'Scray!!!!
This is probably the one season where 7th-placed deserves to take out the flag, given the close competitiveness between the top 7 teams. Fully deserved premiership, no questions asked.
Exhilarating match and a deeply satisfying result
Johannesson was prolific, but wouldn't have been my choice for Norm Smith. Too many turnovers. I thought that Boyd's contested grabs in the second half were match-winning. And Bontempelli didn't rack up heaps of touches, but had a 90% efficiency rate, which was telling in the second half.
Full credit to Kennedy for a great performance for the losing side, but Sydney are now on the brink of going down as underachievers. They'll have a plenty more years of contention left in them, and probably should be favourites for 2017, but this was a premiership that they feel they should have won.
Beveridge, what a likeable mastermind he is. Met him briefly after an A-League match last summer and he is so approachable. If I ever get to speak to him again, I will thank him for making the 2017 footy season so very memorable.
Sent from a barge floating through the docks of Dublin