It was indeed a terrific day - and again today- went to boozy lunch - and am now on leave for a week - pretty much like 2005 - happy days!!!
It was indeed a terrific day - and again today- went to boozy lunch - and am now on leave for a week - pretty much like 2005 - happy days!!!
Last edited by Wardy; 24th September 2010 at 08:35 PM.
I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure..................
Chickens drink - but they don't pee!
AGE IS ONLY IMPORTANT FOR TWO THINGS - WINE & CHEESE!
I have to confess, 2005 was super special and I'll cherish the memory always... but the day itself was torture, cannot remember feeling so nervous before a game ever (before or since). If anyone's read the book 'Fever Pitch' by Nick Hornby (think Des mentioned it once...?) he's got a terrific line in there about finals being wasted on the fans (talking about his first Cup final as an Arsenal fan), because we have so much invested in the result that we cannot really 'enjoy' the game as the neutrals do on GF day.
Still it was just a fantastic moment and I'll never forget the relief when the final siren went!! I think I still have a photo of the lap of honour after the presentations of LRT, medal around his neck, in the goal square. You would have gotten long odds on that in the first few rounds of the season.
To all those people who waited 72 years to see a South Melbourne/Sydney Swans premiership HERE IT IS!!
2005 - what a year.
The Swans and Tigers winning the premiership in the same year was rather surreal. It's also 5 years to the day where Wests defeated St George to make the GF. Hopefully history does repeat itself.
..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC
Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN
I'd just discovered AFL the month before - so the 05 Final was actually the first complete game I think I saw. A big chilly dockside club in San Francisco would be rented each year by the Australian-American Business League or some such name, and expats would flood in and watch on big screens. I remember thinking well, I'm moving to Sydney in a year or so, I've picked the Swans as my team, and just watched and hoped. I remember sitting next to a Geelong supporter who sort of walked me through all the new (to me) rules and stuff - and suddenly there was That Mark, and a siren, and cheering, and he turned to me, drunkenly shook my hand, and said "well, congratulations; welcome to the game."
I think my level of fanaticism has increased enough that now, I wouldn't calmly be shaking hands and thinking I sure picked a cool team. I'd be incoherent and overwrought and being stepped over by a fleeing Geelong fan ("good gawd, he's mad - mad I tell you! save yourselves!").
Great story Yuri!
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
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