MIGHTY, MIGHTY ST GEORGE!!!!

It's been 30 something years in the making, but the mighty Dragons have finally won the rugby league Grand Final. Although some might say if the Storm were able to score points this year, who knows if they would've achieved such success....but who cares I've lived my whole life and never seen my team win it so we'll take it!

Much criticism was given to the ref's for calling some crazy decisions, and calling some decisions that werent even there to begin with. Regardless the Dragons were dominant in the 2nd half, after an extremely even 1st half. The Roosters missed they shots at goal which would have given them some psychological edge going into the break.

The Dragons looked spooked in the first half, with all the momentum and pressure with the Roosters. Some Strong advice from the experienced coach Wayne Bennet would have settled their nerves, to bring them home for the Premiership.
Gettin it done, when it counts:

People say that St George arer the Collingwood of the AFL, with a dominant supporter base and successful record in the early days, but if thats the case, then I never would have picked them as my team! :-P I write on the black board every day like Bart Simpson: 'i will never, ever, ever,ever barrack for Collingwood...ever'. If a team can go over 30 years without winning it, they are humble when they do, much unlike the Pies supporters ;-).

After a heart breaking loss to the storm in the late 90's, they finally get the gold!:

That being said, we have no choice but to talk about Collingwood now as they are the Premiers of the AFL this year *shiver*. It was a scary place to be in melbourne on the first Saturday in October, but it would have been just as scary being out on the last Saturday night in September, if we had an actual result then!

For only the 2nd or third time in history, there was a drawn grand final in the AFL! And much unlike the other finals in our series, we do not go to extra time to get a winner...we play the whole thing over again the next week! It's serious football dee ja voo! When you don't go for either team playing though, and you call out 'football is the real winner on the day' with five minutes to go in the game, chances are you're gonna get bashed by a toothless Pies supporter ;-).

The feeling of not knowing how to feel:

This is basically once in a lifetime stuff! You always joke about the draw, but it's not untill it happens that you are completely hit for 6, confused, dissoriented, and have to wait another week for the result you have already waited all year for.

The Pies were on top all day, but the Saints didn't give up. And with the help of some bad kicking from the Pies, the Saints faught back to close the gap at 3 quarter time to under 20 points. The Pies were tired from missing their shots at goal, the Saints looking stronger. In the final quarter with not long to go, Brendan Goddard took a screamer for the Saints, right in front of goal, and kicked the goal to put them in front for the first time all game!

They then missed more shots at goal with Milne not following the bounce of the ball, and Nick Maxwell diving to touch what would have been the match winning goal by Nick Riewoldt, with only minutes to go. With only one minute left, the ball was all in the Saints 50, but they just couldn't score. Kossi dropped a match winning mark, and even thought they only had to toe poke the ball in for a point to win, they just couldn't do it! You can't script this s*&t! It's the Hamlet of football! We said we didn't want the Pies to win the Grand final, and we almost got our wish! As it turned out, this was StKildas big chance to beat the highly favoured Pies, their won chance at luck. Cause what happened the next week, was just ugly!:

There was a thrashing at the MCG that following week, that would have destroyed StKilda's hopes and dreams! The Saints had already lost a close Grand final to the Cats the previous year, and were driven by the hurt of this to win it in 2010. Unfortunately hurt is not enough to win you the big game, you need the talent to back it up to. And this 2nd day and this year, the Pies had it!

The week before in Grand final 1, Scott Pendlebury (COllingwoods best player and the player that has been carrying them for years) played like s#$t! It was revealed, after winning the medal for best on ground in the 2nd game, that he had food poisoning and decided not to tell the coach. Anybody who knows Mick Malthouse, knows that if you like to him, he will burn a hole in your retina with his pissed off eyes. It's a good thing Pendles won the medal, might've saved his life!

Dane Swan didn't get the Brownlow, but he got something better. And now he has time to finish his ink:

Harry came from a down and out childhood, to become a premiership player:

You saved my life!!!!!, make love to me:

The two scariest, I mean most powerful men in football embrace. the coach and president of Collingwoood:

Dale Thomas is just a bit too excited about the Pies win...disturbing:

The banner at the start of the game rang true 'side by side we stick together' , rather than StKildas modo 'far apart we stick together':

Lionel Ritchie adds to the memorable occaision of the Grand final replay:

Stkilda's only goal chance in the first quarter was lost as the captain unnecessarily plays on and a diving Heath shore smothers to save a goal:

IT wouldn't have mattered anyway, they were smashedThe Pies are premiers and we must deal with this farce.

The Commonwealth games was also a farce with roofs and buildings collapsing at the weightlifting centre, and a cobra being found in their Tennis centre! Jeeesus, are you sure its safe! The games might be in India but the buildings were definitely made in China. OR they mightve got them out of a cereal box! It's hard enough lifting a heavy weight up, the last thing you need is the roof falling on your head!

They were also having monkey issues over there and had to emply a team of super monkeys, to help rid them of the regular monkeys. Some of the super mokeys got into fights with the regular monkeys and were killed though. Jeesus talk about drama, you'll get more over there than at the Glasshouse on a Saturday nigt :-s...and thats a lot:

all that and more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.


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