So, a day to remember for the Brisbane Lions. A premiership after 21 years without. That’s about what probability suggests the gap should be, with 18 teams and soon to be 19 in the competition, but it’s still an awfully long time in the life of a supporter. There must be kids who watched Michael Voss and company who today have Brisbane-supporting kids of their own. Chris Fagan has built up this side gradually over a number of years, improving across most of that journey, though it looked like they were sliding earlier this season. They arrested that, then turned it around in spectacular fashion.
Commiserations to Sydney and South Melbourne, congratulations to Brisbane and Fitzroy. Enjoy the celebrations, whether you’re down Brunswick Street or around Fortitude Valley.
That’s it from us. Until next season.
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I like this from Charlie Cameron. “I think the focus all year was about just keeping it simple, simple brilliance, and don’t force it. And move on as well. That was the motto we’ve been living by: moving on, goldfish. Chris Fagan, I think at one point we were zero and three, and at one point he said ‘If you’re skating on thin ice, why not dance?’”
