On the flip side, I told my girlfriend when she booked her engagement that it was the same night as the Wizza cup grand final. If Carlton by some miracle made the granny I wouldn't be attending their party.

I went to the Wizza and still dont regret it

Missed the 1979 Grand Final due to not being born at the time. Was NOT happy when I found out the result before even watching the replay.

Went to the 'meet the fans' thing the next day though and Glenn Manton said I had good skills...

it will always burden my blue soul that I missed the 1970 GF.

What an insult.

That's like Simon Beaumont trying to show you how to kick a drop punt with your left foot.

I missed a saints game in the early 90's. I went to board an aircraft carrier in Freo and had the game on the radio. Plugger kicked 12 to half time and they were towelling us up. I went with a mate who is a rabid saints supporter and we had the game on the radio for the drive down to Freo. He was giving me so much shit as we boarded the carrier at half time.

We didn't manage to get the score on the way home, and I later found out that we'd shifted Dora onto Plugger in the second half, held him goaless and won the game. I missed out on hanging shit on my mate as he went underground for the next week.

(At least I did; my father gave up listening at half-time. I spent the first 10-15 minutes of the 3rd quarter calling out to my father every time we’d kicked another goal. He soon got the message and was back by the radio. Years later I was telling this to the girl who’d become my wife. She’s also a Carlton fan and she said the exact same thing happened at her home. I’m betting that it was a day in which a lot of 9 and 10 year olds showed their fathers what true Club Loyality is about.)