Well you have probably gathered by now i kinda like my aussie rules footy and what a great Grand Final it was. It did however highlight the importance of grasping an opportunity when it arrives. Luck they reckon equals preparation and the ability to take an opportunity when it presents. So did the saints take theirs? I groaned out loud when both Schneider and Dempster missed goals with less than ten minutes reamining in the game. That was their chance to bury the cats gain the ascendency and let Geelong know that they had their measure. But they couldn't take it and break a drought that unfortunately stretches another year now for them.

Eminem - Lose Yourself - some of his words seem so appropriate

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking, how everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
Easy, no
He won't have it , he knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stagnant that he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again yo
This this whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

So when you get your opportunity are you going to be prepared and ready to pounce?

The agony and the ecstasy, god it's such a fine line between success and failure. I feel for everyone of my St'Kilda mates at present because they live with the knowledge it was theirs for the taking.

To both teams what a gutsy match.

Hawthorn devotee and football lover.