for the (AFL) Grand Final - Bill Hannan's timely poem

at the Oracle

the bar of the Oracle in Droop Street

seethes through day into night

there’s no doubt the doggies will win it

Sydney won’t put up a fight

not the way we can

they can’t take us by surprise

whoever heard of a bulldog

being beaten by something that flies

the Oracle sits in a corner

and listens to the fans

she knows who’s going to win

she knows they’ll understand

who’s the best team she asks them

we are of course they reply

the best team will win she predicts

I’ll have another gin very dry

Photo Phil Gardner (from the MCG Members Stand)