Now all that remains is for
@Judge Smailes to give us his on ground match report.
Better late than never, just sobered up after a big night at Radelaide Oval.
The Judges summary: Sitting behind the goals at
the Northern end, it was moist and tense contest.
Following the now ruined INXS track and some upside-down scarf waving, the game got underway.
Things looked great early for the Tiges sneaking out to an early lead with the GOAT snapping a sweet sausage.
The pear hit back late in the quarter with a goal to that Turdsma dude who performed his stupid arrow thing before speeding to Tom Lynch and shouting “DID YOU SEE MY STUIPID ARROW THING?” YEAAAAAAH”.
There were much kickings the pill off the deck, one in particular from the meatball resulted in a 40 metre dob that kicked left and out of bounds. Deliberate. Gonna be a long night. Turdsma then dropped the world cup when Ro-Z centred the pill, f*** it was funny. It’s what they call the karma bus.
The Mars Balta dominated the lumberjack Dixon guy and it was beautiful to watch. Rioli looked in better nick that made me happy, the Nank was breaking even and we went into half time all even. A couple more overpriced beers and it was back for the second half.
Pear fans seemed to be more Adelaide Crow fans on this evening, booing everything that happened and seemingly having no idea about anything related to footy.
The rest is a bit of a blur to be honest, lumberjack Dixon finally took a grab when big Nank actually put a great block on - unfortunately it was on the Mars Balta leaving the lumberjack to stick the mark. He pounded a long sausage and I suddenly felt a bit sick.
Enter the tradesman Kanye Lambert (pronounced Lam-bear). A sneaky goal in traffic put us back on top, before the most obvious deliberate out of bounds by a trash talking Hartlett gave Lambert another crack, which he duly p*ssed on in ridiculous fashion to give us a 10 point buffer. Karma bus #2.
We were smashing them in clearance and it was beautiful, but Bad-hams flopped in a tackle from the Mighty Mighty Vlastuin and Port were back within four. I figured time must be nearly ip so I checked with a mate who has Foxtel, he got on his phone and said … “nine minutes mate”. WTF???
Anyway, the Pear attacked a lot but Toby the Tank Engine was going full Dikembe Mutombo and denying every foray forward as the crowd reached fever pitch. Big Jack launched a looooong point which was super important and with a six point lead, I took my first breath since the four minute mark of the first quarter.
The Lynch pin went back, took the final grab, siren went, he did an interview and got Bundy on him, as the Tiger faithful celebrated I got beer on me, and had a sensational night that won’t be forgotten in a hurry. I do love this team.