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THE PIES?
Yesterday I broadcast my 3AW radio programme live from Victoria
Park – from the place where the Magpies held their last training
session before the Grand Final. And it was at Victoria Park for
the last time -- whatever happens tomorrow.
I estimated there were 17,000 people there yesterday which is extraordinary.
That’s about four times the number of fans who attend a regular
rugby league match in Sydney.
Just proof of what Mike Brady sings about when he talks about “one
day in September”.
Can you imagine any other sport, any other club, where 17,000
diehards will turn up to watch a few blokes kicking balls to each
other for fifty minutes?
Another example of Aussie Rules madness was unveiled at the Rod
Laver Arena in Melbourne last night. More than 12,000 footy fans
were crammed to the rafters for the final edition of Eddie Everywhere’s
Footy Show.
The line-up included Sam Newman, Shane Crawford, Billy Brownless,
Gary Lyon, Totti Goldsmith and yours truly. After 43 years in journalism
I get to put on a uniform and play a gay prison warden.
And what other madcap sporting TV programme could attract two of
the best singers in the world – Tony Bennett and k.d Lang.
And they didn’t even get paid.
It was a great night of entertainment as a curtain-raiser to tomorrow’s
big match.
Hinch’s Hunch: The return Grand Final Featuring Brisbane
and Collingwood features the following. Collingwood are undoubtedly
a better team than last year and they only lost then by nine points.
Beaten by the siren.
Brisbane, looking for the “three-peat” are a lesser
team than last year. The mid-field Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
are suspect. Maybe even down to two horsemen.
But the Lions are ironmen. Against Sydney last week the Swans came
back from more than 20 points down to be trailing by only three
points at three-quarter time.
Brisbane merely lifted a gear and in the final quarter kicked six
goals to Sydney’s solitary point.
My tip for tomorrow: Brisbane by 17 points.
Friday, September 26, 2003
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Derryn Hinch 2002
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