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This makes 23 years of "agony and ecstasy" "rapture and rupture" "pleasure and pain" (and any other cliche' I may have omitted!) The Saints are a hard habit to break! Some of my non-Saints family and friends wonder why I do it........ I guess they're entitled to their point of view, live and let live, I say. However, I find myself feeling just a twinge of sympathy for those who have not been touched by this crazy old club of ours. God 'elp 'em, poor blighters! they just don't get it!
Loyalty to a footy club like St. Kilda over 23 years takes more than just easing oneself on to the bandwagon of a "big" club....say like Essendon. If I was driven by results alone I'd have given the Saints away after the first season (Malcolm Blight's "Ride of your life"...need I say more?)
I have been made to feel a "small part of a greater whole" since becoming a Saints member. I have been fortunate enough to have made friends, REAL friends, with good people along this often bumpy journey we make each season together. Meeting up each match day with my pal Thomas, for a pre-game beer and a natter, bumping into other dear friends and aqquaintances around the stadium, and then simply enjoying (or otherwise
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I'm in my 78th year of life now. The chances of me seeing the Saints win a flag are remote in the years I have left, does this fact put me off supporting this club?
TAKE A WILD GUESS!!!!!!!!!!
Go Saints! GO! (To hell with the rest!)