Preparing for the finals

[Vicky Park]

Not the club, but us as fans.

Firstly, this week I'll be watching Jaidyn Stephenson take home the Rising Star Award. Surely the hottest favourite since The Bont...oh wait. Forget that. Stevo is a shoe in.

Then there's the All Australian awards. Grundy obviously, but I fear we might miss out elsewhere. Our improvement and our best performers have been pretty evenly spread, which partly explains our success so far.

I'll be going to some training sessions at the Holden Centre. We need to turn up in numbers, show our support, reinforce the importance of finals, be there for the boys.

Finals food: you have to eat well during the finals, to keep the energy levels up. Home made sausage rolls, with relish. Chicken and mayo sandwiches, with parsley. All good footy food.

Getting my special 'finals' scarf out of the wardrobe. The one I wore when we won the flag in 2010. Say no more.

Decorate the front of the house. OK, its a Vicky Park tradition. Your neighbours and other passersby need to know you are a Pies fan, and your boys are up and about in September. The deeper into September we go, the more I'll add. By GF day, there will be a flag, scarves and a poster in the front window. Get used to it neighbours.

I'll start by putting one of these on the front verandah later this week. It shows we mean business.

 

[jonbe54]

Have a huge supply of home made sausage rolls in the freezer, second fridge is bursting.

I still have 2 bottles of Laphoiag left - now 45 years old. Imported directly by my old man before he passed.

If we get through and win the big dance I will disappear onto the back porch as I did in '90 and '10 to share a wee drachm and a wee doech and doris too with his smiling shade.

 

[barrackers]

Getting my special 'finals' scarf out of the wardrobe. The one I wore when we won the flag in 2010. Say no more.

I like this idea, might need to find my 2010 members hat and scarf.

 

[Scritchyscroony]

I am still in the midst of celebrating the end of the home and away season. Just putting the finishing touches on the Giant navy blue paper machete spoon with "congrats on number 5" on it that I am erecting in the front yard.

 

[Maggie5]

I too will will need to find my T-shirt and scarf from 2010, food - mortadella and pickle sandwiches, my thermos of coffee and bottled water.

Although I must admit, at the 1990 final, I had a flask full of 'grasshopper' my favourite cocktail as I knew we would win that one.

Decorations? Visit to my local Lombards in Essendon - I really cannot see us NOT being there for the final dance.

 

[Robroy22]

I'll do the ritual surf in my pies jumper if we make the Granny!
It's always good for a laugh at Bells or Cathedrals! Cats supporters hate it!

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

My best mate (North supported and MCC member) gave up his GF 2 tickets so me and another mate could go.

So I think it's my turn to shout him to a finals match to watch Pies play. It can't be Week 1 (I'm not shouting him an airfare) but def. Wk 2 or 3. Our preparation usually involves ridiculous amounts of beers...

But this year I'm going to enjoy the game(s) sober. As I get older, the more I want to feel the whole thing and remember it clearly.

So that's my prep this year.

 

[domus]

Go to my spiritual home and meditate.

 

[Black_White]

Not the club, but us as fans.

Firstly, this week I'll be watching Jaidyn Stephenson take home the Rising Star Award. Surely the hottest favourite since The Bont...oh wait. Forget that. Stevo is a shoe in.

Then there's the All Australian awards. Grundy obviously, but I fear we might miss out elsewhere. Our improvement and our best performers have been pretty evenly spread, which partly explains our success so far.

I'll be going to some training sessions at the Holden Centre. We need to turn up in numbers, show our support, reinforce the importance of finals, be there for the boys.

Finals food: you have to eat well during the finals, to keep the energy levels up. Home made sausage rolls, with relish. Chicken and mayo sandwiches, with parsley. All good footy food.

Getting my special 'finals' scarf out of the wardrobe. The one I wore when we won the flag in 2010. Say no more.

Decorate the front of the house. OK, its a Vicky Park tradition. Your neighbours and other passersby need to know you are a Pies fan, and your boys are up and about in September. The deeper into September we go, the more I'll add. By GF day, there will be a flag, scarves and a poster in the front window. Get used to it neighbours.

I'll start by putting one of these on the front verandah later this week. It shows we mean business.

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I’ll PM you my P.O. box number for my delivery of those home made sausage rolls.

 

[Vicky Park]

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Go to my spiritual home and meditate.

Love it

 

[gappa]

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Go to my spiritual home and meditate.

I remember travelling to Vic Park the day after the 2011 grand final loss. Just me, a local walking his dog, the aforementioned dog, and a heavens load of existential grief.

The old girl seemed weary that dreary overcast October day. I’m sure she’ll be sparkling after our premiership victory this year though!

Great thread.

 

[Pie eyed]

I too will will need to find my T-shirt and scarf from 2010, food - mortadella and pickle sandwiches, my thermos of coffee and bottled water.

Although I must admit, at the 1990 final, I had a flask full of 'grasshopper' my favourite cocktail as I knew we would win that one.

Decorations? Visit to my local Lombards in Essendon - I really cannot see us NOT being there for the final dance.

Luckily the mortadella and pickles are still on my 2010 "March to the Grannie" T-shirt.
Why someone would bottle water is beyond me....I have it on tap and still don't touch it.

 

[Maggie5]

Luckily the mortadella and pickles are still on my 2010 "March to the Grannie" T-shirt.
Why someone would bottle water is beyond me....I have it on tap and still don't touch it.

Water is the only thing that quenches my thirst, I drink about 2 litres a day.

 

[Deleted member 133504]

Water is the only thing that quenches my thirst, I drink about 2 litres a day.

Double that please Nanna Maggie. You are killing your kidneys!

Are you taking the granddaughter to any of the finals? Euphoria surrounding a Collingwood march is very impressionable on a child's development

 

[Maggie5]

Double that please Nanna Maggie. You are killing your kidneys!

Are you taking the granddaughter to any of the finals? Euphoria surrounding a Collingwood march is very impressionable on a child's development

What, you have me sitting on the toilet all day?

Sure am, no Punch without Judy. She is texting me every day. So excited. Not Perth sadly, can't afford it.

She was there in 2010, lucky her.

 

[Heater39]

Playing bound for glory and all night on repeat.

 

[magpiewarrior]

It's so refreshing to see such a positive thread, good work all.

 

[Run n Spread]

If it works all year it works in finals.

Consequently if I have a bad week I'm going out and getting smashed on Friday, waking up hungover only to jump out of bed and get pumped for the big game. Couple of bottles of water something to eat and by 4 I'll be jumping off the walls.

 

[Adz]

What do you guys think of this shirt?

Maynard the odd one out?
https://shop.collingwoodfc.com.au/faithful-tees/mens-faithful-tee

 

[Pie eyed]

Water is the only thing that quenches my thirst, I drink about 2 litres a day.

I still cannot understand how the marketing gurus convince people to pay for bottled water?
You know what Evian spells backwards.
That is not an accident.

 

[Quicky]

Luckily the mortadella and pickles are still on my 2010 "March to the Grannie" T-shirt.
Why someone would bottle water is beyond me....I have it on tap and still don't touch it.

Go somewhere with a boiled water notice and you'll be glad for bottled water. Generally I agree with you though. The waste generated from all that plastic is horrifying. We've generated the same volume of plastic in the last 10 years as we have in all of the last century. We'll be dealing with that for a long time.

 

[neilk]

My 2010 cap, scarf and polo went with my father's coffin. I still have the road to the grannie t-shirt and the commemorative Collingwood footy jumper.

 

[Maggie5]

I still cannot understand how the marketing gurus convince people to pay for bottled water?
You know what Evian spells backwards.
That is not an accident.

Where did I mention purchased water? What else would you carry water in?
My own coffee and my own water from home. Not paying $5.00 for lousy coffee and I have no idea how much water at the footy costs.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

Standard day/night of the finals.

Try on clothes combos for a good hr or 2.. aim is not to double up on clothes I've worn to the ground in previous games. Actually purchased a new pair of Gino Rossi's for this week.. will post later.

Prawns for brecky to start the day..

Throw on some motivational tracks throughout the course of the day at home and in my car on the way to the G.. some of my favs..

Irene Cara: Fame
Chaka Khan: Ain't Nobody
Billy Ocean: Loverboy
Paul Lekakis: Boom boom boom
Stevie Wonder: Part time lover

Shit like that.

Overall pretty relaxed on the day.

Celebrate a good win.. question a bad loss.. went about it the right way win/lose I'm proud.

In a nutshell right there re.

 

[Pie eyed]

Go somewhere with a boiled water notice and you'll be glad for bottled water. Generally I agree with you though. The waste generated from all that plastic is horrifying. We've generated the same volume of plastic in the last 10 years as we have in all of the last century. We'll be dealing with that for a long time.

Before the late 90's bottled water was extremely rare.
You filled a gerry can with water for a long trip and every car had a few old 2 ltr coke bottles full in the back for "justin".
We used to drink water from the creek or river you camped on.
In the 80's a mate and I and our main squeezes, camped in the bush near Bittangabee for 6 weeks at a time with no other water than a small stream.

Modern marketing has successfully convince a lot of people you have to have 10 bottles of water a day. kids cannot go a meter from home without a few litres of the shit.
I spent my entire youth drinking water from garden hoses, maybe once a day if you were lucky, spiders and all.

The world just believes any old shit these days with an "expert" around every corner.
Like Vitamins.
No matter how many you eat, you just shit them out. If you are really lucky and highly deficient you may absorb a few micro grams....of whatever crap they claim is in them.

It's all bullshit.