Barossa for the weekend - Crows territory. No TV in the farmhouse. So I headed into town to find a venue to watch the game. Let me tell you walking into the Clubhouse wearing your lucky Tony Lockett signed Swans scarfe when you don't know a soul felt spooky. It was very quiet. Three TVs showing the game. Find a seat, stay calm. Two beers in and the GF is underway. Moans and groans when Hawthorn misses. "Yes!" I scream attracting lots of looks and stares but few smiles. Then Mal kicked that first goal.....an incredible feat from the pocket with maybe the wind gliding it through. The place erupted. The patrons roared. The pub was with me. Swans to the core. The day was mine.