People are just trying to cope with the reality that the magpies are the real deal
They really could go all the way.
The belief they have cannot be bottled.
Credit to Macrae and Leppa,
The magpies play like the tigers did at their best.
Irrepressible. Watch them interact with each other, this is real unfortunately.
Totally agree.
I am coping with it via a combination of various single malt whiskeys, and the understanding that other flags don’t matter as much as the glorious Tiger flags.
The way in which the Tiges delivered their 2017 flag through a scintillating style of play that brought pressure and a surge mentality to unprecedented levels, in combination with a barn storming imperious Dusty that reeked havoc on opposition players meant that we witnessed something that would be spoken about for generations to come.
A style of play that forced one opposition coach to question whether we wanted to watch the game played the way the Tiges played it, because he has NFI idea of how to stop it.
This continued for over four years, and even lead to corporate flunkies having to change the rules of the game to arrest the Tiger juggernaut. (More than once).
The 2019 demolition of the AFL’s Frankenstein test tube baby; the Pickett story and his magical blind turn that would have made Michael Jordan proud.
The 2020 win after the media hyenas came after the cub for hub indiscretions.
The building of the team during a period of state sanctioned handicapping through millions of draft pics aimed at streamlining plastic worthless premierships for teams with no supporters.
The Tiger story is the best story of the modern AFL era, regardless of who won the premiership last year or will win this one.
Hands down.
