1. 2017 - you just can't beat the the feeling in the last quarter when I finally let myself believe we would win after 37 years.....I couldn't stop crying from that point to the singing of the song (which I reckon played at least 10 times after the game)
2. 2020 - the game was more impressive than 2017 and our ability to come back was more impressive than what we did in 2017. My first B2B in my lifetime. Plus it was in my own backyard. It should be my number 1 but I can't let it beat 2017. I have separated them on the length of time I was in tears after the game....2020 tears only lasted a few mins.
3. 2019 - only one I didn't see live. Looked like a perfect day for footy but the ease in which we did it probably makes it less memorable for me. We played schmick footy that day though.
Yeah this.
2019 we played really well and while the first quarter was a fairly even stalemate, the rest of the game was a procession.
I was at Punt Rd for both 2017 and 2019, 2017 was just magic. A ground full of Richmond supporters who had been down for decades deliriously happy with finally nailing a flag. Plus, I reckon there were quite a few of us there with our long suffering kids finally seeing a Richmond team who were not only at the pointy end but winning the damned thing (my daughter would have been 22 then, by her age we had 5 flags in my lifetime).
2020 was hard because of lockdown and the game in Brissie, my daughter and her (Richmond supporting) boyfriend were on Zoom from the other side of Melbourne. Great game and great comeback. Geelong just couldn't put us away in the first half. Similar to, but I would have to say not as good a game as, the 2019 PF.
Nothing beats breaking the drought.
DS