Brian Taylor goes up to anyone and everyone during his now iconic AFL post-match segment, Roaming Brian.
It’s part of what makes it great.
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And he’s usually pretty good at identifying most of the people he talks to.
But he didn’t quite realise who he put the microphone in front of when he spoke to a polite young girl on Friday night after Sydney’s 36-point preliminary final win over Port Adelaide.
“Excuse me, who’s your favourite player?” he said to the young girl.
“Umm, I like them all,” she replied.
“Are you going to go to Melbourne to watch the grand final?” Taylor added.
The Swans supporter said she probably wouldn’t get to go.
“I don’t know. My dad’s got tickets but I think he’s just going to take my mum and him,” she said.
BT continued to roam around the Swans rooms, which were abuzz after they booked themselves a spot in the grand final, before finding his way back to the desk, where Bruce McAvaney was waiting.
“You know the young lady you spoke to a moment ago who said dad’s got the tickets?” McAvaney said.
“Yes,” BT responded apprehensively.
“That’s Jude’s daughter,” McAvaney revealed, pointing to their Channel 7 colleague, and former Swans champion, Jude Bolton.
“Is it?! That was your daughter?” BT exclaimed.
Bolton: “That was my daughter!”
BT: “What a beautiful young girl. Great manners.”
Bolton: “Did you walk up to her or did she walk up to you?”
BT: “She walked up to me!”
Bolton’s daughter will have been happy with her side’s performance, which was a dominant one from start to finish.
And of the various songs to have belted out of the SCG speakers during the lopsided preliminary final, the most fitting was comfortably The Prodigy’s Firestarter.
It followed Tom Papley’s first goal, a pitch perfect soundtrack as the pint-sized forward celebrated with his unique blend of incendiary jubilation.
The track is the antithesis of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads — the anthem that marks the goals of fellow star forward Charlie Cameron at the Gabba.
But there is no better way to describe the antics of Papley, who swung momentum his side’s way at quarter-time when Port Adelaide had trailed by three points and looked the better team for much of the opening stanza.
The 28-year-old was in his element at the first break, having kicked a goal after the siren.
Papley collected a high-five from Chad Warner then made a bee line for Willie Rioli, unsuccessfully trying to knock the Port Adelaide forward over.
Undeterred, Papley returned for round two as he got in Rioli’s face to spark a quarter-time scuffle.
The small forward eventually emerged, jersey ripped and his team very much fired up.
Remarkably, the incident came in a near-identical position to the melee that ignited when Papley and Toby Greene went toe to toe at quarter-time of the qualifying final at the same venue.
The Swans kicked five consecutive goals in the second quarter, as Papley helped seize control of the contest.
His infectious energy is hard to quantify and even harder to put into words.
Like Patty Mills waving a towel on the bench or Dean Boxall celebrating the way only he can, Papley has a profound ability to make others walk taller and perform better.
Papley finished with a game-high three goals but it was clear, as it always is with him, that his contribution to the Swans’ victory extended beyond the stat sheet.
The rookie-list success story’s pressure was telling.
As was his ability to rile up rivals – which happened frequently, with Papley seemingly making a point to let veteran Travis Boak and other Port players know about their various defensive missteps during the lopsided game.
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