Oh that game!
People sometimes forget that up until that game we had still been seen as the new kids on the block. We couldn't do it! Our success was good and nice, but we HAD to fail against the more deserving teams. And why wouldn't we? First it was against the Cowboys. Our great 8 week run showed that we had future promiss but the cowboys should have beaten us that night. They didn't. Then the Broncos should have, but they didn't. At least St George should have.
St George!
Here there were, arguably in their best form ever.
5 City Country Reps
5 NSW Reps
5 Australian Reps
and lets not forget how strong and powerful that club is, and their divine right to beat any team. On the night, St George would take their rightful place in the grand final against these kids, these no-names from a half-assed merger of two clubs that had long since seen their glory days.
And in the stands...
I still remember open up to page 2 of the paper and seeing the article about how the Dragons Army and WTF being seated next to eachother was a huge security mistake. And it was! The Dragons had 70% of the tickets and the few tigers fans were crammed into a couple of bays.
The abuse directed at Tigers fans on the Dragons forum that week was at a level that i never expected. They took every dig that they could at our club. From giving us the address of the Campbelltown St Vinnies (so that we could hand in our jerseys after we lost to the Dragons) right through to planning on throwing flares at the Tigers bays.
Gould: "Andrew Voss, whats the crowd doing now mate?"
Vossy: "Well the chants going up again, its the Tigers chant outdoing the Dragons one right now, i can tell you that!"
oh sweet victory
The odds were against us everywhere that night
But that night we changed
We changed from inbred merger failures on a winning streak into the club we are today.
Our finest hour