All the best guys - I don't think our shellacking of the Roos was necessarily great preparation for us, but we had played through 3 tight finishes in the previous four weeks, and needed to have guys like Ebert and Brogan get through unscathed.
Full respect and admiration to the Cats. Bomber's a great football person, and I have had the pleasure of talking to Tommy Harley in his younger days when he was at Port and he is a very decent bloke.
I don't know how the emotions will pan out for the players this week. The Cats have a steely resolve that reminds me of the way we went into the 2004 GF. In many ways your path this year is like ours was back then - comfortable qualifying final win, tight, nervous prelim win on the Friday night. Little bit of extra doubt because of the closeness of the Prelim........
I just hope we can live up to our end of the bargain and keep our heads and play our best for the big day.