How do you sum up the enormity of what happened on Saturday afternoon?

The day after the grand final, I stumbled onto a V-Line train to Geelong, clutching that day’s Herald Sun and The Age. I’ve since secured copies of Sunday/Monday’s HS, Age, Daily Tele, SMH.. Even Monday’s Geelong Advertiser - with local boy Amon Buchanan, and the Colac Herald “Colac’s Super Swan Amon Buchanan”.

So anyway, there I was with my papers, a bottle of coke, hat, scarf, blah blah… and I passed another similarly hatted, scarfed, dog-tired and sunglassed Swans supported. We shared a nod and a smile. That’s all we needed.

When I got to Geelong station, there were a couple of old boys with the now-regulation battered Swans scarves, waiting for their cars. Another set of nods and smiles. “Now I can go back to barracking for Footscray”, one of them quipped, straightfaced.

My lasting memory of this will be the feeling in the city after the game. Mike, Charlie and I walked from South Melbourne to our hotel on Spencer St, hardly a car or group of people would pass without hearing a cheerful “Go Swans!”, we’d share the aforementioned smiles and nods with fellow red-scarfed people wandering the streets of Melbourne.

The enormity didn’t really hit me until Baz and Roosy lifted the cup. Oh My God, I thought. We’ve won the flag. Just looking around the delirious crowd at the MCG, I kept wondering what it meant to each and every one of them. This is only my ninth year of membership, and I was stunned beyond belief - what must it be like for the long-time faithful? I take my hat off to you all.

I never heard the final siren.

One moment, I roared in triumph as Leo came up with the ball, perhaps a hint of panic in my voice as I pleaded with him to settled down, take his time, go long, get it out of there!!

Next thing I know, we were all celebrating.

Well… It couldn’t last forever, could it? Swans got smashed by St Kilda (my dismal record at the Docklands Stadium continues), Waratahs got done in the Super 12 final, and even Geelong lost to Freo at Kardinia Park (first time ever).

At least the ever-reliable Swifties had another win, and the Eels continue to surprise me by beating Cronulla.

Well, the Swannies made it two in a row for the first time this year, the Tahs secured second spot (but missed out on top by not scoring a 4th try for a bonus point), Sydney FC won the Australian round of the World Club Championships (so it’s off to Tahiti to thrash the rest of Oceania), and the Eels had a tough but comfortable win against the bye.

So that’s pretty much two “perfect” sporting weekends. Whatever next eh? Won’t keep up though.

Another one of those rare weekends where I had a winning team in all 4 footy codes. Swans, Eels, Waratahs and Sydney FC all chalked up wins.

Hoorah!

Well, not today, yesterday. Had my work christmas do, which was a whole lot of (free) fun. There were dodgem cars, which sealed the deal.

Plenty of Kiwi-bashing too, as the netballers won a close game to take the series 2-1. And on top of that, Glenn McGrath scored his first test 50 (took him something like 117 innings to do it) at the Gabba against New Zealand - this is a Halley’s Comet-like occasion.

Today is going to be a nice lazy one I think.

Well done, girls. It’s a shame we couldn’t be there for it, but we had Melbourne flights booked for ages. We went to most of the games this year too! Nevermind, next year might be the go, the CBT is a three-team race anyway!

What a bloody great weekend.

First the Swifts continued their unbeaten run, beating the Kestrels in Melbourne. Then Parramatta snapped a 5-game losing streak by scoring in the last minute up in Newcastle.

Then the Swans beat the Saints by 6 goals, ending THEIR unbeaten run.

Not a bad couple of day’s work.

We won.

That’s about it.

Hoorah! A win!

Sydney won today for the first time in over a month by the slimmest of margins - beating Hawthorn 80-79. Still, a win is a win, and you only need to be ahead by one point to win that win. Jude Bolton booted a much-needed goal on the run from 50m to put us in front with 3 minutes to go, and we hung on. His 100th match too, so that would have been nice for him… Wasn’t bad for the rest of us too.

Another one of those busy weekends with not too much free time at home… Netball on friday night, Dinner and Sarah McLachlan on Saturday night, and out at the footy all day today.

Much more relaxing weekend next week? The footy is on Saturday night, which hopefully leaves Sunday free for bludging.

Well, as they say in the classics, “d00d, that sux0r”.

Today would have been the most disgraceful Swans performance I’ve seen since the draw against St Kilda at Colonial Stadium a few years back. Maybe even worse, it’s hard to tell (what with clawing my own eyes out in disgust and all that).

And it’s back to work tomorrow too. How joyeous.