10 Year Grand Final Win Anniversary

[Josho Howe]

Thought i'd start a thread marking the 10th anniversary of the GF win. Would love to hear all of your memories and your stories of the day. What you did, where you watched it, the feelings, the joy, the celebrations etc. Need that dopamine rush all over again.

 

[ryan]

Watched it from Bay 3 or 4. Was behind the goal either way. Having been to the previous 3 it was such a sense of joy and relief. Easily the greatest day in Mariners history......so far?

 

[marinermick]

Calling the game for Coast FM was incredible. Doing the Craig Foster “yes, yes, yes” at the full time whistle.

Mad Monday at Gosford Hotel with other supporters was pretty special as well.

And then the Gosford parade. Just wow!

 

[LG__]

Was standing behind the goal, will never forget the feeling when Zwaanswijks header went in.
The last moments waiting for the final whistle were just incredible.

Happiest day of my life without question.

 

[Michael]

Probably the best day of my sport following life. Still get happy tears when I see both goals. Took my partner (at the time had only been together 1 year) to what was her first ever football match that day. She still teases me to this day for openly crying tears of utter joy at full time with 10k other fans. Don’t think I slept for almost 3 days afterwards.
Coincidentally that was also the first year Kwas and Porter were my coaches and Patty Tatum my manager so had the privilege of hearing all the celebration stories and seeing kwas’s medal the following week. He also correctly picked the score at training a few days before the match.

 

[pjennings]

Watched it from Bay 3 or 4. Was behind the goal either way. Having been to the previous 3 it was such a sense of joy and relief. Easily the greatest day in Mariners history......so far?

I was somewhere similar.

Funnily though - similar to the 2005 Uruguay game I was confident of the result all day. Sometimes you just know it is your day. I think it had to do with all the hype about WSW - they had to fail.

 

[sydmariner]

previous 3

Previous 2 NOT 3.

 

[FFC Mariner]

"You swapped sky blue for red and black"
All the glory hunting turncoats having their day ruined. Lovely.
I have enjoyed all of our 3 (yes 3) grand finals. It's a great day out regardless and doesn't really matter like a title win.
It's a fun cup game

 

[BrisRecky]

a dead set cracker of a day at the fox studio end of the place (and still much and many cudos to Wombat for helping me and missus to get there), i stupidly jumped in the air when Zwaanje kicked the goal and partially ruined my afternoon , but still popped big time when the final whistle went off
Them Recks going, this Reck celebrating...and a Wombat and a dutchman went to a grand final...(i have no punchline for this bit, i shall bow gracefully and leave )

 

[priorpeter]

Mad Monday at Gosford Hotel with other supporters was pretty special as well.

I’m not sure I ever truly fully recovered. What a day

 

[true believer]

what a day . at the game with danny mcbreen's championship medal.
whoo who

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

 

[crock]

Best day of my life the best sporting gf I have been too

 

[moomoo]

I have a wonderful video of my then 8 year daughter singing “We are champions” at the end of the game. She is now a football fanatic and hates missing a game.

 

[Archie]

Can’t wait to relive it in a couple of weeks ?

 

[LFCMariners]

I could re-write it all, but I'd be here for HOURS. And I need to get some sleep.

Plus, I already summed it up 10 years ago, right here:

2012/13 Grand Final- your week that was...

This thread is for everybody to share their week from the qualifying final against the Victory, to the full-time whistle of yesterday's Grand Final. Going from the posts I read on here, 442 and Facebook during the week, it would seem our emotions and impressions as supporters during the week...

www.ccmfans.net

(Only thing I'll ad is that at one point in the game the camera panned to this blond chick in the RBB who was so gorgeous it hurts just thinking about her. I wonder what she's up to these days?)

 

[Ironbark]

I was living in VIC at the time and due to work couldn't make the trip.

For a couple of months before even making the grand final I would start stories with 'when we the grand final...' I just knew it was our year!

At the end of the game I was pumped but also mourned a little. Arnie had turned down offers to go elsewhere after Aussie Guus advised/asked him if had done everything he could with us first yet. Now he had. Several players were due to retire and more had their stocks rise so high we couldn't afford to keep them. It was the end of an era and I knew the heights had been reached. Little did I actually have any idea how low we'd fall or for how long.

I feel this 10 year anniversary has even more to celebrate. Because with our gaffer a member of that championship winning team 10 years ago, despite not really being favorites, we're actually a chance at winning it all again. Great to be back in that position, even if it's only potentially.

I was back on the coast for the parade. So many people so full of joy, such an epic day

 

[Ozhammer]

I remember that season building into the GF the boys just seemed to have that air of invincibility about them, that seemed to be reflected by the confidence of us fans.

It was a fantastic day but one of my favourite memories was chatting to some guy in the bar queue at PJ O’Reilly’s and him asking me who my favourite player was. When I told him I was a massive fan of Sains, he then told me he was his Dad! You couldn’t make it up! ??

 

[BrisRecky]

AND, then came the Code (which showed up on you tube in my suggestions yesterday) , so we could re-live the year at home in the comfort of our loungerooms

 

[marinermick]

And of course flying to Seoul the next day and winning an ACL game on the Tuesday