I went to the game on Saturday to watch North with my 6 year old son, who I have brainwashed as much as I can to barrack for the Roos as he sometimes waivers towards the dark side of supporting the Magpies. We live a fair distance away and travelled to Melbourne for other reasons, so we didn’t tell him that we were going to the football until an hour before we left to watch the game, he was very excited as I produced his North jumper, hat and membership for him to wear to the game. His favourite player is Boomer Harvey (or Harvey Boomer as he likes to call him) and he was happy that Boomer would finally be playing. However as the game unfolded and Majak produced goals and excitement from the crowd, I could see that Boomer might have some competition as his favourite player. The smile on his face grew broader with every last quarter goal and I can still hear my sons words ringing in my ears at the end of the game “We smashed’em Dad, by 54 points!”. All he could talk about after the game was Majak and those goals, marks & attempted marks. I think Majak may have cemented my sons support for the Roos and for that I am thankful.
PS Once/If Majak understands the game more he will be unstoppable and I was very impressed with Aaron Black’s game.