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Posted May 09, 2025 13:29 · last edited May 10, 2025 02:58

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I've always thought that to be a Perth fan would be more suffering than one of the Nix. Long time club that goes back to some successful years in the NSL. Up 1-0 late into the 2012 GF at Suncorp only to be robbed by two Berisha goals, incl a clear dive for the 2nd goal.

Then Tony Sage spends up large, gets Poppa in as coach, they become Premiers (but who really remembers that), get to host the GF in front of 57,000 fans and can't score, losing on pens to the Bling.

Now the last few seasons they have been sharkhouse. Ouch, ouch & ouch.

Must be really tough for them to have won the premiership in recent memory.

If you are a football purist, who follows some European league, for sure it's all about who finishes 1st in the regular season.

But the ALM is an Australian (plus NZ) comp. In Australian sporting culture it's all about the Final (the colloquial Granny!). Similar to how Americans like to use World Series, Aussies love to prefix Final with Grand. That's because it's everything.

And Glory have had GF heartbreak going back to the famous 2000 NSL Granny against Wollongong Wolves.  The crowd of 42,764 was at the time an Australian record for a club football (soccer) match. Perth led 3–0 at half time, but somehow bottled it. 3-3 at FT, and Wolves winning on pens. Glory did win the GF in the NSL's last 2 seasons (2002/03 & 2003/04)

But with the ALM it's been that gut wrenching loss due to pantomine villain Berisha in 2012, plus then another home GF loss to SFC in 2019. 

Be good to know how your average Glory fan feels. But I suspect for many (56,000 gutted fans went home that night in 2019) that 2018/19 premiership don't mean that much, not when you don't win the big Final. That's the only game from that season folks remember.

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Monto
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I've always thought that to be a Perth fan would be more suffering than one of the Nix. Long time club that goes back to some successful years in the NSL. Up 1-0 late into the 2012 GF at Suncorp only to be robbed by two Berisha goals, incl a clear dive for the 2nd goal.

Then Tony Sage spends up large, gets Poppa in as coach, they become Premiers (but who really remembers that), get to host the GF in front of 57,000 fans and can't score, losing on pens to the Bling.

Now the last few seasons they have been sharkhouse. Ouch, ouch & ouch.

Must be really tough for them to have won the premiership in recent memory.

If you are a football purist, who follows some European league, for sure it's all about who finishes 1st in the regular season.

But the ALM is an Australian (plus NZ) comp. In Australian sporting culture it's all about the Final (the colloquial Granny!). Similar to how Americans like to use World Series, Aussies love to prefix Final with Grand. That's because it's everything.

And Glory have had GF heartbreak going back to the famous 2000 NSL Granny against Wollongong Wolves.  The crowd of 42,764 was at the time an Australian record for a club football (soccer) match. Perth led 3–0 at half time, but somehow bottled it. 3-3 at FT, and Wolves winning on pens. Glory did win the GF in the NSL's last 2 seasons (2002/03 & 2003/04)

But with the ALM it's been that gut wrenching loss due to pantomine villain Berisha in 2012, plus then another home GF loss to SFC in 2019. 

Be good to know how your average Glory fan feels. But I suspect for many (crowd 56,000) that 2018/19 premiership don't mean that much, not when you don't win the big Final. That's the only game from that season folks remember.
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Monto
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I've always thought that to be a Perth fan would be more suffering than one of the Nix. Long time club that goes back to some successful years in the NSL. Up 1-0 late into the 2012 GF at Suncorp only to be robbed by two Berisha goals, incl a clear dive for the 2nd goal.

Then Tony Sage spends up large, gets Poppa in as coach, they become Premiers (but who really remembers that), get to host the GF in front of 57,000 fans and can't score, losing on pens to the Bling.

Now the last few seasons they have been sharkhouse. Ouch, ouch & ouch.

Must be really tough for them to have won the premiership in recent memory.

If you are a football purist, who follows some European league, for sure it's all about who finishes 1st in the regular season.

But the ALM is an Australian (plus NZ) comp. In Australian sporting culture it's all about the Final (the colloquial Granny!). Like Americans like to use World Series, Aussies love to prefix Final with Grand. That's because it's everything.

And Glory have had GF heartbreak going back to the 2000 NSL Granny against Wollongong Wolves.  The crowd of 42,764 was at the time an Australian record for a club football (soccer) match. Perth led 3–0 at half time, but somehow bottled it. 3-3 at FT, and Wolves winning on pens. Glory did win the GF in the NSL's last 2 seasons (2002/03 & 2003/04)

But with the ALM it's been that gut wrenching loss due to pantomine villain Berisha in 2012, plus then another home GF loss to SFC in 2019. 

Be good to know how your average Glory fan feels. But I suspect for many that 2018/19 premiership don't mean that much, not when you don't win the big Final. That's the game from that season folks remember.