In the nervy cold rooms under the MCG in 2016, I'm sure Bevo or Woody or Murph would have mentioned what the red white and blue meant to so many before them. Their forefathers, their forefathers fathers and their forefathers fathers fathers, as well as their forefathers fathers fathers fathers. The great EJ Whitten would have been mentioned, and then in more recent history, saving our club from extinction. You could have cut the history with a knife, bottled the feeling and drunk it and reveled in all it's glory.
Move forward three years to the 2019 Grand Final. Who is going to dig up the archives and paint the picture of history of this club in it's pre game inspirational speech, which was formed so long ago, in 2012?
"Come on guys, you can feel the plastic, even taste it. We've been waiting for this moment for so long. Our forefathe...oh never mind, let's just win guys, yay. Do it for Gil!"
Move forward three years to the 2019 Grand Final. Who is going to dig up the archives and paint the picture of history of this club in it's pre game inspirational speech, which was formed so long ago, in 2012?
"Come on guys, you can feel the plastic, even taste it. We've been waiting for this moment for so long. Our forefathe...oh never mind, let's just win guys, yay. Do it for Gil!"