Everyone knows the well-worn cliché about a champion team beating a team of champions, but no one really buys it do they? Surely people don't seriously think that if a team just gets the right winning "vibe" then it will somehow defeat a team of freakishly skilled and highly trained athletes? I mean, you don't see Chelsea saying "No more high price recruits. Give us some characters. What's that Mark Bosnich up to?" The footy template is pretty simple: half a dozen first rate stars and a strong chorus line of about a dozen solid performers. But there are always exceptions.
Fremantle had a great season last year. They finished 6th on 13 wins with a side that included such stars as Mathew Pavlich and . . . that guy from the VFL who broke his leg. And I thought I saw Adam McPhee in there as well. Good on him for getting a game. And their coach is a guy who I'm pretty sure I saw get a game with Essendon once. And they have that really big ruck guy, the one who looks like that kid from school who used to eat all the clag and steal everyone’s lunches. I think he got expelled for bringing his dog to class.
And what did Freo use to get to sixth on the ladder? A team of champions? No thank you – they did it the old fashioned way, with the single worst song in the AFL, a mascot that looks like it was designed while the AFL marketing department were at Mardi Gras and a guernsey that Andrew Demetriou may well have personally designed so it would appeal “to the ladies”.
Heave Ho on that, Chelsea!!
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