derby 27

how sweet it is!! it was a pretty scrappy game but there were still some great individual performances. roger hayden played a blinder, as did palmer. for him to need 20 staples in the head to hold his brains in after a big knock and still go on to play a dominant game is fantastic. pav was his usual magic self and young maynes also showed a lot. there were a few freo supporters sitting around me and we made more that enough noise to drown out the weagles fans for most of the game. having said that, it's not hard to drown out weagles fans since they only tend to open their gobs to chant 'eagles, eagles' (how creative) after a goal's been kick. wirrpunda was pretty good for the losers, as was ketamine kerr and shirley temple priddis. fletcher flatlined (again) and embley and the albino hansen were hardly sighted. lynch saw his goal tally and thought they'd put his IQ on the board whilst selwood spent the day hiding from des.

after the game there was the usual sour grapes from weagles fans after losing a derby - something that happens more often than not these days - with the attempted jibes of "well, it was freo's grand final". personally, if i was a weagles fan i'd be concerned if my team wasn't approaching a derby with the same amount of passion as freo.. but then again we know which activities they've historically had the most passion for.

as a postscript to the game, there was a standing bet between dean 'soft' cox and heath black that the player from the losing team would don a dress and pose as a mannequin in a myer shop window on monday. sadly the weagles have decided to welsh on the bet and reinforce their image as the afl's most unethical club.