I posted earlier tonight about how great it would be for every ticket to be used on Sunday and we pack Adelaide Oval. Our club deserves us, the members to show our love and support for the club that represents us in the toughest sporting competition in Australia.
The realisation tonight that we have made it into the Finals seems surreal to me. Surreal not because of the past two years in the wilderness, but surreal because of the grim events of this year. Think about the gravity of the situation our club was in some eight weeks ago. Our Head Coach was murdered by his son. He is the leader of club, he sets the tone for how our guys play the game, he is a father figure for most of them. At that point of time some thought it was a real possibility we could forfeit the the entire year. In world sport such a situation was rare for a professional sporting club to go through. No one knew how our club would respond.
We did play another game, then another and another. We have had some losses since, but some glorious wins. In all of those games our boys have shown they are mentally tough, they got on with the job, the next man stood up in Campo (with some help from Woosha) to lead our club and players. To think that we sit here now, having qualified to play a Final in the toughest sporting code in our country is an astounding achievement. And we did it with two games to spare, with a chance at a home Final.
Season 2015 wont be remembered by the petty fact we did not top the membership in our state, it wont be remembered because of the speculation around Patrick Dangerfield, it wont even be remembered by the fact it was our 25th year of existence. It will be remember by the response our club put forward after such a tragedy. This is something every one of us can be proud of.
The mental toughness of all involved in getting our club here should be applauded. We have our chance to do so Sunday. They say that the strength of any organisation lies in those within it and the community it represents. Our club is strong, stronger than it has been in recent years. Hopefully we can build on this strength and go on to greater things. But most importantly we show that the Adelaide Football Club community truly does Fly As One. Everyone get down to Adelaide Oval Sunday, if you can't try to get someone there and show the boys what they mean to us and how proud we are.
Go Crows.
The realisation tonight that we have made it into the Finals seems surreal to me. Surreal not because of the past two years in the wilderness, but surreal because of the grim events of this year. Think about the gravity of the situation our club was in some eight weeks ago. Our Head Coach was murdered by his son. He is the leader of club, he sets the tone for how our guys play the game, he is a father figure for most of them. At that point of time some thought it was a real possibility we could forfeit the the entire year. In world sport such a situation was rare for a professional sporting club to go through. No one knew how our club would respond.
We did play another game, then another and another. We have had some losses since, but some glorious wins. In all of those games our boys have shown they are mentally tough, they got on with the job, the next man stood up in Campo (with some help from Woosha) to lead our club and players. To think that we sit here now, having qualified to play a Final in the toughest sporting code in our country is an astounding achievement. And we did it with two games to spare, with a chance at a home Final.
Season 2015 wont be remembered by the petty fact we did not top the membership in our state, it wont be remembered because of the speculation around Patrick Dangerfield, it wont even be remembered by the fact it was our 25th year of existence. It will be remember by the response our club put forward after such a tragedy. This is something every one of us can be proud of.
The mental toughness of all involved in getting our club here should be applauded. We have our chance to do so Sunday. They say that the strength of any organisation lies in those within it and the community it represents. Our club is strong, stronger than it has been in recent years. Hopefully we can build on this strength and go on to greater things. But most importantly we show that the Adelaide Football Club community truly does Fly As One. Everyone get down to Adelaide Oval Sunday, if you can't try to get someone there and show the boys what they mean to us and how proud we are.
Go Crows.
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