Sublime Cats end premiership drought : "Geelong won their first premiership in 44 years with a staggering 119-point thrashing of Port Adelaide in the AFL grand final at the MCG this afternoon."
Well, it was about Geelong who haven't won a premiership since 1963...so good on 'em. I caught up with the scores in the second quarter when it was 70 -20 and thought Port would have to run hard and keep the ball to get over that. The hard thing for Port is that this is the biggest winning margin in grand final history so that will be lessons in patience and humility for them because they really have had a great year and have played well. Everyone was so excited at the shops this morning and they were buying up big for the BBQs which seemed to be going to be standard pre match fare today. Even though we had rain later it held off over lunch while everyone stoked up their barbies and just to be sure, some people were doing the standard Australian thing of firing up the barbie under the carport. The Port colours were out, people had their Port tops and scarves on. There was such a happy atmosphere. I guess they'll be sad tomorrow. I think they will have to look at it pragmatically. No one goes into the AFL competition to come second. Port ran its legs off this year and had some great matches to get where it did. It was a fantastic effort. So they need to put that up against Geelong not having won for over 40 years. The fact that Port and Geelong really got the real football heart of Australia out is really something ...and Port lost. There's another year next year and some good lessons learned from today. Fantastic effort.
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