Thousands of footy fans lined the Yarra River in Melbourne yesterday
to watch the players pass on boats for this year’s grand final parade,
but many were left disappointed by a decision to turn the flotilla around
before it reached a key vantage point.
Fans who gathered on the Princes Bridge on Friday for an up-close view
of Geelong and Sydney players on the river were left frustrated that the
boats were turned around well before reaching the bridge.
A Southbank (next to the Yarra) resident was standing on the riverbank
behind a group of people in wheelchairs, who told her they had travelled
from a distant Melbourne suburb.
She said the group would have had the perfect view—if the parade had
actually reached them. “They didn’t see a darned thing,” she said. “They
had to get up early, get dressed and come down and they saw nothing,
absolutely nothing.”
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