I think our victory in the first elimination final against WCE was one of our best ever.

Because of the emotion of that whole month maybe it’s been slightly overshadowed.

Imagine our audacity: going to Perth, where we’d had such an awful record, with the Eagles in red hot form, and what seemed a bit of a bunged up unit where the fitness of our group was unknown. We not only won, we smashed them by 47 points.

Around this exact time (7.30 pm, Sept 8) 4 years ago my sister and I sat on the couch just hoping we wouldn’t be embarrassed. Nobody could have imagined what was to follow...