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Grand Final week. Oh, my heart. In my adult life, I\u2019ve been to well over 600 Collingwood games. There\u2019s been winning and losing Grand Finals. I\u2019ve hugged many strangers over the years when the siren\u2019s sounded, and I\u2019ve broken down in tears (thank you to the 10-year-old who picked me up off the floor when Jamie Elliot kicked that goal last year).<\/p>\n
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Collingwood superfan reveals how his week will unfold ahead of the grand final.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>The Age<\/cite><\/p>\n Forget Rome, I can think about Collingwood every 10 or so minutes, and sometimes much, more than that.<\/p>\n I\u2019m one of those Collingwood supporters, and surprisingly despite all this, I\u2019m also a high-functioning adult.<\/p>\n Friday night\u2019s prelim final\u2026 wow. I did not enjoy it. The last six minutes was torture. When the siren went, me and my friends who\u2019ve been with me at the footy over 30 years cried out a heap of WE DID IT followed by jugs full of WE\u2019RE IN THE GRAND FINAL. It was wild. We love each other and we love the Pies.<\/p>\n The same group reconvened via zoom Sunday morning to buy Grand Final tickets. Gazillions of laptops out, refreshing that damn Ticketek page. But WE DID IT. We got tickets. Commiserations to those who couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Monday has seen a lot of SMS group discussion (138 notifications today!), about what the hell we\u2019re going to do with Daniel McStay out. We haven\u2019t cracked it yet.<\/p>\n This afternoon I took my kids, Martha, 9, and Fred, 5 to the craft shop to buy cardboard to make signs, and black & white bunting and streamers to do up the front of the house. TIP: Crafternoons help the nerves.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s Nick Daicos\u2019s Brownlow tonight. Then early to bed, if the count ever ends, so we can go to open training first thing tomorrow morning. I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\nMost Viewed in Sport<\/h2>\n