Aussie Rules

Last Saturday we joined our friends Alun and Nec in visiting The Oval to watch the Geelong Cats play Port Adelaide in a special one-off AFL game.

It was good to be surrounded by fellow Australians cheering on the game (despite a general apathy for the two teams who were playing) .

A highlight for us was being able to venture onto the ground following the completion of the game. While those who had decided to bare all and run on early (as in during the game) were taken away in handcuffs we were allowed to legitimately walk across the field after the final siren.

We ended up wandering through the Long Room in the Members Stand before heading on home.

While not as impressive as the Long Room and Members area at Lords, it is still a nice place to visit, even more so when you have a bunch of Australian wandering around more or less oblivious to the class system usually in place in such locales. No one told us we couldn't, so we did.