My best mate is Carlton and we watched it together. I wandered out into the street at the final siren, dropped into the gutter and just sobbed. A little kid came up to me and asked if I was ok and I just couldn’t get myself in any state to answer so I just patted him and sent him in his way.
I went to the corresponding prelim the following year and even though we won it hasn’t erased the memory. There’s no comebacks, it sits in my craw and I don’t know if there will ever be anything that will remove it.
Snapper’s rant is pure gold especially when he talks about going to the football to watch Essendon and Fark Carlton the day after he got married. He obviously postponed the honeymoon for a day to go to the game. Would love to know which game and who won. Would have been a terrible honeymoon for the wife if they lost to Essendon.
I don’t agree with that narrative.
I’m not sure we would have won the 99 GF but I’m equally not convinced that our failure against Fark Carlton was the catalyst or inspiration for success in 2000
1993 was the best, especially since Carlton had the week off and thought they were hot ■■■■ for beating us in the Qualifying final minus half our stars. To come out and smash them and kick 8 of the first 9 goals and have it virtually won by half way through the second quarter was immensely satisfying. It’s even more fun now knowing that SOS touched Long’s goal from the behind the goals angle. The Mill Hanna crunch was huge from Wallis, and when the ball freakishly bounced between 2 Carlton defendes into his hands for the goal I probably never laughed so hard at a game.
