Last Saturday in September.

Well, this is a photo of David watching the Grand Final with all the other Haselhurst cousins, on the last Saturday in September. It is his first Grand Final, because he wasn't born for the last one (a Swans' Victory). however, he has had the great good fortune to see an Eagles victory!!! He was wearing my Eagles scarf earlier, but not in this photo. He also took his Eagles teddy along to the afternoon soiree, again not in the photo. The Swans scarf stayed on the pram (in the background). An excellent ocasion, with Howard, Annie, David, Patrick and Nada together with us making eight Haselhursts in all together with the patners (Richard, actually a husband and Rebecca). Nada was particularly interested in David as she has just announced that she is pregnant, with a baby due next year.

It is probably a good time to mention that (apparent;y) 32,000 people watched Fox Footy for the Grand Final - which is fine, but Channel 10 was carrying the 2006 Grand Final live. Fox Footy was broadcasting the 2005 (last year's) GF, with the 2005 GF following at 6.30pm. Basically, 32,000 couldn't tell the difference. Due to many factors, such as people being on thebalcony and my having to watch David, we didn't work out for 10-15 minutes that we hadn't turned over.... The penny finally dropped with Paul after I saw Michael Gardiner playing in the ruck for the Eagles (Paul had already explained away Nikovsky and Sampi). When we turned over, there was only 1 point the difference in the scores between the two matches. Patrick was happier - he had been thinking the umpires were biased (undoubtedly based on squaring it up for the previous year??). David couldn't tell the difference - after all, he hadn't seen the 2005 GF. Howard had a great time trying to provoke the Swans supporters, and not really succeeding.