Did you watch the game on Saturday? We had friends up from Melbourne to watch it with us, so it was almost Just Like Old Times. The best piece of commentary came from our very own eight-year-old commentator. At one point during that tense and intense second quarter, when the game went for, what was it, 19 minutes without anybody scoring, the ball was rapidly passed through what might have been a dozen pairs of hands, with nobody able to get a proper kick or handball away, and our commentator was driven to cry out "OH, THIS IS SO ENTERTAINING!!!".
He was right, but he also demonstrated a level of subtlety in his understanding of the game which one might not expect from an eight-year-old, particularly one not born in Victoria and hence not a "native" of the game. The play in that second quarter was tremendously exciting, but in a dour-struggle kind of way, rather than with the fast pace, long kicks, spectacular marks and high scoring that the kids love.
And he was barracking for Hawthorn, so he was also pretty stoked with the way the game ended up. Unlike this person.
