My son must be sick of cricket and tennis as, over the last week or so, he's dusted off the videos of the 2005 finals and watched them instead. I've watched them with him - still get nervous!
Some observations.
1. We were AWESOME!
2. The umps smashed us in all finals games except for the GF.
3. Interesting to note how some things that were acceptable in 2005 would be seen today. Especially, deliberately putting the ball out of bounds, deliberately defensively putting the ball over the goal line and head high tackles. In the semi against Geelong, LRT was hit head high by an opponent and didn't even get a free kick! Today, the Geelong player would have been suspended.
4. We were AWESOME!
5. The commentary by Anthony Hudson, a Geelong supporter, in our semi final win against the Cats was brilliant.
6. Our 7 goals in 15 minutes blitz of St.Kilda in the PF was the most exhilarating period of Swans football I've seen in 50 years of supporting the Bloods.
7. Although not the most spectacular, Leo Barry's mark in the GF was the most significant mark taken in AFL history.
8. We were AWESOME!
Bring on 2012, I say!
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