September 17
OH BOY! WE WON! YIPPEEE! HIP HIP HOORAY! WHAT BLOODY MONKEY? GIVE US A HUG!! WE’VE GOT THE POWER TO RULE! GO WANGAS!!
September 18
OH BOY! LIONS HURT! YIPPEEE! HIP HIP HOORAY! LYNCH CAN’T KICK STRAIGHT ANYMORE! WE’LL NEVER STOP STOP STOP! GO JAMESY!!
September 20
OH BOY! BROWNLOW NIGHT! YIPPEEE! HIP HIP HOORAY! WHAT A YEAR BY OUR BOYS!! THERE’S HISTORY IN MAKING! GO TREDDERS!!
September 23
OH BOY! CROWDS AT TRAINING! YIPPEEE! HIP HIP HOORAY! TALK TOUGH CHOCO WE ALWAYS LOVED YOU!! IT’S MORE THAN A SPORT GO CORNSEYS!!
September 25
OH BOY! THE BIG DAY! YIPPEEE! HIP HIP HOORAY! BOY I HOPE WE CAN WIN BUT JEEZ WE’VE DONE WELL THIS YEAR!! THE FLAG IS THERE FOR THE TAKING!! GO THE POWER!!
EXCERPTS FROM A LION DIARY
We came we saw we conquered. After being on the receiving end of a slight free kick imbalance early in the match, we proceeded to injure each other and kick as many points as possible. Guess what? Geelong fell for it! We’ll eat them alive next season.
Apparently a heap of tarts flashed a bit of leg down at the Crown casino tonight. We had our usual get together and Simon was as polite as usual and Acker cracked a few jokes. Nige is a bit pissed off but next year we are having to have a fab eight. Watch out!!
At training tonight we had a limping contest and all of a sudden we were surrounded by a gaggle of television cameras. Leigh Matthews was stirring the shit-pot again and predictably the Victorians were getting into a lather about the salary cap. I only wish the Vics would lather up a bit more often…you can smell some of those Collingwood players from a mile away.
Slept in. We love Melbourne at this time of year..all of those familiar faces..I wonder where all the Victorians went though? Apparently we will make history today, but then again, doesn’t every team do that when they win the grand final? It really sucks that we have to wait all these extra weeks for our Mad Monday. We will play our style of game and we know we can win.
regards,
REB
― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Tomorrow I get on a flight to head off to the MCG to see my team play in the AFL Grand Final. Hopefully we will win, 'cause if we win no team has done that in many decades and the last time it did happen there were only 4 teams in the competition!
As for Malthouse sprouting off on Talking Footy about Collingwood members paying their $150 therefore were entitled to..... and Brisbane members paying their $150 wake up Mick my membership costs more than twice that!
― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)
*Denotes were heavily assisted by the AFL
― chrisso (chrisso), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)
No doubt you also pissed off with, Melbourne, the Kangaroos and the Western Bulldogs!
No doubt the Salary Cap Concessions will be gone over the next year or so if nt sooner then what will you excuse be?
Sorry but I'm sick of being pleasant today - you can all go jump!
― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)
Why? They prove themselves to be somewhat competitive in a tough AFL with up to $3million less to spend on players? In a competition where salary cap and drafts are meant to keep things even, the club with the MOST money to spend by about 15% who have not had to release a top line player for years (Headland and Bolton were borderline players) are also the strongest with the most depth... No sh%t sherlock.
Bring Brisvegas back to the pack wtih $ to spend, and Luke Power, Tim Notting, Rob Copeland etc - the second stringers and probably one of the Fab 5 would have had to move on to another club...
See St Kildas list for next year - they have had one good year in a long time, and now they will have to lose Luke Ball and hope Hamill and G-Train take paycuts. Lucy, in your blind eyes this is just bad luck - to every other football follower, this is one club marching to a different beat to the rest of the competition.
― Bennö (Bennö), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)
That's not quite right Lucy. There were 12 teams in the competition ('27-30). You must be talking about only 4 teams in the finals.
― Hawka (hawka), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 23 September 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Met some very nice Port Power fans (even stranger!)and has been the case in previous years enjoyed they short stay but am now glad to be back in the sun.
Went to the Gabba yesterday to welcome home my team and thank them for another fantastic year of footy. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them do well again next year.
― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)