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Back on to the MCG turf that evening, whisked away in a bus to a cavernous function room, then a blearyeyed appearance at suburban ground the next day to be feted by thousands of supporters. Depending on where the club is based, there might be a parade through the streets later in the week, as will be the case with the Swans in Sydney on Friday. Consider the Essendon premiership player who celebrated so hard that he woke up at 5am on the banks of the Yarra and could not remember how he got there. Or Carlton's 1981 premiership team, which was invited to a celebratory dinner at The Lodge by the Blues No.1 ticket holder, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Triple premiership player Wayne Harmes recalled that the team left the dinner with more silverware than simply the premiership cup and medals. "There was cutlery, there were salt and pepper shakers, there were matches, there were nutcrackers,'' Harmes recalled last year. "I think he (Fraser) knew when I shook hands with him leaving that my top pocket was shaking like a cutlery cupboard.'' Gallery: The best premiership celebrations Teammate Alex Marcou revealed earlier this year that several of those 1981 players now had mementoes from that dinner framed and displayed on the wall at home. Or how about 1975, when the victorious North team returned to Arden St Oval, where they were introduced to the frenzied masses on the back of a flatbed truck. Taxis were then used to ferry the players to a function at the Southern Cross Ballroom, but coach Ron Barassi missed the last one and got a lift in the back of a police van. Forward Sam Kekovich partied hard and missed the historic premiership photo because he was "preoccupied'' with a female friend in his hotel room. Then there was Footscray's breakthrough flag in 1954. After the match the Bulldogs celebrated at a crowded pub in Elizabeth St, with premiership heroes Ted Whitten and Jack Collins ending up eating their dinner on the steps outside, balancing their plates on their laps. After a brief appearance on a balcony at Footscray Town Hall, the party moved to Western Oval where a false rumour spread that there would be free beer for anyone who brought a glass (there was a not a drop of alcohol at the club). Many of the players simply went home, or gathered around a big bonfire on a vacant block near coach Charlie Sutton's house in Newport. Then, according to Sutton's wife Eileen, they "went away with their mates and didn't come back for three days''. So to celebrate the premiership celebrations we've delved into the vault and come up with 22 photographs of teams partying after winning the Grand Final. |
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