Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Time to replay my post of now more than half a dozen pages ago: I'm sure all you Postgame posters are still reading, or will be soon with a couple of hours sleep under your belts, so BIG HUGS of thanks and shared joy to all of you! To which I must add, my thanks to everyone who thanked all the people and groups, in places and functions far and wide, that needed to be acknowledged and thanked. I feel they did so on my behalf as well as theirs.

I'm sure all you Postgame posters are still reading, or will be soon with a couple of hours sleep under your belts, so BIG HUGS of thanks and shared joy to all of you! And... Melbourne Football Club to Melbourne Storm: 'That's OK, we'll take it from here.'

Still here. Just. If you'd all stop raving about this surreality maybe I'd be off...

May I take this opportunity to remind 'Landers of their 'What will I do if Melbourne are Premiers' commitments. I, for one, committed to a tattoo (gulp). I intend to follow through. You?

That end-of-3rd-quarter call by Brayshaw: 'Bang, Bang, Bang!' Indeed. 25 September 2021 encapsulated.

Don't tell me I have to 👍Herald Sun!? Oh, alright!

Well, didn't Week 2 deliver!

I cringed one year when a player totally ignored the kid in an 'all about me' moment, and haven't been able to watch since, until I made myself tonight. And our boys honoured the kids so well, to a man. Yet another 'tick' for this team.

Watch, from our (very) high horse, 17 other teams try to set themselves up to be like us.

2.30am, and the best part of half a Talisker single malt in, did that second half really happen?

Can we somehow prevail upon the MCC to allow a ceremony like Lou Richards was allowed for burying the Colliwobbles?

Damn COVID! We'd all be there for that funeral!...

Another bit of fun: But for BBB's(?) poster, 13th Premiership by 13 goals.

In the wake of tonight (um, last night), while I haven't been able to bring myself to read all your stories, love to you all, for your absent friends and their stories.

Do we now take it up a notch?...

More from those who were there, please!

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 to everything everyone's said. To all of which, may I add that, aside from first premierships (notably North's 1975 75-point win), drought breakers have been: 2001 - 'Fitzroy' - 26 points 2005 - 'South Melbourne' - 4 points 2016 - 'Footscray' - 22 points 2017 - Richmond - 48 points 2021 - Melbourne - 74 points Emphatic, with a capital everything. And to all of those who said they can now die happy (and I'm definitely a D'Land senior cit)... DON'T!

@joeboy 👍

Number 2. Then. Now. Number 11. Then. Now. Now! For Then.

Like it, Goffy.

Go well, Malvern Marchers. With you in spirit, from afar.

I reckon it will be recorded, so that ifwhen we win we will have the benefit of it. I’m thinking the motivation might start with acknowledging the honour the players have already paid so well to we supporters and to the ‘story’ through the year and up to now, so that then they can be given permission to forget about it now, today, and they can concentrate on doing this for themselves, doing it like they’ve done it all year, and finishing this chapter of their own story. The more they can be made aware of what their best is, as individuals and as teammates, and that their best is the best, the best set up to win they will be. I think we project ourselves on all this. I reckon they’ll be ‘in the moment’, with just each other, and oblivious to the ‘fugazi’.

One more; West Footscray, would you believe!

Morning of. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR SUCH A GREAT RIDE! ♥️💙