Welcome to the best weekend in footy!
Sure, everyone wants to be in the 'big dance', but it's often the preliminary finals that seem better than the main event. It's not hard to see why, as the desperation to get to that last Saturday in September can be felt around the country.
Each season's pair of prelim's seem to appeal a larger portion of real fans and are contrasted by the far more corporate feel of Grand Final Day.
As this penultimate weekend so often produces contests that live long in the memory, we have decided to look at some that still live in the memories of fans everywhere.
3. Geelong vs. Collingwood (2007)
This game can best be remembered for 'God Jnr's arrival as a genuine star of the game.
The Cats had been dominant all season and were expected to cruise through to the Grand Final, only for the Pies to take the fight to them and threaten a massive boil over.
If any scars still existed from the previous year's finals loss to Sydney, the Cats didn't show them as they held their nerve in front of 98,000 wild spectators at the 'G'.
Livewire Steve Johnson gave us all a glimpse of the star he would become before Ablett's crucial last quarter goal and that famous line from Dennis "cometh the moment, cometh the man."
