Sunday, September 28, 2008

GRAND FINAL for AFL!

After the Billy-Kart Challenge, Danyall Richard, Luke Radosavlejvic, Jack Prebble, Sam Prebble, Jasmine Robins, Kieran Spilling, Myself, Bekah Bradbury, Leia Bradbury, [Alisha & Jonny Bradbury] all piled into the Bradbury Family Home to watch the AFL Grand Final.
On our way home, we stopped at Woolworths [still smelling of poop from the billy-kart challenge] and picked up some supplies for the grand event! I grabbed just a megapack of lollies, Jack came round the corner with an overflowing armful of chips, drinks, and who-knows-what-else! Haha, it was quite a sight :P
There was plenty of food, but it went fast because we were all starving from running up and down a hill all morning!

We all patriotically joined in the singing of the National Anthem at the opening of the game:

First quarter excitement...


...everyone went crazy with excited energy!

First Quarter: Geelong 33 - Hawks 32

Second Quarter: Hawthorn 51 - Geelong 48

At Half time we all spontaneously enjoyed a game of "Marks Up" (a footy game) in the front yard. Some die-hard basketball fans (cough-cough-Jack and Dan - cough-cough) shot some hoops, with Dan nearly busting our plastic ring with his slam dunk! But before we even started Marks Up, some silly muppet kicked the football into the tree!!


[The little yellow bit amongst the branches is the football!!]


[Dan Dan the basketball Man]


[The "Holy Grail" of patriotic Australia - football]


[Alisha ducking for cover as Luke makes a beautiful kick!]

When 3rd Quarter started, we all dropped everything and ran back inside! It was a close game! All that were in the room were barracking for the mighty Hawks.... except for Dad and Kieran. (Mum 'supported' the Cats only because, "i'm being a supportive wife", because dad was going for Geelong! Haha!!)

There was alot of screaming and general noise. Most of the screaming occurred when Hawks kicked a goal. A memorable scream came from the most amazing goal of the game, kicked by "Number 7" (as Leia and I kept shouting), who we now know to be Michael Osbourne.

Third Quarter: Hawthorn 89 - Geelong 72

Buddy Franklin remained the player the girls drooled over. He's a very good-looking chap, i must say ;)

Full-time: Hawks 115 defeat Cats 89 accompanied by a massive 3minute long roar from Hawks fans all over Australia - and our place was no exception!

Our Heroes of the Day:
Hawthorn : S Gilham, T Croad, B Guerra, R Ladson, L Hodge, G Birchall, J Lewis, S Mitchell , C Bateman, C Rioli, L Franklin, M Osbourne, M Williams, J Roughead, C Brown, T Campbell, B Sewell, S Crawford. Interchange: S Dew, X Ellis, B Renouf, C Young.

Hawthorn's first grand final title since 1991 (i think thats right).
Congrats.
A mighty win for the Hawks!!

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