Sincere and advance apologies to all those who went into last weekend’s raft of games nursing immense hope only to emerge this morning blinking in the horrible realisation that all that really just happened. But hot damn a good footy conspiracy is always a spicy meatball.
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Across Australia this past weekend, four major football sides entered vital, season-defining finals contests wearing jumpers of red and blue.
All of four of them – every single one – was handed a spirit-crushing bashing.
The sorry saga for Red & Blue sides began on Saturday afternoon in the AFL, when the Melbourne Football Club simply forgot to show up in the first half of their Preliminary Final clash against the West Coast Eagles, who beat them mercilessly and denied the club a fairytale berth in the 2018 AFL Grand Final.
From there, the Red & Blue fortunes went completely down the drain.
On Sunday, across three different state leagues, the Red & Blue curse struck virtually simultaneously.
In yesterday’s VFL Grand Final in Melbourne, the Casey Demons – Melbourne’s reserves side – sporting the same Red & Blue strip of their big league brothers, entered the season decider against Box Hill the raging favourites, had an early-game lead overhauled in the final quarter, letting the elusive premiership slip in a heartbreaking 72 – 62 loss.
THE HAWKS WIN! 🏆
What a finals series from @boxhillhawks, can you believe it?! 🙌#PJVFLGF pic.twitter.com/gQkQo8jBwj
— 7VFL (@7VFL) September 23, 2018
In South Australia, Norwood – again, Red & Blue through and through – came up against a remarkably controversial North Adelaide side and got bested in a high-scoring shootout, falling to the Roosters to the tune of 124 to 105 in the 2018 SANFL Grand Final.
And the Roosters win the 2018 premiership with @NorthAdelaideFC (124) to @NorwoodFC (105) What an amazing game! #SANFLGF pic.twitter.com/ETxSTP85b9
— 7SANFL (@7SANFL) September 23, 2018
Finally in Western Australia, the WAFL Grand Final saw West Perth – this time a slightly different shade of blue, but red & blue nonetheless – get beaten within an inch of their life thanks to a dominant Subiaco outfit who handed them a cruel 81-point defeat in the premiership decider.
.@subiacolions are looking very hungry with a 74pt lead over @WestPerthFC at 3QT
🦁 15.11(101) 🦅4.3(27) #waflgf18 pic.twitter.com/BHBJTPEFvz— WAFL (@WAFLOfficial) September 23, 2018
Four teams. Four red & blue jerseys. Four emotionally-draining defeats.
Coincidence? I think bloody not.
