As I mentioned in an earlier post I got up at stupid o’clock this morning to join hundreds of others at the Shaftesbury Walkabout to see the Geelong Cats battle the Port Adelaide Power in the 2007 grand final of the Australian Football League.

These two teams finished one and two in the premiership this year and therefore were fitting finalists. The Cats, however, clearly had the support of those in the Walkabout although the small pocket of Power supporters did their best to show their support.

This kind of event is so popular that all the Walkabouts required tickets to be pre-purchased – £15 bought you entry, two drinks and a breakfast bap/meat pie. At 5am in the morning the Walkabout crowd were suprisingly, and quite scarily, eager to get to their pints. Drinking beer to me at any time of day is disgusting but at 5 in the morning – truly gross! So, despite evidence to the contrary, as in the photo to the left, I just stuck to my OJ and lemonade (boring I know!) and my bacon bap which was tasty and very welcome though difficult to eat as were jostled about by the heaving crowd. At some point Pauline, James and I even got separated from Brendan and Cameron. It was pretty mad. Managed to get in some “in the crowd” photos though:

The game was fairly good though very one-sided to the pleasure of those in the Walkabout. The Cats absolutely killed the Power and the 163-44 scoreline in The Cats favour, which smashed the previous largest winning margin in a final by 23 points, was only a small reflection of just how much The Cats dominated.

In other, and maybe more slightly interesting news to the general public who have no clue what aussie rules is, but who may have more of a clue about Neighbours we were joined at Walkabout by none other than the current Vegemite Tales stars: Blair McDonough and Jonathon Dutton. The funniest thing was that it was Brendan and Cameron who first spotted the two “celebs”!

Here are some stalkarazzi shots (though note that some were purely coincidental like the one of Blair making out with his girl – it wasn’t my fault they were standing so close to us and they “happened’ to get into my shot – and its purely coincidental that all the photos focussed on the hunky Blair …)