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I have only rewatched the last quarter of the prelim once but I've watched the first three quarters a handful of times, and am craving a rematch of it again. I haven't listened to the radio calls of it though. Did you find those on YouTube?

Too many to count. I think I lost track around 10, but if I had to guess I would say it's around 4 times that now. I also spent an afternoon watching people from around the world reacting to the highlights on YouTube. One in particular stands out, an American who new the final score line and paused the video when Bont put them up by 19 and was completely flabbergasted about how we could pull it off.

This was going to be the first game of the season I was able to attend when the fixture was released but I have too much work. I still hope to be able to watch some of it. St. Kilda have looked very poor in their first two games so hopefully we can put in a really good performance. The weather will be challenging but it was hot last week and we played pretty well

It looks great. Big red, small orange, yellow, green, Big blue, small indigo & violet at the bottom. I want one, but they're not in the shop yet

Thankfully I was at home watching on TV for 186. For 148 I was there until the bitter end.

I'm looking forward to purchasing a jumper with the gold logo. I'm thinking the indigenous top, with our Norm Smith medallist's number on the back

Unfortunately 186 was not rock bottom for us, as horrible a day as it was. Two years later we won only 2 games. We wouldn't have beaten the worst VFL team that year. I have never seen a team from any club play as poorly as we did during that time. The next year Paul Roos was brought in and we started to turn things around. We finally got to see the fruits of their labour this year and wasn't it fantastic. As good as the final 40 minutes of the GF was it was the PF two weeks before when we put the cats to the sword that I felt we could put that all behind us. The cats kicked two late goals before half time, keeping them in the game. In the second half we saw our captain play his best quarter of football yet as our midfield took control of the game. I was brought to tears ans felt reborn. I still can't watch that quarter dry-eyed. Hallelujah!

Couldn't help myself

Shed a few tears. Sang the song until my throat was raw. A great day. Let's hope we can be there for the real thing next year. The applause that The Rev got was outstanding. I think it would have gone on forever if Garry hadn't stepped in. Premiers!

Beautiful day for it

My Father's two sisters married Collingwood supporters, and they had 7 kids between them, so Collingwood have always outnumbered us in the family. I managed to convert my youngest Aunty's second son to Melbourne and took him to many games before he grew old enough to have a posse of peers to go with. He moved to Sydney a few years agoband I hardly see him anymore but we both flew over to Perth in 2018 for the prelim and commiserated over drinks after the game. There have been times when I felt guilty for converting him to the Demons, but not anymore. I would love nothing more than to beat the Pies in the Grand Final.

Every now and then I meet a fellow demon around town and it's always such a boost to share the joy. To number in the thousands tomorrow? It will be electric

Does anyone know if they'll be opening the car park? As in the grass park land between the G and Punt Road?

Don't forget Liam Picken! BOG in the 2016 GF, no matter what the judges say

They posted this article a couple of hours ago https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1029562/cup-tour-ticketing-australian-sports-museum-and-bunjil-place

I heard a rumour we won't be getting a physical membership card this year. It will all be digital. Which is a shame, because I have every membership I've hard since I cared about keeping such things

Such a beautiful flag

I got my premiership flag, the last piece of premiership merchandise I ordered, delivered on friday. I get a lot of people calling out as I drive around town

Just put the premiership bumper sticker on the back of my car. Positioned it top left so there's plenty of room for more

I just ran in to Williams, Dunstan & Dan Butler doing some kicking drills while walking my dogs. My car is still decorated with a demons flag and red & blue ribbons so they recognised me as a demon tragic before I saw them. Thanked Williams. Welcomed Dunstan. Mistook Butler for a WCE player 😳

Drove by this one this morning. Party time!

I ordered the blu-ray through the club immediately after the game. I assume it's the same product. The box art says it includes alternate radio calls, so I don't need to worry about sinking it up with the YouTube videos I have bookmarked

I missed out on a record in week 1. I didn't know what day it came out and didn't go looking for it until the day of the game by which time they were all sold out. You can bet your [censored] I got the prelim, GF & Premiership editions on the day of release though

Massive earthquake near Melbourne a few days before as though the gates of hell themselves were opening, while at the same time we had 6,666 active COVID cases 🤟🏻

Now I'm nervous again