Go Manly!

My brother Tim made me a very happy man on Thursday morning when he called me as I was walking into the office and said, "Hey Mickey-boy, how would you like a free ticket to watch Manly in the Grand Final this weekend?" Hell yeah! I've never actually been to a grand final and to go to one where Manly is playing is a childhood dream.

So off we went yesterday arvo and it was everything I'd hoped for and more. Amazing atmosphere at ANZ Stadium with over 80,000 people in the crowd. There were some strange warm up acts, like Jon Stevens singing while about 15 utes drove around the oval and a hundred people with weber style BBQs accompanied him with clanging BBQ lids as smoke billowed from the webers and obscured the field. Then they had the Living End coming out to play a couple of numbers, along with giant flaming flares and fireworks all over the field.



Then a massive navy seahaek helicopter dropped into the stadium, hovered a few metres about the turf and did a perfect 180 degree spin before landing softly on the pitch and disgorging the statue we used to know as the Winfield Cup (I can't remember what it's called now?).


The game itself I won't bother recounting in any detail. If you had any interest in Rugby League you would have watched it yourself, if not then you won't want to hear my description of the match. Suffice to say Manly played incredibly, Steve Menzies had an amazing last match (and the crowd went crazy every time he touched the ball), and the end result was a record breaking 40-0 win for the mighty Eagles! What a day.