The Grand Final Eve Lunch has become a tradition here at the Almanac and Friday’s in downtown Melbourne was a lot of fun, with a full house (from aroound the world), heaps of speakers and a few quiet ones enjoyed by all.
Although we are usually at the Waterside Hotel for our functions – as we will be for the Melbourne Cup Eve lunch (Nov 3) and the launch of The Footy Almanac on 20 Nov – because of the larger crowd we went to the Royal Melbourne Hotel where Nick, Kelli and Chris and all the staff were just terrific in looking after us.
Of course we did the Tip the Top 8 count (the results are included at the end of this story) and film-maker and Bombers fan Trevor Blainey got the chocolates with a phenomenally low score of 25. Trevor writes for us. He also produced the acclaimed film Noise and has just released his latest film Cut Snake.
Here’s what then happened:
The interviews included the official Smokey Dawson Grand Final Eve Lunch Smokey Dawson count and Don Scott’s Season in Review:
Rod Rocket Gillett and Geoffrey Gold
Tim Harcourt (The Airport Economist)
The Smokey Dawsons
Nick Johnston and Geoff Walsh
Maree and Peter Thomas (No 1 ticket-holders at the Swans)
Wayne Smith (father of Isaac)
Tony Morwood
Anthony Daniher
Sam Pang
Don Scott
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Here’s a couple of photos thanks to Sasha Lennon:
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Tip the Top 8 2014
After 7 xp xa Final
Cookie 17 Coll – 7th 11th 33
Lisa Lennon 19 Coll – 5th 11th 55
Trev Blainey 21 Geel – 5th 3rd 25
Dips 21 WC – 4th 9th 46
Burkie 21 Rich – 5th 8th 30
Helen Fithall 22 Syd – 4th 1st 31
Andrew Ellis 22 WC – 5th 9th 38
Adam Grundelmann 22 Coll – 5th 11th 58
Scott Field 24 WC – 5th 9th 40
P J Flynn 25 Adel – 5th 10th 50
Magnificent day. Thanks to those great men who organised it.
The highlight? – The Smokies Dawson. Superb idea. Lets strive to get a table of Smokies Dawsons next year.