Just a few days after the wonderful one point win by the West Coast Eagles in this year’s AFL Grand Final, we were wandering around outside the MCG where that momentous game was played.
We had planned our holiday long before the Eagles became certainties to reach the MCG on the final Saturday in September so our plans were always to touch down in Melbourne the day after the Grand Final with no thought of what might happen in the football. Even if we had arranged to be there earlier I doubt that we could have afforded tickets to the game. Having said that, we were more than happy to arrive wearing plenty of blue and gold. I proudly wore my Eagles shirt to fly into Melbourne and a week later as we flew into the home of the Sydney Swans.
We had gone past the MCG on the train several times in previous visits to Melbourne but never got all that close to the ground. When we finally worked out how to get there we walked right around the perimeter trying to glance through doors and windows to get a glimpse of the playing surface. The first thing we noticed when we did spy a patch of green was the big pile of dirt in the middle of the playing surface. It seems that almost as soon as the footy season finishes part of the surface is ripped up to prepare for the cricket season to begin.
We didn’t have the time required for a proper tour of the great stadium so we satisfied ourselves with photos of ourselves outside the massive buildings and with glimpses of the glory that is the MCG through any windows that we could find. (You can get a slightly better look at what we saw by clicking on the photo.)
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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