My wife and I travelled to Melbourne for a long weekend of shopping and the opportunity to see Freo strut their stuff at the MCG, we had a great weekend together doing the touristy bits you do but the game was a roller coaster of emotion I loved em I hated em oh my god the pain.
On the way out of the MCG I was mumbling and rocking backwards and forwards like a demented polar bear when my wife brought me back to earth by recieting one of her favourite poems,

IF by Rudyard Kipling.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!

I must admit to getting a lump in my throat by the end but it put things in perspective apt not only for us supporters but maybe for our hero's in Purple.
We came home last night after having a fantastic weekend.
Mind you if you think the game was painfull you should see my credit card balance now!!!!!