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(The other secular religions are coffee and food; minor anti-cults include weather and public transport.)<\/p>\n
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AFL final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground<\/p>\n
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Jump to 2025 Helen Garner update.<\/a><\/p>\n These matches can be played anywhere in the world provided it\u2019s Melbourne. If non-Victorian teams have managed to do better than \u2018OK\u2019 they may be allowed to have a final played in their state but Victorian teams are entitled to win.<\/p>\n *There are preliminary finals, elimination finals, qualifying final and the Grand Final. If more adjectives can be located, more finals may be added (but they\u2019ll be played in Melbourne).<\/p>\n Are we born this way? Way back on 1968 Poet Bruce Dawe saw this<\/p>\n When children are born in Victoria<\/em> Carn, they cry, Carn \u2026 feebly at first<\/em> Hoisted shoulder-high at their first League game \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n See the full poem \u2018Life Cycle (for Big Jim Phelan)\u2019 by Bruce Dawe<\/a><\/p>\n Pages of newspaper, and bytes of cyber are given over to pundits (i.e. retired players \u2013 sometimes better known now than when they played or because of their current hubris or rudeness) pontificate on percentages, points possession, priors and pockets. You can also see rotations, runners and rushed behinds. \u2018Shepherds\u2019, \u2018smothers\u2019, \u2018specky\u2019 (if you\u2019re lucky), a \u2018soccer\u2019 and may be a \u2018stacks on the mill\u2019 might be on display. Once upon a time you would have heard \u2018chewy on ya boot\u2019 or \u2018white maggot\u2019 but times change.<\/p>\n You won\u2019t see Cazaly, Bobbie, Hassa, Barass, Dermi, Libba, Jezza or Richo but people will still talk about them (well, most of them) and people with grey hair will know who they where and what they did!<\/p>\n Also Google \u2018Shinboners\u2019, \u2018the Bloods\u2019, \u2018Jack Dyer\u2019,\u2019The Fuschias\u2019 \u2018Colliwobbles\u2019.<\/p>\n Enjoy the footy.<\/p>\n More footy terms<\/a><\/p>\n
they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots,<\/em>
having already begun a lifetime\u2019s barracking.<\/em><\/p>\n
while parents playfully tussle with them<\/em>
for possession of a rusk: Ah, he\u2019s a little Tiger! (And they are \u2026)<\/em><\/p>\nKick points not behinds<\/h4>\n
2025: An update to the above tongue-in-cheek view.<\/h4>\n