"Maybe I did pick the wrong side for the flag but at least I came up with one peerless prediction …"
No matter how beautiful our wonderful game can sometimes be, it's not worth a tinker's curse if your team ends up on the wrong side of the ledger, especially on grand final day. There are no second chances – maybe next year or the year after, but never again the 1967 cup. Read the record books, it's gone. It doesn't matter if the scores were level four times in the final quarter; the Cats were beaten at the final siren.
Also well and truly alive, albeit he turned 80 last week, is Denis Marshall. Early in the game, he was flattened by a deliberate punch from the Tiger big man Paddy Guinane. Denis still claims it was a set-up and Paddy is no longer with us for a denial. We were never going to win. Polly cramped in the last quarter and all was lost. The younger Tigers had beaten the older, more experienced Cats – although I was only a 19-year-old, which is probably why I am still here to write this.
Of course, 1967 came first when they were all sober. They'd watched every kick. 1974 came last when they'd either gone home or gone on – with drinking.
Polly Farmer just missed Mike Patterson by a whisker just after a centre bounce last quarter in the jaw...........not a dirty player either, that would have won the cup for Geelong.
Gareth Andrews and Polly Farmer when I was a small person at the football were my heroes and still are GeelongStrong
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