Tuesday 29 September 2009

THE GREATEST TEAM OF ALL!!!!!!

If you know me on FB, you will have seen my complete, utter, uncontainable joy: GEELONG WON THE PREMIERSHIP!!!! FOR THE SECOND TIME IN 3 YEARS!!!!!!!!!



Harry Taylor was grade fucking A on Riewoldt - he was bloody brilliant! Kept Riewoldt out of the game. Chapman was his usual excellence, earning him a well-deserved Norm Smith (medal.) Rooke stood up above his usual class, and even Tommohawk shone (for once.) Young 'un Travis Varcoe took a while to find his feet (not to mention his fellow players!) and probably should have been replaced by Matthew Stokes, who was incredible the '07 grand final.

What an absolute nailbiter. It's about as close as it gets for a Grand Final, notwithstanding the Sydney and West Coast games of recent years. Down to the wire. Geelong looked shaky for a while, but like that epic game against Hawthorn, where they won by 1 point with a kick after the siren.

For all their greatness, though, Geelong did get lucky - St Kilda's failure to convert with all their set shots, free kicks and running into goal meant the Cats stayed close. But it was Geelong's rise to the challenge in the final quarter that proved them as the greatest team of all.

I really wanted to find footage of coach Bomber Thompson after the siren goes and he realises they've won. It's classic for a man who is usually so reserved - he looks like a kid locked in a candy store, he's so thrilled.

And guess what: another one of these has come out! But if you don't follow AFL you probably won't get it...



Speaking of Fevola...did anyone see footage of him, aired on various footy shows this week, at the Brownlow Monday before last? He was positively shit-faced and armed with a mike - a dangerous combination, with yet-to-be-seen, undubitibly lethal consequences. Pretty funny though. I really wanna see the stuff they wouldn't show on the Thursday night Grand Final edition of the Footy Show!

x
JAG

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